The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-18
NEW YORK NEGROES PROTEST.
POLICE OUT IN FORCE BECAUSE OF
ANTI-NEGRO SENTIMENT.


It. i. Fortune Presides and Recites
the Race Troubles in the south.
The Audience Has "a sprinkIing of
Whites-ResOIutions Adopted Call
ing for an Amendment of the Con-
stitution Providing for Federal
Interference in Such Cases.
New York, Nov. ia mass meeting of
colored men and women to protest against
the treatment of their race in some of the
southern statAs recently was held to-
night in Cooper Union. As a precaution-
airy measure, the police were out in force,
as even in this city, in the HeIrs Kitchen
district, there has been considerable of
anti-negro sentiment. This precaution,
however. was not at all necessary, as the
gathering although enthusiastic at times.
was a very peaceable one. The hall was
crowded with colored people, with a
sprinkling of whites.
During the tedious wait for the speak
ers white man, with long flowing hair.
arose in his seat in the center aisle
and shouted: IF we only had a william
Lloyd Garrison, a Wendell Phillips, or an
Abraham Lincoln at this time" This
evoked tremendous applause.
7. T. Fortune appeared on the stage a
few moments later and took the presiding
otiicers chair Fortune in a lengthy ad-
dress told of the race troubles of the
South.
Ebenezer d. Bassett, formerly minister
to Hayti, also spoke
The following resolutions were adopted
with lengthy preamble:
Resolved, That we, citizens of Greater
New York, protest against the rloting and
revolution which have disgraced the states
OF North Carolina and South Carolina. and
which has been contrary to the letter and
spirit of our Institutions, and calculated to
subVert the guaranteed rights of citizens
ana to damage the good name reputation
and credit of the republic, at home and
abroad.
Resolved, That we feel that the Cover.
nors of North Carolina and South Carolina
are censurable for their failures to sup
press the said rioting and revolution with
an their states, and for their failure to in
woke the aid of the federal authority If
they Were una bic or unwilling to cope with
the condition of affairs.
Resolved, That we deplore as un-Amer-
ican and provocative of endless friction
and contention the antagonism to race aud
color, which alone appear to have caused
the said rioting and revolution In North
and South Carolina, and that we insist
upon it that the just rights OF all citizens
under the constitution shah be respected
as the only safeguard against lawlessness,
and as the only guarantee of orderly gov
ernment; and that we appeal to the con-
seryatve, iaw-abiding Christians Of the
republic to assist in the creation of a pub
lie opinion which shall compel those in au-
thority TO enforce the law, and to secure
to each citizen adequate protection In his
life and property in the exercise of his
manhood and citizens rights under the con-
stitution.
Resolved That as the states of Missis-
sippi, South Carolina and Louisiana have
by constitutional amendment disfranchised
more than half of their population, we de-
mand that the basis of representation Of
these states in Congress and the electoral
college be reduced, in the proportion which
the number of such male citizens shah
bear to the number of male citizens 81
years old as made and directed by section
2 of article "A of the federal constitution
Resolved, That we recommend such
amendment as TO the constitution as will
enable the President to use the federal au-
thority to protect the life and property OF
citizens of The United States from organ
lied or mob conspiracy, whenever the Gov
ernor of any state. from fear or collusion,
fears to afford such protection or to call
upon The federal government to afford It.
Resolved, That we implore the guidance
of Almighty God in the shaping of our
homogeneous citizenship to the end that
it may make for righteousness, for hui
man progress, and for the invinclbLty of
our great and beloved republic against
the elements of rioting and revolution
from within, and the assaults of the enc
mics from without"
Among the other speakers were Lawson
N Fuller, j. p. Peaker, president of the
State Summer League Of Connecticut;
Rev. DR.. J. N. Scott Of Henderson, NJ c.
Rev. Benjamin w Farris of Boston, and
Elizabeth b. Grannis.