Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-06-11

d as individuals The Negro leader
insists that his race must be treated as
whole
II we are ostracised and organized
INTO comranies as q whole, why should
we not be treated as q wholef
But we viii accept the same basis as
laid down for the whites.
Throw open your white companies 10
Negro privater, remove the discrimi
nations at AESAPoLIs and WEsr PolEr,
and all talk about Negro officers for
Negro companies, bsttalions and regi-
ments will cease Dare you accept the
Il says:
eff there IL color-line to-day, they |
are TO blame for IL.
OF course We are. We are to blame
for the Dutch steamers bringing our
forefsthers to this country and landing |
them at jamestown, Va. In 1926.
We are TO blame for the two hum
dred and fifty years Of slavery which
the white folks inflicted upon Us.
We are to blame for taking e part in
the War of Independence. and dying at
Bunker Hill.
We are TO blame for being with Com
modore Perry on Lake Erie during the
War of 1912.
We are to blame for being with the
white folks Of this country in the Mex
ican War.
We are to blame for helping to save
the governments in the late Civil War,
and sending tens Of thousands OF the
best able-Dodied men we had to car
mage OF death.
We are TO blame for taking care of
the wives and children of southern SOL
diers while they were away fighting to
keep US in slavery.
We are to blame for standing by the
government after the war.
We are to blame for submitting to
the hanging, burning. shooting, strang-
ling. butchering Of sixty Thousand OF
our innocent people since the war
And now we are blame for Offering
organized bodies OF Negro troops under
Negro officers to fight for the United
States government as against Spain.
poor, mcrtais, wep Damned II
we do. and damned IL we don't" Will
our trials never end7
{ The Posr makes the following re-
marks which we III course will careful
4 ly consider:
D eff the authorities decline TO admit
Z their claims, it is because those claiml
are impudent and silly. There is jus
one result the Negro organs and lead
: ers can accomplish by all this pcstiier
s Gus uprosr, and that is TO convince tn'
whites that they are imprscticaDi
and malapropos.
d And again:
: "When they finally succeed in i'm
e planting that conviction in the IA
A tion's mind they will discover thu
this is the white mans country, whic
the white man intends TO govern In hi
own way and for his own behooi
They can then stay here or go else
where as they prefer, but in neithe
, event will they affect the destiny c
the United States or change the ike
= purpose OF those who rule it,"
- 1t is very kind in you to inform US {
i your version of the matter. But UT
u fortunately, sir, the Constitution {
the United States and the Bill {
70 Rights of Virginia 1.-TWO instruments
which we are guided do not say SO.
8 Hon. THOMAS JRFFERsoN, who wroi
u the Declaration Of independence an
~ the Hon. GEORGE WARRINGTON, VIII
was at one time President of the Uni
81 ed States, and the Hon. ALRxAEDE
HAMILTON, who was said to be one
te the leading statesmen of his day di
- not seem to know anything about tn
g. being . white mans country.
Or They labored under the impressic
that this was country of the peopl
On and statesmen since that. time ha'
/: conservatively held to the same OPT
ii. ion.
81 Mr.. JEFFERSON was rash" enoui
er to write: 1--WE hold these truths TO
ar self-evident; that all men are Greats
u equal" And the Constitution begir
"We. the people of the United Stat
RS do ordain aud establish, etc."
We But then it is impudenca to quote
extract from the Declaration of Ind
ia pendence to the Posr or to intims
no that we have certain ''inalienat
ed rights"
10 We would remind our contempora
az that the Indians have fought und
is their own chiefs, even when allies
SO, this nation or any other. Strange re
We soning this which would deny to I
Negro the right TO do the same thin
OFT But some one wrote the Bill of Rigl
MS of Virginia, and said. "That all m
I've are by nature equally free and inc
Oh pendent and have certain inner,
10 rights" etc.
.;as Article ]. Section 2 "That this st
shall ever remain q member of
the United States of America and that
q: people thereof are part of the Anne
can Nation" etc.
Why The Posr is the first reputable jo
nal to virtually assert that "peoE
ZEN. means 'white." and that "a COVE
airy ment of people" means "a governm
col of the whites"
col The editor who wrote that article
d in "Negro Organs and Leaders," deseI
chrome. He is curiosity and
,se" managers OF Barnum's menag
the could not engage in q more profits
undertaking than to 'rig" up b
cage and carry him around to be e.
bited to the waiting multitudes IS
sent nnos' a1eounuins e~~AAPAo "a 'ouI
per- istic folly that was ever Permits
ONE edit reputable daily journal at
no capital of any nation. No officers
hghti
t;ro "But man, proud man,
ople Most ;enorsnt of what he's most