National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
VOL. Ii, NO. 5.

Theological seminaries; invested
S15, 600, 900 in mercantile enterprises;
operate banks, p gold mines; nave
II ,000, 900 children in $4,000 public
schools taught by 10000 teachers;
edit 225 newspapers, maintain :, LOO
ply ysicians-graduates from Mahary
College, Yale, Harvard, Howard and
Shaw; support 50 lawyers, IS me-
chanics and artisans, and pay taxes
on $500, 600, 900 of real estate property.
Go into all the mportantcities, en-
ter the residences of the better class
of colOred people and you Will find
libraries of the choicest kind, instru-
mental music, refined mothers and
aughters-eXponent Of thought
and culture. This class is growing.
There are many high literary and So
cial clubs that are an honor to any
people, of which the public know
little or ing-organizations that
are training the boy to master the
| lessons of sociology, political econ
omy and the classics. There are
many disciples of Eclind. Of these
magnificent achievements, so NOBLE
in their generic habitations-estran-
cement and prescriptions, between
the two races, have in large meas
ure, precludeQ their wholesome inn
pressions from the knowledge of the
dominant race. But they viii! be
known!
| EMIGRATION A REMEDY.
| have been asked a great many
times for an expression upon Afrl-
can emigration schemes, and other
kindred alien movements among our
people. IN a republic emigration
movements can but be optional, But
are there not strange visions in the
land of our birth? From whence, SO
suddenly, sprung this ghost that
haunts the peace and unity of our
! Southern kinsmen? Says an emil
nent orator: "The warm blood of the
Negro that haunts the channels of
his veins with ancient Egyptian and
Ethiopia fiGes has been tempered
in the 9limatt of the South and re-
duced to that proportion which robs
it OF its sluggishness, subdues it Of
i wild. passion aud holds it By reasoQ
while the trials Of the past have been
the friction that brighten, the winds
thar tougher and the frost that ripen.
J No great song, or poem, or book or
invention has yet seen birth south Of
the Mason and Dixon line 1t has
been reserved for u.s.
"Whither are we tending?" If,
after our ,valOr and cOnsecratiOn to
this country, once endangered and
divided if after our mothers have
washed the linen of the masters and
our fathers fed them in their efforts
to make them fast; if the prayerful
protests of millions prove inadequate
to awaken the conscience OF the
South, and the law has lost it's vir-
tue; if mob-law is TO be substituted
for law and Justice, and debauchery
and murder become the midnight
angels, robbing innocent, lamblike
women Of their virtue within the
hearing of defenseless husbands and
brothers; if young and progressive
race of heroes, of soldiers, Of patrl-
OTIS and of Christians must be con-
tinued to be snarled at, prescribed
against by alien and citizen alike; IL
the soul of the Nation is poised ana
rancorous, thus trailing the Pyra-
midic principles of its constitution
in the dust, and retribution is fugl-
tive, it were better that every ship
in the American ports were secured
for the passage of the Negro nation
to the wiIds and jungles of an uneX-
plored land where it's manhood and
womanhood may be respected, and
the possibilities Of the race secured
and maintained.
: Emigration is no new impulse in
: society; it is the final resort against
Il wrong and suppression. The &C
Il QUESTIONS of English possessions are
IN Lnc Uldlu Vic pIOuubU " oiSNi"iA
: and Roman transmissions. Nations
like individuals live and die. Wars
and conquests are the abiters of the
Il destinies of nations. We have yet
. to produce Livingston and an Emin
Pasha. 1900 years ago our native
land was plundered and subdued by
u Scipio and Africans. We must re-
D. member that divine and natural
forces are not incompatible. Lest
- we fight against Cod, let US be pre-
Il pared for any emergency.
Il THE LAND QUESTION.
10 The only safeguard of the Negro is
/ the purchasing of 10, 20, 80 and 4O
. acre farms. Shut out from the IN
= : dustries of the land, regarded as
10 foe to organized labor, he is strained
y to compete in the markets with the
y greatest nation on the face OF the
= globe, and stern the tide OF prejudice
~ at the same time. And yet, IL ne
te fails to leach the mark, he is derld-
~ cd and Knocked, There are millions