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This case needs no further comment here. There is not one woman in five hundred who is strong enough to resist, in a lonely place, by herself, the per- sistent attack of a burly, brutal, powerful and persis- tent negro. Unless aid comes quickly, the damnable fiend is certam to be successful and overpower his in- tended victim, and consummate the rape. Note 7. Page 153. Over ten years ago (The Chicago Tribune, May 28, 1893, p. 27), United States Senator John J. Ingalls was heartily in favor of compulsory expatriation of the negroes of this country. In the place cited he says : — DEPORTATION AT ANY PRICE If this condition is the inevitable consequence of the contact of the two races, separation, voluntary or com- pulsory, at whatever cost, is the dictate of wisdom, morality, and national safety. If reconciliation upon the basis of justice and equal rights is impossible, then migration to Africa should be the policy of the future. To that fertile continent from whence they came they wduld return, not as aliens and strangers, but to the manner born. To their savage kindred who still swarm in its solitudes they would bring the alphabet, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bible. Emancipated from the traditions of bondage, from the habit of obedience and imitation, from the knowledge of its vices, which is the only instruction of a strong race to a weaker, the African might develop along his axis of growth and Ethiopia stretch out her hand to God. The negro might not want to go. He is a native. He is a citizen. He has the right to stay. So he has the right to vote. He has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He has been deprived of them all. Only the right of domicile remains. He