Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-06
DR.. rALMaGE ON THE coLoRED RACE.

DIR. Ialmage IN dis CnrlSIlna5 seruol Oh
Sunday week, said the following in regard
to the colored race
"There is very cheerful Christmas
thought at this time in the fact that the
great question which for sixty years has
been dominant in politics, in philanthropy
aud in religion is coming 10 righteous so.
luton. What Of the colored man in this
country? You know that that question put
million men into the grave trenches and
ever since the war closed it has kept our ma
tional finances in u jangle. Through the
| live thousand miles of my recent journey up
| and down the South and up and down the
| Southwest kept asking that question, and
| kept getting an answer from all classes or
| persons and from both colors, and believe
I can give you the right impression this
morning when / say believe the black man
is better treated at the South than he is
treated at the North.
"In Montgomery, Alabama, the day
spent there, the Legislature of the State
passed Il law for the full and complete edu-
cation of coored people. making it specl
atty. Colored mechanics have large wages
and plenty of employment all through the
South The colored carmen Of New Orle.
ans have their three dollars day and are
expecting more wages. The colored peo-
pie have the preference in the South OF SER
vice in all the hotels and boarding houses,
and in the railtrains and in the steamers.
They are represented in the State LegisIa-
lures.
"The eloquent and accomplished United
States Senator Bruce, whom | met on my
Journey, is only an illustration of the posi-
lties of the colored men of the South. In
L of ba I ouiclofnrap nf tho NnrIH Ia
are there colored men? How many are
| there in the Legislature of New York? How
| many in the Legislature Of Massachusetts
| in the North o colored man come into
any kind of service all the other servants
run-all the other servants resign. There
is q more kindly and Christian feeling
among the white people of the South to
ward the black people than there is at the
North If were black man and had a
family and were determined to be industri-
Gus and sober, would 60 TO the South.
have noticed the treatment of colored men
in the North and have noticed the trent
ment of colored men in the South, and
| believe Justice will come TO the black man
at the South sooner than it will come al the:
North. We cannot at the North teach the
South how to treat the black man until we
treat him better ourselves.
81 will imagine scene. Northern
| Legislature assemblies. White men take the
oath of office, as legislators they take their
seats. A colored man has been accidentally
| elected. AS he passes in to take bis seat,
what do the white members OF the Legsla-
ture say? Put that colored gentleman near
me?' No. Image of God cut in ebony"
No. 'Downcast race come to justice at last"
| No. They all snuff the breeze, and their
hair rises in indignation, and they say,
| 'Niggern There is ~ more Christian and
kindly feeling among the white people Of
the South toward the black than there is al
the North.
"As for myself, am so peculiarly con-
stituted that | have not in my nature one
parlical of race prejudice, and / could sit in
church perfectly contented, with colored
man before me, and colored man behind
me, and colored man at the right, and
colored man at the left, and black man in
the pulpit, and black choir to lead the
| music. But we are not all constituted alike.
But you may depend that among the mer-
riest Christmas thoughts to day, in Amer.
| ica, ought. to be the consideration that there
is coming more Christian feeling between
| the races.
"Some years ago, in the State House OF
| Georgia, at Atlanta, this scene occurred A
colored minister, standing in the State
House, said he was thirsty, and he was look
ing for something to drink. A white gentle.
man standing by, said, I'll get you drink,
and departed the room. AS the white gen.
tleman was coming back with glass OF
water for this black clergyman some one
said to the clergyman: DO you know who
that is who is bringing you glass of water?'
No, who is it?' That is Governor Col
quitt.' Then the black man took the glass
of water and said, Thank you, Governor,
but cannot drink this under such circum.
stances and he poured it on the floor, say
ing: L pour this out as libation on the
altar of Christian feeling between the two
races Dramatic? Yes, but gloriously
Christian.
s'It is among the merriest of thoughts this
morning, that this awful question. that has
been agitating politics and agitating re-
licion North and South is coming to Il
Christian solution"
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