The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-01-14
TIC sATuvAH TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY JANUARY IA, 1888
REV. DIR. LOVE ON
THE PRESENT CONDITION
AND THE FUTURE OF
THE NEGRO.


On Monday night last, the lecture
room of the First African Baptist
church. was crowded to its utmost
CAPACITY, the occasion being an
address of Rev. E. K. Love, on the
present condition and the duty OF
tthe Negro. The audience was in
full sympathy with DR.. Love, who
surpassed himself in his eloquent
appeals for the race to elevate itself.
He showed his audience the pitlable
condition in which the race stood
because of a lack of union among
themselves. The Negro is not unit
ed against those who oppose his
elevation, because he is a coward,
but he is yery quick to knock each
other down; in union is power which
is only hope. White men are united,
they never try to destroy their lead
ers. Joe Brown who has been cursed
and abused, and burnt in etigy, was
vet elected to the u. 5. Senate.
White men help each other, you
never hear them say about their lead
ers che has sold out" Ignorance
is the parent of distrust and distrust
is the farther of destruction.
The Negro should support his loo
al newspaper He should subscribe
for it and pay for it, as long as it is
true to his race The papers are
thinking and talking always for his
rig S. They are pow er |
for good or for evil,
an he Negro should support the
pape that is faithful in his advoca-
CIV. race can succeed in the
BATH life without the press. He
will take more from white man
than a | ack one, because he has no
one at h back. If you don't sup
port a p, per, you can't give the lie
when yot are misrepresented, Wifi
ed and IL: duced.
The race must come together and
create and support its own business
enterprise. There are about 10000
colored PEI pie in Savannah, who
spend at !, w estimate over mil
lion dollars year, by unlung they
would handle and work tins money
for their own elevation. Whoever
get it viii become rich and power
full. The white man gets it all now
the Negro gets none. The latter
should be able to purchase his cradle
from one Of his race have his own
doctor to soofhe his dying hour, and
a Negro to bury him 1t can be
done, God knows it, he knows it
and erybody Knows it. The Ne
gro is the most honest race III the
world; others have stolen from a
foot Of land to a whole Continent,
while the former never stole any
thing bigger than cow. Put him
on a fair basis and he will work
ahead; he has the honesty and the
ability-how can it be done?
The race must come together lay
down their money In Savannah,
we have an organization known as
the Real Estate and Mercantile Asso-
ciation. 1t wanted good men to
take the shares The Association
was prospecting and had already
considerable money on hand. They
should buy the ground, build store,
and stock it with everything he
needs from it. The Negro must
have his own business men, his own
lawyers, and his own doctors. The
Negro who has done so much to
build and make America, has no
home of his own Color makes no
man any more than color makes a
horse. Character makes the man;
honesty, virture and frugality make
race The address was closed in
an earnest call upon the race to be
in unity among itself,
Short speeches were delivered by
Revs. S. II Robertson, M. R. Will
son and u. L. Houston, endorsing
the expressions of DR.. Love for the
ELEVATION of the race. Another
meeting of the same nature will be
held on Monday night at the same
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