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The miscegenation hoax -- A great literary sell -- Political humbugging -- Tricks of the wire-pullers -- Machinery employed to render the pamphlet notorious -- Who were sold and how it was done.
Some persons say that "all is fair in politics. " Without agreeing with this doctrine, I nevertheless feel that the history of Ancient and Modern Humbugs would not be complete without a record of the last and one of the most successful of known literary hoaxes. This is the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation," which advocates the blending of the white and black races upon this continent, as a result not only inevitable from the freeing of the negro, but desirable as a means of creating a more perfect race of men than any now existing. This pamphlet is a clever political quiz; and was written by three young gentlemen of the World newspaper, namely. D. G. Croly, George Wakeman, and E. C. Howell.