The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-07-29

anxious students and to supply $4,000 compe-
tent teachers in the public schools of the
0atn upon wne
while our Ignorant ministry has been trans
formed into one of the strongest and most
intelligent forces for good in the republic.
and the high professions of law and medicine
and journalism have competent representa-
tives in every considerable community in the
republic. which command the respect and
confidence of their fellows.
We affirm Ut as a matter Of fact, which
cannot be retuted, that the Afro-American
Saee is :, stronger TO and better today than ever
more moral. more religious, more intelligent;
that it has larger bank deposits, owns more
fea ha%eg y
Georgia. recently expressed it In the New
York Sun. no people have ever made greater
It Was confidently expected and predicted that
we would become a dependent pauper race
in condition or freedom. we have proved
more cotton and corn and other wealth as
freemen to the enrichment of the commerce
Of the states OF the South than was, ever
dreamed of in the philosophy Of the slave
| master. We appeal to the statistics of cot
| ton and cereal and mineral production before
and since the war to sustain our contention.
We have not produced all the wealth of the
South since the war-.:we have produced. our
! honest share. produced vastly more as q free
man than we produced as a slave-and, in
| stead of becoming public charges have be-
come sef-sustaining and reliant citizens, who
share in the wealth we have produced and
rejoice in 1t and in he strength the expansion
ne 5 Glory he n S oh
| Gently affirmed, among the first families, and
! in whose past achievement and present glory:
| in war and in peace. we claim. by right Of
equal share and participation.
It seems to us strange and unnatural that
| we should have to turn from the magnificent
record we have made as slaves and freemen.
in peace and In war. to specific grievances
which go at the very roots OF our citizenship,
and to appeal from the injustice and inhu-
the justice and fairness and Christian char
| ity inherent in the heart and the soul of the
great american People But we haxe to Dc
Christian faith and $50 years Of education in
American law and precedent that we shall
not appeal in vain. We have lived in darker
American Justice and fair play go through
ace and death and devastation and come out
purified by the faith that abides in the God
Of Destiny. and we expect to see it do 50
| again. Our optimism is as expansive as
American love of justice and fair play. And
a6 TO- +Ta en thp
| can furnish a sublimer reply than it can and
will give. And we do not look to one Gee
ton for a response but to all sections, and
| especially to the South where we know that
| we have friends who have been tried in the
furnace of experience and found true, and
who yin be faithful in !. the future, as they
| ourselves, true to the God who: brought us
out of the Egypt Of slavery into the Judea
of freedom. 4a...,..
But no race has ever risen out of the shad-
| ows into the sunlight without fierce oppo-
sition. We have been no exception to the
rule. And all the way to the top OF the lad
Eder;; where Daniel Webster declared there
was plenty of room, however long it takes
| and time is the most important factor in the
economy of God in working out the destiny
Of races and nations-we shall encounter
1 h,1fH1 cho11 rxy3vo tn k1n
end, for we shall have God and justice and
fair play on our side.