Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-01-27
"JIM URow" SEPARATE ooAoHEs.
(Continued from First Pagel.

fellow white men according to certain
lines, calculating that they shall bear
them or be branded black republicans.
the Negroes friend, and seeking to put
him on social par with white men.
Many white men are laboring under
Disadvantages and bearing unnecessa-
~ expenses are sfraid &C resist for
fear of being thus branded. Many no
doubt are ready to brand the railroads
because they resist unnecessary ex-
penses in this case of being tbs Ne
gro's friend. Thank God, men are
awakening and resisting msohinatio n,
regardless of the ipuendos, maledic-
ti0ns, ostrscisms and ignorings.
Who. and where, is the Christian OF
the lsity or ministry, in, or out OF the
state, can coDscientiously, with faith
believing, invoke the blessings of God
upon the proposed separate coach law
and ask Him TO secure its passsge2
THE MINISTERS SHOULD PREACH.
How many of our ministers, can in
Gods name, and in His spirit preach a
sermon next sabbath in behalf of said
bill and urge upon their people to let
not that scripture which says: 81 per-
ceive Of q truth, that God is no re-
specter of persons, but in every nation
he that feareth Him and worketh
righte ousness is accepted with Him."
have aHy controlling il huence over
you touching the separate coach mat.
tiers, fer Negroes are not persons but
bipeds-two legged animals?
And let not the Royal law affect
you, for the Negro is not fellow man,
although we must all appear at the
Judgement seat CT CHRIST.
It is said, that the reason the grea!
state of Virginia must have Be parate
coaches for colored persons is because
they have become OF ill-behaviour.
rowdy, insolent and in;olerant Are
there not scores OF persons the ssms
who wish separate coach for them?
What has become OF police power?
White persons have shot. stabbed and
killed on trains and destroyed rail-
road property more so than colored
persons have done or expect to do.
Would he, who was first in peace,
first in war, first in the heart of his
eountrymen, Thomas Jefferson, Pat
rick Henry. who loved to say, "Give
me- liberty or give me DEATH" George
Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin
Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Fran
els Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton,
Sirgiria signers of the Declaration of
American Independence, John Blair,
James Madison, Jr.; Virginia signers
OF the Federal Constitution and n host
of other illustrioJs Virginia fathers
think OF their state, the Old Common
wealth, next door to the Capital Of the
Nation, disgraced by having q separate
coach because of color?
AN ACT TO oPPBKss THE WEAK.
A law that righteousness, Justice,
liberty and equality does not demand.
The promotion OF the welfare OF Vir-
ginia and her domestic tranquility
does not demand, but is simply an act
ofthe majority, the strong, depressing
the weak, the minority.
An act OF degradation by "lords of
creation" upon clsss of citizens who
are powerless to resist. having no rep
reseutation in the General Assembly,
although taxed, Notwithstanding
Virginia in signing the Declaration of
American Independence declared that
presentation and taxation should go
together, yea, be iusepsrably connect.
ed.
There lie nothing politically or relig-
iously demands the passage OF the un-
righteous separate coach bill, being
simply because of color. / see that il
will make againsG Virginia, be a dis.
grace to her fair name, entailing q
stigma upon her, that, as said q dis
tinguished Scotchma an, "All the waters
OF the Egean sea will not wash of or
wash away"
The Independent OF tho 18th instant
says: Bishop Turner, che best known
and one of the oldest.cf the bishops of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, was strickened with paralysis
the other day while attending confer
ence. His friends tried to get q berth
in the sleeping car for him from Sa-
vaunah to his home in Atlanta, but the
new Georgia law forbids colored men
or women to ride in q sleeping car,
and the officials were compelled to re-
fuse and 80 q bed had to be made for
him in the Negro section OF the day
COACH. Ia that either civilization or
Christianity
The independent is u leading, relia-
bic paper 81 years old and over $4,000
subscribers. Bishop Turner, one of
the upright citizens Of the nation, his
church, 5245 ministers ; communicates,
1888 ,sO6; thus his treatment because of
his color. S.rry to say with some white
persons, person OF color, especially
OF African decent, it N axes no differ
ence though civilized, cultivated, en-
lightened in the superlative degree,
yet they ostracize, ignore HIM, put
him into separate coaches.