Mr. Hammond said: I confess the prejudice of one whose father and grandfather marched with Sherman to the sea, and whose best boyhood friend was the statesman who drafted the Fourteenth Amendment. He also says at the exhibition of The Birth of a Nation, The crowd cheered the Stars and Bars and was not moved by the Stars and Stripes. It applauded 'dixie' and greeted 'marching Through Georgia' with silence. The writer of this paper witnessed the early exhibition of this picture at' the Illinois theater, and at the close spoke from the balcony to the greatcrowd, and denounced the exhibition as a damnable outrage, caricaturing history and helping to create further hatred and prejudice against the Negro and should be suppressed. The managers shut off the talk by getting the band to strike up its music. Mr. Dixon acknowledged that part of the purpose of his book and of the play was to create and deepen the abhor rence of the colored people.