The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-25

OF our populations Let us not forget
That the negroes. men and women ara
exactly what the white man has made
them.
Mrs. Harris further continues:-"She
Is the bastard daughter of a seduced
MOTHER" and argues thence against
sympathy wasted upon the negro. If
the negro is a bastard, who is respon-
sible?
In former days there were Phillips.
Garrisons and Lovejoys whose efforts
oegat John Brown, Uncle Toms Cabin,
Abraham Lincoln and emancipation,
The negroes. while slaves, had some
protection, to-day while nOm,nally free
they are the prey of white mobs and
white men; the II takes the life of
the men. the other outrages the person
OF the women. | tell you to-day as be-
fore the war, the air is heavy laden
With the subdued cries of an outraged
people, the story of Whose wrongs ia
the story of the south. whose CRY for
justice fills the air and must needs to
lind audience before Omnipotent God.
Our national government by its clam
ike silence and sl0th-like conduct con-
fesses alike its indifference and inabil-
ity. What a forceful Indictment the
present condition of the negro women
as pictured by Mrs. Harris is to the
Christian ministers of the land.
What brazen impotence, ignorance
and hypocricy and cant inspires a min
lister of the gospel when he thanks God
for the opportunity afforded now in the
Cuba's and other islands of the sea for
him to reach the b%enighted, while even
at his door are millions without word
OF cheer or helping hand; while the life
OF the black man and the person of his
wife and daughter is considered the
proper victim to satisfy the rage of the
mob and the passion of the Individual
And mind you, this is not in back
wood districts. Right in the center of
so-called society the black wretch is
tied to the stake while the refined
daughters of s~e-called Anglo.Saxon CIV
ilization piled high the fagots around
him and eagerly poured on the int1am-
mables. then applied their match, and
While the poor devil IN ind%escribable
agony writhed and pulled at the cords
that bound him, these same daughters
OF opulence cut off his ears and dis
membered him generally to retain the
parts thus cut off as mementoes of the
occasion. What's done about it, do you
say? Nothing. What does the state
do about it? Nothing. What does the
United States governmental about it3
Nothing. The question is, what shall
we CT the north do about it?
The Democratic party north or south
never did much for the negro, and the
Republican party did very little better.
Do ] hear some Of you say, do you
palliate the crime that brute was guilty
Of" No! eternally mol but that crime
by a negro is no worse than when COM
mitted by a white man, and who ever
heard Of a white man of the south be-
ing punished for the seduction or des-
truction Of a black woman, or the MUIR
der OF a black man?
What a disgrace to so-called civiliza-
ton and Christianity in the southl
What a disgrace to the United States
government north and south! How
dare it say it will protect citizens in the
a%ntipodes when unable to do so at
home? The crime that Sam Hose was
burned for was committed by white
men searching for him that same night
but no man was disturbed, much less
punished Tor the awful crime.
In the Cuban war the first men to
carry Old Glory up the heights of San
Juan hill and plant it on the parapet
were negro soldiers in the uniform of
Uncle Sam. Chant it that this was
their simple duty. does not the c%orrilary
hold good that they, their fathers,
mothers, sons and sisters are entitled
to adequate legal protection?
In the years Of Irish famine when
hundreds of thousands died by the way
side OF sheer hunger and want, the
South Carolina slave. holders sent
OConnell a munificent sum of money
M -.
to feed his starving countrymen, but
that great tribune OF his people refused
it, would not accept a penny of it be-
cause 1T was the consequence of unre-
Quilted toll. And, as with a voice of an
arch-angel whose %stentorian tone ca
reened across the Atlantic he thunder
ed in the ears Of the Carolinian that
Gods thunderbolts we're hot, and that
IN the treasure of his house and the
best blood of his family. he would yet
pay for the labor of the black man and
wrongs heaped on his family.
II the awful injuries inflicted on them
were done by a foreign government the
public opinion of our people would
drive the nation into war to protect
them, and 1 therefore, wish to know if
the negro of Cuba is to be better than