Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-21
SOlruaI srtA GOnrisr.
Saturday, April 21. 1888.
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 Our kind brother also says that our people in a certain community only took out three marriage licenses in one year when they should have taken out 200, while the whites took out 300 marriage licenses. If this is so it is only following the customs of twenty five years ago, in which they were cradled. Besides our friends North know full well the ability of the average southerner to count negro votes. The same may be the case with reference to this license business. It is known, too, that intermarriages of whites and blacks are forbidden in the South, but anyone travelling South is everywhere and continually reminded of the mixture of the races. How does Mir. Tucker account for this, and it takes two to make 8 bargain This work is still going on, yet white man or woman would be slapped in jail if found marrying 'tnigger." This is no blot on the unsullied CD moral character of the South. I think that there is room for charity on both sides. But some people who live ln glass houses won't see the wisdom of moi throwing stones. As members of the ''ra- Gonal system" we both have enough to be ashamed of. But which of us is most to be blamed?
 In the South we were born, and in the South we are going to live and die. In the South, the scene of our mental and moral degradation, we intend to rise to a noble manhood and take our place among the na- tions of the earth. Our influence is bound to be felt in this nation morally, educational ly, religiously and politically. While we move on and upward, with the generous help of the North almost exclusively, at present, (and we are certainly rising), we want our white friends South, whose minds are be- clouded by ignorance and made devlllsh by fiery hatred and prejudice, to rise with us. Ignorance is dangerous under white skin as well as under a black one. Our interests are bound up in the same bag. We are out upon the same broad ocean, in the same frall barque, and if we tussle and topple the boat over, we shall certainly go down be- heath the same waves with the same heaven ly father looking down upon our folly which cannot but work our hurt.
 Instead of being handed oEer en masse to our southern brethren to be trained in nor als and the practice of the Christian virtues, we beg our northern friends who followed Tn the wake of the Union army as it cut it's way southwark and began to teach and inspire the negro with manhood and womanhood, we beg you to hold on to us until we can walk. We are yet in our infancy as 8 race, and have much yet to learn-we might say everything. We want all the sympathy and help we can get in our endeavors to rise and shake of the habits of two and 8 half centu- ries' accumulation. We don't push aside help offered by our kind Brother Tucker ex cept in the way it is to be received-in tran
 
 preachers. Help to give us, we would sug gest, an educated ministry of our own, and we will show to you and to the world that and religious advantages will have the same effect upon colored man or community as upon white one, which doc Urine, am afraid, Mir. Tucker and others who were cast in 8 similar mold are unwil- ling to accept and digest Give us we would again say, an educated ministry of our race, and let those who are qualified for it look af ter the educational and religious training of ignorant whites South, of whom there are many, and "We'll go marching home"
 As to the white mans religion South, l and an the dear sunny South viii never rise and shine in all her possible splendor until wave of spiritual regeneration sweeps over it, and old things shall have passed away, and all things become new. The old man with his deeds must be put off, and the new Man with love and goodwill toward all man kind must be put on. ''Ye must be born again, marvel not that say unto you ye must be born again" Southerners once preached that you might just as well try to cultivate the mind of monkey as that of a negro, and that as a slave he was fulfilling the noble end of his existence This has been proven to be lie. Now that our broth CT recommends schools, etc., for the develop ment of the negro's mind, let us take cour- age ana Dei1eVe Gnat no ts AoG al'oSe'neh uSe- titute of moral qualities that may be de- veloped also, and that is only a matter of time. All southerners are not negro haters I have friends among the whites South, who I believe, desire the elevation of the rae e and feel that this would be to their interest In Lake City, Fla, where labored last year, several white gentlemen were so well pleased with what was done for the educational ele- vation of the community as well as it's moral ity that they have kindly offered to give $1 50 each to have college or high school planted there for the benefit of the colored members of the community, and this to be manned and managed by colored men. am glad that the ''world do move."
 A. P. MILLER