[left side] of this they would rely on the generally admitted fact that not one individual can be found among them of whose grandfathers and grandmothers one or more is or was not a negro, which proportion of negro blood constitutes a free mulatto. See R.C. Vol. 1st page." They say also: "The claims of the Indian no longer exist -his blood has so largely mingled with the negro race as to have obliterated all striking features of Indian extraction. Your petitioners express the general voice of the free white people of the county and as slave holders they protest against this dangerous and anomalous institution, for it has assumed all the features of a legally established body of free negroes, the general resort of free negroes from all parts of the county - the haunts of vice, where the worthless and abandoned white man may resort to find everything to gratify his depraved appetite; where spirituous liquors are retailed without license; the ready asylum of runaway slaves, and a secure harbor for every one who wishes concealment." Mr. J. Churchill Cooke, an old citizen of the county, eighty-six years of age, an ex-Confederate soldier and deputy sheriff, whose official duties required frequent visits to the reservation, recently testified that owing to their being the "resorts of worthless and abandoned whites" the color of the skin of their occupants has become much lighter during his life time. He, as well as others, white and black, who testified before the Richmond School Board assert that there is today not an Indian in Virginia unmixed with negro blood. Their light color makes them more dangerous to the white race than when darker. About the time of the passage of the law requiring separate coaches for white and colored people a group of mulattoes of Charles City and New Kent counties gave a "fish fry" [28] [right side] to white men of these counties. These men in a spirit of benevolence and good humor, consented to aid them in their desire to be transformed into the Chickahominy, or as they were described by white and colored people before a hearing of the Richmond School Board, the "Fish-fry" Indians. Lawyers aided them in putting it across, and they now carry around "Indian" cards which enable them to ride with white people. Seeing how easily this was done, some of them have gone to Richmond and as "Indians" claimed the right to send their children to the white schools. Some have gone the limit and married white persons. On November 2, 1925, the Richmond grand jury found a true bill against one of this group for marrying a white woman. In King and Queen and Essex counties another similar group have been transformed by a certain professor connected with a northern foundation into the "Rappahannock Indians." It is said that they too then attempted to send their children to a white school, but that the boys took the matter in hand and brought the attempt to a speedy ending. This professor announces in his report his purpose of creating in Virginia six other "Indian tribes." Do the white people of Virginia desire to admit some 3,000 of these organized mulattoes into their race, under the guise of Indians? If so it is only necessary to sit still and do nothing. Those Mulattoes and their northern allies will do the rest. These are but the advance guard of 175,000 other mulattoes ready to follow under their own colors. [29] [end]