The colored American., 1903-04-18

menSe distance from edcH oIHeI, Ih0
children of the same father mas sur
prised the voice of nature and broke
the bonds of fraternity asunder. Then
will the chaste enjoyments of conju-
gal union take the place of those vile
sallies of debauchery by which the
majesty of moral sentiment has been
installed. By what strange pervers1On
of reaon can it be deemed disgraceful
in a white man to marry a black or
mulatto woman, when it is not thought
dishonCrabIe for him to be connected
with her in the most licent1OuS fam1l-
iarity?"
One would almost imagine that the
good Able Gregore was addressing
himself to the white South of the
United States. The picture he draws
is so realistic that one cannot fail to
note the accuracy of the description
as it applies to the superior race
Down home"
Continuing he says: You are ac-
cused of treating your slaves much
worse than the whites; but alas! so
various have been the detract1OnS
with which you have been aspersed.
that it would be weakness in us to
credit the charge. If, however, there
be any foundation for what has been
advanced On this head, so conduct
will be a shameful calumny hereafter.
The Haytians are a brave people
and they have given American Ne
5roes an example in courage which
they would do we'll to initiate If
hey have the courage. They are the
only Negroes in the world who by
their own effort secured their own
freedom and drove the invader from
their land. OF course white men are
rying to criticise the little black Re-
public, even if they have to overlook
Venezuela and other little South
American Republics, where they have
revolutions about every other week.
1t is the fashion to down the blacks,
% sneer at and r1dicule them, both at
nOme and abroad when they give evil
dence of the possession of talents
and abilities for leadership and self
government. However crude the
policy of the enlightened nations" is
one of repression and suppression of
iarker races when they insist upon
governing themselves.
L am sorry that any American Ne
gro has so far forgotten his duty to
his race as to join hands with the
Anglo Saxon race against our strug-
Cling brethren in Haytl, who. for now
nearly a hundred years have main
tanned a Negro government in the
West Indies, without the aid or con-
sent of any outside nation. Rather
than criticism, it should have the un-
stinted commendation of every loyal
Negro
My thanks are due Hon. Judson W.
Lyons for a copy of the Milwaukee
Sentinel of March 29th, containing an
interview with him in which he ac-
quits himself ably and sensibly on the
never ending problem The Senti-
hel is one of the best papers in the
West, and it gives the Negro a fair
show IN its bright columns. 1t is
neWsy, breezy and prosperous, Judging
from the fatness of its ad pages.
must also thank Mr.. BroOker T.
washington or some One else acting
Tor him for copy of his Brooklyn
speech which, as | have before re-
marked is the dbEeSt and manifest de-
H0erdnce which has yet fallen from
MS lips. L am very glad to have his
speech IN phamphlet form, and l re-
peat that L am grateful to the sender.
There is no demogogy or deceit in
the friendship of Hon. Jos. S. Clark
sen, Surveyor of the port of New
YORK. He is an honest, sincere true
friend. A hater of humbug and sham.
lover of fair play and Justice for
all men He doesn't have one rule of
Onclal conduct for white men and an