The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-11
so SAYS THE NEW YORKER
Discussion of the Negro in Relation
to Religion.
THE LAWS DELAY CAUSES LYNCHINGS
The Crime For Which the Negro is So Often
Lynched Grows in Importance Me-
groes Often Seek to Shield
the Criminal.
(By Associated Press.)


Montg merry, Ala. May 10-Hon Bourke
Cochran, of New York, tonight scored the
most brilliant success OF the race confer
ence in the closing grafton. He boldly
advocated the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution.
He argued that it was a bad limb on the
tree; that it had been nullified by the
States; that it had been lynched, so to
declared that the reconciliation of the
theoretical status of the negro under the
Constitution should be reconciled with his
actual status in the public opinion of the
country. He maintained that this repeal
was best for the negro as we'll as for the
white man since both races had to live
together, to prosper together, to prosper
together, or go down together. Every
source of irritation between the two
should be removed and the Fifteenth
Amendment was the greatest.
At the morning session Of the confer
ence the discussion chiefly was of the
negro in relation to religion.
1t was opened by Professor John Roach
Straton, of Mercer University Macon,
Ga. He discussed the relations of the
races, the superiority and inferiority of
the whites and blacks respectively and
dwelt at length upon the effect of an
inferior race on a superior race.
Rev ID. Clay Lilley. of Tuscaloosa, Sec
rotary of the Southern Presbyterian
Board of Negro Evangelization, spoke
specifically on the wiser form OF religious
work among the negro the question
being whether the white agencies are tf
better.
w. A. Guerry, Chaplain of the Univer-
sity of the South, also discussed this
question and took the position that negro
teachers could best deal with the colored
race.
The religious conditions of the negro
today as compared with those OF slavery
days was discussed by Rev. c. c. Brown,
of Clinton S. c., and the Very Rev. j. K.
Slattery, of Baltimore, spoke for the ad-
visibility of raising the standard of ordi-
nation. One of the most sensational
speeches was made by Bishop Rennick, of
Baltimore, who declared that from five
10 eight negroes in the North under
Northern conditions committed crimes to
one in the South.
PROFESSOR w. r. w llCOA, CHlei SldtlS-
tician of the United States Census, New
Yorker by birth and ancestry, made
speech declaring that the ultimate ex-
termination of the black race was inevi-
table.
There will be a rapid decrease of the
birth rate and a slow increase of the
death rate until the negro race will stano
as the American Indian stands today,
said Professor Wilcox
Professor Wilcox was followed by Sec
rotary Herbert WEIGH, of the Indian
Rights Association.
At the afternoon session Hon. Alexan
der King of Atlanta, opened the discus
sion OF the lynching question. He spoke
on 1.-THE punishment of crimes against
women-existing legal remedies and their
sufficiency" His address treated almost
exclusively of the crime of assault and Of
lynch law.
Mr. King said it was in those commune
ties where the dominance of the white
race was the least secure and the men
ace of the black criminal the greatest