The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26

THE Afro-American has observed the
I golden rule in that he conceded unto
| others what he maintains for himself
he upholds the doctrine taught by the
! Declaration Of independence as he de-
tends the faith delivered unto the saints
Inc constitution of the United States is
to him the bedrock upon which is found.
ed all true civilization, and he wants II
enforced In Its entirety. He seeks nc
I specfaf privileges and asks no fayors
All ne wants Is fair play, and this he
demands. 2 t.. -;t;.-zr ',,....t - :. 3, :
He has placed himself in line with the
best thought of the present day and he
now assumes to speak for, himself and
TO present his case to the American peo-
pie. Having now complied with every
I condition which our cultivation imposes
upon him, he asks that that civilization
guarantee to him immunity from outrage
ana wrong IN the exercise of his rights as
an American citizen and in the enjoyment
OF MS freedom as a member of society.
SO long as the rights of the humblest
| citizen are trampled on with impunity
| civilization fails Of it's purpose and the
I ends of government are subverted. Men
| do not respect institutions that are not
potential in scope and execution. Paper
| Dlockades are not recognized in the laws
| of nations, nor are they respected by the
| powers of the world. To receive recoeni-
/
In every walk of life men want the thing
| offered to be a perfect sample as pat
| tern of what is to follow. = -.
.4. BLOW AIMED AT CASTE.
"The white people of this country claim
to be superior to the Afro-American, and
the Afro-American demands proof Of that
superiority. The first attribute Of SUI
perior nature is its consideration for the
weak and the humble. -, e. .;.-a-.-
Did the slave trader comply with that
condition when he separated husband and
wife, violated the sanctity OF the Afro
Americans fireside and tore the helpless
| babe from its mothers breast and sold
him for sordid gold to distant parts?
What wrong had the Afro-American done
him? What wrong does the Afro-Amer-
| lean do him now? r''>= .'.@ .'- -
Another evidence of superiority is to
suffer long and be patient Had half the
insults and outrages heaped upon the At
ro-American people of this country by the
whites of certain section been visited
! by Afro-American people of that section
upon the whites. the land had hardly
| been able to contain the graves Of the
| dead. For 250 years the Afro-American
women of the South were oppressed by
the best blood of that section, and the
mixed blood in our. population is largely
due to that fact. They were then sowing
| to the wind and now they are reaping
the wflirlwind.' - -, 5.15 (: Is.
when the white men were away fight
ins to dethrone the stars and stripes and
to erect in its stead the emblem of the
Southern Confederacy we had their
women at our mercy and could have
slain them, but our superior nature as
serted itself and not a hair of their
heads was harmed. On which side of
the balance should superiority be placed?
ADVANCE IN EDUCATION.
''At the close of the war the Afro
| American had no schools and colleges;
| today he has fully 200 institutions for
higher education; the best colleges and
| universities are open to him, and the
public institutions in which he is permitted
| to be educated run high up into the thou
sands. He has demonstrated his capac-
| itY for education, and as a student in our
Northern colleges he has proved himself
| second to none In the senate of the
! United States, in our national house Of
representatives, on the bench and before
the bar, in the chair as college professors,
in the editorial sanctum, in the world
as a man of letters, in the medical pro-
fession, in the Industrial walks of life, in
the exacting and difficult department of
! surgery, in the arts and sciences and as
! a sweet singer the Afro-American has
! shown that under like conditions he is
capable Of producing the same results
as are produced by men of other races.
/ PROUD OF DIETZ, THE ENGINEER.
| scWhenever the test has been made the
i Afro-American man has never been
shown to be the inferior. Men look with
wonder and amazement at the genius and
ingenuity displayed in the plan and con-
struction of the Brooklyn bridge. They
regard that bridge as the result of a
wonderful piece Of engineering, but they
4 forget that the first bridge spanning our
lnavigable waters was constructed by an
Afro-American engineer of the name of
| Deitz. .s-. l., ~ sa s.,. =; ~ 81
Ear be it from our purpose to claim
for our race in the United States perfec-
ton in any department Of life, and we
condemn unsparingly every act of; vio-
| lence committed by any Afro-American
against anybody whomsoever, be he black
or be he white, and we pledge ourselves
to do all In our power, as citizens and
electors in the United States, to bring be-
fore the bar of justice every perpetrator
of wrong and outrage.
eve appeal to our people on the farms
and the plantations of the south, OF
wherever they may be found, 50 to con-
duct themselves in their relations among
one another and toward the other race
that they may avoid even the appearance
of evil doing, and, having done every.
thing to merit justice and fair treatment
we appeal unto the American people
north and south and the God Of nations
to protect us in the exercise of our rights
as citizens and members Of society.
LYNCHERS MUST BE PUNISHED.
1.-THE race problem in America is MOI
with the Afro-American. The white PEG
pie made the problem and they mus
4 solve it.. Afro-Americans do no lynching
To stop lynchings the lynchers must b.
brought to terms, and they are all white
| ". %sor, rxa hot yNv~l
must be accomplished by some force OF
agency other than that operating in ou
, civilization at the present time.
THE country is drifting into anarchy
Day by day the lawless and barbarou
spirit of the mob becomes more defiant
But yesterday, as it were, the so-callet
!, best element of Alexandria, Va, the may
!, or standing in their midst, without order
, ling the arrest Of even one man., though
all, or at least most of them, were wei
known to him, Inundated on the altar o
race hatred almost in front of the churcl
where George Washington was won't t
worship and under the shadow Of tn
! capitol a helpless victim. because It wa
alleged that he annoyed a little whit
: girl. III SIS l fsEIles ss5
E ssaThis act was not done by the sso-calle
: rough elements In the .haekwoods I'D
Georgia or the rice swamps of Sout
q Carolina or. in the 4capehrake of Loutsi
! ana, but in the ancient city of Ale1a ndrts
g (which borders on the national capital q
8 1.-The great American people. The specie
Q fOf that murdered man now ahOvers owe
= THAT city and the inliah itants thereof ar
s frightened BY the stir OF q, mouse. The
8 sent to Richmond for Winchesterss, bO
Q Winchesters cannot shoot to death no
s Hull to sleep the voice OF outraged justic
9 crying from the ground.
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