The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-21

dent of A. and NJ. college for negroes
and one of the greatest educators of the
negro race in America, in addressing the
convention said in part:
I'VE are so prone to say unklnd things
of the south, because of slavery, that 1t
is hard to look with favor upon any
thing the south has done. In my opinion
the black man owes more to the south
and the southern people than to any
other section of the world. More mira
Giles have been worked out in the south
than were ever dreamed of In Palestine.
For three hundred years the south has
been a great missionary tent, In which
thousands of barbarians have been trans
formed into millions of industrious citi-
zens. And right here In the land of our
bondage-forty years after freedom, We
have accomplished billions of dollars in
property. and tens of billions in moral
forces All of which could not have been
accomplished without the good will and
kindly spirit of our white neighbors.
In building up the negro race. we have
the experience of the white race from
which to draw. We do possess, hold and
enjoy many privileges which has cost
that race years of toll and struggle, sacri-
fee and lives, and for which we have
never shed a tear. Toll is the price of
success, adversely Is the price of man
hood, hardship is the road by which
every man and every nation will travel
to usefulness. As the counter current
lifts the kite majestically and grandly
heavenward so toll and difficulty lift up
a man, and race toward the goal of use
fulness in life. God requires a price for
every good thing.
Destiny of Negro Race.
1.-THE destiny of the black race is in its
own hands. 1t will be what 1t makes it
self. Racial death will be racial suicide.
No nation dies by the hands of another.
1t lives as long as it keeps in harmony
with the laws of existence. He fights
and dies-commits suicide. The negro is
in harmony with the laws of existence.
He yields and accepts a high civilization,
and it doth not appear what he will be-
He has in America all the opportunities
for racial growth. All else rests with
him.
II have no respect for the doctrine of
native intellectual superiority of races.
could not respect a God, who would
make men different in their intellectual,
moral. and Industrial capacities, and
then hold them to the same Industrial.
moral intellectual accountabilities. IL
this is so, the races in superior condi-
ton certainly have no credit. But
rather take the view, that races in SUI
perior condition have placed themselves
there by superior effort. They do de-
serve credit for what they have accom-
plished The white man does not enjoy
a right or privilege which he has not
purchased by heart aches. tears and
blood He teaches the sublime lesson of
overcoming by endurance and fore
thought. Superiority Of races must be
measured by superior conduct. He is the
superior man, who does superior things
TO lift the world to superior conditions,
regardless of the color of the skin in
which he is wrapped"
Services will be held in all the negro
churches today and many of the dead
will be buried. DR.. Morris will have
charge of the services at the Shiloah
Baptist church, and the Rev. E. w.
Moore, D. D., of Philadelphia will preach
this morning.