The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-09-04

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positively assert ! never told you
any such thing.
But see you are capable of abus-
ing and villifying men that are OPP
posed to your way OF thinking. You
are the same man who denounced to
me ia your parsonage Rev. +. B.
Ford, leading preacher Of your con
ference, and characterized him as q
very bad man Deny tllss will you?
You demand proof at my hands Of
amalgamation. Are yon an idiot or
d knave? Pollard and Bell were CIV.
en-. Bishop Haven favored it, as he
so stated to me. Many of your
preachers are good mea and will not
stop to such things, but many 9TH
ers believe in it and some practice
it. / will risk the verdict of the
people on that. ! say we all are in
favor Of the negroes having their
rights, / mean the church south and
the white people of the south in
general. 1t is not penitence that
made me say, / hope to let the mat
ter drop here, but for shame for you.
III you only knew the verdict Of the
people In your case, you would have
never commenced to defend bad
cause, but you are into it, and so
get out the best you can. Oh! how
you would deceive the people with
your Freedman's Aid resolution.
Why did you not show Messrs. Har-
key, OzmeDt and Mann, that part of
the report they amended? | think
the 7th resolution or paragraph
where they struck out the word sep
arate, and that we do heartily con-
cur. Deny that will you? But you
have deceived three good men by
not giving that report in full, but
have kept hack part Of the piece,
the part that had the sugar in 1t. |
know those words here stricken out,
and / believe they struck it out in
the Sd resolution, have not the re-
port before me but / am almost pos
tive they struck it out in the sew
enth resolution or paragraph. And
you have inverted the order Of these
resolutions. You know well enough
that the Freedman's Aid resolutions
were passed week or more before
adjournment, and after saying all
they did in these resolutions. On
the day of adjournment or the day
before, they passed the resolution ]
gave in my first article annulling all
they had said about separate and
social rights, and said emphatically
and sent it out to the world that no
person should be excluded from
their churches and schools on ac-
count of race, color, or previous con
dition of seryitude. You inverted
the order OF their passage to deceive
people, and make the impression
that your Freedman's Aid resolu-
tions were the last ones passed. Now
sir, if you are in favor mixed schools,
say so, and be loyal to your church,
ii not, reject the pernicious doctrine
and step down and out as / have
done, be either pig or puppy one. /
put the same question to you that
DR.. Haygood put to one of your
kind in Cincinnati in 1880. If you
were to stop at hotel to spend the
night, and the landlord should show
you a room with two beds in it. in
one bed is clean white man, in the
other clean negro, and he tells you
you can sleep with one of those men,
which one would you get IN with?
man SAID he would get in
with the white man, but l fancy /
hear Hendrickson say in with the
negro. Now sir, why do you not
come out and endorse the resolution
and say yes | am in favor OF mixed
schools, for the people have you
down that way? But no, you dodge
around and fight McAnaliy and pa.
rade resolutions that have no mean
ing which were amended, and furth
er annnlled by the last act Of the
DO you favor that res
olution and what it means2 1t is
plain. ] am glad you gave it again
in your article. No you won't say
yes | endorse it, but you evade and
run around and try to make up in
thunder what yon lack in candor. l
accord the Nj. E. church all the hon.
or that she is entitled to for the
grand work she has done for both
white and black, both at home and
In foreign lands, but when she in
vades the home, the church and
school house, and attempts to die
tate who we shall sit in church and
school with, for one will denounce
such action anywhere. | have no
war to make Oh her local mem Der.
ship, for many Of them highly res
pect, but am sorry they suffer
themselves to be led by such men
rs you are and the other men who
are making too. of you in this con-
Iroversy. l know the men and their
standing in the country. You say
no man living can construe the res
buttons to mean social negro equali-
ty. Wonderful statement right in
lhe face OF the resolution | am dis
sussing! Are you not ashamedp Do
You think the people of Pope county
ire fools or that they can't read?
Your reason must be dethroned.
Need tell you again that it says DO
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