The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-02
BABBITr AR0USRS NEGROES.
BROOKLYN PREACHER MAKES
REPLY 70 GRAVEyS SPEECH.


ances--Dr. Babbitt's Trip to Delaware.
The Rev. DIR. Dean Richmond Rabbit
addressed the Commercial American Negro
National Convention in the Bridge street
African Methodist Episcopal Church in
Brooklyn last night on the race question
in general and John Temple Graves's ut
terances in particular. The audience was
made up Of about two hundred and fifty
oolored men and women. DR.. Rabbits
remarks aroused great enthusiasm. Once
he was interrupted by a deep and exultant
shout from under the gallery:
May the good God on His glittering
throne be thanked for such grand men as
you. doctor!"
At another time when he was denouncing
Mr.. Gravee's proposed penalty Of mutila-
ton for crimes against women committed
by negroes a voice cried:
20 Lord. listen you to the only friend the
black man hast"
Part Of DR.. Rabbits argument was
directed to the idea that strict and stern
punishment OF crimes Of white men against
negro women would rob brutalized and de-
graded negroes Of such little color Of justi-
fcation and revenge as they felt themselves
possessed Of. DR.. Rabbits remarks along
this line fairly set his audience wild.
Tell the truth, you white mani"
praise God. he's shouting out all he
knows and isn't afraid Of anybody"
That's what they need to hear! Tell it
right out!"
PRAISE God for an honest mani"
These were but q few OF the ejaculat ions
which echoed through the building at the
end OF almost every sentence.
Dr. Babbitt said in part:
Here is the great danger TO the colored
people, viz, deliberate. systematic, well
planned propaganda throughout the South.
and reaching from the South to the North.
The only equality guaranteed by the lay
and the Constitution T. the equality sSpEh,
to do with that other equality used 30 often
by the Southern, politician 10 influence I he
south tina! OF the dIa s, room ana th Inc
individuals OF that race and not OF the laws.
Other dangers to your race from this deep
spreading prejuaiSs are mOos , aha ynenahIgs
Your race in the South will surely suffer The
word to-day for you IL self-control. forbear-
snce. organizatlon unaer tespeo1ca lssaerS
insistence on civil and political rights ana
an enduring. patient. intelligent conduct as
Christian men ana women.
DR.. Babbitt commented on what he called
the savagery of the suggest on OF JChn
Temple Graves of Chsu Guqla that mutila-
ton he the punishment for black men. He
said that until the same law prevailed for
white and black no remedy and no penalty
could have the approval of this people.
and that there had not as yet been the
slightest suggestion Of any punishment
however inadeaua'e Tor the white white assailsn'
what a cry Of horror is raised through
out our country when white woman is
assaulted by a negro! He IL taken out and
burned at the stake as AN example to the
race But whoever heard OF lynching
in behalf OF black woman? IL not her
womanhood as sacred?
who was it that turned the black race
yellow. Applause, laughter and up
roar.
Does not the negro. as he goes o the
stake after committing crime against a
woman of the white race, find in his brutal-
lied brain the right TO believe that repIisal
has been made in some measure for similar
crimes committed against the women cf
his own race by white men? / suggest
Some protects ion for black womanhood."
James A. Rostond presided at the meet
ing. Before DR.. Babbittt spoke an address
was made by the Rev. DIR. c. S. Morris OF
the Abyssiuian A. NJ. L. Church OF Man
haitian. At the end OF Dr. baDpitts re-
marks resolution was passed that the
convention rise and sing the doxology
in testimony Of its gratitude TO Almighty
God for the creation of such man az DIR.
Rabbit The resolution was adopted
and complied with.
Ate. tho meeting DR. Rabbit was asked
regarding affidavit which he sent last Tues
day to Attorney General H. H. Ward Of
Delaware regarding the Wilmington lynch
ing OF last June. DR.. Babbitt said that he
spent several days in Wilmington immedi-
ately after the lynching Investigating it.
and discovered much evidence which
seemed to him OF value enough, he is sure.
TO have convicted at leest two members OF
the mob
In August, he said, he had had talk with
Chief Justice Lore Of Delaware and received
assurances that the lynchers would be tried
and that there was no doubt OF the con-
yiction OF some OF them He heard. while
inWashin gton late last week, that the prose-
cution was likely 20 fall through and wrote
TO Attorrey-G General Ward, offering his
own evidence He followed this ofYer with
a special delivery letter mailed Tuesday
containing an affidavit and adding that he
would be in Wilmington, ready to testify be-
fore the Grand Jury, at 3;ll clock Wednes-
dav afternoon. On his arrival in Whining
ton he found that the Grand Jury had dis
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