While the urban Negro population of the Southern States appears to be increasing it is scarcely increasing at the rate at which it is increasing in the great section of the North above described and as has been shown in not a few States of the South the Negro population as a whole is decreasing slightly; while the white population is increasing actively. But the civilization of the Southern whites has been handicapped by the weight of the Negro population which it has carried for a century and more. It should not bear any more than its fair proportion of that load and in the natural movement of the Negroes from the South up to the north central portion of the Union and to some extent into Canada, by the amalgamation of Negroes and mulattoes, a brown people affected by the civilization of these sections, differing in some degrees from the darker Negroes who will more slowly develop in the Southern States, will show in their progress what the North and West can do to improve them. With ever lessening numbers in the South, they will the better respond to their environment, which will be the better for such lessening. The result will be the advance of all to a better condition and a higher plane of thought. FOOTNOTES: [401] Negro in Chicago, p. 567. [402] Yale Lit. Magazine, p. 237. [403] Pinckney, The Coming Crisis, p. 61. [404] Ibid. p. 58. [405] Evans & Cogswell; List of Taxpayers Charleston, S. C. 1860. [406] Rene Maran, Batouala, pp. 10, 12. [407] Ibid. pp. 22, 24. [408] The Nation, December 17, 1924, p. 675. [409] Ibid. [410] Rene Maran, Batouala, p. 90. [411] Ibid. pp. 98, 103, 105, 106, 107. [412] Gonzales, The Black Border, pp. 212, 213, 214. [413] Ibid. p. 215. [414] Department of Commerce, Estimates of population, p. 138. Transcriber’s Notes pg 10 Changed: the assent of their constitutents to: the assent of their constituents pg 20 Changed: accompained by an ever increasing investment to: accompanied by an ever increasing investment pg 55 Changed: so lamentable an occurence to: so lamentable an occurrence pg 76 Changed: promotion of this homogeniety to: promotion of this homogeneity pg 110 Changed: did’nt have a leg to stand upon to: didn’t have a leg to stand upon pg 126 Changed: they were slighly surprised to: they were slightly surprised pg 131 Changed: assailants with five casulties to: assailants with five casualties pg 133 Changed: has in its revoluntionary progress to: has in its revolutionary progress pg 146 Changed: whatever it may me called to: whatever it may be called pg 150 Changed: peace between ‘the two countires to: peace between ‘the two countries pg 152 Changed: the ruling politicial leaders to: the ruling political leaders pg 158 Changed: comparitively small price to: comparatively small price