This great white race will some day, I believe, in its sober second thought, recognize the truth of these words; and will augment its greatness by emancipating itself from this detestable spirit of race hatred. It cannot be that this great white race is always going to be content to prostrate itself before this mean and degrading spirit. It owes it to itself, as well as to this black race and to all the other races to free itself from so debasing an influence. If it is to maintain its leadership in the world, under the ever-growing influence of Christianity, which knows neither Greek nor Jew, barbarian, Scythian bond, nor free, it cannot hope to do so with race prejudice inscribed on its banner. It must change, or else it will be relegated to the rear. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BROTHERHOOD are the great forces that are to dominate the future. The white man may be strong enough to fight the black man in this country, but he is not strong enough to fight God Almighty and his eternal and inexorable laws of RIGHTEOUSNESS and BROTHERHOOD. These laws will ultimately remake him, or break him and cast him "as rubbish to the void." Which shall it be? Let this great white race take warning. "Short is the triumph of evil. Long is the reign of right. The men who win by the aid of sin, The nation that rules by might, The party that lives by corruption, The trickster, the knave, the thief, May thrive for a time on the fruits of crime, But their seeming success is brief. Know that the truth shall triumph, That evil shall find its doom; That the cause of right, tho' subdued by might, Shall break from the strongest tomb, That wrong, tho' it seems to triumph, Lasts only for a day, While the cause of truth has eternal youth, And shall rule o'er the world for aye." ---------- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Some spelling mistakes have been corrected. Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text with underscores. End of Project Gutenberg's Fifty Years of Freedom, by Francis J. Grimke