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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1915
AN INFAMOUS THING.
It is an infamous thing for the gov
ernment of this great republic to draw
the color line in any way. In a re
public every citizen should have ex
actly the same status so far as the
government is concerned.
It is wrong, unjust and un-American
for the government to segregate its
clerks by color in the Departments
in Washington, and it is also wrong, un
just and un-American for the govern
ment to issue a separate and inaccu
rate Census Bulletin as it has done in
the case of the bulletin, "Negroes in
the United States."
One instance of the inaccuracy is
the statement that it is* the work of
"Negro clerks." The editor of THE
APPEAL has known two of the clerks
mentioned for many years and is well
aware of the excellent records they
had made before the census segrega
tion scheme was evolved. These two
gentlemen are mixed bloods, one be
ing a blonde, at least three-fourths
white. He should not be called a
"Negro" because he is not a "Negro,"
but a colored man.
Call him a colored man if it is ab
solutely necessary to call attention to
the fact, but it would be better for
the country and for all the people if
he and all other people were called
Americans. That's the correct name
for all persons born in the United
States.
PASTOR ABBOTT'S SLUSH.
Old man Lyman (well named) Ab
bott, one of the worst enemies the
colored people have ever had and
whose record as a giver out of mis
leading information about racial con
ditions is Al, is out west again hand
ing out some more slush. i,
Recently he stood in a pulpit in
Illinois and said: "The South has ir
revocably decreed against the mixture
of the white and black races." The
statement is Abbottesque and like
many of the half truths he* is wont to
utter.
If Dr. Abbott had stated that the
South has decreed that there should
be no lawful mixing of the races he
would have been nearer the truth.
The South, that is the white South is
not opposed to racial admixture, but
being at heart thoroughly immoral it
insists that the mixing be done in an
illegal manner.
The mixing which has already been
accomplished was started by the white
South. It began in the days of slav
ery, when the white master forced the
black slave women to bear children,
who followed the condition of their
mothers and became slaves. A few
masters manumitted their half breed
children, but they were the excep
tions to the general rule. Many mas
own offspring for sale and in time the
ters made a practice of breeding their
raising of children for the slave mar
kets became a recognized Southern
Industry.
Since the abolition of slavery, the
white South, claiming Christ as its
guiding star, has enacted laws making
Christian marriage a felony, thus di
rectly aiding immorality. The white
South has in every way endeavored
to humiliate and degrade its colored
people the majority of whom have
more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through read the
atrocities of the barbarian invasians
of the early days, read the barbar
ities of the Middle Ages read of the
Inquisition read the story of the
French Revolution read of Russia's
persecution of the Jews read of civ
ilized Europe's rape of Africa
read the horrors of the Christians'
war now devastating Europe. Add all
of these together and they will not
equal in blackness what Southern
white people have meted out to their
own sons and daughters to their own
brothers and sisters, who are of a
slightly darker hue.
It is the blackest page in the annals
of the world.
CENSUS SEGREGATION.
"Negroes in the United States," is
the title of a pamphlet just issued by
the United States Census Bureau. The
title is misleading, for there are only
473 real Africans in the United States,
according to the Census, that is Ne
groes born in Africa.
The United States assumes that a
group of about 10,000,000 people are
Negroes and proceeds to so classify
them. More than ninety-nine per cent
of the persons so classified were born
in America of American parents, and
their parents were Americans and so
on back for ten generations.
If a man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
is entitled to the name? If a white
man can become an American in two
generations, why should a person of
any other color born in this country
fail to "arrive" in the same space of
time?
The name "Negro" applied to a
group of citizens in this country is in
accurate, because it does not include
forty or fifty million other Americans
who have more or less Negro blood.
The expression
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THE SIN OF SILENCE
To sin by silence when we should
protest makes cowards out of men.1"
The human race has climbed on pro
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in-
quisition yet would serve the law, and
guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
race" is amyth
so ail great writers on racial questions
agree.
The mixing of bloods in this country
has gone* so far that it is impossible
so does the writer.
determine with any degree of accu
racy who has Negro blood and who
has not, and for the Government to
select about 10,000,000 people and say
that they are "Negroes," and by that
act to aid in making them a
separateteaches
THE HAN WHO DUES
treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate a great wrong.
There is no reason why a Democra
cy should attempt to classify its cit
izens by their blood. All persons
born in this country should be con
sidered Americans without any pre
fixes or suffixes.
If the Government contention that
every person with a drop of Negro
blood is a Negro, then the Census
figures are false. Instead of about
10,000,000, there are really nearer 90,-
000,000 or in other words, the majority
of Americans are Negroes, and AMER-
ICA IS NOW A'NEG RO NATION.
GOOD WORK, MR. TYLER.
The Cleveland Gazette, speaking of
the Increase of race prejudice in
Columbus, Ohio, tells a little
story of the commendable action
of Ralph W. Tyler, former auditor
for the navy: "A motion picture
theater in East Long street recently
hung out a sign reading: 'First five
rows in the rear reserved for colored
patrons.' Learning of it, Mr. Tyler
went out and saw the sign, then called
up the chief of police, over the phone
and demanded that he cause the sign
to be removed, claiming it was ah in
sult to 15,000 colored citizens, and
stated, if the authorities did not re
move the sign instanter he would tear
it down if he had to go to jail for it
The sign was removed." That was an
heroic action. THE APPEAL also
commends Mr. Tyler's recent article
in which he condemns the use of
"negro" as a race name. Mr. Tyler
thinks that American is good enough
for all people born in this country and
HE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.
For many years the South has op
posed higher education and is not gen
erally in favor of any kind of educa
tion for the masses, and to suggest
that a colored person ought to receive
a classical education is sufficient to
throw a Southerner into hysterics.
There's a reason.
Rev. George H. Atkinson, president
of the Albemarle Norman and Indus
trial Institute, Albemarle, N. C, is
now in the North "raising funds" as
so many other Southern beggars of.
yarious colors have done, prior to Rev.
Atkinson's arrival. In a recent speech,
the reverend gentleman said:
"We believe if you educate a man
in the South he will become dissatis
fied and move to the North, where op
portunities seem to be more numer
ous. His education, therefore, does
not help the South.
THE NEW ABOLITION.
The National Association for the Ad
vacement of Colored People came as
a direct result of the Springfield riots
of 1908. After several conferences it
was organized and permanent head
quarters opened in November 1910.
The growth of the organization has
been phenomenal. Today it has fifty
branches throughout the country and
7,000 members and the crisis, edited
by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois has reached
a circulation of over 35,000.
The platform of the association is
broad but uncompromising. The offi
cial statement contains among- other
thinks the following strong statement
and demands:
"The National Association For the
Advancement of Colored People seeks
to uplift the colored- men and women
of this country by securing to them
the full enjoyment of their rights as
citizens, justice in all courts and equal
ity of opportunity everywhere. It fa
vors and aims to aid every kind of
education among them save that which
special privilege or preroga-
I honor the man who in the con
scientious discharge of his duty dares
to stand alone the world, with ignor
ant, intolerant judgment, may con
demn, the countenances of relatives
may be averted, and the hearts *fil
friends grow cold, but the sense o#i
duty done shall be sweeter than
applause of the world, the counten
ances of relatives or the hearts of
friad*.-Charls Summer.**^^
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Dr. DuBois suggest five practical
steps for actionfirst, economic co-op
eration second, a revival of art and
literature third, political action
fourth, education fifth, organization.
"For the accomplishment of all these
ends we must organize. Organization
among us already has gone far, but it
must go much further and higher. Or
ganization is sacrifice. It is sacrifice
of opinions, of time, of work and of
money, but it is, after all, the cheapest
way of buying the most priceless of
giftsfreedom and efficiency. I thank
God that most of the money that sup
ports this association comes from
colored hands. A still larger propor
tion must come, and we must not only
support, but control, this and similar
organizations and hold them unwaver
ingly to our objects, our aims and our
ideals.
"With such organizations and with
all the progress that they can point
to let us never be: satisfied with mere
progress so long as we fall so far
short of a reasonable accomplishment
of our desires. Remember that we
are despised today by millions of peo
ple not because we suffer, but because
we suffer like dumb, driven cattle,
with even a smile on our faces. To
what other race could it happen on
God's green earth that one of its great
est leaders .he^se' i^New York before
assembled thousands could congratu
late his people because only fifty-twi.
colored men and women have in one
short year been hanged and shot and
burned by mobs if that can give 10,
000,000 people satisfaction, in God's
name what will it" take to make them
fight?-
live, class or caste. It recognizes committee of the whole and was about
the national character of the race. to be discussed. Bev. A. J. Carey,
problem and no sectionalism.- It 4e- pastor of She Insltu&dnal Church, Chi-
IJeves In the upholding of the constitu-, cago, was to Springfield on business
tton of the United states and it& and Senator bailey of Peoria, ar-
amendments, in the spirit of Abraham ranged to have him address the Sen-
Lincoln. It upholds the doctrine of
"As for me and those that think
with me, so long as one black man in
the United States is illegally punished
or unjustly treated or has the door of
opportunity closed in his face we will,
protest and complain and protest
again whether the world wants to hear
us or not We may not gain our ends.
We may not in our days realize our
ideals. But the program I lay before
you is not only 'reasonable and just,
but it is a program of peace and pa
tience, and in laying it down I face
the awful fact that in this as in all
great .causes,, if peace and patience
cannot win, then war and struggle
must In any case there can be no de
spair, there can be no surrender, there
can be no defeat as long asr a colored
man draws a breath In America.'*-)
A remarkable event took place in
the Illinois Senate recently. The bill
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored people, introduced by Sen
ator Coleman a Southern Illinois
statesman had been referred to the
A
ate
all men up and no man down.' It much logic and eloquence that when
abhors Negro crime, but still more the the roll was called it was found that
conditions which breed crime and, I not a single vote had been registered'
most of all, the crimes committed by in its favor. After Rev. Carey's ad-
mobs in the mockery of the law or by dress no one had the temerity to de-
individuals in the name of the law. fend the bill and before the vote was
It has no other b^f than that the taken the author of the infamous leg-
best way to uplift the colored man is islative proposition slipped out of the
the best way to aid the white man to
peace and social content. It has no
other desire than exact justice and no
other motive than humanity."
The proposed program for the ad
vance of the colored people has been given recently by the "1916 Class" of
laid down by Dr. W/E. B. DuBois: the W. S. D. Y. M. C. A. at Chicago.
"We need not waste time by seeking The Chicago Y. M. C. A. is greatly
to deceive our enemies into thinking interested in breaking down caste in
that we are going to be content with India. Money and men ar esent to
a half loaf or by being willing to lull!
our friends into a false sense of our In- off India and when East Indians come
difference and present satisfaction, to Chicago, they are treated with
The American Neg& demands equali- great consideration. The Y. M. C. A.
typolitical equalityand he is never i however, show that it is not. entitled,
going to rest satisfied with anything to the name "Christian" by erecting:
less. He demands this in no spirit of and maintaining a jimcrow branch for
braggadocio and with no obsequious' colored Americans. Away with such1
envy of others, b$ as .an absolute Christianity,
measure of self defense and the only
one that will assure to the darker
races their ultimate survival on earth.
^"The colored people must have in
dustrial freedom. Between the peon
age of the rural south, the oppression
of shrewd capitalists and the jealousy sentative Baldwin of Delaware coun-
of certain trade unions the colored la-, ty made many speeches in its favor,
borer is the most exploited class in! It was passed by a vote of 138 to 34.
the country, giving more hard toil forj Many representative colored men and
less money than any other American
and with less voice in the conditions
of his labor.
"In social intercourse every effort is
being made today from the president
of the United States and the so called
Church of Christ down to saloons and
bootblacks to segregate, strangle and
spiritually starve t&e colored man so
as to give him .the least possible
chance to know and share civilization.
"The colored man must have power
the power of men, the right to do, to
know, to feel and to express that
knowledge, action and spiritual gift.
He must not simply be free from the
political tyranny of white folk he
must have the right to vote and to
rule over all the citizens to the extent
of his proved foresight and ability.
He must have a voice in the new in
dustrial democracy which is building
and the power to see to it that his
children are not in the next generation
trained to be the mud sills of society.
He must have the right to social in
tercourse with his fellows.
"There was a time in the atomic in
dividualistic group when "social inter
course" meant merely calls and tea
parties today jsocial intercourse
means theaters,^iectresr"organiza-
tions, clubs, churjckes, excursions, tra
vel, hotelsit mejins, in short, life.
To bar a group froja methods of think-
ing,^, living and doing, is to bar them
from the world and bid them create a
new worldit is t$ crucify them and
taunt them with not being able to
'live."
on the bill,* which he did with so
Senate Chamber loosing like a whip
ped dog.
Paul Runganadhan, a native of Ban
galore, India, presided at the diner
break down this insidius foe in far'
On its passage through the lower
house of the Pennsylvania state leg
islature, the civil rights bill, modeled
on the Levy law of New York, was
attacked by only one member, Repro-
women from all parts of the state
were on hand to aid its passage.
THE APPEAL has received notice
of the death on the 19th inst, of Mrs.
Ann Dickson, aged 94, at Nashville,
Tenn. The deacesed was the beloved
mother of Rev. ft. H. Boyd, D. D., sec
retary of the National Baptist Publish
ing Board, to whom we tender ourj
sympathy.' Mrs. Dickson was a grand
old lady and was known as the "grand
ma of the National Baptist Publishing
House.
The new register of the treasury is
five-eights Cherokee Indian. As that
is more than half it may be right to
call him an Indian. The former re
gister, J. C. Napier, is not more than
one-eighth of African blood, yet he is
called a Negro. How about it?
The colored people of Richmond,
Va., have started to fight segregation.
They have held a meeting of protest
and are now raising money to pay
lawyers. That's the way to do it.
This hellish segregation business must
be fought to a finish.
The Turks killed a few Christians
the other day and there was a great
howl about it,' but when a mob of
Christians in Georgia murders a fam
ily of Christians of another color,
nothing is thought of it in this land
of alleged Christianity.
The word "negro" applied to the
majority of the colored people is just
as much of a lie after it has been
capitalized as it was before. Be
Americans.
REFUSES TO BE INSULTED!
Even in the Name of ChristianityA
Young Man Shows Manhood and
Independence When a Y. M. C.
A. Conference Draws a
Color-Line.
(Cleveland Gazette.)
Louisville, Ky.Despite the fact
that he had been invited and urged
to attend a Y. M. C. A-. conference of
employed men of that organization,
MT. Theodore Pettyjohn, physical di
rector of the Colored branch, was
asked into the kitchen when the call
for dinner was sounded. Following
his guide from the main dining room,
prepared for the other conferees, back
to the kitchen, Mr. Pettyjohn politely
informed the lady that he would not
eat. He turned his back on the vic
tuals prepared for him and walked out.
He then looked up the gentleman who
had insisted on his being at the con
ference and told him a few things.
The gentleman tried to defend him
self by telling Mr. Pettyjohn that he
ought to want to eat with his own
people and that Booker T. Washing
ton ate in kitchens. Mr. Bettyjohn,
seeing that the "Christian" could not
understand the principle of the mat
ter, left the conference and walked
five miles on an empty stomach
when he reached the city limits he
boarded a car. At this conference all
present sat in the same room, read
the same Bible, declared Christ and
his teachings were the salvation of all
men, and yet when the dinner bell
rang, Christ and his teachings were
forgotten. Mr. Pettyjohn was the only
colored delegate and fearing some un
pleasantness although it was a
"Christian" conference-^only attended
after two Insistent invitations.
Shun Them Like Vipers.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-Press)
Just as long as the negro believes
"he has a place," and is constantly
jerking off his hat when out of it, he
will be the cause of many others en
during hardships, forever and aye. As!
long as a certain class of whites take'
to this class of sycophants, the more
rigidly those who wear their sover-i
eignty under their own hats, should1
denounce, discard and shun them as
they would a viper.
Each Victory Encourages.^'
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-Press)
All hail to our brave confrere the
Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of the old
reliable Gazette for going to the Gov
ernor of- Ohio, and preventing that
infernal play, "The Nigger," to be ex
hibited in the great state of Ohio. To
boldly fight such Impositions is the un
flinching duty of every decent man
among us. Every victory -won by the
few courageous agitators encourages
others to step into, the arena of de
fence and may the time come soon
when cowards will be unknown, and
all stand united for manhood rights.
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu
late you on a recent editorial discour
aging the use of the word "Negro."
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why?, They real
ize that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. Its
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writers, especially
Do Bois and Washington feel that its
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses. The
term "Negro" is not only absurdly in
accurate as applied to millions of col
ored people, but it is also alarminly
injurious, for the following reasons:
a. It has never stood historically or
in the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam
bians only.
c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," "Ne-
grofy," and its compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all clear
ly, in their associations, degrading.
d. Its feminine form, "Negress," is
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, if you favor the use of the mas
culine term.
e. It has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries,
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored."
f. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, "Nigro" and "Nig-
ger."
g. As stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
fluence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and co-operation
of the millions of colored Africans, Asi^
atics and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
I am convinced myself that there is no more
evil thing in this present world than Race Pre
judice none at all. I write deliberatelyit is
the worst single thing in life now. It justifies
and holds together more baseness, cruelty and
abomination than any other sort of error in the
world. Through its body runs the black blood
of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecu
tion and all the darkest poisons of the human
soul
H. G. Wells in N. Y. Independent
Must Judge A Group by Its Best
(From the Christian Register, Boston,
Mass.)
No one can be said to know any
class of people who has not been ini
intimate and sympathetic relation with I
the best as well as the worst of thei
class. We compare many persons!
who live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
who have had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and sym
pathetic relations with large numbers
of that race whom their Southern
friends have never known and of the
two sets of people we should say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first. They know aspi
rations among them that the others
do not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best of the race which others are obli
vious of they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. If those who know the col
ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers of the
elect, and would be courageously can
did with themselves, they would re
vise their judgments and possibly sof
ten their prejudices. At any rate,
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance of the colored
race the values that come from know
ing how many of that race are the
equal of any members of the dominant
race in the highest abilities and in the
clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their best.
Of One Blood.
(Gerald Stanley Lee In Mount Tom.)
I am a human being. I do not pro
pose to be cooped up or shut in in my
love and criticism to mere geographi
cal streaks or spats of people on a
planet. This planet is small enough
as it is when one considers the
height, and depththe starry height
and depthof the human spirit that
wavers and glows through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-
*a && &* ffiA-tftw.
j*"
rel together and sing praises with
siege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each other's naves, I take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs of their heroes, artists, in
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say of any
one nation what I will not say of the
others and I will not say of any man
what I will not say of myself.
OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSITION.
(From the Boston
Guardian.asso)dan,be
That we much1
rather
ciate among ourselves, is a saying bj
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake it
is a feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. It is an utter im
possibilitay for the two races to sub
seribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work out
its own salvation. The "theory" has
been tried and resulted into a ghastly
failure instead of making for har
mony and cordial good feeling be
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred and antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have heeded too
long the advice from false and treach
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat
red and antagonism that the thing
for us to do is to get property and
other rights will Inevitably follow.
We have followed this "advice" faith
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residince segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriagewhich is
all of the blackest pieces of legis
lation, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
brutes separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from "non
resistance" and "rather be by our
selves." That with the same degree
of effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
confiscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us.
That is a fact. Every congress of
fers legislation degrading and inimi
cal to our well being. Race preju
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send our
children, and go ourselves, to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races an'l
consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
TICE JUXTAPOSITION.
HE DEMISE OF THE SIXTY-THIRD
CONGRESS.
(Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.).:
"A dispassionate review of the work
of the Sixty-third congress brings lit
tle to congratulate the people of the
United States upon and much to con
demn that body for. Its sins of omis
sion and commission were many its
works, in advancement of the inter
ests of the people and of the nation,
few and far between. Brought into ex
istence upon the summit of a wave of
progressive reform given power up
on promises plainly and definitely ex
pressed, it demonstrated incapacity
from the beginning and deliberately
repudiated in numerous instances poli
cies and principles it was elected to
promote and maintain. It produced a
tariff law that fails to Secure the reve
nues needed for sound administration
of the country's affairs, and it enacted
a levy for taxes in a time of profound
peace. Need we go farther than this
as an evidence of its weakness, inca
pacity and failure to grasp the require
ments of the republic?"
No, unless you would call the atten
tion of the country to the mistreat
ments of the loyal old soldiers and
Afro-Americans in the departments at
Washington, D. C, and elsewhere in
the federal service, at home and
abroad and the patronizing, in every
way, of former traitors, ex-Confeder
ates, by the Wilson administration
which, of course, includes the South
em Democratic Sixty-third congress.
Right You Are.
(From the Amsterdam News.)
Young man! Young woman! In
whatever position, in whatever sphere
of life, whatever your attainments,
whatever your past accomplishments,
whoever and whatever you are, if you
are not DISCONTENTED you are
lost!
"HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT."
My ear is pained
My soul is sick with every day's report
Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled.
Inere is nofleshin man's obdurate heart.
It doesiiot feel for man: the natural bond
Si royw^Mdh severed as the flax
That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Hefindshis fellow guilty of a skin
Not colored like his own: and haying power
To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey
^-^%!W~ life
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Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys:
Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot%
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