Chapter IV: Part 4

We want the Chinese excluded because they are too docile and carry a head of their own. Then we want the Jap excluded because he is too smart for us to compete with. When we lose a few million white men fighting Japan, as we will have to do soon, as they swarm over here, dictating how they shall be treated, then the white man's burden will be pretty heavy with the colored problem, and a general house-cleaning may follow that will purify the political atmosphere somewhat.

In the meantime all of our great, soulless corporations, transportation and manufacturing companies regard all "coons alike," whether they be white, black, yellow, brown or ring-streaked or striped. They exploit them for what profit there is in them without regard to the interest of the present or future generations. What did it matter to the Pharaohs what was to be the future of their country, so long as they had plenty of slaves to rear gigantic pyramids to their own selfish ambition.

In peace or war, where is the town that would have Negro troops quartered in it, for fear at any time they be offended, shoot up the town and massacre the women and children? Anywhere in this country that the Negro is denied full social rights, he stands offended and ready to enact any tragedy that promises to advance his social position. The whites must decide whether they shall warm him in their bosoms or cast him off. Nothing has ever been more firmly implanted in the human breast than race prejudice. No first-class white man can feel at ease on social equality with the colored races.

INDEX.

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Jamestown and its significance 5

The Jamestown Exposition 5

A tribute to Virginia 7

History of Company F, Fifty-sixth Regiment 8

Confederate monument at Shelby 35

A patriotic recruit 36

A bad case of itch 37

Longstreet's Corps on the way to Chickamauga 38

Shooting an outlaw 39

Removing Federal prisoners from Richmond to Andersonville 40

Navigating the Appomattox River 42

Incidents in the lines 45

Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison 46

A negro servant who claimed he carried white ladies' hair 47

Begging crumbs from a negro's table 47

Two patriotic soldiers and one who was out for the bounty 48

On the wharf detail, and waiting to steal something from Uncle Sam's plentiful stores 48

The invasion of home land after Lee's surrender 52

A faithful negro servant 52

Would not let them take all the meat the man had 53

Confederate troopers commit outrages, plunder and murder 54

A hearty conscript 54

Scenes at Appomattox--Stragglers in the Union army 56

A patriotic darkey 57

An aggrieved Union soldier seeks sympathy from his Southern people 58

Field officers of the Fifty-sixth Regiment, North Carolina troops 58

A true Virginia boy and a bit of romance 62

Col. Billy Miller's upright farm in the upright regions of Cleveland County, and how he came to own it, with sketches of the county and some of its people 65

Uncle Abe Wallis' visit to Washington 69

An Irish socialist 71

Seven days' fight around Richmond 71

The negro problem 75

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Transcriber's note:

Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).

The following misprints have been corrected:
"their's" corrected to "theirs" (page 6)
"Aftter" corrected to "After" (page 11)
"Compaany" corrected to "Company" (page 13)
"Irisman" corrected to "Irishman" (page 72)

Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and the use of quotation marks have been retained.