New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-26
. CHI PHI FRATERNITY.
THE soC1ErY,s ANNUAL CONVENTION
SPEECH OF JUDGE EMORY sPEER-THE CUES
TON OF NEGRO DOMINATION


TON OF NEGRO DOMINATION
PEOPLE PRESENT.
The sixty.ninth annual convention OF the Cm fn'
Fraternity began at the st. James Ho'el !cS''D"'
afternoon The organization is broadly Na'loA'i III
character, and is one OF the pTincipl "ioeN
societies in the country. II has chap'eF'houoes 81
Vale Harvard Princeton, Cornell. Amherst pro"h'
Rutgers Lehgh Lafayette, the University OF Nre.sa'
the University OF California and other colleges. aug
convention will be continued To-Day ana II" o'o'"
OF officers will be held during the afternoon
The delegates and their friends. to the NUMBER VI
about 49, dned at Sherrys last night. Inc mana
som. menu cards were tied with red and blue satin
ribbons and surmounted by the societys nohos UNI
Joseph b. Bssel Yale. ~, made the opening aouIcSs'
responding 10 the toast. "Welcome Masters "eI'o '
All" poem was then read by LLOYD Mchim ""'''
son. Harvard 90 other toasts Responded 10 "e no
"I.oolinr backward" W. Carlyle Ely. Cornell, ~ :
rb. fraternity Idea" Arthur c. Powell Amherst
~. Contrasts" Henry c. P1at, Princeton; AS we
Con Ourselves" Henry stockbrdge. jr, Amherst 10
The last toast was The Great Republic II was
responded to by Emory speer. University OF ueoIsi,
go now United states Judge Of the Southern D's'r'
of Georgia.
The speech was an interesting one. and was ls'eheu
IN with attention After eloquent remarks upon 'ne
mart Young men had played in the history OF the co'
try, the advantages OF the republican ioFm oi eoY'
eminent and the immigration question: lhe 'uue0
continued In part as follows
"Have we not already problems sufficiently aahser'
ous problems for the solution of when all 'he coH'
stancv the resolution the genius OF the AngioeaNoh
race viii be re4ulrod7 know there are those VINO
apprehend that there Is among those prooieHls INV
nossibinty Of what is called negro domination III inc
southern States of the Union They apprehehu s'"'c
of affairs which will wreck our nsUtuilonS' UNe ou'
our white people and reduce magnificent territory
now occupied by O population Of white men as III,
and at
~ aver seen 70 the condition Of those Islands OF the
West indies where the negro, enervated by the soi'
cline permits iotous abundance of natures ch"'os'
cfts TO perish in bis idle presence Ihese I"SuVuS
nrophets Of evil take no thought apparently oi |o
character and courage Of the white men In those
states Know, them that. like yourselves they oeos
to the impeious dominating AngloSaxon race winch,
lei ,ba onctton Of law has never mingled its blood
with the darker races e.,,
aOn the other hand, the white men OF the eou'h
are much more numerous than the negroes Aic my
inferior in courage and manhood and capacity W
maintain the purity OF their race and the i'esi'''
n, their institutions to the English merchants soldiers
and Civilians who have made their homes ID lhua !,
do not mean to intimate that there Is or ever VIII
be any necessity for violence toward the ooloreu
people who dwell among us. II Is IN une mann "
kndly aGectonate and happy race, with no uesie "
dominate hal they the power. The agitation Oh inc
impossible contingency of negro domination is more
man. II makes the idle ignorant and lawles' classes
The suspicious enemies OF the negro. Inc olScus'io"
has besides alarmed those industrious and respectaoe
co,ored men, whose intelligent labor and sedeny ihs
habits have addict millions annually to tne i"NtUe
,o,u.s ~ these states, We should deny lIIl thfI'
Is any such thing as the race question iI IKE o @re
millions of coored people who live among the NOR
numerous millions OF white people. and whether th1iF
presence here is to be finally injurious or behen1i
is n onestion which 500 years may NOT decl"e' "h''
a century certainly viii not decide.
1.-THE wisest treatment Of the so-called race qa'
,on is TO let Ii alone. The negro Shond be hccVvn
that inst measure Of favor member Of society
which the laws accord him, and his obedleIcc 10 Jaw
u deserves and the socallcd problem IN 1od gol
lime will effect its solution. 1t IS true. lio"
ever hat the dinicuiy of this problem. II prohcm
II be will be gIaVelv increased 10y everything VINO
tends or NAV tend deerorate the blood OF American
citizenship " - 49,, ,.o,-,,
Among those present were John d. Adams, NclSoi
Macy, +. X Camp. Arthur C. Powell, Of lalt,noT"
A ii I'M 81 BnghaWtOn; Herbert Balantnc. %
Newark: W. F. d. Crane. Of Orange; Il. \. Long
n New brunswick Henry W. GRADY. r. Of A,Iani4
Ga: Dr. J. r. Blssell, Allan Cowpcrthwat W. II
Miller and Boudlnot Keith. TIE convention was !
charge of the following committee: j. IL. cromwell
chairman Elisha X. Camp. VI: f. Graft, r. ~ Learned
< < Mcnkcn, a. j. Post jr.. W. : EOssltcr ana Jane