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Searchlight on the Panama Canal;

by David Newton E. Campbell, c. 1909.

page 130.

A Distinguished White American Acknowledges The Negro's Greatness.

No less illustrious statesman than the Honorable Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General of the United States, said in substance in a speech delivered at Washington, D. C, before the Young People's National Congress: “In Europe there was a specie of red rats, which was so aggressive that it destroyed all other species of rodents with which it came in contact. No other kind of rats could live and thrive by its side. The Caucasian or white race is like the red rats of Europe. Every race of people is driven to the woods or die out that comes in contact with the Caucasian race. The Negro race is the only one race on the globe that has lived, thriven, flourished and multiplied by the side of the Caucasian race. That one fact bespeaks volumes in the Negro's favor, and no eloquence can be stronger than that single fact to prove the Negro's greatness.”

Searchlight on the Panama Canal; or, America's Greatest Enterprise, by David Newton E. Campbell, c 1909, page 130.

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