The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-19
Dixie Land Overrun with Children of
Negro Mothers and Fathers
Who Were White.
HUGE SENSATION In ATLANTA
BAPTIST PREACHER CLAMORs FOR
IMPEACHMENT OF MAYOR.
Chief Executive Said to BE q Con-
fessed Gambler, Libertfne, Sot
and Disgrace to the City.

BOSTON, June 1s.-Jcseph W. Henderson,
of Providence. founder Of the American Pro-
tective League, an organization of colored
people for the securing OF their rights. de-
livered an address in the Spark-street
Church to-day, In which he replied TO the
recent speech OF Ex-Governor Northen, OF
Georgia, with reference to the Southern out
RACES On colored people. Said Mr. Hender-
son: 1T is not necessary at this time for
me to make any reply TO Governor North
ems dramatic defense of human slavery
But had been an owner OF human beings
and man-killing dogs. as he has been, and
had since written my name among the fol-
lowers of Christ, 1 would have felt more
like coming TO the altar OF repentance at
this stage of the reform. than to have come
TO one OF the greatest cities in the world
with a typewriter defense of the most
cruel institutions OF human debauchery
ever known to civilized or savage man.
Were II not that II 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 sold and deported for life from her
blood and kin. would not stoop to dignity
Governor Northen's proslavery utterances
even with sneer.
Governor Northen says that miscengena-
ton by law will never take place in the
South. But miscengenation in the South has
already taken place. 1t has already been On
the road 200 years. Not miscengenation by
law: by b-ate force, which is the very worst
form Of law. Who started It? No the ne
groes. am sure. nor was 1t the poor white
trash. It was the blue-vein aristocracy Of
the South that broke over the fence, defied
all law. and the result is we have black
oxzH Hxrhf Of
white as Governor Northen.
THE increase OF miscengenation In the
South II due chiefly to three causes. namely:
Force, financial persecution and discernible
willingness on the part Of both sexes of both
races. One seldom hears OF the wholesale
assaults that Southern white men are max
ing on colored women, but they
constant as the rising and the setting
of the SUM- Go South and count the peni-
tentiary-born children whose mothers are
colored and fathers white. That tells the
story.
Aside from force there Is a regular or
ganized 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 that they would rather wear dia-
monds and ride in carriages of their own
tndu 10 cncp cOtlOu OF WASH lOr sOmeDOoy
else and, be II said 10 the discredit of this
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 amalgamation. for
they and the blacks do not associate. They
mutually hate and scorn each other. 1t Is
the blue-veined aristocracy OF the South
that Is creating havoc with the morals and
social affection in negro homes and mixing
the races most alarmingly.
''I 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 to protect the lawless and punish
the lawful. provided the lawless are white
and the lawful black. 1t is the collar that
yokes the negro 10 the stool of humiliation
and holds him with grasp of crucifixion.
"As to lynching." continued the speaker.
'T would ask: II lynching is the proper
cure for assaults on women, why do not
the lynchers simply lynch the assailants
and let lynching drop at that? why have
they victimized some fifty thousand others
against whom there were no charges of as
gaulty'