The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-11

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Now hear me. There are dishonest
white people and dIshone.t co:ored pco-
pie. There arc honest white people
and honest colored people
snere is a curse among you Colored
people IT is your talking about each
othcr. Why. some of you will talk
ABOUT y%ur wives: you will talk ,bout
your children: you will talk about your
sistsr' and some of you will even talk
ABOUT your mother and talk about your
preacher. repeat if there is IL cnrse
aniohg you colored people it is She way
20" Yak about one another
You talk about ANYBODY. Let mo
tell YOU the Lord God can mover kncnJ
toSether and make grand nation out
ot you people,as Brother Stuart has
toiu you. until you quit talking about
anu tciling lies on one another. Some
OF you DO not caro- whether it is q }ie mr.
tho truth; you will tell it. You psoplo
VINO talk about one another arc like an
oIa oack-oiting dog, mighty low down.
NOW, every ono OF you who has not
.alHea ABOUT ANYBODY since Christmas
Just stand up. You see there is about
.nirty VINO stood up and expect that
nalf OF them ought TO have been knocked
down.
"There isnot man CT woman in Gods
country who can keep bad company
without being ruined. Let me talk
pain to you right along here now. You
colored mothers and fathers cannot he
too careful about the COMPANY vour
children keep. You soc that girl who
comes and swings around YOUR front
gate? You had better set the dog on
her. One bad girl on your street can
rum all your girls. have talked plain
10 you. love your interest and I love
your preachers, but God Almighty can
never lift up tho colored race rs long AS
the colored mother will 90 down to tho
dry goods store and trade of the virtue
OF her daughter for few yards of rib
Don. Now hear me. talk plain to
you people. have got your interest
ana yetr character ut heart. want
you to hear me on these questions.
Let me tell you am for the colorcd
man at all times except on social equal
ity. The best white folks and tho bes,
coiored folks do not want social equal
Ivy. In my state the legislature dis
cnSsed an act to put every man in the
penitentiary who will teach whito and
coiored scholars in the Same school. |
asked them what they wanted with such
Il law, and they said they wanted it to
keep the races from mixing. | told
Thorn they did not mix Mt school. If
you Will take the father and mother of
every mulatto child in tho country and
put them on tho chain gang, then you
Will stop mixing. That is tho wav to
stop 1t.
Listen. now: listen. Let all keep
quiet for have no voice. hardly at ali.
! am nearly broken down in voice, and
! want you to hear me along this line,
for God knows have your interest at
heart In Barlow county. Georgia,
where 1.-Two, colored man came to his
house one night and there was Il white
man In there. lie demanded admit
lance to his own home, and tho white
man and the colored mans vito fas-
tened tho door and he ran around to
the other door and broke in and took
his pistol from his pocket and Shot the
white man dead.
That man was tried and convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
six years. ! went to the Judge of the
court and :Cld him would go tho col
ored mans bail and told him if | could
help it that colored man should never
80 to tho pcnitontiary for defending his |
homo and took that man out of Jail |
and he drove my wife and children for /
nearly twelve months around Carriers
Vile.
And l went to the Governor of the
with him for that mans release, and he !
said: Brother Jones. if it had not been |
proven that that colorcd mans wife had |
bad character, il shO was "a virtuous !
woman. | would turn that colored man |
loose; but no man has got a right to |
shoot and kill Poop about the virtue !
OF his homo when he has got no virtue !
thore.' You colored people are put at a |
dis dvantage right there.
Listen. ~ white man in Georgia |
who catches man fooling around his |
home can shoot him down and they will |
never arrest him, and whenever the /
women of the colored people will be ~
virtuons as tho white women you col
ored men can shoot tho dcspoilcrs OF
your homes down and never pc arrested
Whenever you sh BOT down white
scoundrel fooling around your house at
night you do the country an absolute
favor. The low down dog, he ought to
be Shot
But hear me. Ii you havo not got
any virtue at your homo you had better
mind how you shoot folks: they will
hang you to a limb before breakfast, but
l! You have got virtuous wife and a
virtuous daughter say TO the colored
men protect your nome in it's innocence
and virtue with all the fidelity with
which white man protects his. That
is right. Mayb- some white folks hero
don't like that, for they might happen
down your way tomorrow night. They
don't want to be shot.
That grand colorsd man OF Missis-
sippi. Lyncn, who has been in the
United States Senate said, in speaking
TO his own race, God Almighty can
new DO for us coiored people what w..
want Him 10 do until We think less OF |
whissey and more OF our women"
Mr.. JJnes closed his sermon with an
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