The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-11-08
BENNErrsvl1LE, S. g. FR1DAs, NOVEMBER 8, 1901
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Fred Douglass; a Lynoh, Lyon, a
White, a Oheatham or hundreds Of
other sblo oolorod leaders that we
know; had he considered the welfare Of
tho President or his race, he would
have confidentially said to tho Presl-
dent: | appreciate this groat honor,
but might it not be misunderstood and
flame the dying prejudicos and embers
of sectional fooling that We are trying
to oxtinguish? Had no done this 1t
would havo been triumph in diploma.
oy and the sstuto and quick perceiving
President would havo taken tho hint.
But tho greatest harm that may 70.
suit from this impolitio and undiplo-
mstio incident ia tho abuse of the
Northern press and Northern peoplo
OF tho South. It is not sinoore nor is
it consistent. The prejudice in tho
North is moro malignant and spitoful
than it 10 in tho South. Tho South has
CAUSE and grievance; tho North has
no osuso or grioyanoo; and yet its pro.
judice 10 greater in proportion than 1T Ia
South. 1t is q pretty hard thing for q
man to be forced under ordinary eondi-
tions to accept man as his esnsl, in o
qusrter OF century, who had boon his
niavo for two centuries, and tho North
refuses to do it, outside Of fow col,
loge dinners, whore tho ooiored man
was novor his slave. The Rov. Hof
man, at Bryn Mawr, tho Methodist
pretchtr, who offered tho resolution in
tho preachers meeting on Monday,
commencing the President, croatod q
revolution in Bcyn Mawr, booauso o
house beIonsipg to him was rented to q
colored mipistcr Of tho same persua
sion and used ovcry means, oooleslagti
cal and legal, until ho WAS rejected.
Tho young man vas as gen,lemanly and
as thoroughly oduoaGd as hr. Wash
iDeton Bishop Potter, our good and
wol'hy prelsto, las many colorod
plieBss of bis donomlnation hero in tho
North, and yet be docs not sot tho ex
sloplo by having them to celebrate at
Holy Trinity and othor Episoopal tom
pieu here IN the North, or invite them to
cit lid soIimlDntcly at the Lord's table
to leaoh tho South tho iathorhood Of
God and tho brotherhood OF man..
Bishop Holly, OF Hsyti, ono Of the
most learned and scholarly negroes in
tho world, who comes here periodically,
is ignored and allo~od to bosrd in
oolorod boarding houno in Brooklyn,
instead Of being tho guo,t during his
stay at some Of the white parishes. The
%hitc newspapers, auch NJ tho Phila.
dolphia Record, the Now York journal,
tho North American and other papers
who rio ioule the Journals Of tho South,
will not employ oolored man upon their
stats or in any other important plaoo
in their offioeH, be thoy ever 80 90 npo
tent. The white business houses Of
tho North, tho faotorios and industrial
plants, will not employ colorod mon or
women in any Of their departnentb
abovo tho lnenial, and yet they rail at
the South, where slavery existed foi
two hundred yosrr, for iishtins political
and social equality. The North is ro.
sponsible for it all; let 1t stop it's hy-
poorisy, give practical lessons of it's
good intentions and not begin at tho
Whito House. II sectional prejudioos
be again iLhamcd and bloodshed be tho
outcome and Washington is appealed
to, tho negro will be loft to fight it cut
alone and bohind the barrioaae Of S.a.o
rights. The Defender is tho friend Of
the President and OF Booker L. Wash
iDgton. We want to SEQ tho ono quo
coed and re elected to tho Presidency,
and tho other to continue his grost
work as an industrial educator at rus-
kogeo, ard wo hope that our Southern
friends Will not misunderstand the
President and overturn the good feel.
ing now apparent, hut that they will
trust to his good judgment and equit.
able treatment Of all the people alike.
Wo endorse the temperate sontimont as
expressed in tho Times Democrat, Of
Now Orleanp, printed in The Philadel-
phis Record OF MoLdsy last, and hopc
now that tho storm has exhausted itseIf
aid tho era Of good feoling bo re-estab-
liohod. Tho incident was unfortunate
and regrottable.
E]itor Of tho Defender,
H. y. O. Aetwood.