The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 9, 1889, Page 1

Che da bington P_ AD) rerms. $2.00 Per year in Advance. you. Vill gat? 1 SAW AND HEARD. «J told you 80, ” is a common »be heared on every Lach of these know- asked last week how roing gave it up as a o crack, bat now they oe wonder at the reckless ymmon sense and de~ who write letters to . Their names in print emost of them. I that many of them would 1e of the many cruel > things said. Tru- re where wise men dare not 1 a % que address of the Baptist min- led by Prof. Simmons has aud President Harri- finds in the predica- man wno had the whte (What to do with the Yegro is tl e question that confronts our Executive, et it is not ye dove with the Negro, bat shall be done with and to those white i1who deny us our rights. Settle them and the ques- 1. g00 DO ¢ pent of the elepuant. Simmons addressed ople of the Second ivch last Suaday after course of bis remarks ie dude, who he said, nthe middle with a fool on eit “Such fel- lows,” | ntinued, ** will go 1 and endeavor to lord it there, believing ymmon sense, and when t reject them be- cause of thei ifoolery, they re- turn back here and tell you the col- ored people will not be taught. What we need in the South is in- tilligent men and women. Regular hustlers who will sympathisze with ud show them how to take advantage of their opportuni- ties, For every such young man and woman there is a great future before them. The South is reserv- ed by God as a field where our peo- ple are to raise themselves to the level of the whites and where they will become a grand and glorious people.” Those who heard him were very much delighted at what he said. Prof. W. J. the you Baptist C noon. | he scor i parted his | side. ae I must say that the Republican party contains some of the biggest ap-Leads to be found on this side vithe Atlantic. When out of pow- athey make all kind of extravas gait promises to the colored broth- eas to What they will do, but once iu, they are suddenly struck with a uveuient forgetfulness. Before they tell us if we will stand 1 and help them elect the e shall be cared for in pref- ereace to any Democrat, and that the latter shall not control appoint- neits, Yet Commissioner Ray~ is allowed to dictate who Stall remain and who shall go. i gulls these men with a ttle yarn that is swal- ‘ved with alareity and so keep in- \ smen who voted against Where is the com- stice of our Re- : Where is that ‘cal sagacity they are wont to st They certainly either or they are a set of cow- suppose that the colored day and time, with o. lteteased wealth and intelli= Shee are going to continue their “port to men who make decep- 44 proiession, isan error and up some morning un to find that they The coloredvoter is & lis treatment with that © the Irisn and German 1¢ fally understands honestly : 8 just as potent, when man's, vn panted, as the white the ‘aaa iless he is accorded 0 ODe oe ne ent, he is going to eg ) things, either refrain '€, OF Support those who herr promises to him. made ‘scome when promises kept ag ah must be as faithfally ~ ‘Hose made to others. We ttle thinking for ours while we prefer the Re- » We are unwilling, : rely refuse to be any * automatons. Our pro- aud shall be respected. als are good enough to offices then there is no Republican party. KING MARLEAUX, —.. to the BEE, dates. Ton sense and Publican leader: Pol cout Weted o Voter, ar that his vote The eed for ty the Subscrip, THE BAPTISTS’ DEMAND. THE INDICTMENTS AGAINST SouTH- ERN BRUTALITY. THE PRESIDENT APPEALED 10. Tbe Committees appointed last September by the National Baptist Convention that met at Indianapo- lis, Ind., representing every State | in the Union, met at the “BEE” of- fice last Thursday morning, and formulated their plans for waiting | upon President Harrison. The Committees were composed of some of the most learned colored men in this Country. The Committee were joined by the local Baptist denom- inations of this city, consisting of Dr. R. S$, Laws, Revs. W. H. How- | ard, J, H- Lee, R. H: Perter, Har- | vey Johuson of Baltimore, M. D,, and others. The Committee whose names are attached to the fol- lowing address, was the first Com- mittee to wait on the President : To the President of the U. States. Mr. President : Last month in the city of Indian- apslis the representatives of more than one million three hundred and sixty-two thousand Baptists met to | attend the annual convocations of the General Associotion of the Western States and Territories, the Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, and -the American National Baptist Conveution, for the purpose of discussing and de- vising plans and means for the pro- pagation of the gospel in our own country and elsewhere. These bodies, sir, zepresent a larger con stitueucy among the colored people of this country than any other de- nomination of Christians in Ameri- ca. The peacable tenor that charac- terized these anwaal meetings afore- time was disturbed at Indianapolis by the narration and knowledge of the terrible outrages and mal-treat- ment that are being perpetrated apon many of our Southern breth- ern almost daily. ‘These added to the earnest request made in these meetings for prayer to God for the deliverance of our bretkera, who were represented in these meetings by preachers of the gospel who were well acquainted with their con- dition from -actual observation, moved every heart among us. As the meetiugs progressed, the feel- ings of our delegates were subdued until the Georgia delegation arriv- ed, among whom was the President of our Foreign Mission Convention of the U. States, Rev, E. K. Love, D.D., and Mrs. Jane H. Garnett, several of whom having been terri- bly mutilated, as the result of a savage assault made upon them by a band of ruffians at Baxley, Ga-, who dragged and drove them from the cars, for no other ground than that they were riding in a first-class car as their tickets entitled them, assaulting them with stones, clubs, knives, pistols and other deadly instruments. When our brethern saw with their own eyes these un- mistakable evidences of oppression, knowing these delegates from the State of Georgia as distinguished far and near as peaceable, honest, well educated, temperate gentle- tlemen, and realizing that things were coming to a terrible pass when our ministers of tue gospel find it ansafe for their lives and persons to visit our annual gatherings to assist in their humble way in solv~ ing theprodlems of America, strong men were moved to copious tears. The Baptist bodies then in mass meeting assembled, appointed us without a dissenting vote as a Com- mittee to memoralize the President of the whole people, voicing the sentiments of the delegates present and those of our people, laying be- fore the President our grievances and asking him to bring our wrongs | to the attention of Congress for the most thorough and impartial inves- tigation and for the enforcement and enactment of appropriate laws for the protection and security of our people- : Mr. Presieent, we are simply ministers of the gospel. We come not as partisans and hence have no selfiish ends to subserve. Our ob- ject here is simply to voice the op- pression of a guileless and inoffen- | sive people and to lay before the nation and the chief Executive thereof a case that demands a set- tlement upon no other basis than that ofjustice. That we area peac- able people and desire to live and cultivate peace with our white neighbors are manifested from two considerations. First, our Nation- al Baptist bodies, preferring that before we make any appeal to any sublunary power, we commit our cause into the hands of a just God did setapart the third Sabbath in October in all of our Churches, as a day of fasting and prayer to | the God of Nations for the deliver- anceof our brethern from oppresion | aud outrage, for the State and Na- | tianal governments under which we live, and for the very men who would shoot us down: Second, in | all of these massacres, lynchings, | outrages and intimidations, the ne- groes are recorded as the sufferers and-victims, while the white men escape with rarely an exception. | verse to a race codflict and to giv- prefering rather the vindication and protection of the laws impar- tially administered and the commit- | ment of our cause into the hand of |. him who enjoined upon us,‘‘avenge not yourselves, vengeance is mine, \I will repay.” Our grieveance, Mr. | President, is a real one. The Am- erican people have learned that within the last three months, more than one hundred Negroes have been brutally slaughtered in Mis- | sissippi. They are aware of the inhuman butchery of colored people in Lou isiana for the last twelve months a- long with the burning down of our churches and school houses; of the intimidation and banishment of colored officials, elected by a legal authority in Crittenden County, Arkansas and Fort Bend, Co., Tex- as, of the driving away from home and family of colored editors 1 the South ; of the almost daily lynch- ings of negroes all over the South upon mere suspicion of crime; of deprivation of our right to vote and of having our votes counted, espec lally in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, and ofthe brutal, barbarous assault upon quiet, in- telligent, sober, and defenseless col- ored preachers in Georgia, added to the mid-night raids to the homes of inoffensive negroes near Atlanta, Ga., for the purpose of stripping them of their clothes and _lacerat- ing their bodies till blood flows, “for the fun ef it,” as they say. The news papers even from those localities, have acquainted the Na- tion with these outrages. There is a reign of terror, Mr. President, in several of our Southern States that is unparalleled since the days of kukluxism. Weare at a loss to account for it; unless itis the re- sult of desperation of bad men dis- apointed in their political aspira- tions and desires and aggrivated and impelled by inflamatory edito riols on the imaginary danger of Negro domination and the recital in Southern newspapers of the pro- bability of some Negro uprising or race wat here and there, when no such probability ever existed, would avenge themselves upon the Negro as the most willing and read- y victim; or the attempt of some thoughtless malignant persons to drive the Negroes to the despera- tion of precipitating a race conflict in order that the whites well organ- ized, armed with Winchester rifles and backed by the State govern- ments may extermiuate theNegroes who are unorganized, unarmed and defenseless, and thus solve what they are pleased to call the Race Problem of the South. In either the Negroes who desire no race trouble. We do not claim, Mr. President, that these outrages come from the better class of whites in the South or have their sanction ; for there isa progressive part of our white fellow citizens in the South who depreciate such flagrant aud bigh handed outrages. But that element of our citizens, we ap- prehend, is in the minority, inas~ much tuat the public opinion of the dominant class is one of which our Southern States sustains with ap- plause, its chief Executive in mak ing requisitions throughout the country forthe delivery of prize fighters for punishment, while it is mate and indifferent to the precon certed and systematic slaughter of more than 100 negroes, without due process of law. While it is evident that the sentiment of the progressive class of our white fellow citizens is against these bra | talities, yet that sentiment is not | sufficiently strong and independent as to force the perpetrators of these crimes to condign punishment. In nearly all of the cases we have mentioned the State officials have not made the least judicial investi- gation. We have no redress in the | courts; for the machinery of the | law is chiefly in the hands of the Continued on 2nd Page. The people we speak for are a-| yn | ing vent to a spirit of retaliation, |" 5 cents per copy. os NO. 24 | PHILOMATHIAN RY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY. —WILL GIVE THEIR FIRST— DRAMATIC END MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT At Galbraith A. M. E. Charch, 6th and L Streets. Rev. Cowles, Pastor. Friday Evening, Nov. 15th 1889. The toliowing weil known talent~ ed artists will appear: Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, - vest, Mme, FE. Ridgeway, “Mibces 3.7 M.E. Lemons, Mr. T. T. Symmons. Messrs. J. ne Wil- ‘Tucker and others. eee The committee will ‘spare no pains to make the entertainment one of profit and pleasure to the many friends of the Society. Admission : - 25 cents. | $s e ——__ FOR KENL-KUOM . First class job work done at the BEE office. Calland inspect. 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