"In providing against this danger my people are moved from without by the sight of no occasional negro such as at odd times crosses this New Englander’s vision, nor from within by any unreasonable or jealous hatred of the negro such as has characterized certain ’Northern whites’ from the time they burned negro orphan asylums in resentment at being drafted to fight their country’s battles down to this good day when they mob a negro for trying to do an honest day’s work. No! the Southern white man is driven to his defences by a sentiment void of offence toward the negro, and by the daily impending spectacle of black, half-barbarous hosts who menace the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South and of the nation. "President Phillips has modestly borrowed from one of his predecessors words with which to defend his social amenities to negroes. He quotes and says he would ’bow his head in shame’ were he ’by word or deed to add anything to the misery of the awful isolation of the negroes who have risen above their race.’ Two things may be said of that, Mr. President: first, isolation has been the price of leadership in all ages, and the negroes who are the pioneers of their race in their long and painful journey upward may not hope to escape it: second, the President’s borrowed sentimental reason cuts the ground from under his feet, for that forcible Rooseveltian phrase, ’the misery of the awful isolation of black men who have risen above their race,’ concedes the premises on which the South’s contention is based, since it admits there is such a great gulf between the negro _race_ and the _risen_ negro that his isolation fitly may be described in the words ’misery,’ ’awful.’ It is a peculiar order of Executive intellect and sensibility that can have such a keen sense of the misery which association with the lowly of his own race brings to an educated negro—who cannot in the very nature of things have put off all his hereditary deficiencies and tastes in a generation; and that yet seems not to be touched with any sense of the unspeakable misery such association and its inevitable consequences would have for my people—his Anglo-Saxon brethren—who, if there be any virtue in the refining processes of civilization, any redemptive power in the Christian religion, any progression in the purposes of God in the earth, are a thousand years ahead of the negro—any negro—in every racial excellence.