The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-03-19

raises up his voice in notes of discord,
On Washington's birthday in Brooklyn
the negro was the subject of discussion
and among the number of speakers was
n negro doctor by the name of Dewey,
who in the course of an incendiary
speech said; eff you could but put the
Indian where the negro is today and
multiply him to the number of the ne
gro, the Indian would have his rights
as a man respected or the scalp of ey-
cry white man would be taken and
hanging at his belt, or else every In
dian would have gone to the happy
hunting grounds. Yet the negro is
awakening, He is beginning to feel
and relalize what he can do. He is be-
ginning to feel the blood of his African
ancestors in his veins. You and l with
much truth may we'll look on with awe
as to what the results will be when a
man is beginning to scent liberty. As
the negro begins to feel something of
the accumulations of ancestry lifted as
he arises out of the deadening effect of
slavery, as he begins to be intoxicated
with visions of liberty, who shall say
him nay? Will not the colored man
rise in awful wrath and smite and pal
sey the hand that would hold him back. {"
Such balderdash as this is usually ut
tered by negroes from the south who
have been educated at the expense OF
the white people they malign. They
are in no danger because they keep at
respectful distance. They are prudent
as well as sensational. They are pru-
dent as well as sensational. 1t is not
easy to understand what the distin-
guished doctor means. If he means
that his American ancestry cherished
the spirit of liberty and that this spirit
was crushed by "the deadening effect
of years of slavery, he is simply anus
ing. All the liberty that his African
ancestors knew was how to escape the
club of some one stronger than them
selves. If he means that the savage
blood of ancient lineage is about to bt
inhamed and the colored race in this
country will either obtain its ''rights'
or go to determination he is an unwisC
counsellor. Any race conflict precipi
tated by the colored race were sheel
madness. The Zulus formed in
shape with the open end foremost ant
rushed upon the British in an attemp
to envelop and destroy them, but the,
were mown down by Calling guns be
fore they could get near enough t
throw a spear. They were courageou
enough, but foolish. 1t is never wis
to go out and get killed. 1t doesn'
, improve ones condition in life. Tn
supposed greatest fool is the Kentuck,
young man who dresses up, puts pts
tOl in his pocket and goes to dane
{ and gets killed. The distinguished Dr.
, Dewey wants his entire race to ador
the Kentucky FOOLS plan.
All this talk is arrant nonsense, bu
it does harm. Somehow it filters dow
to the ignorant masses in the rural dir
tricts who are the more yielding t
ataVistic influence and on Saturday ev
enings when no work is doing an
g when mean whisky has been imbibe
Q freely "the blood of his African ancei
4 tors" becomes hot and he attempts
clean out the store keeper, the plants
ton manager or the landlord, or he il
suits white woman or jostles again
her or does something which "tl
u blood Of his African ancestors" impe
y him to do, and the poor fool is sh,
d down. And as many other fools I
q manifest any sympathy with him shal
his fate. Let alone, he and they Won
= have lived in peace. Blabmoutht
- people like Hayes and Dewey are Il
worst enemies of their race.
The men who are doing most for II
W negro talk not thus. W. H. Council
j. Normal, Ala, and Booker II. Washin
IL ton of Tuskegee, Ala, through the i
strumentality of their industrial schoc
b" are dong more for the race than all Il
u praters about 'rights" in Christendol
n They are teaching young colored m,
- and women habits Of industry, of thri
Of of economy, of self-denial, of self-re
ance, of original thinking and they q
=" doing much in the way of charact
al building as we'll as training the hal
on to work dexterously in the various 6
vn tivities and the head to work with t
10 hand. These men are never heard 9
ing up and down the land cutting
n0 wide swath to attract attention. Th
n are never heard clamoring for Fright
he or talking about the fire and the swo
he to obtain them. They know what SUI
nv talk means and they do what they C
- to counteract its effects. They hav,
" proper race pride and are never Sc
ty seeking social equality and, as a resu
I'm they get more than any one else. L
N. mischief makers care nothing for tn
,ot race and are only seeking the incer
that comes from personal notoriety
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