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Introduction

three or four Northern periodicals that have fallen under the condemnation of certain Southern congressmen and the Post Master General, I have not taken any extracts that would prima facie convict them of bolshevism, for the obvious reason that the white press has sufficiently displayed and exploited this news.

In fairness to the colored papers I must state specifically that it lay beyond the design of this compilation to attempt a general exposition of their contents. Their great function as public instructors of their people on all manner of subjects in all the departments of life, could not here be exhibited. The reader is, therefore, warned against concluding that he here obtains a complete view from what was meant to present but a comprehensive view of a single matter.