Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-09
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
IHE COLORED MOVEMENT
Has Reached Baltimore-outrage De
nounced at a Demonstration.

nounced at a Demonstration.
BALTIMORE, April 9.-The colored
movement denouncing outrages in the
south has reached Baltimore. Some
fifty colored ministers of all denomina-
tions responded to a call sent out for
them to meet at Bethel church. The
object of the meeting was explained by
reading printed communication from
| st. Louis, stating that movement had
been made in that city to get all the
colored ministers in this country to
unite, and on May 81 meetings are to be
held in every city, protesting against
the lynching, shooting and burning Of
1 colored people i'll the south. After some
short discussion committee was ap-
pointed to act on the communication.
The committee submitted report in
dorsing the resolution with the excep-
ton that Sunday, May 80 be the day of
the meeting in place of May 81. Speeches
were then made.
Rev. w. M. Alexander said:
"There is something coming and be-
fore it does come we want the peo-
pie of this country to understand our
position thoroughly in this matter as
come, which | am satisfied will, we
shall be in the right.
Rev. G. w. Mossell said: "If this
thing can not be settled amicably it will
then have to be settled with the sword
until one or the other is exterminated,
and the man who is not willing to cast
his lot with the others as an offering on
the altar is not worthy of being called
an American citizen"
An aged brother who followed, said:
"Wah am de man dat occupy de shoes
of dat great man Ulyssus Grant? He
wuz de greatest man dat de world eber
saw-no potentate."
Here Rev. Mr.. Mossell remarked:
Archbishop Ireland is a greater man."
"No, sab: he was not. This is
preachers meeting, and we are not here
to discuss men of arms and force"
at is force that we will need in this
matter" came from several in the hall.
The debate then became hot, several
men being on their feet and each de-
livering his views, while the sisters
clapped their hands. Those not en-
gagged in the discussion kept yelling
"Order," while the chairman kept beat
ing his desk trying to quiet matters, and
at last ordered Brother Mossell to take
his seat.
"This is no political meeting, and |
don't like the way you order me to sit
down." said Mr.. Mossell.
''It don't make any difference what
kind of a meeting this is. You have got
to keep order. / am chairman and |
don't propose that you shall take me out
of it"
Rev. Mr.. Cargill made the point of Or
der that he could not see what General
Grants being Greater man than Arch
bishop Ireland had to do with a colored
man being burned to stake way down
south. The same idea took possession of
the others present and all quieted down
except Brother Mossell, whose feelings
had been hurt.
The subject will be further discussed
in the regular preachers meeting Mon
day next.
Professor jerks on the Problem.
ALBANY, April 9.-Professor jerks, of
Cornell university lectured before the
University Extension Center Thursday
evening on the race problem. He said |
that history and science seemed to show |
that the negro was an inferior race and |
one incapable of an advanced civilized |
self-government.
Where left to themselves, experience
showed that the negroes rapidly re-
lapsed from a state of higher civiliza-
ton into a state of barbarisln. In the
reconstruction period in this country
the negro governments of the south in
variably ran the states heavily into
debt, and passed shameful and oppres-
sive laws against the whites. In places
where they have advanced, the advance
ment was so light that it showed them
to be almost as careless and improvi-
dent as savages.
The morals of the negroes of the
south were unspeakably bad, he said,
and socially the negro lad no standing
among the whites. Intermarriage had
proven to be impracticable and colonial
ton by force would be unjust. Educa-
ton was the only means of elevating
the race and making it less dangerous.
Professor jerks thought the best plan
would be to encourage the negro to emf
CRATE to the most fertile nart of Africa.
ELECTRIC LIGHT INSIDE HIM.