The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival,

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.