The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-24
A Meeting in Washington Adopts OPP
posing Sets Of Resolutions,
A NEWSPAPER TO THEIR LIKING.
The Washington Star Warmly Com
mcnded for Its CourSc-A Wall
from a Negro Pulpit-Conserva'
tive letter from Another.

against the so-cdlcu WRONGS OF tlcit
race. Two opposing sets Of resolutions
were adopted. one discOuraging force and
urging prayers and preaching the other
favoring the use OF force on behalf OF
the negroes incidentally, they denounc-
cd President Mckinley, the Democratic
party. Booker r. Washington, q local
newspaper and everything else not eN-
actly TO their liking.
TO THEIR LIKING.
The asscmblage was so much pleasei
with the position Of the Evening star
newspaper that their representative was
called on for a speech and the paper
loudly praised.
The truth is. the most hide-bourd ne
gro lover could not criticize the Star for
it's efforts 10 paint the black man white.
Here is an editorial from last nights edl-
ton which illustrates tho spirit Of every
romment IN the Star concerning the
South.
A "ROAST" FOR WADDELL.
"Thc situation at Wilmington is any
thing but satisfactory. ~ IS said to the
people Of the town. The old order is
ended but the new order has its draw
backs There Is quiet but 10 is the quiet
Of population dazed after dobauch.
There IS peace. but II proceeds from
wholesome dread Of going up against
make their own laws. The sense Of con-
Gdenca Of security. does not exist Nat
urally 10 does not. because 70 IS never
produced bv violence or murder VII
mincion Is paying. and for some time 10
come. will continue 70 pay. the just pen
altv for substituting riot for law and
order
"some Of the efforts made 10 restore
confidence in the community, while Sc
rlously intended, are positively ludi-
cr0us. Tho leading spirit in the reVolu-
ton was "a man named Waddol lie act
ed as one TO succeed in such affairs
must always act. Tie showed the way
I'm all Of the dangerous business lie did
not give orders from a bomb proof lie
presided AZ the meeting when the spirii
81 the mob was being invoked. lie lea
the mob when 10 assembled. He marched
az its head 10 the office OF the negro
editor ana was everywhere conspicuous
during that rccrettable day. Very pro-
perry. therefore. after the officials or the
Town had been forced 10 resign, Mt.
Waddcu became the chief Of the new
dispensati0n And thus. in a moment
I'm the twinklng OF an eye. he also De-
came by "a pleasing fiction the repre-
sentative Of law and ORDER The red shir,
of tho leader Of the mob was stripped
off the trusty Winchester lai1 aside. ana
tho starched front and decorousness or
mo MAGISTRATE brough. into play.
MERIT ~ BREVlTY.
"Nfr WaddelIs first act i'm his new ca
,orff, was am appeal to the hundreds 81
nonic-sfrickcn negroes who. after the ter
rors of the day he'd been enacted. had
fed TO the woods for safety. lt was
brief statement. signed by him. breFlly
g. the one merit Of q mob leader. Re
laI
oral or written. This was note OF SIX
lines. bv which the negroes were request
cd 10 return 20 their homes and were as
surod of protection. Mt Waddcll secured
men 10 20 out into the woods ans c'r-
culata the paper and explain it 20 those
for whom 80 was intended.
us it strange that 81 should have
worked but slowly when at all2 Trans
lated by their rocOlloctons OF the man
and his work what aid 10 signify 10 the
crouching fueitives? Come back. our
fury for the present is spent We have
an the dead uiggers We need IN our bus
mess at this time There may not DE
another bit of man-huuting for whole
year. Meanwhile there viii DE good
wages I'm the town for workmen or your
class. and our advice is that you come
back and take your old places. We
speak for law and order. ana assure you
of our protection.
"When Mark Twain and Bret Harte
first drew the portrait OF the mob leader
ana described his ease and assurance ~
the discharge Of the difficult and ofttimes
delicate duties Of his office. they were
accused Of drawing the literary long bow.
An injustice was done thom
This paper has thoroughly disguised
the fair-mndod people ~ Washington
who have been reading it I'm tho past. II
loses no opportunity 10 pat the negro on
the back ana TO denounce the people Of
North Carolina because they would not
submit 10 the wretche3 infImy Of negro
misrule IN their cities and towns.
a PULPIT VAIL
Sunday morning negro preacher,
named Grimke. delivered a Sermon
i'm which me bewailed the rapid change
Of the people of the North with refer
ence TO their opinion of the negro. This
is a paragraph from his sermon:
Another disc0uragins circumstance IS
TO bc found in the fact that the white
people Of the North, 20 a. very large eX-
tent. are either Indifferent 20 these
wrongs or are in sympathy with them.
Many Of those who were once our best
friends. who stood by as during the great
struggle for freedom, before and immo-
d.atelv after the war. are now on tho
tine South has diffused itself all over the
North. Even tho children Of the old
aboiitioaists have been won over to
large extent and are now found among
his detractOrs and among the apolosists
for Southern outrages."
GRIMKE ABUSIVE.
He also tOk occasion To apply very OBJ
iecti0nable oDithets 20 intelligent c0l0red
men like Kelly Miller and others who ad-
wise the negro to withdraw from politics
and consult the interests Of the whites,
which age Identical with his own. In a
very dispassionate but forcible letter.
Miller denies the infailibility of Grimke
IN matters political and his right TO
"hurl anathemas at the unfortunate
heretics."
Grimke denounced the acceptance by
negroes Of any restriction upon the bal
lot as cowardly and unmanly. He was at
one time pastor Of a Jacksonville flock
and came 10 Washington TO take
church. Miller says to him:
Ills RECORD.
"You at one time lived in the State OF
Florida. where you personally enjoyed
the ght OF suffrage: but when you saw
that you would be of greater good 10 the
vace and TO mankind, by so doing you
voluntarily yielded up this privilege 10
vote. by accepting a field Of work IN the
District Of Columbia, where there Is no
franchise. II a citizen Of Jacksonville,
Fla should for any reason, conclude
that II was not best for his own welfare
nor for that Of the race TO exercise the
elective privileges, could YOU consistently
uobrald him for RETAINING from doing