Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-14
OUTRAGES ON THE NEGRO.
Rev. DR.. Seaton Says That They Must
Be Stopped.
n Sensational Sermon Preached In the
Eoene.er Church in Georgetown
What Southern Records show,

Rev. DR.. d. P. Seaton preached a sensa-
tloneI sermon last night at Ebenezer A.
NJ l. Church. Georgetown. He took for
MS theme These outrages must be stop
PED, and for his text They bind heavy
burdens on mems shoulders which they
would not move with their little finger"
he said: God Is just, and Is taking no
uce Of all these acts of gross injustice i'm
posed on defenseless people, and In some
way his judgments will interpose for us.
water will seek its level and will man.
This Is the reason OF the continuous con-
hict between men. One portion of the
world Is trying to keep the other beneath
Its level. and the oppressed are endeavoring
to rise The time is coming when the negro
shall throw of the yoke of wrongs laid
upon him and assert his manhood When
they are wrought up to the proper pitch
they will do as Samson did and destroy
their oppressors, even at the cost of their
own lives They viii visit the same treat
ment upon those who have outraged them.
Ine measure ye mete out to others shall
De measured out to you again Remem.
on the Navassa Island revolution Supe-
rfor numbers are on the side of the OPP
guard. Right is stronger than armies. jus
tice viii triumph 1t Will come despite de-
lay. An unjust nation IL weak. and weak
a dangerous people. and no state is safe
when 1t contains wronged people All
bloody struggles have begun because
some people felt imposed on Injustice IN
vites revolution.
The spirit of Herod.
No man uveth to himself and a code Of
laws Is also essential to life. Where there
is no law there can be no society Laws
wrengfully administered beget strife. con-
fusion and calamity. Herod committed
murder to please the dominant class. When
we compare the conduct of Herod with
haf Of Of ha oh off Is
land. the self-same spirit is apparent. This
is especially true as to our southland Look
at the actions of the governors of Virginia
and Texas. These men not only Endorsed
but recommended the use Of separate rail-
road coaches and waiting rooms Tor the
two races Such was not to better the
condition of the commonwealth, but to
please the bigotry against the black man.
They would like to set apart a back cor
ner in heaven for us. Discomfort Is rife
among the colored people of the south No
criticism could be made if punishment was
inflicted on offenders. In the south negro
victims are outraged and law officers
stand By in criminal inactivity and look
on; Blood,thirsty lynehers hunt them
defense. 1 am credibly informed that ne
groes have been sent to prison for long
cases the Indictment was groundless. Then
ne would be hired out to work. and thus
be reduced. under cover Of the law. to his
former condition of slavery.
What Prison Records show.
: Examination of the roll of a Georgia
ipenitentiary shows that of LOO convicts
!only y were in for one year and 53s for ten
years or longer. Ten years is about as
long as one can live in a Georgia prison
pen. so that ten years term Is equal to
a life sentence. Several of these convicts
were In for simple assault and battery, a
petty onense. One man was under twenty
years sentence for hog-stealing. Twelve
men were in the South Carolina peniten-
tisry for the simple offense of carrying
concealed weapons, a thing that about
every white man in the state does. The
lease system of convict labor is wrong In
human cruelties are inflicted on the vic
Tins Prisoners are taken out to work at
daylight IL they become ill from overwork
IN the midsummer sun they are whipped
This must be borne without any
snow OF resistance. Talk about
the outrages committed by black
men! Why i would be glad If the
white men were guilty of no worse If
propriety would permit me to enter the
chamber of horrors and lift the curtain
which conceals the dark and fendish deeds.
perpetrated on our race, you would be
Afted from your seats by a double shock
or indignation. There was a vast throng
or colored people present and shouts and
other ordinations of approval greeted
the preachers remarks