The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-28
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and twist the sceptre from the hands
of might for the reason that God is
right
"A United States senator from a
Southern state said to me some time
ago: I am opposed to your emigra-
ton agitation, especially about re-
turning to Africa in any numbers.
You are keeping up an unnecessary ex-
element But he finally said: Re
member, Turner, l am opposed to 1t
as white man, as your race furnishes
us with cheap and obedient labor but
if l were a negro l will be d. if |
would not leave this country before
the sun goes down."
Il do not regard Hon. John Temple
Graves as the quintessence of infal-
libility, especially when he is discuss
ing. and commenting upon the intel
{ lectual and moral status of my race,
as he represented them in some re-
CARDS, in Chautauqua, and Chicago,
while he only expressed the current
opinion of the white people generally;
but the remedy that he pointed out to
the American people, in regard to the
existing condition. of things, in my
opinion and in the opinion of sober
! thinking people generally, raises him to
a national majesty and makes him the
greatest statesman and philosopher In
the land.
Graves View Correct.
Among the notable and illustrious
men of the country Mr.. Graves tow
ers above them ALL He is evidently
widely-read scholar, a master logician,
and has the courage of his conviction,
and defes public criticism when he
tells the white and black man in this
country that they must separate, for
separation is the ultimatum, and that
alone will bring peace to this nation.
l will tell the black man what Mr.
| Graves thought, but was reluctant to
express: Your very existence depends
upon separation. At present there is
no Christian unity, much less civil
and political unity. A shameful divi-
| sion prevails.
when 1 speak of separation I do
not mean that everybody will go. or
must go; l am only contending that
there should be highway made across
| the Atlanta (only 1850 miles from the
! City Hall of New York; for such black
men and women are self-reliant
and have those manhood aspirations
that God planted in them, and degrad-
ing laws will intensity. We are not
clamoring for rich men, or men of re-
| spectacle means. We want smart, en-
ergetic and self-reliant men. If Aus
| tralia could be made one of the great
est countries on earth by penal con-
victs, who would dare say that respec-
table colored men could not also build
| up a nation?
1T was also proclaimed the other
night that Liberia was a failure, and
! had played out. / know LIBERIA I
know Muhlenburg Station. l presid-
ed over an annual conference there,
| ordained ministers there, and / am
| prepared to say that finer republic
/ n. an.
| consisting of $4,000 civilized and 1,500,-
| 900 heather people. Monrovia, the
capital, with population of 5000, is
| as beautiful city, seen from the
| ocean, as either England or America
| can present.
THE state house, presidential man.
sion, cabinet departments and a score
! of cities in the republic and the ships
! that stand in her various harbors tell
their own story, and there is not a
barroom in the republic to curse and
ultimately damn her young men. If
Georgia has played out, then Liberia
has played out; but l grant that Lii
IBERIA needs immigrants and number
| of business men to help to develop and
/ bring into utilization her resources--I
mean her mineral resources.
Negro a Rich Man.
I'm conclusion let me say that the
negro is the richest man in the world
if ne had sense enough to know 1t.
| We will get that intelligence, however,
in Gods own good time. The Ameri-
can negro, with few exceptions, is the
lowest specimen of the African tribes
The superior African sold US inferior
| Africans to the white man. We were
slaves. hundreds and thousands of
| years, to our African masters, before
we were sold to this country to become
the slaves of our white masters; but
this lower type has to return in num-
bers, TO civilize and Christianize the
higher type. and the white man has to
help us to do ii and God will see that
he does it, or the nation that owes us
forty billion dollars for two hundred
years work performed and services rem
dered. will commence to wane and end
in broken fragments like the Roman
empire.
II grant that the outlook for the flu
ture between the two races appears
far more pacific than it did. The At
lanta Constitution has become more
cosmopolitan. the paper is growing
older and more philanthropic and be.
comes more eonsiderate; end SO with
the Atlanta Journal Macon Telegraph,
Savannah Morning News. Montgomery
Advertiser and many others. The as
sistance rendered by our white friends
to Morris Brown College, especially
where we hope 10 train African mis-
slonaries and elevate that portion Of
our race which win live and die there,
seems TO tinge the future with brighter
prospects. But God sent the negro here
through his negative Providence, 70
imbibe civilization and Christianity
from this giant white race ana then
redeem the land Of his ancestors. and
he must do IL, and viii ultimately do
H."