Richmond planet., 1897-04-03
FROM NEW HAVEN.
EDITOR JNO. MITCHELL
SPEAKS.
Many People Hear Him
Lecture.
CHURCH N0TES-IMMAEUEL BAP-
TIST CHURCH TO BE RENOVATED
Items Of Interest.

NEW HAVEN. COM, March 30, '97.
The large audience that greeted
Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., at the I'm
manuel Baptist Church on last Friday
evening demonstrated the fact that
the eAfro-Americans Of New Haven are
deeply in sympathy with their out
ragged brothers in the southland. and
the unstinted applause given when the
speaker Of the evening was introduced
was but slight manifestation or the
high esteem in which that brave, he
roic. race-loving Editor of the Rich
mond ''Planet" is held by the Afro
American citizens Of the common
wealth OF Connecticut.
Although there were n few vacant
seats in the spacious edifice that Mr.
Mitchell lectured, the makeup of his
/ audience was OF the best brain and
culture Of New Haven.
After few selections by the choir,
Councilman James W. Stewart called
the meeting to order and introduced
Hon. Joseph P Peaker, president OF
the State Sumner League of Connecti-
cut, who in n very elaborate speech
welcomed Hon. Mitchell to the city OF
Elms. and introduced him to the audi
ence.
So eager were the people to hear the
speaker of the evening that the well
come address, a masterpiece OF rhetoric,
| logic and history. was listened to with
the least bit of impatience.
"Outrages in the South and the Luz
nenburg Case" was the topic OF Mr.
Mitchells lecture, and for about one
hour, the audience of about three hun
dred persons were held spell-bound.
l The Editors discussion was from an
experimental standpoint. He told OF
many cases where Afao- lean IL
zens I'm Virginia had been unjustly ac-
cused OF crime. many times without
any evidence of a substantial nature.
they have been imprisoned for many
months or lyLched, swung to trees.
riddled with bullets, for an alleged
crime. A man was taken by MOB,
tortured by being punctured IN the
eyes and other parts OF his body with
red hot irons and left to die, and to-
lday that man carries the marks OF his
barbsrous tormentors and Is oilno
from the effects OF the inhuman treat
lment
The speaker backed Cp the assertion
that the life of a dog was more highly
priced by some people in Virginia than
that of a human being, by citing the
cases OF a colored man being sentenced
to serve two years in the state peni-
. Jentiary for a white mans dog having
, died from eating poison alleged OF
. being found by the dog in The colored
! mans yard while pil'sging And an
other case where the small fine of hve
I ldollars was imposed on . white man
: for kicking a color woman from his
I steps and crushing the head OF her un-
=, born infant, simply because the woman
9 asked for the payment of i've dollars
: due her for services rendered These
were only a hint at the many cases
: wherein the Afro-Americans were
most brutally treated without any
q cause and without being able to de-
n fend themselves in the courts
. The famous Lunenburg case was al
so discussed and many facts hereto
4 fore unexplained TO the people OF the
. north were made plain.
His description of the makeup oi
: the juries empanneled to try cases
; where charges were preferred against
= colored people, showed that they, as a
: rule. are of the worst type OF human
q kind, being ignorant, illiterate and al
most idiots themselves. The speaker
II emphatically pronounced the ex-slaye
holder of Virginia, the Negro's friend,
4 stating that crimes committed Dy the
whites were not by the better class
r but by q worse type of civilization.
After the lecture, Editor Mitchell
. was heartily congratulated Tor his
bravely and self-sacriflcing interest he
had tai en- in the Lunenburg case
: where three innocent women were
saved from the gallows through his
= efforts after being imprisoned for sew
i eTal months and sentences 20 Ole
twice.
The Emmanuel Baptist Church mem
bers are planning to renovate their
i, church edifice They want to paint
church inside and out, carpet the en-
, tire floor, put in new cushions or new
seats and ten of the latest style church
wind ows in the main auditorium which
will cost aboat $25O0 each
At the close of the sermon Sunday
evening pastor Powell informed his
congregation that he woald pay the
! cost of one Of these windows and oedl-
I cate it to the memory OF DIR. L. ID.
Miller. the late pastor of Cherry s rect
. Baptist Church, Philadelphia, in
grateful recognition of the service he
rendered the church thirty years ago,
aud other families in the church would
bear the cost of the remaining nine in
memory of their departed loved ones.
The new idea was enthusiastically re-
ceived and several families have al
ready expressed their Willingness 10
pay the expense of . window.
Miss Nellie Ross is seriously i'll as
her mothers residence, 81 v ebster
street.
Mr. Charles @. Douglass and Mrs.
Jane Smith were married Monday
evening of this week. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. A. o. Powell.
The friends of Mrs. A. G Powell
, have presented her a beautiful Easter
gown, shoes and gloves
Rev. A. G. Powell will preach SER
mon to the New Haven Valley Con-
sistory, number Z, A. & A. s r. Masona
at the Emmanuel Baptist Church East
er Sunday morning.
Rev. johnson w. Hill, missionary
I, and field secretary of the N. f. b. M.
%. will prea n at the Emmanuel Bap-
: tist Church Sunday morning.
Bishop James H Cook preached at
? the Union A, NJ. Z. Church on last
Sabbath evening.
: w. A TRIBBRrT.