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it replies that should approximately start one hundred and fifty years first the
child was born. It has so it tried with us; and the fact is to-day in
evidence as which this affirmation of the Dr. Holmes should be approved a
political and undeniable aphorism. Till now from seven or fourteen years
making an American citizen, impregnate fully and completely with
American Ideals to the exclusion of all others, our experience is that
he/she forces at least three generations to eliminate what can have called
the "hyphen" in citizen. Not in the first one, neither of according to, and
hardly in the third one, generation, ago immigrant's cessation to be a
Irish-American, or a French-American or a German-American or a
Slavonic-American, or he/she anchors a Dago. Nevertheless, in process of the motive,
those of the Caucasian run do and they will become American. Lately
their descendants will be free from the traditions and ideals, so to
you speak, obstacles in through centuries passed under the other conditions. Not this way
the Ethiopian. In his/her case, we find us compares us with a
situation never contemplated in that it was of political dreams and
scriptural science in which our institutions received form. Affirmed
tersely and in the simple language, till now as it pertains to the African--the
cause and, so to speak, the motive for the great struggle of 1861 to
1865--we recognize the presence in the body politic of an alien and enormous mass
what it doesn't assimilate and what absorbed cannot be. In the other words,
the theory of flux-pot came into acute contact with a fact of ethnological,
and the unexpected ones happened. The problem of the African servitude was resolved
after a way; but in place of him a problem of more intransigent run
character evolved him.
A survivor of the generation that read the Box" of "Uncle Tom like it week
from week to-day appeared,--fresh from Massachusetts with his/her Lawrence
problems of run of a different character, I feel a sense of the satisfaction in
discussing here in Carolina Meridionale this question and public in a spirit