One is safe in concluding that the word “Negro” (with the capital “N”) will eventually be applied to the black man in America. White people are distinctly in favor of it: what Negroes now object to it do so because of its corrupt form, “Nigger.” As the Negro shows his ability to develop into a respectable and useful citizen, contemptuous epithets will be dropped by all save the thoughtless and vicious, and “Negro” will be recognized as the race name. NOTES Footnote 8: “Following the Colour Line,” p. 151. Footnote 9: _Ibid._, p. 151. Footnote 10: “Up From Slavery,” p. 2. Footnote 11: Art. XIII, sec. 11. Footnote 12: Code, 1867, p. 94; Code, 1876, p. 187, sec. 2; Code, 1886, I, p. 56, sec. 2; Code, 1896, I, p. 112, sec. 2. Footnote 13: Laws of Ky., 1865–66, p. 37. Footnote 14: Pub. Gen. Laws of Md., I, art. 27, sec. 305, p. 878. Footnote 15: Laws of Miss., 1865, p. 82. Footnote 16: Pell’s Revisal of 1908, II, sec. 3369. Footnote 17: Code, 1884, sec. 3291. Footnote 18: Laws of Tex., special session, 1884, p. 40. Footnote 19: Code, 1907, I, p. 218, sec. 2. Footnote 20: Laws of Fla., 1865, p. 30; Code, 1892, pp. 111 and 681; Gen. Stat., 1906, p. 165, sec. 1. Footnote 21: Laws of Ga., 1865–66, p. 239. Footnote 22: Annotated Stat., 1908, III, sec. 8360. Footnote 23: Annotated Stat, 1906, II, sec. 2174. Footnote 24: Laws of S. C, 1864–65, p. 271. Footnote 25: Compiled Stat., 1895, sec. 3644. Footnote 26: Bellinger and Cotton’s Code and Stat., II, sec. 5217. Footnote 27: Laws of Va., 1865–66, p. 84. Footnote 28: McPherson’s Case, 1877, 28 Grat. 939. Footnote 29: People v. Dean, 1866, 14 Mich. 406. Footnote 30: Walker v. Brockway, 1869, I Mich. N. P. (Brown) 57. Footnote 31: Monroe v. Collins, 1867, 17 O. S. 665. Footnote 32: A mestizo is a person of mixed blood, specially a person of mixed Spanish and American Indian parentage.—Century Dictionary, V, p. 3728. Footnote 33: Laws of Tenn., 1865–66, p. 63. Footnote 34: Kirby’s Digest, 1904, sec. 6632, p. 1378. Footnote 35: Thurman v. State, 1850, 18 Ala. 276. Footnote 36: Code, 1867, p. 94. Footnote 37: Laws of Mo., 1864, p. 67. Footnote 38: McMillan v. School Com., 1890, 12 S. E. 330; 107 N. C. 609. Footnote 39: Hopkins v. Bowers, 1892, 16 S. E. 1; 111 N. C. 175. Footnote 40: Bell v. State, 1894, 33 Tex. Cr. R. 163. Footnote 41: A Kanakan is a Hawaiian or Sandwich Islander.—Century Dictionary, IV, p. 3264. Footnote 42: The Norfolk, Va., _Landmark_, June 13, 1906. Footnote 43: The New York _Daily Tribune_, June 10, 1906, part IV, p. 2. CHAPTER III DEFAMATION TO CALL A WHITE PERSON A NEGRO