Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-28
tn.n ! b,sct m.n,s pr,nce who regard

than a black mans prince, who regard
Africa as next door to hades, while 1t Is the
richest continent under Heaven. And stu
another class of us, who, while processing
10 be Christians, will work ~ hard TO dis
suade young ministers from going with
as IL they were going TO leap over fatal
precipioe; who pretend TO be serving God
and have no aim higher than to get TO
Heaven 20 be white: who profosa faith IN
a bodily resurrection from the dead and
vet expect that resurrected and glorifed
body TO be white: that class OF US VINO
would rather go forty miles TO hear white
ass bray than hundred yards to hear
black seraph sing"
refer 20. / say, with double emphasis, IL
would be 'nonsense' TO talk of their re-
turning TO Africa. Such prattle would be
but the largon of folly. Every colored man
in this country who is not proudot hinseu,
his color, his hair. and his general makeup
is monstrositv. He ia o curse 20 hiihsen
and will be 10 his children. he - lower
than q brute, and does not deserve IN. we
breath he breathes. much less the
bread he eats Any man, though nc oe as
black as midnight, who regards hlmseii IN
ferior 10 any other man that Goa ever
made, is simply a walking ghoul ana ought
70 ioin the invisible companions OF the
first opportunity. unless he does II TO the
extent Of his natural or acquired ABILITY.
And when you say they have no desire
TO go TO Africa. say, who know the rear
condition of our race ~ wen as any nlhn
who lives. a million at least of them desire
20 go somewhere. They want freedom,
manhood, liberty. patriotism. or the right
10 protect themselves. At least million
of as have found ont that this nation is
failure: that il either cannot or ms no
disposition to protect the rights OF a man
who is not white. Not a court IN the
nation has given a decision III faVoroI
the black man in twelve years, Inc
Supreme Court Is an organized MOI
against the negro, and every subordinate
court in the land has caugh. its spirit.
Buy n rnilroad ticket in Washington Tor
the Rio Graude, and viii give you hun
bred dollars for every meal OF vlctuals you
purchase, unless you go round the back
way and enter the kitchen and eat AMID
filth and smoke and then pay as much 1Or
it as the Queen of England would have TO
nav. Take your own State, Mississippi.
4 few weeks ago | walked up TO the ticket
window to purchase q ticket for Atlanta,
and the agent told me TO 60 ont aud come
around to tho back-window and L could
buv a ticket. ] demonstrated against such
prescription, and he replied by SAYING:
'We make Senator Bruce go round there;
and you will have to do the same, ana all
other niggers."
The Bishop Is very favorable to the bill
of Senator BUTLER. He says he doesn't
care snap of his finger if Elr. BUTLER is a
Democrat. He adds:
II have not space here to describe the in
finite resources ofAfrica, and show IT'S spe-
cial fitness TO be the future theatre OF the
elevated and cultured negro. Let 1t suffice TO
say that it is the giant continent OF the
world. 1t is the Eden of earth, and will IN
time be the heart of the globe, sanitarlly'
commercially, and evangelically."
Auditorium nOSfy1um m nOmtne DOmini,
and He will put the civilized world under
contribution for the enlightenment OF that
continent, be the agents and actors Ke-
publicans or Democrats, POpe-naterS, ne
gro-lovers, monarchies, churches, ex-
plorers. diamond-hunters, gold-dlggers,
ship-sailors. wise men, fanatics, cranks.
enthusiasts, or slGve-catchers."
II am not matchmaking the whites
about these things. / am not denounclng
the South any more than the North, for the
decision of northern supreme court IS
the author of it all. | find white man ls
a white man and black man Is black
man, be he northerner or sOutherner, and
the great question which confrOnts Is,
What will the black man do? You (Sena-,
tor Bruce say all OF you stay mere anu
wait for better times. say let us pray
God and man to pass the bill OF senator
Butler, and let line of steamships be
started between here and Africa, and let
such of us as believe that we are not mon
KEYS and can do something without the
white mans domination 80 and try the
experiment"
What could Congress or the President do
for us if they had the will 70 be better our
condition? What can all the people of
the United States dofor us whenthe court,
as a last resort, declares that the negro IS
a dog. and when no power in the nation
can override their decision? You may rest
your hopes upon the ignis fdtuus of times
getting better. put shall regard the evils
complained of above as the voice of God
and nature calling upon the negro to arise
End do something for himself. and Senator
Butler and his bill as q heayen-send to our
race. Ii. NJ. IUBNEh.
Atlanta. Ca, March 18th.