The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-07
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.
RACE PROBLEM SOLVED.
Rev. 2. z. Love Settles the Trouble
some Question.

I
last night with colored people to hear Rev.
E. & Love, pastor of the First African
Baptist church, lecture upon the race
problem. The speaker was in good mood,
and it cannot be said that he handled the
subject loosely. His address, was inter-
spersed with good deal Of humor, and his
| audience was in a roar a good portion of
the time. "God made all races of men to
dwell upon the face of the earth, 4" he said,
and IL the principles of Gods creation
were carried ont there would be no negro
problem any more than there would be any
other race problem.
The race question. Pastor Love said, has
been ringing in the ears of the negro for a
| quarter of century. Since the north and
/ the south and countries abroad are talk
| ing about it, the negro would be untrue to
himself, untrue to his race, untrue to his
country, untrue to all that is sacred to him,
II ne did not take it up. Since these people
are talking and writing about the
race problem, it is time for
| the negro to talk and write about
it. We need not sit still and think that it is
80 difficult and so intricate that we dare not
approach it. We cannot rise to the scale of
| nobility by that conduct. 1t is contrary to
the law of nature, and against the
Almighty's creation. We have got to try
GO cSSe HO Cdu " scc OURSELVES as OG06rS
see us.
The speaker did not believe that the ne
gro ought to emigrate to better his condi-
ton. he did not believe that he must rise
to arms and defend himself. He defied
anybody to say that he ever entertained
such ideas. He said that he advo-
Gates, instead of submitting this vexed
problem to the sword, or to the torch, or to
the mob, that it should be submitted to
Inefi0n nd 40 4,
no true solution can be made. Anybody
that said he advocated anything else, he
SAID, lies" The problem, he said, is not
like an arithmetical problem, and he went
into the definition of the problem.
1t IS something not understood;
not not clear to all; not known.
The negro is in this country" he said,
and he is here to stay. He cannot be
lawed out. He cannot be driven out.
He cannot be starved out, nor can he be
Killed out" The house gave round of ap-
plause when the speaker finished the SEN
tence. 1.-The negro is a creature made
by divine hands and he may approach a
throne of grace If | am child of God,
and this is Gods country, can sing Sweet
Land OF Liberty as sweetly as anybody
else."
In abiding to nationality, the speaker
remarked that it is customary to call a
person who is born and reared in Georgia,
Georgian; if born in South Carolina,
South Carolinian; il In New York,
New Yorker 81 was born IN Alabama, ~ he
said, "and therefore | am an Alabamian.
am a citizen of the United States, and not
citizen of Africa What is to the interest
OF the south is to my interest. | admit that
am descendant from African ancestors,
but was born in America, and l am
going to die here" The colored
people, he said, are here among a
superior people, not superior by creation,
not naturally superior, but a people supe-
rlor In opportunity and numbers. He be-
lieved that if he had had the opportunity
he would have been equal to any body else.
The hostility between the two races in
America he did not put down as real. If it
was the 100000 colored people would be
swept from the face of earth by the so, 000,-
O0O whites. THE negro people," he said
were lacking in unity. They are divided
everywhere Even in the churches one
faction is trying to kill the pastor while the
other side is endeavoring to save him. Every
time one colored man of promine CO Is
pulled down it weakens the race. Do you
| believe everything you hear?" he asked. "If
you do, and try to run the rumor down. I
| want to tell you good-by, because never
expect to see you again. Our people manu-
| facture reports
The speaker said that he did not care
how mean or how divided the race is, he is
| with it to stay. 1t is bis race, and although
| he may have all the Learnt ~, he must re-
main with the colored people. The negro
mas been accused OF initiating the whites
| There are some things he didn't wish to
| Initiate; while there are a good MANY
examples that he believed worthy of imita-
tation. The colored people ought
TO 1mitatate the white peo-
pies 'go aheadativeness" and their unity.
l 10 oil Hnd %n tltoI
| colored people, and how they cannot keep
a secret. The great number of lodges.
societies, churches, etc., are due, great
many OF them, to splits among the men,
bers. He spoke of the virtue of
the race. An immoral people will
always be weak people, he said.
They will fail TO obtain the recognition of
the moral classes. He naturally did not
believe that the.negro is more immoral than
other races. His virtue is imposed upon
The speaker dwelt at some length upon
the mingling of the races. There was
| considerable stir in the audience
when the speaker reached that point.
line should be drawn, he said, and to all
who fall outside of the line it should be
| death; not natural death, but the trans
gressors should be ostracized. cit is good
to forgive, and negro is the most forgiv-
| ing being in the world" the spe iker said,
"but it seems to me that one of our race
| who retrogrades morally, should not be for
given in this world nor in the world to
Gomez
The speaker was opposed to the coeduca-
ton Of the sexes and to social rights. It is
in the providence of God he said, that while
we shall live together as citizens, we shall
be separate races. Nothing, he said, is
further from bis mind than social equality.
| He believes that it is the will of God for
each race to marry among themselves. The
colored people, he said, should disown Fred
Douglass. For himself he despised Dougla s
ia every way. II think Douglass is
a disgrace to the race" he said.
He advocated cooperative business The
colored people are poor, and they cannot
accomplish anything sngly. They must go
| about collectively. "The time is coming
and now is" he said, "when he who owns
nothing shall control nothing. In order to
gain the recognition for which we ciamor
we must get out of the towns and go to
work. More of the colored people should
| go to the country.
Upon the educational question the speaker
believed that money and good common
sense are bet or than education. The negro
may know Greek aud Latin, but that alone
| will not buy him m sat and bread.
CAMERON. IDAHO, May Is, 1888.
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