Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-06-28
IL must go ,
He proceeds further /:

40 must go
He proceeds further:
Obedience to Law, willing and invariable
to law, u one of the highest
qualities of nation and one of the
chief promoters OF ma ional elevation,
Antagonism TO Ia q spirit which re
jects the restraints law ,retards national
progress and may 20 its destruction.
The above are If-evident truths.
He does not stop here. Hear him
when he asks:
Can any fraud. ev ON. or continuance
whatever practiccd or c0nnived at with
out by so much iBpairing the moral
sense of q people as we'll as of an individ-
ual1 Can any refie.- tion whatsoever, no
matter how inexors . the occasion, from
the path of absolut recitude,be tolerated
ithOut in1loting an injury on the sense
of Justice and right which. allied to un
flinching courage. institutes nations
virtut2 VINO will saY that the moral
sense of our people Ow is IS lofty as it
was in the days VII men voted with mp
lifted faces for th andidate of their
choices
Let men Nor and South read
and ponder tho ssertions. How
we'll he loves Caucasian race,
and seeks to pr ut the Negro only |
so far as it MAJ lefit his own is
evidenced VIII declares:
The pres o of the land is
| filled with 81 - ,fmjuries to the Ne
| gro. The real iNlur' is not to him, bot
to the white.
This is bsoIutely true. No doubt
OF it at all.
"Yet what of value to the human race
in ali it's history has the Negro MUD pro-
duced : Nothing. Ia art. in mechanical
Developments in literature, in mental or
moral science, in all the range of mental
action no notable work has come from the
Negro.
While it must be manifest that
much of the fame accredited TO the
white men of antiquity belong to
black men it is fact which goes
without contradiction that Negroes
have reached the highest rounds in
the ladder of success. L'OUVER-
TURE developed characteristics
which showed him to possess quail
ties OF leadership not excelled by
any general in modern or ancient
times, while the story of At ucks,
the fight in 1912, the War of the
Rebellion produced instances Of
Negro valor nnexcelled in the
history of the world.
Negroes have attained fame IN
the literary world in Russia and
Brazil. A Negro invented the
elevated railway system. A Negro
has lately invented the system of
telegraphing from a moving train
Two Negroes, WILLIAMS and Will
SON have written histories of the
achievements of their races, which
take high rank, and place them in
the front rank with the more favor
ed white hi~'-
- r~sro, Am A.. Ek, wrote an
almanac, while the highest degree
Of perfection ever attained in the
musical world has been accredited
to Negro.
We have Negro lawyers, doctors,
editors, authors, inventors, scien-
lists, business men, Bank pres
dents, cashiers, real-estate agents
} druggists, professors, Statesmen
!, and linguists. DIR. PAGE has no
/ been informed on the subject
: hence his assertions.
The Negro has not all along hao
historians of his color, henc,
E the failure to properly accredit hi
t achievements.
. He also says:
e The solution of this problem is of NOR
d Importance TO ne than to the Negro, An
4 its solution depends upon US. Wbateve
2 the means by which it shall be solv o
\ may be however'the political and socia
. status of the Negro may be determined a
\ determined it viii be by the inevitabl
. logic of events we cannot absolve on
= selves from the response bility which lie
upon US to aid inspirit and elevate him
We may not admit him as q law givel
q but we must upiift him as a man and
Christian. We owe this duty to on
selves, to him, To posterity, to our cou
try and to GDd. We brought him her
u under the providence of God, will alta
. here or hard by here, whether it shall /
l. as an enemy OF as a friend or as
h par alb or as man, depends not s
much on himself as on ms