The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-01-29

| speech at the DoubH, YET mere III the
State Of Lincoln, Grant and Logan
they deny the right of liberty Of
| speech to a man OF their own race.
because he does not indicate d pnr-
pose to slander every minieter, mer-
chant, lawyer, physician and planter
| in the land in which he lives, the
sid ministers. lawyers, merchants,
physicians and planters represent
ing the race that is the staff aud
stay Of the lifp. liberty and real
happiness the Ii .foes Of the South
enjoy. warned them that should
combat the theory upon which the
convention is founded and peremp-
torily declined to accept the position
of vice president, because shall not
only resign from the local league 1t
Durham and advise ii to disband,
but shall also do all in my power TO
convince the colored people that 10
| Afro-Ameriean league can usurp
the functions Of organic law il the
various States OF the republic nor
abrogate the functionsof individual
autonomy.
"Had | been permitted to address
| The convention should have told
some plain unths. | should nave
denounced il as convention with
death an agreement with he'll. 70
assume 1T 10 be necessity is 10 assail
the civilization If America TO confess
the failure Of negro citizenship and
to proclaim The idea that the masses
are n0bler than the man. | came es
pecially 10 deny that any call goes up
nom the negroes OF the South for The
patIonizing friendship Of the eolored
mn of The north, who with all their
0Uasted freedom. rave remained loae
Oh the ladder Ut mental powers ard
ind istrlal progress than the negroes
Of the war-rayi,hed 8 ctIon. / rape
70 say that aside from sporadic evils.
which are lamenied BY our whole pop
ulalion, and would prev.il under like
aniecedeut conditions III The most
civilized society on The globe, VIC are
the most happy part Of the Amcaican
people. 1 WAS opposed 70 the bonn
bastic speeches which The ftenzied and
a 4 frOthy speakers dare not make IN
Mississippi, because no man has q
right to make a Gre that Is to cremate
his fellow man without that fellow
mans consent. This thing ofthe rat.
tlepated negro nundescripts Of the
North yilifyingthe best aud only prac-
tical every day friends OF the southern
negroes has gone to the limit Of silent
endurance. A. least, as citizsn OF
that maligned sectoin, 1 will not in
dOise by dumbness the damnable
twadjle Of a noisy northern mob tlat
assai the virtue, honor and christian
character Of every white man Of the
South, who, like the white man Of the
North aud Of the world, Is true 70 hu
man instincts. natural law aud the
EQUITIES Of the situation. This farc:cal
pantomime of n race that has never
distinguished itself In human history
challenging the civilization Of this
lie most luminous age since Adam
walked away from The gat,s cf Ellen,
aud pufiing the foam OF lmpo.eLcy 10
the teeth Of thunder er-tongutd destiny,
would be humorous IL il were not as
tradegy. The white race Is Ged's
flaming chariot circllng the globe with
is achievements Cf genius.
II lament the loss 10 this land Of
MIR. Grady, who struggled TO get
the defendants Of cavaliers aud pu-
rilans on q platform Ofcommon patri.
otism aud the negro on that Of com.
mon sense. IL is an outrageous ctns
tempt OF prcprieiy that the negro
should clothe himself in the cast.Ofl
garments Of the white mans achieve.
menls aud then whine because the
neg suit Is denied 10 him. II would
have itilected some credit on tile race
ii the league convention bad told the
American negro and whispered similar
inf,fmalion into its own ear that the
twenty five years ofneglo citizenship
does mol equal the twelve HUNDRED
years Of Anglo.Saxon progress; that
the opinion OF mankind IL, eventually
/ Just; that honesty and economy arc
more potential than hatred aud mi ,
| trust; that there ale human right,
anteccdvni 10 all law which no law
can contrave1e; that they should
adjust themselves 10 the republic in
stead oftIying 70 bend the rcpubli'
to themselves; that they owe iheil
longings for loiiier attachments 4
contact with the white men OF ihl
world; that liberty is individual oplor
tuuity on the stage 0! human action
that re |, ague on earth and no Ia,
belw, en- heaven and hell can remUy
the beam OF imputpncy cut Of th
negios eye: that the race enjoys NOR
ol Luman rights aud has suffered lei
, 10 obtain these tights than tny o.he
u ace in I, corded history, aud that n