The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1891-09-05
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n.,,,s IN a New England Audience
e 1 ~ nm important Question.

r,,ks to q New England Audience
~ m Important Question.
.s USUAL TELLS THE TRUTH AS
~ 40 ITApPEARs TO HIM.
.,,,t.d and Pithy Remarks Reflect
n.y.. Crsdit on the Speaker, and Mis-
s,.,ippians should bo Proud Of HIS
Utterances. ..t.-.,r
Nv friends, you must not be misled
Wy .So - verv kind Introductory remarks
.nSr . chairman. Ihave been accused
MANY NAM things, to part Of which l must
ead % guilty, but have never yet been
Iils ,;'tv of eioquence. That is quite out
'ra Ivy ,;ne shall not be eloquent, but
ny n,rnose is to be truthful. It is the
4 1T that we need now, and shall
Wv usi # to YOU. If any Of you have your
e1ings spread out round you, 1t would
/ a GOOD idea to tuck them up, for |
20 saIl I can do to tell you the truth
Etho,t M taking care Of your feelings.
When When the Puritans landed on these
orns thew brought many things with
er em. The Mayhower was a wonderful
si ssei Artemus Ward said there was
ourh % furniture brought over to stock
oIs Gsreot Eastern six times. Among
~ things aboard was the race ques-
M No sooner were the Pilgrims
nded ND than they began to settle mat
rS S hv the Bible. "The saints shall
berit the earth,' they read, and pro-
adpd to say: 1--WE are the saints and
ercfore the Indians must go West
nd thew have gone and gone till there
not much place for them to go to and
i many of them to go there. That
bs one phase Of the race question now
most settled. ., -,
Blt our fathers brought with them
this new world the seeds of a great
nvcrument. They had ideas and
eals. They belonged mainly to that
lee which has for centuries represent
the highest civilization of the
orld, Cavalier and Puritan were
nglo-Saxon. The Huguenot strain
Simulated easily to the English, en-
ching it in peculiar manner, SO that
be 1000, 900, colonists who whipped
he British lion back to his little is
md we're Anglo-Saxons, and they set
b government on the great princi-
les which have made this race the
brch banners of civilization Let it
ot be forgotten, that this was the work
the South and the North, of Puritan
I'D Cavalier. It is the fashion in some
uarters to date everything from
(lymonth Rock. Along about the
me this government was forming there
las Cavalier gentleman down in Vir.
inia Of some notoriety, who took some
tile hand in what was going on. His
anne was George Washington. Per-
bps, some of you have heard Of him,
here was another gentleman down
here who wrote a nice little Fourth o1
uly piece, called the Declaration ol
dependence. His name was Thomas
eferson. You might have heard O
lin too. It would be q good idea f0l
ou people to read up on the early his
Dry Of this country. ~ L.
From Runny Meade till this hour thu
Anglo-Saxon race has lead the worlt
Or liberty limited by law. This wal
me Of the ideas brought over by oul
(olonial fathers. Another was an opel
Bible. The Puritaus had that ide,
lbout half. They believed in libert.
. worship God as they chose and Il
compel everybody else to do the same
Free religious liberty came later ant
outh Of Plymouth Rock. Liberty lin
ted by law, free religion, q free pres
Ind with free schools are the nerv
Fenters Of our civilization. And thes
ire the trophies Of the Anglo-Saxol
lace, and are our contribution to al
Faces. These have made great En-
gland, and these have made! create
america, because they had fuller. dc
Folopment in America. They constI
Fute the patent right Of the race, wit
is assimilated elements, to govern thi
Another phase Of the race questio
was introduced in this latitude, Z
ead in 9 Boston paper as ! cam
through the city, that the Jennie Cusf
nan, ma !. an N, ex-slaver, had just been sol
There is nothing connected with th
save trade In the South that woul
sell for y cents. That ships ought I
De condemned, and the money sci
south to educate the negroes. I'll
only thing that grieves me about 70,
go9dness 1s that It came 60 late. II
nad come before you sold the negrot
% Us, 1t would have saved us q gre
aeal OF trouble, and money ton. q
won't say that the negroes are In !
sense to blame for all the trouble i
nave had about them. They were H
as,spped on their native shores by u
North for money; the South bougl
.aem to make money, and kept the
,or money. They were liberated n
war measure, and enfranchised as
political measure. Throughout b
whole history on this continent the d
gro mas been mere football Of Angl
saxon greed and ambition. "That
70, BY a colored man on the stan
y Inc race question 10 simply wheth
.ne races represented In this count
sre sse. TO assimllate to Anglo Saxon ciyi
"a ksuon, or whether our civilization 10
W W A1ricanized in the South and sfc
elgnlzed In the Nofth. ~. '''