The colored American., 1900-02-24
THE NEGRO NOT INFERIOR
Bruce Grit Opens the Pages of History to
Senator John T. Morgan and Offers the
Lie Cour eous to that Distinguished
Exemplar OF Reactionry Statesmarship.

Exemplar or Reactlonry StateSnlapSnlp.
Albany, N. Y, Special commend
the following from Howard's Reports,
Vol. XIX, pages 572-3 and 5s2 to Hon.
John T. Morgan, Senator OF the
United States from the state Of Ala
bama, who foolishly asserts that this is
q white mans country, and that the
Negro race is inferior. would also
cali his attention to Jefferson's works,
Vol. VIII, page 1856 and Vol V. page
429 in which he will find the answer to
his reckless statement that we are IN
ferior to the Caucasian race. Says
Howard: 1t has been often asserted that
the Constitution was made exclusively
by and for the white race. 1t has al
ready been shown that in five OF the
thirteen original states, colored per-
sons then possessed the elective fran
chise and were among those by whom
the Constitution was ordained and es-
tablished. If SO, it is not true in point
of fact that the Constitution was made
exclusively by the white race, and that
1t was made exclusively for the white
race, is in my opinion, not only an
assumption not warranted by anything
in the Constitution, but contradicted
nv It's opening declaration; that 1t was
ordained and established by the people
of the United States for themselves and
for their posterity and as free colored
men were then citizens Of at least five
states they were among those for whom
and whose posterity the Constitution
was ordained and established" Sena
cor Morgan is trifie subsequent in
claiming 80 much for the "unconquer
ed and unconquerable Caucasian" The
New York Journal, democratic news
paper in an editorial IN It's is issue OF
January 10th gives the lie courteous to
Senator Morgan's statement of the in
feriority Of the Negro in the following
language:-Q have only space for
paragraph
"And the Negro too, with tired
black face resting for the next days
slsvery-a slavery on wage basis, but
slavery all the same. POssib y you de
spise his thick lips. But those lips are
carved On every sphinx in Egypt's
sand, aid II you could 60 back far
enough you would find the ancestors
of that Negro before the days of the
Pharaohs, laying the foundation Of
your religion and locating the Stars in
heaven. AT that time your fOrbears
Were gibbering cave savages sharpen
ing bones and gnawlDg raw flesh. You
did no, know that the Negro was so
imuortant far back? Well, you know
now. When you zee the Negro on the
opposite seat the i'll starred one who
has gone down in the human race
while we have gone up-thlnk about
him, study him; speculate as to his
ultimate end-and your own. Don't
merely say to yourself that's plain
Negro and 60 on chewing gum."
Senator Morgan is as ignorant con-
cerning the Negro as wooden Indian,
and he is not alone. For among his
class of white men, who are in reputa-
ton for great knowledge on this sub
ject, the information which they do not
possess would fill great many large |
volumes of the size Of the Century En-
cvclopedia. II Senator Morgan ever
reads the Bible he will there find in
dubitable proofs that the Negro, or
Ethiopian is not only not inferior to the
Caucasian race, but superior to it in
many respects. The people of Ethiopia