The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-09-09
BLOW AIMED AT CASTE.

BLOW AIMED AT CASTE.
1.-THE white people of this country claim
to be superior to the Afro-American, and
tho Afro-American demands proof of that
superiority. The first attribute Of su-
perior nature is its consideration for the
weak and the humble '.''
Ibid 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 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 Atro-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-Anerican 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 'reaping
the whirlwind.' 2@g &ts 4
hen 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 a hair of their
heads was harmed. On which side of
the balance should superiority be placed?
ADVANCE IN EDUCATION.
CAT 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 D1ETZ, THE ENGINEER.
"Whenever 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 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
forget that the first bridge spanning our
navigable waters was constructed by an
Afro-American- engineer Of the name OF
Deitz. 49,, .. . ...-..t....,. -...s
Far. 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 VIC
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.
I'VE appeal to our people on the farms
ard the plantations Of the south, or
wherever they may be found, so tocon-
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. I
1.-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 1ynchers 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-called
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 well
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 it was
alleged that he annoyed a little white
girl.
t.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 hovers over
that city and the Inhabitants thereof are
frightened by the stir Of "a mouse They
| sent to Richmond for Winchesters, but
! Winchesters cannot shoot to death nor
lui1 to sleep the voice Of outraged justice
crying from the ground.
SEES CALAMITY IMPENDING.
The lynch law is a national sin, and