The Appeal., 1900-11-24
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CHURCHES PROTEST.,
CHICAGO AFRO-AMERICAN DE-
NoUNcE COLORADO HORROR
In Every Houae of Worship In the City
Strong Resolutions are Adopted Com
demu'ng the Barbarians oil the West for
their Ba arbarity.

In every Afro-American church in
Chicago last Sunday the topic general
ly discussed was the Colorado lynch
ing. In most cases resolutions con-
demning the act were adopted:
At Bethel church, the Rev. Abra-
ham L. Murray laid stress on the ulti-
mate triumph of the spirit of peace,
and advised his congregation to con-
denim vice, brutality and lawlessness.
The resolutions referred to the four
teenth amendment to the constitution
and closed with an appeal to "Al-
mighty God, the Christian church
everywhere, to the humanitarians and
the good people Of our land to give
to the poor suffering negro modicum
of Justice $685.. =.
At Quinn chapel the Rev. P. A. HUI
bert, financial agent of Wilberforce
university, said: A..
Another Afro-American has been
sacrificed on the altar of inhumanity
and race prejudice. But in the final
summing up the Afro-American's 10y
atty to the flag and his ever-present
willingness to give his life that the
country might live lift him high above
the stigma of the crimes of the 16-
year-old degenerate, Preston Porter"
The resolutions adopted held the
governor of Colorado responsible for
the lynching. r.. .... = =.
The Rev. j. F. Thomas, at the Olivet
Baptist church, said:
''We must pray to God for strength.
We must pray to Him for the strength
that will teach us how to die for the
right. The upholding of crime has no
Nplace in our religion. The crime of
Preston Porter was one of awful char
acter,. but. it was not so horrible that
an American state and it's, highest
officials should cOndone and abet the
crime of .lynching.' ....
Resolutions we're adopted at the In
stitutionaI. church and sermon
preached by the Rev. r. G.. Ransom.
At other Afro-American churches
similar" sermons were delivered. ~. !
During the day the local committee
of the Afro-American council adopted
the following resolutions: ~ "
Whereas, The citizens of Colorado,
after five days deliberation, burned
sixteen-year-old boy with indescrib-
able torture; and,
Whereas, The victim, manacled
prisoner in the custody of the law, was
delivered by the sheriff into the hands
of the mob, and was then and there
burned to death in the knowledge and
with the consent of the governor of
the state; be it .,@. " n.
Resolved, That we, citizens of the
United States, respectfully call to the
attention of the president this awful
crime committed by the citizens, the
sheriff. and the governor of Colorado
against the citizenship of the United
States. *. j.. .gas
Resolved, That we ask the president,
in his hext message to Congress-, to
call attention to the fact that during
the last ten years nearly 1900 citizens
have been put to death by mobs, and
that of the number so lynched, fifteen
were burned alive with unspeakable
barbarity, and we urge the president
to recommend to Congress legislation
which shall secure to every person ac-
cused of crime a trial by jury, and.
shall hold criminally liable all persons
who constitute mobs to torture, hang.