The state capital., 1892-07-02
AN INTERESTING PAPER
BY J. B. PALMER, NEWPORT, ARK

n LITERARY SOCIETY, LADIES AND GEN
j. | TLEMEN:-
Time changes and we change wit
: it. How swiftly speed the hours, ho7
, wonderful the transition. But yestel
: day this earth was wrapped in sno,
8 and ice, but to-day she is teeming fort
and garlanded with flowers. But yes
terday these fair young faces of Afro
American men and women were drift
, ing with the tides ofignorance, but t
night, they appear in this audienc
with their faces as promising to th
race as the dewdrop is to the lily
Through careful Instruction we hav,
lett the goal far behind and to-day ar,
within reach of the reward. We have
become to manage the Railway car:
that go dashing through the land as
birds of swiftest flight. To manage
the magnetic wires that wonderful
piece of mechanism. To tick lie the virgin
soil and as she smiles, yield an album
dant supply long unknown to man
kind. To fell the forest, and to shape
it into servicable fabrics. History re-
cords no race that has made such rapid
progress as the AfrO-A especi-
ally, under the same circumstances
We have marched into the wilds, sad
died the beast; tanned them, and held
them subservient to oItr will. AS did
the Grecian army, we haye marched in
a solid phalanX against ignorance, rout-
ed the principle elements, put them to
flight, took the field and marched off
with the booty. Inch iiy inch, we have
invaded one by one, the strong holds
have succumbed. BY eur united effort
! we will be able to dispel the enemy of
darkness and keep parallel steps with
other races. Education is the level
by which the Negro must be lifted.
| They are to the race what steam is
to the engine, to educate, does not sim
| ply mean to become ettered; or fair
| knowledge OF text books, but to educate
the head, hands and heart The know
| ledge man derives through the senses.
is called emperical knowledge, or the
knowledge of experience. Ideas of
space. of time, of distance and infinite
wisdom are attained through the pro-
cess of reasoning and cannot be reach
ed byexperience. A system of education
should have for it's objedt, the guidance
OF the faculties of the mind in their eff
forts TO reap in the haryest-field of ma
ture. First gather that which is first
required, that they may store away
that which is of most use, that the
mind may be strength ened by labor
Education makes a nan or woman
more Industrious, more trustworthy,
more active and systematic more use
full more foresighted, more economical
as producers and preser jers of proper
Orderly 'eJS and so afe popsDf roenaae m0re
wax seemed to regard ,refinement and
me light, for he hobbld, d,ersal. Educa-
tanc es,l4 the mayor 1t '5 onee sent d
ID patch to the governor asking hir
r, to order out company of the stat
; militia located here. Every bod
i(white), including the sheriff and
% posse of seventy-fve men were cal
D rying arms Monday and Tuesday
6, At 11:3O o'clock Monday evenin
the marshal and mayor returned t
the Jail from around of the squa
If of colored men, who, when tn
vs. mayor and marshal promised then
It no VIOLENCE should be done tn
l. l. prisoner in Jail, promised to dis
If perse and began to do so. The mai
% shall addressed the crowd of whit
% people and told them to 60 to thei
u homes, as our people were dlspers
ing and violence need notbe feared
o The most of the crowd began t
u do so and in a few minutes tn
= = crowd was reduced to the militi
{. and forty armed citizens. At l
e o'clock about seventy-fve of ou
% people were marching down sixt
Is Is street, and, after great provocatio
n opened fire upon the men an
y toughs still collected at the jail, no
withstanding the marshal an
mayors request Of half an hour be
fore. Elmer Edwards 20 years Q
age fell, shot through the abdomer
v and died the next morning. The fir
was returned by the militia and fo,
ty armed whites. all of whom re
t. treated Immediately afterward
IS back to the court house, where the,
j. kept up the fire. Brave(?) fellow
Q thesel None of the colored me-
IS were seriously wounded. Thei
l. chief headquarters was at the Ode
j. Fellows lodge rooms, while the jai
|, and court was filled with the militi
e and armed whites. Over fifty Q
IS our people have been arrested an,
a jailed, and at this writing it is diff
D cult to foretel the result ofthis clasl
II of arms One thing sure, it mark
: new era in the future of Southern
l. Afro-Americans, who are at last be
J. ginning to show signs of beinI
q bounded, lynched and burned int
IS retaliatlng is the only way respect
It ed in the south. Some months ag'
If at Georgetown, KY, our peopl
e burned some of that towns fines
# residences and business blocks, be
s cause of the lynching ofa colore
). man only charged with crime, an
e settled for once all that sort of mul
n dering in Georgetown. Let tn
n good work go on and give Ker
IS lucky colored men the credit TO
y setting the proper pace.-Clevelan
10 Gazette.
It When going to Cairo stop at tn
It Wilkerson Hotel, 1872 Commercial