The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-19
A NEW ENGLAND NEGRO
Tells of conditions which Prevail
in the South"

VI ellis OF "COnNitiOnS Nhich Prevail
i'm the South"
Boston, June ls.-Joseph w. Henderson
OF Providence. founder OF the American
Protective league, an organization OF col
ored people for the securing OF their
rights. delivered an address In the Park
street church today. in which he replied to
the recent speech Of Ex-Governor Northen
Of Georgia in respect to oolored people
Said Mr.. Henderson. 1T is not necessary
at this time for me to make any reply to
Governor Northen's dramatic defense of
the human slavery. But had I been the
owner OF human beings and man-killing
dogs as he has been, and had since writ
ten my name among the followers OF
Christ, / would have felt more like COM
ing TO the altar of repentance at this
sage OF reform than to have come to one
If the greatest cities In the world with d
IypewriIen defense OF the most cruel in
stitutions OF human debauchery over
known to civilization or savage man
Were It not that It was in Georgia that
my poor mother was b1rn--there that she
tremblingly obeyed the slave masters
whip and felt the slave hounds bite there
that she was cold and deported for life
firm her blood and kin, l would not
stop to dignity Governor Northen's pro-
slavery utterances even with a sneer.
Governor Northen says miseegenatiop
by law Will never take place in the South
But miscegenation In tho South has al
ready taken place, II has already been
on the road two hundred years. Not Mis-
cegenatlon by Law. but by brute force
which is the very worst form OF law Who
started It? Not the negro, l am sure
nor was II the poor white trash 1t was
the blue veined arlstocracy OF the south
that broke over the fence, defied all law
and the result is that we have black ne
groes and white negroes, some OF them
as white as Governor Northen,
THE increase OF miscegenation in the
South Is due chiefly to three causes, name
ly: Force, financial persecution and dis
csrnlble Willingness on the part OF both
sexes OF both races,
'one seldom hears of the wholesale as
saults that Southern white men are maxi
ing on oolored women, but they are as con-
slant as the rising and setting OF the sun
Go South and count the penitentiary- bora
children whose mothers are colored and
fathers are white. That tells the story.
Aside from force there is a regularly
organized society of white men and colored
women. for which the colored women are
as much to blame as the white men, These
particular colored women have long since
concluded tlht tneN WOulu rather wear
diamonds and ride In carriages OF their
own than TO chop cotton or wash dishes
for somebody else, and be Il said 10 the
diseredit OF tails class OF colored women
and their white gentlemen associates,
that they are living in clover.
THE poor whites OF the South are not
to blame for this racial amalgamatlon,
for they and the blacks do not associate,
They mutually hate and seorn each other.
1t Is the blue vein arlstocraey OF the South
that is creating havoc with the morals
and social affections In negro homes and
mixing the races most alarmingly
II have been unable to ascertain what
led Governor Northern to tell his Northern
audience that the negro has the same
chance In Southern courts that the white
man has. Southern law is the white mans
cloak and the black mans enemy. II is
often used to protect the lawless and pun
ish the lawful, provided the lawless are
white and the lawful black II IL the col
lar that yolses the negro 10 humiliation
and holds him with a grasp Of crucihxlon.
"As to lynching,H continued the speaker,
II would ask II lynching Is the proper
cure for assaults on white women why
do not the iynchers simply lynch the as
sailants and let lynohing drop at that
Why have they victimised some fifty thous-
and others against whom there are no
charges OF ASSAULT