Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-11-08
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Inc ndblOQdI convention VI CO1Ot0u
Baptists at Indianapolis, last week,
naturally spent a good part of its time
in considering the outrages on the
people Of color in the South, of which
those Of the delegates to this very
convention furnished so fragrant an
example. Coming together from ev-
cry part of the South, and presenting
probably the largest body of cOlOred
Christians in the country, the dele
gates had but one tale to tell of the
treatment they had received from the
hands of the rough element in the
South. The course Of events since
last election seems. to show that the
hatred of the freedman has gathered
force from the disappointment Of the
southern Democrats to elect their can
didate for the presidency by political
methods which they now do not care
to deny. The tale Of outrages is gath
ering in volume from month to month
i'll it bids far to amount to that OF
the Kuklux times. The one outcome
of all this which every friend Of the
emancipated race would deplOre, is a
negro rising, and yet it is just for
some such result that the REGULATORS"
of the South appear to be working.
So paIpable has this danger become
that we find the white officials warn
ing the people Of Mississippi to deal
more gently with the colored people,
lest they be driven to desperation.
The convention at Indianapolis, APP
pointed the third Sunday of October
as a day of fasting and prayer to ask
God to deliver them from ''bate, Ujo-
Ience and deatb?' How will that sad
litany read on the page Of American
history? How does it sound to the
ears Of foreigners who are watching
and criticising the course Of cIviliza-
ton? How does it sound to the ears
of Almighty God, who has bid the
strong care for and protect the weak
VIII it suffice for this nation now, any
more than before the war, to plead
with Cain: 81 am not my brothers
keeper: there are constitutional diff
cuIties in the way Of my defending
him from outrage and murder These
are questions which are beginning tc
press upon the national conscience
and if no quiet and orderly way car
be found for solving them, then they
like slavery itself, will be disposed of II
a way neither quiet or orderly. The
AbOltiOnists are called ''incendiarists'
for predicting that. Those who speaI
like truth in our days, are accused o.
waving the bloody shirt" So Ions
as the blood on the shirt is real BLOOD
it cannot be waved too much.
The convention also appointed {
delegation to call upon Presiden
Harrison to present the wrongs O.
their race. It represents no less thar
twenty states. Some of its member,
are probably going to their death IL
going to Washington. They know
what kind OF treatment awaits then
on their return to the South, because
they thus dare to make known then
wrongs to the chief magistrate OF the
nation, and through him to the whole
world. Surely no more sOlumn dep
utation ever waited on a president
It is m0ritttri te 8aIuteut Cesar over
again. What can President Harrison
do for them What can Congress do
This is the most serious question be
fore the Republican party which
far OuJweighs tariffs and shipping anC
every other material interest 1t is tn,
question to whose solution the Repub
Ican party is committed by the yer,
first clause in the Chicago platform.
The above is from the North Ameri
can ReaiesU one of the most conserva
tive and independent Republican iourn
ais IN the nation and is the expression
of public opinion on subject tbs
most important of all subjects anC
questions Oft lay, and there is no ne
cessity to appeal to race predjudic,
or attempt TO silence public opinion b.
bowling bloody shirt, or to denounc,
the persons who express the opinion
that the question is of the utmost
I gravity and OF peril to the whites o