For as the condition of the race grows worse and its citizenship deteriorates politically and civilly in the South, it will communicate to that part of it resident in the North something of its own sad lot, legal and industrial limitations and contracting prospects and opportunities.
He warns that worsening conditions for African Americans in the South will negatively impact those in the North as well.
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