Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-02-08
PROMINENT
TELLS TRU
William III. COur
Issue With BE-
Washington
Naalivillr Democrat.

Il know YOU will pardon
Ginning tn be sn uncharitab
wha; Mr. Washington shoul
not have done about aecepti
ident'S invitation tn dine.
Welt and MIR Washington be
same political party. and thel
this matter has been the sa y
fatuus which has allured the
the support Of that party since
/ While | decline TO criticise eli
President or MIR Washington IN
matter. think it not. indelicat
me to state the position
occupied on the social
for twenty five years; d
your own conclusions
of current events.
Twenty seven years ago i
all the fallacies taught by the
can party and, in my blindness.
voca;ed them with all the earns
of soul of Tarsus. But my eys
soon opened as To the true stat
negro i'll America and tho
which he might attain to
himself and TO the world
of his former master and of IL
defendants.
Any antagonism by the ne
time honored customs of the
only result fatally to the
result would be disastrous W
of prejudice or founded in r,
best interests of the negro Oh
he shall accept and scrupulous
those customs, working out
ton along the lines of suffrage
by the superior race-the race
ior condition. Any other cours,
be suicidal. No race has eve
destroyed by another race. A
destruction in all the history
world has been by suicide: and
no fear that the negro race will
stroyrd by external means or TO
long rs it accepts and adopts il
faith the conditions of self develc.
suggested by the laws of natur
maintained by superior extern
/ fiuenccs.
/ With all the favorable environn
and internal power possessed by
race il must die whenever 1t fails to-
serve these laws.
THE soUTH's POSITION
do not overstate the case when 4.
that the masses of the white people O
all sections of the country have crystal
lied their claim TO native superiorit
their prcjudices. their manners and thei
customs into an unwritten law whicl
clearly demonstrates two things.
/. To resist amalgamation of tn
negro.
,. To rule this country in political af
fairs by the ballot or rhe bullet.
The negro race will be dashed opiece
in proportion tn the intensity of its c
fort To break those stubborn laws of (
Anglo Saxon race. not only i'll the Unit
States. bur everywhere else in tine wor
The most despicable being i'll Il
world in INV eyes Is the negro who e
pressed by word ar act in the remote
degree desire to unrace himself AM
become IA white man. when each in hi
proper sphere. after his kind. CT
70 the highest that the Almi.
tended for man to attain i'll til
have found the white peoI
South at all times unstinrefs4~
support Of all institutions for the
religious ami industrial developusi
the negro race. An appeal to the ),
ern heart for any character of al
the negro always meets with the VIII,
est encouragement. while every attemp
on the part of TIN negro To blot out -
cial lines or 70 take the reins of govern
ment is met with cxtermiuating bit
ness For the negro to step Ii
strengl h 10 weakness For Negro M
Ia step ever the social line is step fl,
life 10 death.
The negro leader who does not recu.
nize that fact is neither wise nor safe.
WEAKER RACE.
\ weaker race can never by imprope
social habits debauch the wQlDasstf0~ J. =
a stronger race, but IA stronger race ma
by improper social conduct debauch IL
womanhoed Of "a weaker race. This
alone makes il the moral and Chri
duty of both races TO endeavor to
distinct III their social relations
stars in the blue heavens above Us.
in its own place giving forth its liz
all the stars Of the armament.
do not admit the native super
cf any race Icannot conceive of
81 partial and unjust as To create
entiations So marked in the mora
pacities of the races and then hold
all To the same moral responsibilif
could have no respect for such q
Give inferior races. so called. like
tunity to rise To superior cond
native force and worth; it is
In my speech delivered in Ju
before the Chatauqua in Iowa.