Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-12-07
THE PLATFORM
Adopted by the Afro-American Conven
tIon--A National Council to BE Imined1
ately Organized.

Adopted by the Afro-American Convex
tIon-A National Council to BE Immedl
ateIy Organized.
CINCINSATI, Dec. AT Fridays ses-
sion of the Afro American National as
ISOLATION the discussion was continued
upon the report of the committee on
emigration and finally the whole ques-
ton was submitted to the executive
board of the National council.
Prof A. j. De Hart, of Cincinnati.
and Rev. w. II. Fl. Butler, of Philadel-
phia, were appointed committee to &c
to Milford to investigate into the re.
ported assault upon a white woman by
a colored man named John Caldwell.
Titus n. Alexander, of Arkansas. de.
livered an address on The Equality OF
the Races"
The committee on lecture bureau adj
vocated the establishment of lecture
bureau in every large city. and gen
eral bureau at some place to be here
after decided upon. They also de-
nounced the Associated Press, stating
that the latter association, whenever
opportunity occurred. made special
parade of the assaults of Negroes upon
the whites, and almost totally ignored
any assaults made by white brutes.
When this clause was read dozens
jumped to their feet and demanded
that it be stricken out of the report
DIR. c. 5. Smith, secretary of the Afro
American NJ. f. Sunday-School union,
of Nashville, said that in his official ca
pacity he had endeavored to get the
Associated Press to modify its reports
from his section. but had been
snubbed
W. ii. Parham, of Ohio, insisted that
that part of the report remain as writ
ten. After considerable wrangling the
convention left out the words "Asso-
ciated Press and inserted instead
press reports"
}. j. Jones, of Pennsylvania, chair
man of the committee on permanent
organization, presented its report
1t recommends the organization of a
national equal rights council, to con-
| sist of one national chief counselor and
two national counselors from each
| state to cooperate with the National
Citizens Rights association, of which
Judge Albion W. Tourgee is chair
man
The headquarters o. this council is to
be at Atlanta, Ga. f.,. bop III. NJ. Tur-
| ner. of Atlants 10 .r chief counselor
for the yes. ~.
Tn ...~..''.a 60 resolutions next
presen ISL rcopr.s as follows:
"Resol. t we express our in
tense abho. ar. of any and every as.
sault upon L. minnie virtue, by whom.
soever perpetr ated. and against whom.
soever directed, and we hereby pledge
both our combined and individual eff
fort to the prompt arrest and convic.
ton of the foul iiend who sacrifices his
manhood to the coercive lust of his pas
sions
Resolved, That we ask the prompt
execution upon the guilty of the severa
penalties known to the law, barring
capital punishment
Resolved. That we denounce the
! equally crrminal. inhulnan, degrading
+ rowardly resort to lynch lawlessnes.
4, that has descended so low in the depth
| of its baroarity as to offer to the gas
of the American people, more even t.
the people of the civilized world, the
awful spectacle of the burning alive
under hellish tortures, human being
Resolved, That we hopefully recog
nize the fact that the lynch mobi in any
locality represents but a small per cen
of the inhabitants of the community
and that the course of lawless murder
is always regretted by the better think
ing clio ,s.
n. we'd In that the separate coacl
law mas ucol Enacted in a number o
| TIL ,-r,be- n states; and that Ken
1t -, ,G- instituted suit against th,
nforcrnent of the law, through al
/ acton brought against The L. & n. K
, t. in d suit entered at Owensboro BY
W. n Anderson, D. D., of Evansville
| Ind -,
.Re..Iv.d, That this conventio,
near .ly iaaSrse the action and recon
n.en4 Il tin.lgixe-to-&
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