The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-01-03
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A WORD TO LEADING COLORre /,


New HSsk Herald.
a r$ fAkable pheno meOo.
mandWh he attention Of ,Le nOn
Of colofed public opini i,e ltadg
South and North. Thew IN
prudenlly shut their eve. canas
eyes Of their conslil9,e es Or
colored people of the Tnc
HE sympathy and annl,0nlOO-
by all New England anG Eve
part Of the North to ibo q gna
speech Of Mr.. Grady, of pd iecsv
at 4 Boston banquet. =" 0s0Fai
We do not ask coIored mo-.
agree with Mr.. Grady's onin "aen
sentiments. They NAV dias.
Mr.. Grady's statements # WHY
please they may deny the e ~, ,ag
and justice of his concIu. y"
hey may say. what thew I nIal
about his sentiment. All l P'saN
oeSlue me question. What IG.'
are bound to notice and "a AN %l
he attention of colored man ' ~
1nence everywhere in the S !,
is that all New England hn 9'ulA
plauded Mr.. Grady That 'I !" "
ancient stronghold Of abolili"on 'e
The region where the negro
been accustomed to oun aa'
finding his most zeaIous r,i upl
and Acknowledgement, at lasl \
has apparently Worn out lriisa1 II
ship. "'eOa
This IS a matter which deso,v,,
The consideration OF every colo's
man III the S0uth-a mailer ~Ii,a
every intelligent coIored Ieade,
bound to impress upon those ofli
people whom i. is his place lo,''
form. Schemmg and reckless NJ
ilicians in Congress NAY conlr',
Federal election bills-lhey ca0n@
pass; and il they do they will N
repealed under stress 'of pu6I,
Indignation in the North. Ts|
colored leaders of the South VIVA
Tell their people that there 4 HEN
for them in Federal legislaIior
mislead them, and are either n
norant themselves or reckless dem.
agngnes. The colored people If
the South must help lhemspIye,
out Of any trot Sles they may have.
They must became a part of lbs
Southern body polite and not an
eXtraneOus mass, cohering for Dur
poses foreign TO the general objects
Of their fellow citizens.
The applause and sympaIhr
which Mr.. Grady's speech has re-
ceived in New England should
once for all awaken the Southern
colored people 10 The fact that hey
have in the quarter OF a cen;uy
since the war closed drawn tao
heavily upon even their most zeal
Gus friends in the North. Mr., Ora.
dy suggested that it would have
been better that The col0red mer
of the South had not been giyel
the vole. We do not agree will
him there, for we believe The vet
was needed to turn him from
freedman into "A freeman. Bul ihl
significant TACT is thai no apprecIa
bic public opinion in New Bingham
or elsewhere in The North has TAX
Ell serious exception TO Mr.. Grady
opinion.
1t is The duty OF the inlelligen
and conscientious leaders oil lh
cnlored South TO tell their peopI
all overthe South plainly that The
have no help to expect from NOltt
ern sympathy thai Federal eleC
ton laws, even il they could pas
would not benefit them, and wOul
be repealed in two years underl III
stress OF Northern indignation az
opposition ; and that they ous'
no longer allow themselves to !
banded together in their SlaleSl
a "Solid" mass, not forming a p
litical party, but only a pollllc
mob. 1t is their duty 10 teach lle
people that they must vote as lOf
think and not as Republican DEL
agogues urge them 10.
The solid South consists oil w
parts, the solid white voters o.
the solid black voters. But WI
do The blacks gain-what have I'm
gained by this solidityg NOthiI'
except here and there a postoln
or some other petty Federal pla'
flung TO them as a bone Is ilung
a dog. 1t is time for the color
voters TO consider their sltuall'
and to abandOn the false couT
which has brought upon them,
many of them assert, m~altreatme
in the South ; but, what is far me
serious for them, Indifference q
contempt in the North, and IN !
house of their friends.