The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-19
ANANSTER TONORTHEN
The Son Of a Slave Mother on
Southern Miscegenation.
THB ARIsToCRAoY RESPONSIBLE.

Tho Founder of the American Protec-
tive League says tho Poor N-hitcs
Arc Not TO Blame For Racial Anal
gamation.
Boston, June 19.--Josoph w. Hender-
son. OF Providence. founder OF the
American Protective League. an or
ganlzation of colored people for the
securing Of their rights, delivered an
address in the Spark Street church
yesterday in which he replied to the
recent speech Of Ex-Governor Northen,
Of Georgia. with reference to the south
ern outrages upon colored people. Said
Mr.. Henderson:
at is not necessary at this time for
me TO make any reply to Governor
Northen's dramatic defense OF human
slavery. But had I been an owner OF
human beings and man killing dogs,
as he has been, and since written my
name among the followers OF Christ
| would have felt more Ike coming
up 20 the altar of repentance at this
stage of reform than to have come TO
one Of the greatest cities In the world
with a typewritten defense Of the most
cruel institutions Of human debauchery
ever known to civilized or savage man.
Were it not that it was in Georgia
that my poor mother was born; there
that she tremblingly obeyed the slave
masters whip and felt the slave
hounds bite; there that she was sold
and deported for life from her blood
and kin. l would not stoop to dignity
Governor Northen's pro-slavery utter
ances even with a sneer.
Governor Northen says that mis-
cegenation by law will never take
place in the south. But miscegenation
I'm the south his already taken place.
II has been on the road over 200 years.
Not miscegenation by law, but by brute
force. which is the very worst form
of law. Who started it2 Not the
| negroes. I am sure, nor was 1t the
moor white trash. II was the blue vein
aristocracy of the south that broke
over the fence. defied all law, and the
result is we have black negroes and
white negroes, some Of them as white
| as Governor Northen.
zone seldom hears of the wholesale
| assaults that southern white men are
1 making upon colored women, but they
| are as constant as the rising and set
| ting OF the sun. Go south and count
the penitentiary born children whose
| mothers are colored and fathers white
That tells the story.
aside from force, there is regu
| lar organized society of white mel
and colored women, for which the col
ored women are as much to blame a!
| the white men. These particular col
ored women have long since concluded
| that they would rather wear diamon'
and ride in carriages of their own thar
| to chop cotton or wash dishes fol
somebody else, and be II said to the
discredit Of this class of colored wo'
men and their white gentlemen asso'
ciates that they are living In clover.
"The poor whites of the south are
not to blame for this racial amalgama
ton, for they and the blacks do no
associate. They mutually hate anr
scorn each other It is the blue veil
aristocracy of the south that is ere
ating havoc with the morals and socia
affections in negro homes and mixing
the races most alarmingly.
81 have been unable to ascertain
what led Governor Northen to tell hi
northern audience that the negro ha
the same chance in southern court
that the white man has. Southern Law
is the white mans cloak and tn
| black mans enemy. 1t is often used 4
| protect the lawless and punish th'
lawful provided the lawless are whit
and the lawful black"