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those mules, and those mules got a right to go to camp meet- 

 ing, too. Do you see those gals sitting in Jake's wagon? 

 Those are Jake's gals, and they have got a good education. 

 Do you see the dresses those gals have got on? I bought 

 the cloth for them, but the gals made all the dresses them- 

 selves, and they got a right to go to camp meeting, too. 

 Do you see that basket in that Avagon ? There's corn bread 

 and meat in that basket, and its no store-bought bread and 

 meat ; that is good home-made bread and meat. I raised 

 the pigs, and the old woman cooked the meat ; and I raised 

 the corn, and the old woman cooked the bread ; and we's all 

 going to camp meeting together to shout and have a big 

 time, because we has money in our pockets and religion in 

 our hearts." 



iSlow that is the t}^pe of man we are raising up in every 

 part of the south ; and more and more this country must 

 learn to judge us by that type of man, — judge us by the 

 best the race can produce, and not by the worst the race 

 produces ; by those that are educated in the home or in 

 the school room, and not by those in the gutter and the 

 penitentiary. Do you know, my friends, we have gotten 

 to the point where in the State of Virginia the colored 

 people own one-twenty-sixth of the land in that State. 

 We have gotten to that point where in the Blue Ridge 

 Mountains the people own one-sixteenth of the real estate, 

 in Middlesex County one-twelfth, in another county one- 

 tenth, and in another county one-sixth. Do you know that 

 in the State of Georgia, the people, starting with povert} r , 

 with nothing but their bodies, thirty-seven years ago, — 

 do you knoAv that in the State of Georgia this year the 

 black people are paying the taxes upon fifteen million dol- 

 lars' worth of property ; and the negro has learned a lesson 

 down there, too, which the white man has taught him, — 

 not to give in his property at its full taxable value ; so 

 that I expect, if we could stand right straight up and bo 

 counted, we would be paying taxes upon perhaps twenty- 

 five or thirty million dollars' worth of property in the State 

 of Georgia. Now, that is but one example, and I believe 

 these figures are taken from the books in the State capitol 



