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equivalent among the * classes' under the appellation 

 " good form." 



Christianity can do all the negro needs, if he will 

 accept it and be guided by it, but there exists no authority 

 for forcing it upon him by fire and sword. Its very 

 nature is opposed to force of any sort beyond that of 

 persuasion. It forbids any unlawful san6lion behind it 

 such as that upon which other systems have relied for 

 success. But, with civilization, citizenship, and all the 

 duties and benefits the individual secures who dwells in 

 a community other than barbarous, it is different. Wil- 

 ling or unwilling the unit must be kept up to a certain 

 level. It is necessary not only, or so much, for his own 

 sake, but for the sake of others among whom he dwells ; 

 and it is because I see the Black sinking below this level 

 and becoming a scourge to his own and other people that 

 I claim on his behalf, not indeed a resurre6lion of the 

 ' dead hand' of slavery, but such a modification of its 

 wholesome methods as will secure for the ex-slave's des- 

 cendents such a measure of justice as will secure his babe 

 from the present risk of passive infanticide, and the aged 

 from a lingering and painful descent to an unmourned 

 dissolution. 



