The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-11-12
THE HENDERSON GOLD LEAF
oNcoLORED CHARACTERIZATION
Report Read aud Subject Discussed 1t
Synod.

Report Read and Subject Discussed at
Synod.
From the Wilmington Messengers
account OF the proceedings of the
Presbyterian Synod in session there
last week the following extact is
made:
The report on colored evangelzation
was then read by the chairman OF the
committee, DIR. Campbell.
The first address on this subject was
delivered by Dr. S. G. Snedicor, secretary
OF the assembly's colored evangelization.
He urged that more interest be taken in
the work and more money be given Tor
it's prosecution.
Dr. HowertOn, pastor OF the First
church of Charlotte, delivered the other
address 1t was one of the most lucid
and forceful presentations of any subject
yet given before the Synod. DR.. Hover
ton went right down into the race ques-
| ton as it is in the South now.
The extracts below give in no way an
idea of the value of the paper. They are
extracts gathered here and there during
his address.
The work of evangelization OF the ne
| gro is for us to do. The negro is our
| neighbor and we should love our neigh
| bors as ourselves.
| There are now tremendous difficulties
besetting us. Hopelessness comes from
talking hopeless. There is no reason for
pessimism. Think of all the causes that
exist for enmity between the whites and
blacks, all of the race antagOnism and
prejudice. Through all the years, politi-
| cal and social antagonism has been
stirred up It's wonder that right now
there is not war How does it occur that
the conditions between the races are as
good as they are? The first condition OF
solution is to preserve or build up or re-
store good feeling
The talk of wholesale deportation or
colonization is absurd. The great body
of the negroes will remain in the South
in the relation of employe to employer.
The interference with the problem has
made it very difficult That interference
has been ignorant and blind and obsti-
nate and oftentimes criminal.
If other sections had left us alone, by
the end of the Nineteenth century, the
rising tide of civilization would have
stamped out slavery without the loss OF
drop of blood. We are now being
bothered with the interference of the So
cial problem.
81 don't care about your equality,
said the speaker. "What | care about is
social mixture or intermingling. There
can never be intermingling on social
scale of the two races and any attempt
to force such a thing would provoke
revolution.
Let negro man live in a palace, build
the foundation OF a many million dollar
} fortune, educate his son at the greatest
| h. 4Io%c oil .inehf
but never let that boy try to enter the
hut of a white man and court that mans
daughter.
We will take care of the nrgrO. We will
; give him Justice. The way to draw a
line between the races is for there to be
no mixture Of white man with any
man with even one drop Of negro blood
. in his veins. We cannot afford to have
n yielding in any degrees. The separa
. ton OF the races must always continue
] Just when the North is becoming SANE
: in it's treatment of the problem and 6
, ulster view taken OF the matter a South
ern man crops out in the South Atlanta
Quarterly with an article that should
not have been written. A wave OF com
mon sense is sweeping over the country
The North is letting us alone. They arr
} beginning to realize that the South cal
l.. handle the negro.
+ The only reason there has been no con
: flict between the races is the Christian
q religion the Gospel of the Lord.
DR.. Howerton concluded his excellen
discourse with several special reason
. why the Presbyterian church is fitted tt
t take up the work of colored evangeliza
y ton
e The address was so highly satisfactor.
that at once a motion was made ant
adopted that DR.. Howerton be requested
to prepare it suitably for publication
and that it bepublished in pamphletforn
| tO no widely distributed