The weekly intelligencer., 1900-09-29

bellies full. Y.
Lexington, No., September 25, 1900.
She is Only Twenty-three.
The recent warfare against negroes
~ New York and in other northern
centers seems to have led even Miss
Lillian Clayton Jeweti Of Boston to
revise her views Miss Jewell recently
visited Richmond, where she attended
the national Baptist convention, =
colored body, with 1850 delegates in
attendance. II seems that she was the
only Caucasian present al the meeting;
and she had come with the expectation
OF receiving q rapturous welcome. But
the warmth Of her reception was not
equal TO her expectations. When she
expressed TO DIR. Morris, the chairman
Of the convention, her wish To address
the delegates, the chairman said some
what frlgidly that he would introduce
Miss Jewett with other visitors when
the time for that part Of the program
arrived, but not until then, and he
added significantly; ave do not care
TO do anything that will cause feeling
between the races after we have gone.
We want to hold the friendship Of the
white people. We must do our duty,
and II we are mistreated we shall have
to work il ont here with the southern
white man, Who will do bis duty, am
sure. IN dus course OF time" 1t is
gwen out that The fiery retormer was
much downcast by this rebuff from the
chairman and by the otherwise icy
reception which her colored friends
accorded her. According to the Rich
mond Dispatch, while the colored
people have experienced an undoubted
change Of heart in respect to Miss
Jewett, it is quite as interesting to
know that Miss Jewett herself, II she
be sincere IN what she says, has expe-
rienced an equally undoubted change Of
heart IN respect Of southern people in
the matter Of outrages on negroes.
Here are extracts from an account OF
an interview which the Dispatch had
with her.
Miss Jewett denies most emphatically
that her crusade is directed agalns. the
southern men. "Lynching is q national
crime, - she said again and again, in an
interview with Dispatch reporter last
night. She added: "The south can
well afford 10 SIT ba:k and smile after
The recent outrage in the north" Miss
Jewett is scarcely more than 23, q
delicate, fragile woman, with light
brown hair and dark blue eyes. A
woman Of many quaint and sacchariRe
graces, intensely interested IN her work,
but 10 her conversation emotional,
voluble, and not very convincing. She
is confident that she will stem what
she calls the torrent OF wlessness that
Is sweeping over the land, and points
to the recent utterance Of Ben Tillman
before the farmers convention as one Of
the results Of her so-called mission.
She looks to congress for the results
she hopes to attain, and says that the
government must interfere to prevent
mob law when the state fails. - .
Miss Jewett is profuse in her express
sion OF admiration Of the south and the
cultured southern man, aud she does
not hesitate TO say that the northeruer
suffers by comparison. The middle
aad lower classes in the south, she
says, have not the benefit OF proper
schools, and she does not think the
public schools IN the south measure up
TO the standard of similar institutions
in the north. The reaction against
mob law, Miss Jewett thinks, will
come when the better elements In
society are more generally represented
In the councils Of the government.
She inveighs bitterly against politicians
and in her addresses to negroes she
never fails to point ont to them the
manner in which they are made use Of
to forward the selfish interests Of un-
pnnciPled men. The notorlety that
she has gained in the past fourteen
months Miss Jewstt declares to be
extremely distasteiul to her.
As an exchange says, Miss Jewett
has spoken her little piece, and II she
really despises notorlety, as she claims
that she does, why not marry some
good man aud settle downp-Dallas
(rexas) News.