ioo OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN 



and well - intentioned philanthropy, whose 

 successes, when they arrived, were earned at 

 great cost to all concerned. And nowhere 

 did the inevitable blunders of those, whose 

 philanthropy believes that it has nothing to 

 learn in the midst of new conditions, produce 

 more intense bitterness than in matters con- 

 cerning the negro. The impartial observer, 

 passing back and forth betwixt North and 

 South, soon discovers that the South is the 

 natural home of the negro, and that it is 

 there alone he is thoroughly understood and 

 receives the truest affection and kindness. 

 It is in the North, generally speaking, that 

 he is found at his worst ; his attractive quali- 

 ties those qualities that give him distinction 

 and individuality more largely in abeyance, 

 his most contemptible characteristics of con- 

 ceit and monkeyish imitativeness more largely 

 in evidence. He is no more the darkey we 

 have learned to love, and who loves us ; he 

 is offensive, or merely ridiculous. This is, I 

 acknowledge, generalizing with a vengeance ; 

 but these pages being no place for a treatise 

 on the negro, generalization must serve for 

 the present. It would be easy, no doubt, 



