The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-07
From the Washington Star.)

known and most highly educated
negro ministers in the United States,
was in Washington few days this
week, and gave the Evening Star
the following interview touching the
emigration Of negroes to Africa, in
which movement the Bishop is the
recognized head, and with which he
has been identified for number of
years. Bishop Turner is an enthu-
siast on tho emigration question, and
does not hesitate to say that it is
only question Of determination or
emigration for the negro He has
given the question years of study,
and has been censured and abused
by both the white and colored
races, but this has not caused him to
depart one iota from his beliefs and
purposes regarding African emigra-
ton.
Replying to question Bishop
Turner said:
"Some of you gentlemon of the
press have seen fit to give mo an
OCCASIONAL roasting, but I am pleased
to say that in most instances the
press has boon ready to give my fol.
lowers and myself ustice. We have
done nothing in this matter except
in an open and straightforward man
ner, ard we have kept no one in the
dark about anything concerned with
the movement. 1t has been our aiuA
to give it tho widest publicity posi-
BILE, and I am even willing that 1
should be caricatured and lam
basted by tho pross if by 30 doing it
will aid in any way in spreading tho
truths Of our mission aud our work.
THE NEGno's NATURAL HOME.
"I think the future of the negro
race lies in Africa, his natural home,
and the richest country on earth.
Africa is tho negro's fatherland, and
the sooner he goes the better for
him. This movement is far-reach-
ing, and will change the entire his
tory Of our race. 1t has simply come
down to determination or emigration
for tho negro. Any intelligent man
who has given the matter conside-
ration realizes that. Why is it so2
Simply from tho fact that statistics
show that the negro race is dying
out. 1t is not growing healthier,
happier, wiser or anything else
which goes to make life worth
living. =
"God Almighty, in His infinite
goodness and wisdom, made Africa
for the negro and the negro for
Africa. believe this just as much
as l do that tho sun shines. I'll
had S5,000,000 l world invest every
cont in ships, and would see that
every negro who wished to go to
Africa got there. I believe 1 am
needed here, but the very moment I
can get fifty thousand or one hun
dred thousand negroes to go with
me, am off like quarter horse, and
l will think it the best days work 1
ever accomplished"
WHITES WILL ALWAYS REIGN.
eyes, but the negro race can never
be more than hewers of wood and
drawers Of water here. The giant
race---the white race-will always
reign supreme in America. John
Temple Graves, gentleman for
whom I have tho highest regard aaid
in one Of his speeches that the negro
would never be allowed to control in
this country, even where he has
majority. Mr.. Graves also said that
the price of the negro's peace was
his subordination.
"rhis being true, how can the
negro ever hope to attain here the
full stature of q citizen or man?
Intelligent negroes we'll know that
Mr.. Graves has not uttered these
truths from personal prejudice, for
he has plead the negro's cause as
but few men in the South have.
"And what does the great states
man, Senator Morgan, Of Alabama,
say? He says the negro will never
receive social recognition here, and
that the negro had better be slave
than n free man without social
recognition, if he expects to remain
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