The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-10

raised valleys, leveled mountains, dipped
/ the great ocean, dry, and harnessed nat
ural forces to their appliances-true to
their racial characteristics. They pro-
! tect and defend their women, and throw
| their, powerful arms around their chill
dren and make it possible for them to
/ rise mn this world. Let the negro do
likewise. He has it in his power to
do so, especially in the South. There
he can grow rich. There ard here AM
erican prejudice is but the voice of
God telling him to establish all kinks
of business, put his own boys and girls
in charge and grow rich. Hear this
voice and do not go about begging for
admission and accommodations where we
are told plainly we are not wanted.
| American prejudice may yet do for us
what lack of race pride faias to ac-
complish-force the negro to patronize
himself and to grow rich an the goods of
! this world
| That negro's head and heart are both
| right He is brave man and dares to
| speak the truth | wonder why the ne
! gro papers don't copy that address. 1t
( should be scattered broadcast among
! their readers and would do good. But
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/ They want sensation and Northern SYM
pathy. They are politicians. Politicians
rand preachers keep things hot. My
( friend Ham, who has been to a Chau-
/ tauqua in Missouri, says he heard Il lee
! ture there from Bishop Fowler, on Abb
/ raham Lincolm in which be took &c
casion to lampoon and scarify us as is
usual up there, and among other things
rechargCd that old lie that Governor
! Brown had offered a reward of $4,000
/ to have Williams Lloyd Garrison kid
mapped and brought to Georgi1. The
! bishop ought to make up new stock
! Those old lies are worn oar. lie knew
! it was a he when he repeated it. This
| is a lie for which there was no excuse
and no foundation, but it is Il good
| traveller and preachers can send lie as
] far as anybody. If the devil who is
| the father OF lies, has any preference for
| subjects, / think he would chose a lying,
alanderous preacher before anybody
/ But suppose that wasn't a lie; what good
! can possibly come of resurrectiIg it now:
! Joe Brown is dead Garrison is dead
! and maybe they have settled their own
affairs over there. | was rumilatin.;
about the difference between this white
/ Northern bishop and the black man,
/ President Council. who made that kind,
| conciliatory address at Bismarck, anC.
that brought to mind the persistent SLAM
| ders eff our Southern hero, Lieutenant
| TIobson. who was retired almost 10 obiiv
/ ion because he was a Southern man.
Not long ago the English government
! presented to a sailor the annual medal
| for the greatest act of individual hcrosm
performed during the year. lie had
! saved two men at sea when no other
man would dare to attempt it, and the
iaelairy was made in a Northern paper
asfto who was entitled to the medal
in the United States. Why. HChson, Of
\ course No other act of individual hero
ism will compare with his; but yankee
| newspapers and reporters were jealolis
| &c him, just like they are Of Schley, and
they magni6ed a few kisses into thou
sands and made sport of him. The vel
low Journals and the white ones are all
alike for lies on orr men. Suppose the
I, ladies did kiss him and he submitted to
il. They are the best judges Of heroisnl
| Know of He was sent away to ia
pan, and a letter frcGn Miss BencdieI
] in the last Missionary gives exrracts