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LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY.
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one form of ignorant, aggressive demand. The I-am-as-good-as-you-are feeling is the root of the claim for more wages and of impudent answers. Our servants are our children; home is a missionary field; insight understands why our cook grows tired of always being a cook. We go off to our parlor she stays by the cooking-stove.

All have not yet learned to be actively liberal towards colored people. A formal and touching protest came from certain of them, begging for more equal chances in the struggle for self-support. The city gave their children, it said, the same instruction as it offered those who were white; but when colored girls at the North graduated they must either be washer-women, or marry and bring more children into this unequal world; while white girls found places in shops or as teachers, they were rejected, because other employés or school-children disliked them, and all black maidens did not wish to go South as instructors.

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