...doom, where temperate climes invite To fruitful soils the labors of the white ; Where no foul vapour taints the morning air, And bracing frosts, his wasted...Pariah knows He shares no good that liberty bestows ; Spumed from her gifts, with each successive year, In drunken want, his numbers disappear. In tropic...

...hireling's bread. . . . There in the North in suburban dens and human sties, In foul excesses sung, the Negro lies; A moral pestilence to taint and stain....each successive year, In drunken want his numbers disappear.21 There was a carry-over of these ideas in the Reconstruction. Harris, in one of his most...

...literary men. WJ Grayson gave classic form to the Southerners' concept of the free Negro in the North: There in suburban dens and human sties, In foul excesses...stain, His life a curse, his death a social gain, . . . with each successive year, In drunken want his numbers disappear.16 William Thompson in a book...