The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1886-03-06

| EDIlDR bStEDLA l1NES--Hetlilt
an article in your paper Of the 9th
ult., making an unjust attack npor
the colored people ofOsceola, | deem
IT necessary to answer the would b'
accuser.
The statement in the TIMES of The
above date IN regards to one Tony
is utterly false,
We arc not inhuman, void OF feel
ing as he would have the readers o.
the TINES believe.
We do not think it right for thf
whites to ask assistance from the int
fcrior colored people, aud then with
put dlscriplnation speak Of Us as .
whole. For there are Us much differ
encc in them as are among III,
whites,
Who was he that appealed to the
colored people for assistancey Who
are the coloreds appealed to, and
what are their names? We want IL
preach to them like thunder. Tony
VIVA died Sunday morning Feb. , LIST
DID haye attention from the cold
and some Of the people Of Dsceola.
He was cared for from last No
vember till few days prior to hi.
death when he was put upon the
County. We sent to Memphis for
medicine which the druggist here did
not have. Other medicines purelas-
ed here. Several ladies visited him,
carried nourishments and washed his
clothes. 1t was at least nine O'Clock
when VIC heard of the death of pool
Tony, We begin at once to make
some preparation for burying him
We, Prof. +, johnson, Rev. j, NJ
Owens aud myself sent man to see
after the affair. He soon returned
telling US that the Jail prisoners were
attending to the matter. This beng
the case we made no further effort,
but mcnt to attend the burying.
ask, does this look like the care
one woald take ola "mangy dog"
If our condition is so dcplorablc
as the would be accpser has it, i, is
unsafe to live in a state. county ol
town with such people. Sol think
it would be well for the accuser to
ask the better class Of people the
wi ties to help raise the standard Of
this long neglected race.
But ] am under the impression
that the better class of whites DO not
agree will, our acouser,
Now as to the preaching we IL,
not deny the assertion. For the
negro is known 70 be Of 2 musical
talent. he made music for his luas
ter and mistress in the corn aud cot
ton fields, Aud why MT make it
in the pulpit. "By the foolishness
Of preaching men are saved"
"It matters NOT what men may say.
Or call It's HIRE beios;
We mean 70 sling ap preach aud pray.
I'LL W. 10 Z l'ry 81
W, a, LEWIS.
1t Is as easy a matter to dpny All
assertion aud style it as "whnlly
false" Us it is to make onei anl the
author Of the above would undoubt.
eddy have us at a disadvantages but
for the fact that he was not satisfied
by merely denying, but must need
add that he doesn't "think it right tor
the whites to ask assistance from the
inferior or colored people," This is
virtually an admission Of the truth
of the statement which gave ollruee,
therefore in the language of a certain
old darkey, who VAS di'puliug upon
the subject of baptism, " What is de
use Of arsyfyin' aud condesput.n',
when dey is no case of accesity?"
Our authority for the item was re-
cieved from two of the Deputy ShsI.
IFS WHO had asked every pplored
man they met on the street, and all
know, our streets are generally well
represented by them. That the OBJ
jectionable assertion, that is, a want
Of charity apd humanity towards the
sick and distrcssed, applies with
equal force to the whites in many
instances, there is no saying.
AT some future time, when we are
not crowded for space, we intend to
preach further from this text.