The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-10


 gro and make him a coward. Negroes are lynched upon flimsy evidence and flimsy charges. Many negroes have been lynched who had not been charged with committing rape. Their only of- fense was that they were black ana dared to assert their rights as men. But still the negroes are making great progress in the south, and have reasons to be proud of themselves. And 1t is true that the debarring of the negro from the more lucrative trades is far greater in the north than in the south. In the north the foreigner who has not even the right of franchise is given the preference And it is true that the north Is doing far more to impede the industrial progress of the negro than the south, notwithstanding the fact that so many lynchings have taken place in the south. Colonel Murrell held that the republican party was more friendly to the negroes than the democratic party was but still the re- publican party had not done for the ne- gro what it might have done and what it could have done. Colonel Murrell was hopeful for the future of the negro. All the negro needed, he said, was to be let alone and to have fair chance
 Then Editor J. W. Henderson, of the New England Torchlight one of the pluckiest, brightest and most aggres- sive editors the race has yet produced, was introduced to the audience. Among other things, MT. Henderson said: We are told that the war has revolutlonized matters. In a sense that Is true. The worlds map is remade. New territory, new peoples and new conditions are ours. But in spite of the marvellous ac- complishments during the past lew | months, I am compelled to admit that the time is not yet ripe enough for me to join the chorus tune, that by virtue of the war there is no north, no south, and that all the hateful prejudices of l the past are dead and buried. I would that it were true. For no American cit izen would step to the music more proudly than I. But the tune is false and I cannot sing it. When the last three amendments to the United States constitution are no longer trampled be- meath feet as they have been. for the | past twenty-five years when the igno- rant negro of Arkansas is permitted to exercise his political rights with the same freedom as is given his ignorant white neighbor, when Mississippi, South Carolina and Louisiana wipe from the statute books those damnable laws that are blot to this country and curse to the negro everywhere, when 1 southern states no longer tax black men to support public libraries to which 1 black faces are not permitted to enter, 1 r., Nf lNa south are buried deeper than the sands of the ocean, when the black defenders of this republic, garbed in national uni form, can ride in railroad seats of com fort without being insulted or punched when the boasted best element of the south no longer form themselves into mob clements and take the lives of in- nocent and untried negroes, when the president of the United States can ap- point United States officers without the fear of their being burnt up or shot dead in their midnight beds by United States citizens, when the nulliflers hold a convention among themselves and agree to no longer nullify the United States constitution, when the United States government can and will protect United States citizens within five miles of Washington with as much ease as it does five thousand miles away, then, and not until then, am I willing to sign this national marriage contract declar- ing that all of the hateful prejudices of the past are dead and buried
 Then Rev. Peyton. of Newark, was introduced He addressed his remarks especially to the young men and vindi- u c &o.,
 Captain James H. Wilkins, of New Haven, who fought with Colonel Shaw
 Then Rev MT. Peyton of Newark was at Fort Wagner, and who distinguished civil war by advancing fifteen paces in front of his regiment in the face of a | whitening fire and planting his colors was next introduced. Captain Wilkins had had his old warrior spirit stirred and reused by the eloquence of Colonel Murrell, and he proved himself to be a very earnest and effective speaker as he recounted his experience in the last war, and urged the young men to make something of themselves, and urged the people to stand by the church.
 Rev. J. c. Tyler, the aggressive and progressive pastor of the church, de- clined to speak, and Attorney Walter Scott Miller of New Haven was intro duced as the last speaker MT. Miller said that the negro should not be on the fence in politics, but should come out and declare himself to be either re- publican or a democrat. If the negro was to accomplish anything in politics it must be by organization. They could not accomplish anything by or ganizing an independent organization like the Sumner League, but must or ganize by locking arms with the whites and in working with them as the Me Kinley Union proposed doing. He saiC that there was an organization. namely the Sumner League, which claimed to be working for the best interests of the negro, and yet this organization did it: level best to down ex-Town Constable Willis M. Bonner, who had been { faithful and courageous town consta ble, for no other reason than that MT Bonner would not join the organiZa tion. Nowhere was the Sumner League working for the race. MT. Miller saiC that our leaders should be men of nor al character. They should not stagge1 through the streets in a drunken condi ton nor visit houses of ill-fame.
 SENATOR GRAY FINALLY AC
 CEPTS.