The colored American., 1903-02-07

ClICulnSCduCSs5-n0 deserves expulsion
from the Senate" The Sun rejoices
to know that there is not another of
his despicable type in the Senate.
AS an Indication that the northern
press is beginning to wake up and see
things, 1 append herewith a clipping
from the New York Times, a mug
wump newspaper which devotes con-
siderable Of it's editorial space in CIV
ing advice to President Roosevelt and
the Republican leaders as to the policy
Of the Republican party in regard to
the Negro. The Times is considerably
alarmed about the fate of the Negro,
politically, and doesn't take kindly to
the idea that he should hold important
Federal Offices in the South. l believe
the head of the Times syndicate, is
Mr.. Ochs, southern man, whose SYM
pathies would naturally be with the
white people of the South. There is
chain of newspapers controlled by
this syndicate, and they all sing the
same tune. Sometimes they say a
good thing, worthy to be remembered.
This clipping which follows is one Of
them. The thought it expresses, how
ever, is not new or original but it is
quite refreshing coming, as it does,
which has insidiously helped to make
possible the condition to which it
alludeS, with it's scarce headlines and
indirect appeals to the white South
to put down the Negro. There are
good many thousand people in this
| country who are asking the same
question found in the closing lines of
| this paragraph:
when John Thomas, a Negro, shot
| the Sheriff of ST. Charles Parish this
| week, the inhabitants of the parish in
| stantly dropped whatever they were
doing and proceeded to hunt the
murderer down. They caught him,
| filled his body with bullets and then
threw it into his blazing cabin to be
| consumed by the flames. That was a
bad business but understandable, and
not entirely undeserving the name Of
| rude justice" But when Tillman shot
| Gonzales, with much less excuse than
the ignorant Negro had for shooting
| the Sheriff, nobody seemed to be at
| excited, no little army gathered to
| inf1ict justice of any kind, and the
| present indications are that even the
law will fail to punish the white as
| sassin. The difference is most remark
/ able and explanations Of it are lack
| ing. If either incident stood alone it
would not be particularly mysterious,
but the two together battle compre-
hensfon. How can people be at once
| so passionate and so coolheaded so
bloodthirsty and SO mild-tempered? ?"
Mr.. G. Grant Williams, of Hartford,
Conn, in an address before the
Brotherhood at the Union Baptist
Church, Hartford, Conn, as reported
in the Hartford Courant, of Jan. 26th,
said good many good things among
them this: GAS a matter of fact
| Negro blood must be the strongest and
purest in America. If a person is
known to have one thirty-second part
| of Negro blood in his veins, he is
| classified as a Negro. The natural
| traits of the native African, viz,
honesty, sobriety, morality and virtue
are positive proofs that the Negro was
| never intended to be a bad citizen,
| and that what bad traits he has ac-
quired have been taught him by men
of fairer skins who were supposed to
have been civilized and educated"
The Negro haters of America are
mortally ashamed, no doubt, of the
| result Of their two and half centuries
of effort to blunt the mental and moral
sensibilities of the Negro by robbing
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