The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
NEGRO BISHOP USES
SOME HARD LANGUAGE
NEGRO WHO SPOKE IN DAWSON FRI
DAY SCORES THIS COUNTRY.
Says in Paper He Publishes That This
Nation Is a Northumberland
Domain. Some Illustrations.

| OV"dt"' SOHlo ILLUSTRATIONS
Bishop Henry M. Turner, the negro
who spoke in Dawson Friday, publish
es paper in Atlanta called the Voic-,
of the People. AS Turner says, this
is not church paper or religious
paper, nor paper for general cores
! pondence, but race paper, and villa
serve as an organ for the sixth Epis-
copal district"
The paper is devoted exclusively TO
the encouragement of the emigration
of the negro to Africa, and among all
the bitter things said by the editor
this idea is held uppermost. The head
on the paper, says the Columbus
Ledger, is illustrated with q car
tooa in which the United States is rep
resented on one side and Africa on the
other. In the United States the pics-
ures represent the supreme court sit
ting in Judgment on case in which
negroes are concerned and the decis-
ion in which is bitterly attacked bp
Turner. A mob is pictured breaking
into Jail 20 take out negro, and IN
another place mob is burning one.
while in still another one is being
hung. AT another point in the picture,
a crowd of negnee3 are boarding ship
for Africa. In the picture of Africa
the ship has landed, and the negroes
have found liberty, manhood, self-reli.
ance, prosperity, christianity and hap
piness.
In one of the articles in a recent is-
sue of the paper Turner says:
This is a great country for white
people, and we don't wonder that If q
white man is white he should feel so
big and great. But if you are black,
or have colored blood in You, it is the
meanest, the most contemplate, the
most unjust, the most villaiDous, the
most hypocritical, the most hellish
more hellish than helO spot in crea-
ton. It's laws are lies upon the stat
ute books, its courts of Justice are
mockerv, its religion is u farce, as for
its christianity it has none; nine tenths
of its white preachers are burlesque.
May God speedily damn such humbug
of nation as this, or make this nation
disgorge money to help those who de-
sire to get out of its wicked, rotten, re-
pulsive ignominous, disgraceful and
Northumberland domain. Any ne
gro who will advocate the remaining
of their race in this country where
their lives are less valuable than a Y
dogs life ought to be hung dead by
the neck"
In another place Turner says
"Seven times as much money comes
ON the north, West Indies and Cana
da to purchase a ship for emigration
aud commercial purposes than is sent
in from the south, where we are the
victims OF every outrage"
Turner knows as well as anyone
that ever since his race was freed thew
have been dead expense to the south
The south has burdened itself with
them, and if it were not for the white
man they would die of hunger and dis
ease before their own race would help
them. That they are receiving aid
from the north is nothing but proper
and right, as they were placed in the
most unfortunate position of their his
tory by that section. An appeal made
to the people of the south in a proper
manner would no doubt result in Sc
curing enough money to buy ship.