Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-06-07

DIR. Love, men whose character Is
not Questioned. do not array one
class against another. am not u
Northern man nor Southern man.
IAN MAN.
lam not a Northern Christian nor |
a Southern Christian; but Christ.
ian. i can take every man TO my
heart. We all want the grace OF the
Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts
You are our friends: we cannot al
ford to lose you or to leave you.
This is what hurts us so much: be-
cause we love you, no knife cuts so deep
as the knife OF Brutus. The Roman
lists are bidding for our people, feed
ing our children. / hope our people
viii nor sacrifice principles to con-
venience.
We are not fighting, but we feel
curious. We want an explanation.
The National Baptist" in it's
issue of the 10th nit. reports Rev.
DIR. Griffith as having made the fol
lowing explanation.
REV. DIR. GRIFFITH REPLIES.
l am very glad that the brother
came and brought this commu-
nication, and spoke in so kindly a
] way. Last summer, the Office editor
ofthe {" Teacher made out his list o.
writer's for 1890.
In this list; at my suggestion, three
colored brethren were put on u
write each one short article. L
there is anything right or WRONG
about this, put it all on me. Th
, Board has never acted on this
Editors must have leeway. We als'
; determined to publish some tract
written by colored men for colo re'
, readers, making two packets o
; tracts.
7 We found that we had more wri'
I ers than we could use. We mus
2 omit some: That suggested askin
/ five of the white brethren and tn
: three colored brethren to write tract
S instead of articles. have aiway
r regarded it as higher thing to writ
= q tract that may be circulated b
o the millions, than an article Tor
z paper, that is printed and then 10
e gotten. We thought that we wei
Y honoring them, not putting an
8 dignity on them.
l. Along In September arose I'll
IT fierce race question. Brethren comm
n to the Indianapolis meeting we
e. assailed and hurt to some exten
1t They were aroused, do not wonde
N Warm speeches were made, you mt
rs call them infammatory. l did M
hear them. Sharp things were sal
These three men we had selecte
being leaders led in the discussio
ne They thereby rendered themselv
st Objectionable as writer's. They sa
rs enough to lead many people natur'
&C. ly to think that they had said wor
in things than they had said. But,
the appointment had been ma
a after the Indianapolis meeting, the
'le men would not have been appointe
tn That is all. The three brethr
ch all agreed to the change.
he Just at that point, certain IN
BY thought they saw an opportunl
q, to injure the Society by arraying
THE WHOLE BLACK RACE
list and all their Northern frien
in against the Society. Attic
ty appeared in the papers telling c
ed colored brethren that they had bt
he wronged, that we had sold them o.
MS So, while many colored bIethl
list wrote, approving our course, othe
list like some of our brethren in Virgin
of felt that we had put an indignity
IN them. Have WEI
we The Publication society IN
ng claim to be the friend of the color
people. The guns of the two arm
a had hardly been stacked, wheI
Tor went into the family into which G
ast in his goodness, had placed me
IN marriage and raised a fund of s
Or 900 to be used through all times
or the colored people. from which s
600 has been used for them and
ms fundis intact. Wehave published
an books of which DR.. Broadus, spC
me last night; here are two packages
of the tracts by colored writer's; we
issuing a short system OF theOlC
ese by a colored man. But we wo
an not publish an article that would
to unacceptable TO the .colored peo]
l am asked: "Did you make a n
ms take? Would you do it again
the We made "a mistake in the fl
on invitation; colored men write {
n COW. CtTho time has not come.