The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-08
PLAINLY AND FORCIBLY PUT.
Tho Rev. MIR jackson, or New Jcrsry, llis
Something 90 Say 'hnt ~ well Worth
the Attention of Members OF
his Race Here and in
tho North.
(Nows aud Courier. }

lalhllelu, N. H., Is III the Clty from
Il tour through tho far West, w.'ero
he has been making some stirring
speeches on "Tho Defects in Poll
tics," "The Negro as a soldier" and
"Iho Best Course to be Pursued by
the Leaders Of the Two Races to
Solve the Negro Problem."
The Rev. Jackson, speaking to q
reporter of the Nows and Courier,
said: 81 am not from tho North hero
in tho South to begin tho solution Of
the problem, nor to teach the negro
any doctrine Of retaliation. If tho
lynching in the South with other in
human outrages is to be stopped it
is to be stopped by tho people Of tho
South-the better class Of negro
preachers and teachers, teaching the
negro higher morals, and by the
Southern whites teaching their race
law and order. l know tho dignity
of America has been affected by these
outrages; | know it is stain on her
civilization, but when negro loader
leaves the North and comes South to
protest against these outrages let
them first find tho status of the ma.
jority of that class upon which they
arc committed. say lynching is
wrong. There never was Il greater
demonstration Of the cowardlco than
that of forty or fifty men marching
at the midnight hour to lynch ono
man, white or black. | read an ar
ticle from the News and Courier no
tifying the South that two of my
comrades will soon be IN the South
land to organize Il sentiment against
lynching, and that thoy will visit
Savannah, Charleston and Nashville,
the great convention Of negro Bap-
fists will meet the 18th of Soptem.
Der. | wish to invite my brethren,
as thoy will have but thirty days to
visit places where their work will be
moro accepted, and moro good ac-
COL .1lished by it, if thoy can escape
alive, namely, Wilmington, N. G.;
Tarboro, Edgefield, Hamburg, Barn
we'll, Phoenix, Greenwood, Waycross,
Jessup, Darien, Newman, Griffin, and
many other places to which I might
refer Charleston has no lynchers,
mother has Savannah. What sonse
then is there in giving medicine to
the we'll; it is the sick that need it.
81 am opposed to lynching, but
two things must bo taught our race;
one is higher morals, the other is to
disintegrate politically. 1t is tho
negro who makes tho solid South by
his solid political af1iliation with the
Republican party, irrespective of the
principles Of its politics. Evil com
bination between sections is wrong.
This country, the North as we'll as
the South, is to blame for many of
the failures Of the negro. The right
Of franchise was curse to the no.
gro and every other man who was
incapable of intelligontly exercising
it. l know wo need moro Justice at
the bar as race North and South,
and in many Courts whero, it is
meted out to the negro it ought to be
mercy. AS one who is familiar with
the moral status of the raco I say
while we have just rs grand charac-
tors as leaders and followers as any
other people, we should change our
language from cursing tho Southern
white man, and demand his sympa-
thy, and tell our people especially to
teach that element upon which these
outrages arc so frequently committed
higher morals.
"Your rebukos, your daring and
Boosting expressing do not help In,
leaders of tho South, who are strlv-
ing to better tho condition Of our
race. have been West and South
for seven weeks, and personal knowl-
edge inspires me to urge you that if
you arc coming down hero, como to
help and not TO harm. You are
damning the white man of the South;
you say nothing about the North.
The North should bo branded with
as much dishonor and shame in a
sense as tho South. You should
give it dose of your gall. If the
North is 80 sympathotically possess
el for tho negro, why does it not riae