National Affairs: In Chicago

The second largest Negro city in the world (population 206,000) stretches its easygoing length and breadth over several square miles of southern Chicago. Some 41,000 of the inhabitants go to the polls, where it can be taken for granted they will vote for Abraham Lincoln's party (Republican).

The largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the...

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