The Red Cloud chief., 1893-09-01

inc accompaniment on bis guitar. AS
l now remember, one Of the verses fan
about as follow:
can we'll hunt no mo- To-
DE pOssum an de coon,
Oer meadow, DER hill Ger sh0;
An We'll sing no mo. BY
1e giimnerin' OBJ dc moon
On de bench by de little cabin do.
Chorus.
Den weep no mo my lady,
Den weep no mo- today
An well sling one song fo'de OLE Kcp-
Fo' dc ole Kentucky home far away
I felt q thrill 20 through my heart
such as the finest orchestral music had
never been able to impart TO the seul.
looked toward where sat Dick and
beheld the tears trickling down his
manly cheeks.
So touched we're VIC by the render.
ing Of this simple yet eloquent piece
Of plantation sentiment that VIC could
not for some time regain sufficient
control Of our voices to venture
our %leave.taking. But, the emotion
passed, VIC took our leave Of these
people but not before promising to
call and spend an evening in future.
After reaching our quarters at the
hotel, va fell into q train Of thought
such as may not have been usually in.
dulgcd 10 by young men Of u carly
experiences, and soon wsre debating
the great question as to whether or not
God had made the human family Of
ono blood. W. did not debate the
subject for the purpose Of argument
simply, but that VIC might arrive at
just conclusions in the premises. But
here, like thousands before us, we
could do no better than to agree that
the very fact Of the intelligence and
power TO rcasen 10 so often demon.
strated on tho part Of the negro, was
a self evident fact Of his humanity;
and that, if Of humanity at all, then
Of q complete humanity.
Now neither Of us had up to this
time troubled himself to explore such
a question, having lived as We had in
. country where it went without Say.
ing that the negro was SO inferior to
the Caucassion as not to be classed
with him in tho same category when
it comes to the question Of superiori.
ty. l was, somo how, not Is clear on
the subject as l would gladly have
been, but Dick seemed TO have thrown
of the shackles and held forth, in the
following impassioued strain: "Now,
Bill, with what we have 0 and
heard tonight, can it be possible that
you can not see that those people,
with their faultless Housekeeping,
their music and their songs, are as in
t%ensely human as are we, or even Ma
omi?"
l must confess that I began to Won
der what new freak would come next,
but thought that I would hear him
further.
So Dick continued:
Snow, my dear fellow, do you not
suppose that the young woman wha
played and sang for US tonight has as
much refinement Of sentiment as q
white woman Of equal intelligence can
lay claim to?
Do you not think her keen percep-
tons are equal TO those exercised by
any white woman, whose opportuui.
tics have been no greater than hers?
Do you not think that this negro girls
love for her parents, her brother, and
her friends is just as great as tint of
any white girl?
DO you not believe that her rever.
encc for her Creator is just the same
in kind as that felt by the white wo.
man? And do you not believe that
it her reverence is the same in kind
that it may be the same in degree
also?
Now, while the hateful color line is
drawn SO deep that centuries may
come and 90 before We see the same
obliberated, yet does 1t not seem fair
to you that God, who is not q respec.
tor Of persons must yet wipe out this
line before the glory Of His creative
power shall have become entirely
manifestoO