Some Southern authorities assert that race hatred was fomented toward the end of Reconstruction. Says "Nicholas Worth": "Men whose faithful servants were negroes, negroes who had shined their shoes in the morning and cooked their breakfasts and dressed their children and groomed their horses and driven them to their offices, negroes who were the faithful servants and constant attendants on their families,--such men spent the day declaring the imminent danger of negro 'equality' and 'domination.'" The same genial writer goes on to describe the gloom at the supposed flood of African despotism; they said: "Our liberties were in peril; our very blood would be polluted; dark night would close over us,--us, degenerate sons of glorious sires,--if we did not rise in righteous might and stem the barbaric flood." Though in all the states the Negroes were swept out of political power by 1876, to this day they are popularly supposed to be planning some kind of domination over the Whites. This made-up race issue is not yet extinct. Nobody knows the inner spirit of a certain section of the South better than Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, who has recently said: "The politicians keep the negro question alive in the South to perpetuate their hold on public office. The negro question is the joy of their lives. It is their very existence. They fatten on it. With one shout of 'nigger!' they can run the native Democrats into their holes at any hour of the day." How does this feeling strike the Negro? Let an intelligent man, Johnson, in his "Light Ahead for the Negro," speak for himself. He complains that the newspapers use inflammatory headlines and urge lynchings--"a wholesale assassination of Negro character"; that it is made a social crime to employ Negroes as clerks in a white store; that the cultured Southern people spread abroad the imputation that the Negro as a race is worthless; that the news agents are prejudiced against the Negro and give misleading accounts of difficulties with the Whites; that people thought to be friendly are hounded out of their positions; that there is a desire to expatriate the negroes from the country of their fathers. Kelly Miller, a professor in Howard University, Washington, objects to using physical dissimilarity as a mark of inferiority, and thinks "that the feeling against the negro is of the nature of inspirited animosity rather than natural antipathy"; and that "the dominant South is determined to foster artificial hatred between the races."