Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-01-06
ANOTHER WALL In ISRAEL. A."


tudes. From advocating the princi-
pies and teachings of the Holy JESUS,
coDdemning fraud ard declaring the
fstherhood Of G2D ard the brother
hood of man, it has proceeded to advs-
cate all OF the heresies OF the lowest
white elements Of the republic.
1t was opposed to dishonest .elec-
tions; it is now advocating . criminal
amendment, disfranchisipg q large
portion OF the body polite. While
standing sworn to recognise no man
or discriminate against him on ac-
count OF race, color or previous condi-
tion of servitude. it proceeds Co do this
very thing which il 10 sworn not to do.
How else are we 30 regard its snow you
see me, now you don't" policy in deal
with the question OF slim Crow Oars,
in Virginia.
In its issue Of tbs Both ult under
the caption of 1.-The Negroes Misior-
tune" it says:
1.-The position OF the black man in
America is not enviabie and we comics.
that we cannot see any very brilliant
prospects for him."
The above Is frank admission.
There are numbers Of people who are
sufe ring from Q similar alteration OF
the oversight. And again:
He was created with q black skin
ard the white man was created with
repugnance to him"
Is this the truth 2 IL this repug
nance of the white man to the Negro.
inherent or is it acquired II the
| fermer, why is it that the closest
friendships between black and white
children have existed from the earli.
est moments and last TO the closing
hours of q successful life
IL this the truth, Mr.. TIMES Ii
so why was it that Mr.. BELL (white) OF
Chicago, travelled q thousand miles to
save the life of Brown (solored) at
Rockford, Nh. simply upon the friend
snip of childhood days.
Is this the TRUTH If,so, why did
Mr., HOWELL O. FsATHsRsroN, publish
in recent edition of the Washington
Posr the following lines:
"I have met . heap OF psople, and
I've had o heap % chums-
Good fellows lust as good as ever
knownl
But I've never seen q better, nor q
truer, kinder friend
Than that little Niger boy used
to own"
And again:
"fbere are lots OF pickaninnies
round my old planss tion home
But Alec, he belonged TO me alene
He could outrun all she Others, and
he'd fight an lie for me,
And / loved that niger boy used
to own"
Still again:
But soon it was all over, and we
laid him in his grave,
No trucr friend I've ever had to
mourn;
And j raised granite monument to
mark the place we laid,
That loving, faithful boy used to
own"
All, the TImEs editor could not have
been q shareholders son. He could
not have been nursed by q black mann
my. or he would have blushed ere he
wrote those words.
There are aristocrstic white men to-
day who never knew any other mother
but the black nanny.
One OF the leading white ladies OF
this section had inferred in the
Shockoe Hill Cemetsry the silept
form of her black inamIny.
IL is this ''new issue white folks"
who never knew the Negro, who talk
about separate cara and advocate 9th
er humiliating determinations.
But, sir, we always find q friend in
the ofisprinEs of the old slave hold ers.
This forms the bond Of union between
the races.
But the TINES INDUCES in more Of
its Negotiating rantings. 1t says:
Therefore. the black man cannot
nope ever TO get the refining inf 1enees
OF that society which che white man
has made" 4.
Why not9 Is he not to-day in the
bed rooms, dining rooms and parIors
OF the most aristocratic families of the
south7 What Other answer need we
make to that absurd statement He
is more refined than he is educated.
Black men and women are better post
ed to-day upon the rules Of polite go
siety than are thousands of white men,
who can only see into these aristocrat-
ic mansions from the front door, and
dare not cross the portals of the par
lors where the Negro, as . servant lie in
all of his glory.
It says:
"In America there is no Aristocrssy
except the aristocracy Of merit. Ths
white boy OF the hum biest origin may
hy his own e6srts and merits, secure
she entire into the best society OF the
land snd enjoy all its pleasures and
benefits"