Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-05-04
|. |. BRAY|NG NEGRO BISHOP.
THE GEORGIA LfHCHING A SUBJECT FOR
!. A FIERY DISCOURSE.
BISHOP WALTERS LET'S DOWN The BARS.
Northern People Warned--rhey Must Rescue
the Negro or Pay tho Penalty In BIocd.

JERSEY Cry, IT,, April 26..-
The New Jersey annual conference
OF the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion church was opened to-day in
this city. Bishop Alexander Wal
ters, D. D., presided. :.
The visiting bishops were :J. w.
HOOD, D. D., Ill. D.; G. G. Petty,
A. NJ, D. D.; and J. B. Small, D. D.
Bishop Walters in his address at
the afternoon session bitterly de-
nounced the Georgia lynohings and
said: .. :..a.'
"The civilized world has been
shocked by the unprecedented butoh-
cry and burning Of Samuel Hose,
colored, near Palmetto, Ga, on Sur
day, April %. The fendishness OF
the crime beggars description.
Samuel Hose was charged with kill.
ing Alfred Crawford, white, and as
assaulting his (Cranford's) wife. 1t
is said that he confessed to the kill.
ing of Crawford but denied to the
last assaulting his wife. 1t is gene
rally believed by the fair minded
that if Hose did kill Crawford it was
to avenge the killing of five colored
men by a mob said to have been led
by Crawford at Palmetto March 49,"
After referring to newspaper COM
ments that Hose outraged Mrs. Gran
ford the Bishop asserted that the
charge of assault was manufactured
as a justification for the lynching,
adding that within a fortnight his
statement would be irrefutably es-
tablished. 49,.
eff" said Bishop Walters, "the
good white people of the North are
not disallusioned and do not put a
stop to this sweeping tide of lawless.
ness, it will not be long before they
will be again called upon by a God
of Justice to give their best blood to
pay tho penalty Of the crimes of the
South"
Continuing, Bishop Walters said {:
"The Cubans and Filipinos whom
we have spent 80 much money and
shed so much blood to free from
Spanish oppression, were never
treated so barbarously in time OF
peace by hat government as some
negroes have been in the States Of
Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.
It is rather amusing to intelligent
Afro-Amerioans to read in the great
dailies and weeklies of our country
of the purpose of the Americans to
give to the Cubans and Fillipinos an
equitable and beneficient govern
ment, when they are powerless to
even secure life and liberty to their
| ClGlEena at nome.
%The greatest problem of America
to-day is not the currency question,
nor the colonial possessions, but how
to avoid the racial war at home. You
cannot forever keep the negro out of
his rights. Slavery made a coward
of him for $50 years he was taught
to fear the white man. But he is
rapidly emerging from such slavie'l
fearand ere long will contend for his
rights as bravely as any other man.
zone or two things must be done
in order to avoid trouble. The
negro must be treated fairly or fur
nished with sufficient money to
return to the land from whence his
ancestors were stolen. It would be
q burning shame on the boastod
Christian civilization of America to
be obliged to confess before the ma
tions of the world that she was unable
to overcome her prejudice against
, he negro and therefore expatriated
him. rEEsL. a.. r.. E
"Those who speak flippantly of our
determination will find, when that
work is begun, that all the white
people of America will not be againat
the negro, any moro than they were
during the civil war.
"Why will not the intelligent and
far-seeing white people oall halt to
these injuatices before it is too late ?
Have they so soon forgotten the his
tory OF the pastp 1t was the policy
of cancellation and the condoning of
the sin or slavery that led to the loss
of 30 much blood and treaspre. We'll
did Thomas Jefferson say before the
conflict, in speaking Of the injustice
of whites toward the blacks: q
ltremble for the future OF my country
lwhan I remember that God is lust.