The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.