_TABLE_ 9 ──────────────────────────────── NEGRO VOTERS IN NORTHERN CITIES, 1900. ──────────────────────────────── CITY NEGROES OF VOTING AGE ──────────────────────────────── Philadelphia 20,095 ──────────────────────────────── New York 18,651 ──────────────────────────────── Chicago 12,424 ──────────────────────────────── Pittsburg 6,541 ──────────────────────────────── Indianapolis 5,200 ──────────────────────────────── Boston 4,441 ──────────────────────────────── Cincinnati 4,997 ──────────────────────────────── Detroit 1,732 ──────────────────────────────── The most effective use that the Negro in the North can make of his political privilege is to uphold civic righteousness in municipal affairs, and to support those men and measures pledged to support the integrity of the constitution and its vital amendments. The Negro and His Citizenship—_FRANCIS J. GRIMKÉ_ ACTS 22:25-29.—_And when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned? And when the centurion heard it, he went to the chief captain and told him, saying, What art thou about to do? for this man is a Roman. And the chief captain came and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? And he said, Yea. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. But Paul said, But I am a Roman born. They then that were about to examine him straightway departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him._ In this passage attention is directed to four things: To the fact that Paul was a Roman citizen; to the fact that he was about to be treated in a way that was forbidden by his citizenship; to the fact that he stood up for his rights as a Roman citizen; and to the fact that those who were about to infringe upon his rights were restrained, were overawed.