The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.