The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-20
Il HENRY 4 BARBd


N2I "a she best n'.hEeil.o t points !
n,as mav NJ Stata Al'sIn 18sn dask \ The BE-
iessasY 5l1s aisi 1. = q sas9 as'9 6truth -.
ii the Eeii sss,. ! follows /. N,
br Presidern: II feems ,;s,,iles y pss
tbat people make Ky as Il M Was
Il, sa'a y. ing out the nGso 81 JsJ,, alsa
~ n. I ther different Aoin aiypoI. 4roat- &
~ ri Sthe world, reo,fing speenl nta. u
menq. / have lieened VIII Hltelsas ~
what has beep said about the negro allu
the South. There are some Things llat
ought to be said which have not Deeh
said vet. You need to know the truthl
bnt / am in doubt as TO how mucn q
II YOU will stand. Just nov am IN tne rs
condition OF the colored man VINO toid
to his employer: e,1
aBoss. / is been down in de pea held
m Il sea old Ball down dar dun dead.
"You don't say SO: old Ball dead
eyes. boss, old Ball is dun dead.
"Did YOU see anything OF old Ned?
eyes. boss, / see old Ned too
"What was he doingY
"He was jes layin down.
''Did you 60 to him.?
eyes, / went to him"
@What did he do2"
''Nuthin." !,
"Anything the matter with himY
aNuthin, only he is dead too.
aWhy did you not tell ny Az az
once?" ,oro
him all at once n IN
Brother President, / am going to ten
Won some things You don't know, pnt
YOU ought to know them, and having
respect to your weakness will give you
the truth in broken doses 80 that you
can bear it. . ;,,at
Nav. YOU reporters put it down lust
ike I say it, for you are going 70 geI tle
truth. Some of it will be bitter 70 yon,
but take your medicine and II VIII 90
you good a..-
Wehaye heard OF the great work TINS
soc;atv has been doing among the ne
rroas and the results. You have not
Jone any too much. For myself am
not Going ia hall believe in your re-
rontance for the sin Of slavery TIL YOU
anend 81 the elevation Of the negroes. as
,naloh money as you sold them to US iori
xts,ss at interest iIp to tie presgAAt tlnes
Va, oat the money out Of them ana Wc,
.ssots ssafhinc butnsa whipping and YOU
gsol,f Ia nav OUT that money.
President Kingsley: "Was their work
worth nothing to you Y .
Anewe,-I was laboring with you TO
hyino you to d sense Of duty. admit
IN South ought to help, and lest you
al co home feeling better than you are
entitled to feel over what has been done
/ Viii state some facts, confining my re-
marks ~ Mississippi, mainly because
an better acquainted there. In Mississlp,,,
81 / am regarded pretty good "nlgger
There have been spent on the educa-
lion Of the negro since the war Sixty
million dollars. III
9outh $40 900, 600. Now get the figures
down right and don't forget them We
have free schools, to which every negro
ch;ld can 90. and they do 60, though,
sanetimes' they 20 hungry ! carry
trestaments around with me to give
awav and recently six out ofseven negro
hovs found at little railroad statioQ
nonld read, and gave each one Iesta-
ment. Is it nothing that theae people
can read the scriptures? They ieaFhea
how in the public schools.
The State supports q university Ior
coIored people, and normal training
sohool f6r teachers Is that nothing
The colored preachers come INTO our
conferences. institutes are held Ior
sbam IN our white brethren. Their
s.sor,an serving in our families, get good
adr;ce and constant help from our
wives. Do all these things go Tor noun
mo in fhe mighty uplift? OH no, yon
are not doing it at all by great DEAL
ana Won must not feel too seli-eompia-
cent We are doing a great deal, IN
s,ay,v ways. for our c0lored Drethreh
1,nt Il had better be understood that we
are not going to crafty Mrs. Caniieid py
having sblack heels on white necKs; II
4hat aver coraes round you all will have
~ furnish the necks. The Intelligent ne
groes of the South agree with US that m
felligance must rule. There was Dut
10 colored man in our late constitu-
1ianaI convention, and he strongly auVo-
Gated an intelligent qualification .or Not'
/. mo pure and stTaight.His name IS Mont
oonery. and he had more sense, or pa
friotisfl. or more OF boths than the ma
;or;tv of the convention, Tor his WIS,
Counsel was not taken. He knew, ana
said 81. that this measure would pun ms
zee helplessly in the minority !,
We have heard Of the utter wretched
..ss of the negroes Of the South. sal
ooe sunday morning on my portlco ant
Nv .'ew eioIltg-fhree spring vehicles 90 b,
r;tb e9Iored people going 70 church, .ilt
III of Them dressed decentIy. Does iha'
iook like they are ground IN the DIRT
There 1rls is not on the face Of the earta az
.onal number Of peasantry 50 well 70 %
M a happy. The negroes are not 9
- n the woods as some Of you think
- NE h sre told that there are l5,000 ne
-.,.e h Richmond untouched by. you
80 ~ schools there. Yes, very likely, Du
- 81 that They are not untouche'
~ their pastors. They are not untouch
Il Nv their Sunday schools by the >crip
snrss. a. bv the Christian white peopi
smonr anon whom they live and serve. III
seen thousand negroes untouched BY you
eehooI Why sir. there are nundre
thousand people in this city untoecile
- rour schools churches, papers, l,feaet
eis. Bibles, anything. everything me