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Whether it was "the arrogance of the South" as writes Charles W. Chesnutt, in "The Disfranchisement of the Negro," THE NEGRO PROBLEM (1903) or God's divine will, some other CAUSE, or a combination of them all, I rejoice in the fact of our victorious FREEDOM WAR! And in our extraordinary progress as a people since 1865!