The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-09
/ am a negro. Is this fair or manly?'
81 fail to see its unfairneSs'

i diH u Negro. Is IIlS sIdlF or mainly!
II fail to see its unfairness."
"Could control the beat of my
heart? There are some powers with
in us that are Involuntary. You. could
hare prevented my meeting your
daughter as an equal. But all the will
power of earth could not prevent my
loving her when once / had seen her
and spoken to her. =.
Social rightssare one thing, political
rights another. Interrupted Lowell.
81 deny it., If. you are. honest with
yourself. you know it is not true. Poll
tics is but Il manifestation of society.
Society rests on the family The fam
lily is the unit sef civilization. The right
to love and we'd where one loves is
the badge of fellowship in the order
of humanity. The man who is denied
this right in any society is not a mem
Der Of it. He is outside of any mani
festation Of its essential life. You had
as we'll talk about the Importance OF
clothes for Il dead man as political
rights for such Il pariah. You have
rlassed him with the beasts of the
exist for YOU
Harris. it is utterly useless to argue
a point like this Lowell interrupted
coldly. This must be the end of our
acquaintance. You musts not enter my
house again.
MY God. you can't kick me out of
your home like this when you brought
fn nd 10 xHf a.
| or DEATH
81 tell you again you are crazy. |
! have brought you here against her
| wishes. She left the house with hel
] friend this morning to avoid seeing you
i Your presence has always been re
pulsive to her, and with me it has beer
political study, not social pleasure.
Il beg for only a desperate chance
to overcome this feeling. Surely mar
of your profound learning and genius
cannot sympathiZe with such preju
dices? Let me try-let her decide the
ISSUE"
81 decline to discuss the question
any further
81 can't give up without struggle!'
the negro cried. with desperation.
Lowell arose with a gesture of i'm
patience.
"Now you are getting to be simpI.
nuisance. To be perfectly plain will
you, haven't the slightest desire tina
my family. with it's proud record Of ,
thousand years of history and achieve
ment. shall end in this stately oil
house in brood of mulatto brats!'
Harris WINGED and sprang to his feet
trembling with passion. 81 see." b
sneered: 1.-The soul of Simon Legree ha
at last become the soul of the nation
/ The south expresses the same luminou
truth with little more clumsy bru
tality. But their way is after all NOR
merciful. The human body become
unconscious at the touch of an oil fe
fame in sixty seconds. Your method
are more refined and more heliish
cruelty. You have trained my ears t
hear, eyes to see, hands to touch an
heart to feel. that you might tortur
with the denial of every cry of bod
and soul and roast me in the flames Q
impossible desires for time and etel
city"
'"That will do now. There's the door!
Numbered Lowell, with gesture Q
stern emphasis. 81 happen to kno,
! the important fact that a man G
woman. of negro ancestry. though
century removed. will suddenly bree
back to a pure negro child, thick Tipped
kinky headed. fiat nosed. black skinned
One drop of your blood in my famil
could push it backward 5000 years
history"