The golden rule., 1900-01-27
GOVERNOR LONGING ENDORSED
BY COLORED CITIZENS.

There was meeting of colored cit
izens at Bethel Hall last night, called
together by the publication of a call,
to express the thanks of the commu-
nifty to Governor Longino for his out
spoken denunciation Of the mob and
opposition to the measure whose OBJ
iect they think is the deprivation of
the colored children of the opportu-
nifty to obtain a primary education in
the public schools in the State.
The meeting was called to order by
". P. Miller, who stated its object in
few, we'll chosen sentences.
Addresses were delivered by w. E.
Mollison and Wesley Crayton, whose
remarks were received with enthusi-
astic applause.
Both of the speakers expressed
themselves in strong terms of thank
fulness for all who have done any
thing to make the lot of the down
trodden more tolerable.
The colored people were admon-
ished to obey the law, and rob the
men who are against them of an ar
ument that they are criminal or law
less.
The following preamble and resolu-
tions were offered by w. Z. Mollison,
aud were unanimously adopted as the
sense of the meeting:
Governor a. Fl. Longino is entitled
to the thanks of the people of Missis-
sippi for his brave and manly words !;
for the contempt of law endangers the
liberties of the white man as well as
the black; it strikes down the swarthy
but tomorrow emboldened by its sue
cess and immunity, it cuts off the
flower of the State; clutches great
cities by the throat and holds them in
terror, and then becomes the master
of all the treasures that time and pri-
vations have given as blessings unto
mon.
she who stoops to lift the fallen
stands erect"
He has spoken for the down trodden
and voiceless of his fellows. Like
McLaurin at Harpersville, he has
stayed the tide which reddens as it
flows. He has with manly voice and
in no uncertain tones held up to the
gaze of Mississippi the horrors of a
contempt for the law and the dangers
TO a State which come within its bor
ders
The man who speaks for those who
can not help nor harm, must speak his
honest thoughts. To denounce ones
enemy is done by the weakest and
most servile OF men, but 10 condemn
the wrong of powerful friends, re-
quires the same courage that was re-
duired to sign the Declaration of In
dependence, or to give mankind the
priceless document that put Lincoln
among the immortals. The courage
which bore without complaint the
hardships of Valley Forge or went
through the whirldwind. OF death a.
Gettysburg, is of no loftier kind than
that which speaks for those who have
no tongue.
Mississippi has turned her face to
the morning. Her first officer has
shown that he is entitled to rank
among the bravest mon of earth; to
be enrolled among those who have
benefited the human race. The ne
groes of Mississippi owe to him not
alone their thanks but their prayers to
their last day. :,
With nothing to offer him in the
way of support or advancement, he has
spoken for them, that their lives might
he protected and their children be
fitted for full citizenship in the com
monwealth.
Resolved, That the thanks of this
meeting for the colored people OF Mis-
sissippi are hereby rendered to the
Vicksburg Herald, the Vicksburg
Evening Post and other journals that
have spoken out in favor of the en-
forcement of the law, and the dealing
out of Justice to the millions of our
helpless fellows, who think but can
not speak.
Resolved, That copy of these res
olutions be sent to each of the papers
mentioned Vicksburg Herald.