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The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July 1888 by Various
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"he has forgotten nothing and he has learned nothing."

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MR. CABLE'S PAMPHLET.

A COLORED MAN'S VIEW OF IT.

Mr. Cable's Pamphlet, "The Negro Question," was sent to an
educated Christian colored man in the South. We make some
brief extracts from his letter acknowledging the receipt of
the pamphlet. He says:

I have read "_The Negro Question_," by Geo. W. Cable, and appreciate
it highly. It is the ablest treatment of the subject intellectually,
morally and judicially that I ever saw. Mr. Cable has dealt with that
_great question_ with the insight of a statesman and a thinker, and
the candor of a true Christian. Oh, how I am vexed and do smart when I
think of the wicked treatment I and my people are subjected to on
account of the God-given color, and by a people claiming and
professing to be Christians! I can hardly believe that any other
people ever bore the names freemen and citizens, and at the same time
were shut out from so many of their rights and liberties as we are.
Our manhood is outraged, our civil and political rights are abused,
our women are robbed of their womanhood and their chastity is
insulted, our aspirations are banded and proscription is held up to
our eyes wherever we go, and enforced against us with Egyptian
exactness and Spartan severity, and the most vexatious and grievous
fact of all is, that the strong arm of the law of the land loses its
power when it comes our turn to receive justice. The law either plays
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