Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-30

as his organ passeth compreh ension.
Prof. Sledd says the negro is an in-
ferior race. Then why does he in
sist that we give him a place in our
own churches and hotels and railroad
cars?
1t was the work of the Creator that
made him inferior, and he will re-
main Eo-and neither education nor
miscegenation win ever change it SO
far as social equality is concerned.
Moses violated the law of God when
he married that Ethiopian woman,
and he had to discard her, and Aaron
and Miriam chided him for it long
afterwards. Numbers, IL. The story
goes, according to Josephus, that the
Egyptians were at war with the
Philippians and had suffered defeat
in every battle until Pharaoh was adj
vised that no one could command his
army successfully but Moses. So
Moses was given command and he
marched with the army to the bor-
ders Of Ethiopia and met the enemy
and defeated them and then marched
on to Saba, the royal city, and at
tackled the walls, and Tharbis, the
daughter of the king, saw Moses
from the window of her tower, and
he was so handsome that she fell
desperately in love with him and
sent messenger to him to say that
If he would marry her she would sur
render the city and army to him.
Moses agreed to this and their mar
riage was at once consummated.
Then Moses returned with his vic.
torious army to Egypt. He did not
take with him his Ethiopian wife, but
not long after he married Zipporah,
the daughter of Jethro the Midianite.
So we must suppose that Moses
married the Ethiopian princess as a
war measure and with no idea of
keeping his promise. At any rate it
caused trouble and shame in the fam.
lily, and so it has done ever since
whenever white person mates with
a negro.
What monstrous falsehood to say
that the southern negro is dehuman-
lied. Right here in our town every
negro mechanic is employed at good
wages. Blacksmiths, carpenters, ma
sons, painters, draymen are all busy.
Cooks, nurses and washerwomen find
constant employment-and they are
not only contented, but sometimes
dare TO be merry and laugh. Where
did Sledd get all that rot about kick
ing and cursing and beating the ne
gro? We never hear of such treat
ment in this region. Mr.. Milan, a
truthful gentleman, whose business
keeps him on the street, told me the
other day that he had heard bus one
oath uttered by anybody within a
year, and that was by a northern
man towards a negro who asked him
a civil question. Dehumanized, in
deed! Ask Tribble and Brown VINO
give their shops the most patronage.
What ridiculous folly to demand seats
in our churches for the negroes. They
have churches of their own that were
built mainly by the charity of the
white folks. They don't want seats in
our churches. They have schools of
their own that we support, and they
have excursions and baseball and wa
termelons and funerals and Daughters
of Zion. Oh, for shame on Sledd! |
pity his family and his kindred. He
thinks he has found mares nest, and
for lack of something fresh has raked
up Sam Hose again. He laments the
lynchings, but not the outrages, and
he proposes remedy. Mr.. Sledd can
set this down-that the lynchings will
not stop until the outrages do. When
a negro dehumanizes himself and be-
comes beast he ought to be lynched,
it is Sunday or Monday. Let
the lynching go on. This is the senti-
ment of our people, antxst Boston and
the Atlantic Monthly ah&Sleed howl.
We are used to that. Not Ieng a 20 we
had a lynching in Rome that was to
my notion. The beast was strung up
in Broad street in the daytime and
shot to pieces and nobody was dis
guised. The judge lived there and the
sheriff and town marshal and police
men and a military company, and the
governor wasn't far away but not
soul said nay. That suits me exactly.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.