Walling wrote an article, "The Race War in the North", for the September 3 issue of The Independent (New York), in which he said that "the spirit of the abolitionists, of Lincoln and Lovejoy, must be revived and we must come to treat the negro on a plane of absolute political and capitalist equality, or Vardaman and Tillman will soon have transferred the race war to the North."
Walling wrote an article for The Independent (New York) titled "The Race War in the North" on September 3rd. In this piece, he argued that the spirit of abolitionists like Lincoln and Lovejoy must be rekindled, and that African Americans should be treated as equals politically and economically, or else Vardaman and Tillman would escalate the race war to the North.