The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-06-04
TASTED AND PRAYED.
The Afro-Americans of st. Paul
Observed Last Tuesday.

With Meetings at Each of Their Churches
at 1900 A. NJ, A Joint Meeting at Pill
grim Church at 300 p, NJ, and
Memorial at Turner Hall at p. M.
The Afro-Americans of. St. Paul in
compliance with the address of the St.
Louis committee grandly obse rived Tues
day May 81 as a day Of fasting and
prayer with the hope, that Almighty
God will 80 work upon the hearts of the
American Nation that the murderous
lynchings to which we are subjected
may Cease from our land. The services
at the "ari' us churches during the day
were well attended hut the chief inter-
est centered in the memorial meeting at
Turner Hall in the evening, the result
was one of the largest and most repre-
sentative audiences ever assembled in
st. Paul, at which the exercises consisted
of the folio wing:
PROGRAM
Singing, God Speed the Right. Al dienee
Invocation. Rev. L. II. Reynolds.
Introductory. Rev. L. &. Sheafe.
Paper,... ......................F. L. McGhee.
"The Negro Power in his Own Behalf
Singing, The Choice" James Russell Lo,cel
Presenting Resolutions, j. Q. Adams.
Singing, Battle Hymn Of the Republic Julia
- 11aspv.---- --------7a'e s7->S,
Paper, The Negro and His Critics. w. A.
Hazel
Singing (Tune) America" Rosa Hazard Hazel.
Benedicton,... Rev. j. G, Anderson.
On the stage were seated the members
ofthe committee of arrangements as fol-
lows: J. @. Adams, chairman, W.
A. Hazel. F. l.. McGhee, Rev. L. H.
Reynolds. Rev. L. G. Sheafe, J. B. John
son. J. II. Hick man, T. II. Lyles, R. E.
Andersen, II. Howard, A. jackson, B.
&. Smith, J. Thornton, Rev. J. G. An
derson, j. &. Charleston, Mrs. j. R.
White. Mrs. J. w. Smith, Mrs A. G.
Russell, secretary, also Rev. r. Hick-
man, Vim. Harrison, D. E. Talbert, S.
E. Hardy.
The hall was beautifully decorated
with evergreens flags and bunting while
in the background on the stage we're
grouped life'sized portraits of Col. Robt
G. Shaw, Wendell Phillips, John Brown,
Frederick Douglass an6 Charles Simmer
framed in evergreen over which vas
draped large American flag.
Rev. L. {. Sheafe presided, and in the
course of an Introductory address dwelt
on the inequalities to which the Colored
people were sui jected. The persecu-
ton of which they were the objects in
the South, and the prejudice to which
they were generally SUBJECTED through.
out the country, he condemned as con-
trary to the principles Of Christian
nation and hostile to the spirit of eman-
cipation.
F. l.. McGhee then spoke on "The
Negro Power in His Own Behalf"
He reviewed the history of the race from
the time the first African was brought
IN chains to this country to the present
day. On the day preceding the nation
had paused to lament her dead, but how
many graves Of brave Colored men who
had laid down their lives in that cause
were decorated? That they might not
be forgotten he deposited a wreath to
their common memory.
w. A. haz.l delivered an exhaustive
address on The Negro and his Critics.
which bore evidence of great labor and
research on the part of it's author and
which presented pertinent points and
facts and showed plainly that the whites
read the Afro-A American with their pre-
JUDGES rather than with their eyes.
The following resolutions were pre-
scented by J. @. Adams and by a standing
vote were unanimously adopted
WHEREAS, We Afro-American citizens of St.
Paul, being assembled pursuant to call signed by
Peter II. Clark, Jonn A. Agee, Walter NJ Farmer,
John A.. Kelley, Arthur D. Langston. and one
thousand1 others, appointing this 3lst day of May,
1892, as day of fasting and prayer. Therefore
be
RESOLVED. That we implore the Supreme Ruler
to aid our suffering and oppressed brethren in the
South.
RESOLVED, That such suffering being manifestly
due to the failure of Government to perform the
function for which it was created viz: TO secure
the safety and welfare of its.citizens.
THEREFORE, We ask that Divine Wisdom shall
make our whitelfellow citizens to see that the Sc
curity of Republican institutions rests in the OBJ.
servance of the sefmposed law of its citizens, and
that when life, liberty and property, are insecure
by ::reason Of the inefcacy of existing laws, we
pray that the aroused conscience of the Nation
may find specdy7and complete. remedy, which
will afford equal justice to ALL
RESOLVED, That gthe pride of the citizens in the
integrity Of the STATE is the basis of loyalty; and
In Republic, is the guarantee of its permanently
Recreant faith and broken pledges on the part of
Government, sapsj the foundation of all public
morality honor and obligation, strikes at the very
root of patriotism and paves the road by which
the life Of Government may be assailed
RESOLVED, That:the Government of the United
States, by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con.
stltution, pledged itself: that, mo State shall
makep enforce any law which shall abrdge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States. Nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty or property without due process of
law. nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction
the equal protection of the Jaws"
RESOLVED, That call the attention of Con.
gress to the fact that the Government has contin
uedly failed to redeem its pledges Of protection to
citizens Of the United States upon its own soil.
That without due process of law its citizens are
within the jurisdiction of certain States-being