The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-02
Letters to the Editor.
 CoLoRED BISHOP TURNER
Is Optimistic About What Can Be Done by Negro Immigrants
 fo frica

Editor The Advertiser: -
 I find in your issue of September g, un. der the head of Up to The Courant,
 the following statement: "Mch that he (Turner) says. is of the usual style of slanderous charges against all Of the white people of the South" This implies that I am disposed to islander the South. and hold up for the North. beg to say, and the barbarous treatment my race Is often the victims of that do not charge upon North and South, East and west alike. l will give thousand dollars, If have written, or remark that have made about the treatment of my race: and singled out the South. The United States Supreme Court which decided that all the laws, granting the negro civil rights including the Constitutional amendment Uhat monstrous decision. that has no parallel in the history of the world). was composed of nine Judges. Northern men and one was Southern man. and the eight Northern men were unrighteous. and unjust enough to rob the black man by their decision of all held that the negro had civil rights un- der the laws and civil institutions of the general government. And other instances I could quote if necessary.
 Moreover. I am not foolish enough to blame the dogs tail when his teeth bites me. I would be an idiot to blame the South when the North encourages lynch CTS and mobs by its silence, and even good Christian whites in your very State, who have raised their voice against such violence.
 The South is a small portion of this great nation, and she could not lynch, disfranchise, rule the negro off the jury and do many other things that is objec- tionable. repulsive and degrading to the black man. unless the North acquiesced. <1 .~k An vNv more than the North, and the East any more than the West. I blame the United States and charge her with unlawfully taking the lives of thousands and If am to accept of the statement of a United States Circuit Judge. tens of thousand of my race. The nation is guilty of this savagery. and not the South per SC. Ev- cry black man who Is put to death by dens by his blood the hands of every white man North or South, East or West. So please do not charge me with put ting the crime of the nation upon the Southern white people.
 You further say, I do not want those
 negroes as immigrants to Africa who are a burden and a discredit to the race.
 I beg your pardon, but that is the very hundred thousand of the convicts from your penitentiaries, chain-gangs and jails and I will build up respectable na- ton for the negro in seven years. QO not WdnL IHe nBIl-IOnc. dElSlOCEdliS and the first-class negro. That class nev- CT has been the pioneers of any new
 country But give me the scullion negro.
 men who can do rough work. This class founded tho Roman Empire, they built up Australia and they were the chief immigrants to this country for hum dred years after Columbus discovered 1t. mean, penal convicts and the common people. If you will empty your peniten- tiaries from one end of the land to the other, and send your negro criminals to Africa. and band those guilty of the most henious crimes, so they will never be tempted to return. as they did in South Carolina when I was a boy, I will build a nation that the civilized world will be proud of in less than ten years, that will
 have a hundred merchant ships on the high seas in seven years. You white peo- ple know that the negro is a fool for not going to himself, and If he has any | manhood in him, not showing it to the
 world. You know that any person or persons who does not work out their own destiny never amounts to anything. You | know that your ancestors came to this | country in many instances penniless, and | their children and children's children now command hundreds of millions, and in a r short time individual men will count their | money by billions of dollars
 H NJ Turner