The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22
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PARsON BROUGHION IN BROOK.
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is not a D. d. a native O: Raleigh, n.
c., but now Of Atlarta. & sensational
preacher of a pronounced type, has been
STIRRING" up the animals of Brook
Ign, New York. He preached 70 a big
crowd ON politics-on lynchipg on the
negroes, their character and short
comings and on negro suffrage. He
Gays the trouble in Georgia is caused
by the rcgroes voting. He is opposed
to unedUcated negroes voting, and, In
his opinion the race problem will be
solved by depriving the negroes Of the
franchise. He declared hat the white
men will never permit the blacks to
dominate. He bitterly denounced all
l~ynchings, and said if he We're governor
he would stop it in three weeks. He
has great confidence in his proves and
wisdom, and censures the governor,
judges, etc., for not ending lynching.
The New York Tribune publishes his
picture and gives a little Of his talk.
1t canno be called preaching. The
Brooklyn Times reports all of it.
We make a few extracts that are spicy:
"BUt, brethren, those Philippine ma
tives have the joke or us. They can
point to recent history in this country
and say: why try to civilize US?
amt going to lynch any cOlored peo-
pie, or blow up elevated railroads OF
streetcars with dynamite, as o a
lone lately in Georgia, New York and
Ohio.
1--WE are sending missionaries to the
Congo, but We also send whiskey, that
does more damage in a year than we
can repair in a lifetime. =
'Cleau up your city politically! The
world little notes or cares what We, Or
the churches believe; it does not care
about what you do; it asks us, What
is your life? What are you doing?
"This race problem with its lynching
and feud, must be solved by religion.
The men who advocate, participate in
or look upon lynchings,a are murderers in
the sight of God. l have so denounced
them in my pulpit. We can stop lynch
ing, but it is very difficult to wipe out
the crime which gives rise to lynching.
Three-fourths of the crime in the south
Is COIlIIl1LIGu ny hlCS. A1OSC III
them have no co~nsciences. Perhaps
they are not to blame
This is in his usual sharp, pointed
style. He strikes from the shoulder
and is a good rival of Sam Jones in
the platform h~aranguing. popular style.
His most exciting and arresting talk
was on Sambo and his doings and char
acter. Here we make a longer extract,
which will be interesting to many Of
our readers:
1.-The respectable colored people are
all against law breaking. The trouble
is that We allow the dirty, low down,
devilish element in our fair southland
to go on with these lynchings. When
we get the right sort Of men in office,
from governor down to constable,
then we'll stop them. They can be
stopped. Is y
ION the other hand you in the north
do not begin to understand how grossly
immoral and ignorant he colored
masses of the south are. More than 10
per cent Of the crime in the south is
committed by negroes. There are many
good people among them, but the great
mass is devoid of morality and con-
science. You would feel hard if you
should come home some night and IND
the sanctity Of your home destroyed
forever. The question that confronts
us, however, is what is the right thing
to do?
"The one great enemy Of the colored
man in the south today is politics. He
has absolutely no political conscience.
T - o110I,,ta1u FOR Caln ThP man
with the most money can go and BUY
him at will. Don't you see how difficult
it is to get moral issues considered
when the conditions are like these?
The time has no come, and l say 1t
without bitterness, never will come,
when the white man of the south VILE
allow the colored man to dominate him
politically. | need not say that L De
lieye it was a great mistake on the part
of the government togive the uneduca-
ted black the full right of suffrage 10
begin with. We are past that. Inc
one thing needed today is the ellmlna.
ton OF the colored man as a political
factor. When that is done the race
problem will be solved
" Mr.. Broughton has lived in North
Carolina, Virginia and Georgia and ne
has had good opportunities III SCuu' AHS
if not understanding, the situation. He
knows the purchasable negro and the
purchasing d~emagogue. We quote
further on this inc
Constituencies southern politicians
invariably resort to colored men IN Tue
campaign. They array white mel
against the colored men, stirring up
race wars, feuds and the bloody battles
that stir the south. Unfortunately, we
cannot make the colored people under
stand that they are being used for po-
lltical purposes. Mostly all OF the
southern race troubles are due to pol
itics. 8 8 In South Carolina the col
ored men are prosperous and happy;
colored men are constantly leaving the
various southern states and locating
there. They are prospecting, and why?
Because they do not vote. They are