The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-07-12

| moreover sufficiently proved by history, that
the idea ofmorality in the general as IN tne par
ticuar becomes further ana more and
knowledge of the necessary laws OF the common
veal increase The negros moral c 6a ,.ases5
against which objection is raised, is tne resuit
OF his training in the peculiar institution. IL
| taught him no moral obligation OF the nome,
for it ecognized no home In the clv!lae4 seiee
| of the term; it rather encouraged MN 70 Ylo-
| late the sacred bonds of husband ana VIE, pc
cause, in SO doing he was taught the adva n &c
ment OF the interest OF ms MASTER STOCK for
the plantation or the market be was p toipe1
ed under scanty provisions for physical
ter's hog or chicken to his own strength
and comfort, on the principle and areu-
ment that he was simply improving ms owner Nv fea
that her honor, which is the glory OF every true
woman, was not her right, but subject to
that an impression thus deepened by centuries
of outrage should make her rather lightly guard
this honor just after an escape rom such a.
school and from under such a system OF instruc.
ton. 1t is certainly apparent, in the light os
what has already beer done for the moral i'm
provement OF the negro that dn,e Wl hun n
Hear what DR.. Haygood says: mo theory OF
| universal education entertained by a rational
virtue Or H Virtue as substitute for knowledge-
Both are necessary. Without virtue,
knowedge s unreliable :, and p1;ad dadge 9ne
tent 81 must say a word in defense,
says this same authority, '.of the negroes, par
teulary those Lying in the 80 N 1ea
| in those states before emancir alton. and their
conaition to-day, the real surprise is that there
| .Aboye all things" says DR.. Hay
| good "let the white people set them better ca
Since mas Geep ha
education will continue its benehcent work III
| this moral reformation of the people. Educa.
| ton will certainly afforda better knowledge of
the duties OF the home, a keener appreciation of
| the obligations OF the marriage state more
consistent regard for the rights and the property
virtue in womanhood signifies, and, therefore, d
more determined purpose and means OF defend
| ing that honor from the assaults OF any man,
| even at the very risk OF their lives.
| THE GREAT WORK TO BE DONE.
The great work OF education among negroes
centuries Of a debasing Servitude fastened
them; but even when this is done, the negro will
not be all embodiment Of every moral excellence,
| but he will stand at least Oh the same plane OF
morals with the other representatives OF our
| common and fallen humanity, and whatever is
the possibility and hope OF one will be the posi-
| biity and hope OF the other. so far as education
| is cOncerned for under it, we believe that the
negro can be and do what any other race can do,
| from the tickling of the soil with his hoe and
plow, to make it burst forth into life giving fruit
age, to the lifting OF world upon world upon the
| lever OF his thought, that they may instruct and
cIlcItdIil Cuey pass Ills
| i'll the heavens.
But do we find in the negro exclusively all the
| immortality involved in the solution of the lace
problem? Not by any means. After the neces-
sary evidence is given which entities man to-
the recognition OF his rights, and these rights
comes the moral law breaker; for morality, ac-
cording to scholarly authority, and he is not
writing on the race problem in America, may be
| defined as q law OF mutual respect for the gen.
eral and private equal rights of man for the
purpose of securing general human happiness.
EVERYTHING that Injuries or undermilles this
| happiness and this respect is evil: everything
| that advances them is good. The greatest
sinners, therefore, says this authority, ARE
egotists, or those who place their own l higher
than the interests and lives of the common veal,
and endeavor to satisfy it at the cost and to
the I'M ury OF those possessing equal rights"
| but it IS reasonable to conclude that white or
| black men under the influence OF Christian in
telllgence are prepared to solve all the problems
peculiar to our earthly state, for Christianity
| levels all the distinctions of race. 1t is this
| spirit that struck the conceit of the Jew and
broke down the middle wall of cruel separation
between him and the Gentle world it taught
| the Greek that humanity was a term for
the wide brotherhood OF all races, which
other races were regarded and despised as
| barbarians by him until Paul from Mars Hill,
| Numbered in the eager eyes and anxious ears OF
the Athenian the new doctrine that God had
made Of one blood all nations of men to dwell
! OH all the face of the earth. The Roman,
| cOrdlng to Geike considered all who did not be-
long to his state, as hostes or enemies, and
held that the only law between them and those
who were not Romans was that of the strong tc
subjugate such races, if they could, plum
people saves 1T was left to Christ"
says this authority. Ito proclaim the
brotherhood OF all nations by revealing God as
their common father i'll heaven. If Christian
| education or full knowledge of the principles
| men, we are seriously at fault in our protested
| religion, and deplorable in our spiritual condi.
| ton. For people imbued with the spirit of the
| Christ idea cannot defraud a brother of a
| penny, nor rob him OF his labor, nor deny him
| the rights which he has in common with other
| men, for by these principles we are taught to
| Evince your ardent love for God
By the kind deeds we do for men.
DR.. Chaplin well says: 1.-THE great doctrine of
| human brotherhood, of the worth of q man.
| that he is not to be trod upon as a footstooI OF
| dashed in pieces worthless vessel and the
| doctrines OF popular liberty, education and re-
| formal these have become active and every
| Ii Christian education is not to produce these
| results, the country and the race have a dark
| and unlnvltlng future, for one has truly said
| "Ihere are mysteries which, if not solved bv
the truths OF Christianity, darken the UNIVERSE
| But l do not despair OF the solution OF the
| problem under Christian intelligence as it radi.
| ates from the indiscriminating cross Of Calvary
| For the princi Piles OF this grand system, both in
| conquerillg, either sooner later, in their on
| ward sweep around The world. No error can
| forever withstand their power. 1t may be stub
| born, and even violent for awhile, but it must
| eventually give way to truth for it is unalter.
| able, as declared by DR.. Chaplin, that Before
| the love which is in God, all things are sure to
| come around to his standard, and the most
gigantic niquty OF earth strikes it's head at last
against the beam of Gods providence and goes
| down."