The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-19
ANANSWDR TONORTHEN|
The Son of a Slave Mother on
Southern Miscegenation. !,
THE ARIsTOORAOY RESPONSIBLE.

The Founder of the American PrOtec-
| tive League Says the Poor Whites
Are Not to Blame For Racial Anal.
! gnmation.
Boston, June 19.-Joseph w. Hender-
son, of Providence, founder OF the
American Protective League, an Or
ganization of colored people for ths
securing of their rights. delivered an
address in the Spark Street church
Yesterday in which he replied to the
srecent speech Of Ex-Governor Northen,
of Georgia, with reference to the south
ern outrages upon colored people. SAID
Mr., Henderson:
at is not necessary at this time for
me to make any reply to Governor
Northen's dramatic defense of human
slavery. But had / been an owner OF
human beings and man killing dogs
as he has been, and since written my
name among the followers Of Christ.
| would have felt more like coming
ND to tLe altar of repentance ct this
stage of reform than to have come 70
one of the greatest cities in the Worid
with typewriter defense OF the most
cruel institutions of human debauchery
ever known to civilized or savage man.
Were it not that it was in Georgia
that my poor mother was born; there
that she tremblingly obeyed the slave
masters whip and felt the slave
hounds bite; there that she was SOLO
and deported for life from her blood
and kin. | would not stoop to dignity
Governor Northen's pro-slavery utter
ances even with sneer.
Governor Northen says that mis-
ceeenation by law will never take
place In the south. But miscesenation
in the south his already taken place.
1t has been on the road over 20O years.
Not miscegenation by law, but by brute
force, which is the very worst forrn
of law. Who started 1t? Not the
negroes, | am sure, nor was 1t the
poor white trash. 1t was the blue VEN
arfstocfacy of the south that broke
over the fence, defied all law, and the
result is we have black negroes ana
white negroes some of them as white
as Governor Northen. IL,
"One seldom hears Of the Who'll esaio
assaults that southern white men ar0
making upon colored women, put tney
are as constant as the rising ana sci.
ting of the sun. Go south and count
the pententary born children whoso
mothers are colored and fathers white.
That tells the story.
"Aside from force, there is regu-
lar organized society of white men
and colored women, for which the coll
ored women are as much to blame as
the white men. These particular col
ored women have long since concluded
that they would rather wear diamoas
and ride in carriages of their own thaa
to chop cotton or wash dishes for
somebody else, and be it said to the
discredit of this class of colored wo-8
men and their white gentlemen asso-
ciates that they are living In clover.
"The poor whites of the south arc
not to blame for this racial anal gama-
ton, for they and the blacks do nos
associate. They mutually hate and
scorn each other 1t is the blue vein
sristocracy of the south that Is cre-6
ating havoc with the morals and sociah(
affections in negro homes and n4txl
the races most alarmingly.
II have been unable to ascertain
what led Governor Northen 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. 1t is often used 70
protect the lawless and punish the
lawful, provided the lawless are white
and the lawful black" q