The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
HE WARNED HIS RACE
THE REV. s. P. W. DREW, eOLORED,
TALKED OUT IN MEETING
He Addressed a Large Mass Meeting Of
CoIored People on Tuesday Night at
st. Luke's Church-He Warned Them
that New York and Other Northern
Cities are Got the Places for Negroes
from the South.


colored, of 15 Fleet Place, Brooklyn,
n. Y. president of the Lincoln Ma
tional Employment Bureau, has been
in the city several days working up a
mass meeting of colored people for the
purpose OF addressing them and CIV
ing them some advice about 1eaving
the south and going to northern cities.
He called upon and secured the co.
operation of the coiored pastors and al
joined him in calling a meeting Tues
day night at St. Luke's A. NJ. e.
church. on Seventh and Church Streets
In response OF the call the church was
packed at the hour appointed for the
meeting. A number of white pastors
attended. among them being h Rev.
DR.. c.. s.. Blackwell, of h First Bap-I
tist church. and the Rev. A. D. Nc
CIure. of st. Andrews Presbyterian
church.
Dr. Drew was the principal speaker,
and he explained that his object II
coming here was TO discuss the whole
sale exodus of degrees from Winning
ton n other points in n south 10
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He spoke earnestly and warned ne
groes not to go off from the SOUTH
friendleSS and pennielss to places they
know nothing of. He spoke Of his own
personal knowledge, said his interest IL
his ace prompted him to come south
to let them know about h situation
in the cities of the north. He said the
exodus CT the negroes from the south
was not desirable. and warned negroes
against going to New York aFi other
northern cities with the eXpeN tation of
getting lucrative employment. He
told his colored hearers that New York
was a mighty poor place for negroes.
and that there was very little work
there suited for them. They might
think they would find everything IA
vorable but they would not. Negro
girls, he said, were not wanted as SER
wants, as there was plenty of White
foreign help, which New York families
prefer, as a rule. AS for the males,
there was no room for them as labor
ers, as experienced white labor was
there in abundance. to be given the
preferenc<@and crowd negroes out.
There was no roof for them as BARRIERS.
no room for them as blacksmiths, and
in fact few openings for the negro, as
experienced whites were there to out
compete them in nearly every line of
labor There was NO chance for them
in politics, as negroes cannot hold Of
flee in New York. There was only one
negro office holder there of any import
nce and he got in through a deal
with Tammany. He said he earned
that some negroes had left Wilmington
on account of a riot, which probably
some of them were responsible for
bringing on but he would like to say hat
the Wilmington difficulty did not COM
pare with the a~nti-negro riot this fall
-
recent burning of a negro in Kansas
to show that the negro stands no more
showing from violence in the north
than he does in the south, when he
commits crimes that call for the ven
geance of the whites. He related his
personal observations of the crowdingI
of negroes 20 New York. They Cant
get employment and they become.
charges on the public. lake to stealing
and h women in many in
stances find their way to the
slums. He assured his hearers that
there were now negroes in New York
who, had Just sue experiences. He
advised every negro, unless he has
means to sustain himself, not to think
of going to northern cities.
BY request, the Rev. A. d. Mcclure
and DR.. Blackwell also made a few re-
marks. DR.. Blackwell told the negroes
that in his opinion a golden o~pportuni-
ty awaited them in the south The
white people We're leaving the farms
for the cotton factories and thus the
negro had open to him agriculture for
which he was better suited h any,
thing else.
The Rev. j. C. Walters, pastor of St
Stephens A. NJ. E. church, n other
colored pastors also made a few re-
marks.
DIR. Drew Will preach al Ebenezcr
Baptist church, on Seventh street, be-
tween Ann and Nun streets, next SUI
day at 3 ID. m. n s d. m This viii
be his last appearance here He eX-
poets to visit other parts of h south.
He carrfes with him very high recon-
~rnendations from emminent white min
isers IN New York Brooklyn and otherI
northern cities.
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