The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-09-16

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to be superior to the Afro-American, and
| the Afro-American demands proof Of that
| superiority The first attribute Of SUI
perior nature is it's consideration for the
weak and the humble.
"Did the slave trader comply with that
condition when he separated husband and
| wife, violated the sanctity of the Afso-
| Americans fireside and tore the helpless
babe from it's 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?
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 a 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 $50 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 'reaptng
! the whirlwind.'
when the white men were away fight
| ing 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 hair of their
heads was harmed. On which side of
the balance should superiority be placed?
ADVANCE IN EDUCATION.
SAT 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 or
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 hte' 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. I
'sWhenever the test has been made the
Afro-American man has never been
shown to be the inferior. Men look with
wonder and amazement at the genius ana
ingenuity displayed in the plan and con-.
structiOn of the Brooklyn bridge. They
regard that bridge as the result or a
wonderful piece of engineering, but they
forget that the first bridge spanning our
navigatble waters was constructed by an
.Afro-American engineer of the name OF
Deitz. Il
Ear be it from our purpose to claim
for our race in the United States perfec-
ri
condemn unsparingly every act Of VIC
lence committed by any Afro-Amer1can"
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.
I 1--WE appeal to our people on the farms
and the plantations of the south, aor
wherever they may be found, so 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.
"The race problem in America is not
with the Afro-American. The white peo-
pie made the problem and they must
solve it. Afro=Americans do no lynching.
To stop lynching the lynchers must be
brought to terms, and they are all white.
They need regeneration and that work
must be accomplished by some force or
agency other than that operating in our
civilization at the present time.
"The country is drifting into anarchy.
Day by day the lawless and barbarous
spirit of the mob becomes more defiant.
But yesterday, as it were, the so-cal1ed i
best element of Alexandria, Va, the may
or standing in their midst, without order
ing the arrest Of even one man, though !
all, Or at least most Of them, were we'll |
known to him, inundated on the altar Of |
race hatred almost in front of the church |
where George Washington was wont to |
worship and under the shadow of the |
capitol a helpless victim, because 1t was |
alleged that he annoyed a little white
girl. !!
This act was not done by the so-called |
rough elements in the backwoods Of |
Georgia or the rice swamps of South |
Carolina or in the canebrakes Of Louisi-
ana, but in the ancient city of Alexandria,
which borders on the national capital Of |
the great American people, The specter
of that murdered man now lovers over
that city and the Inhabitants thereof are |
AI1SulSucU ny Cu0 SUR Oh a mouse. SIney
sent to Richmond for Winchesters, but |
cannot shoot to death nor
lull to sleep the voice of outraged justice
crying from the ground.
SEES CALAMITY IMPENDING.
The lynch law is a national sin, and /
national sins are punished by national
calamtt1es, because there is no punish
ment Tor nations In the hereafter. How
to put an end to mob violence is not a /
theory which should concern the Afro
americans alone, but it is a condition /
which confronts the American people.
and sooner or later civilization will call
upon them to meet it. t
The lynching Of five Italians in tha
state OF Louisiana may bring about inter-
national complications, and 1t certainly f
ought to cause the arrest and punish-
nent OF al who We're engaged in the
preparation. Of the crime Our governs T.
ment is known in International law "a
an entity, a state, a sovereign power.
ana It cannot escape the responsibility
OF anording protection to all persons
within Its borders on the plea that tho
outrage was committed In q part Of the
Y mon and the rest Of the Union is poW-
erless to act. That would pervert the
law and make the part
greater than the whole. We have abid.
ing confidence ID the ability OF the gov. |.
eminent to- act in every Instance, and
We call upon those in authority Is ca
srcise their power under the constitution
or the protection OF the life and property
p 5everybody WI tlaiFn The JurisdtctIon OF
he United States.
THEIR WANTS ENUMERATED.
As American citizens we expect to
receive the same treatment that Is ac-
corded other citizens Of the republic, and
We are willing to bear our share 81 the