The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-04-14
Rev, Richard Carroll, Colored,
Appeals to His Race.
EDUCATED NEGROES
He Claims viii MOI be Menace to
But the Ally of the White Man.
Pleads for Negro Women. No
Race Can Rise Higher
Then Ito Womauhood
Then Its Womanhood.

preacher, who is running an indus
trial home near Columbia for negro
orphans, preached to large audiences In
Columbia on Sunday, April 2, doc
trine new to nearly all Of his hearers.
He believes that he has a mission In
this world, missiCn to plead for JUS
tice for the negro, and to plead with
the negro to let alone those things
with which they should have naught
to do, to aspire to be worthy fol-
lower rather than shiftlesS leader.
The State says while the opera
house was not crowded still it is fact
that at the two services probably 800
people listened to this eloquent negro.
1t may be that some might have gone
from curiosity, but every one who
heard him would 20 back next Sunday
II Carroll we're to speak again. The
mans elOquence consists not In ora
tory, for rarely does he permit him
self to indulge In rhetoric, but In his
statement Of conditions in way
which can but make each race feel
the more kindly toward the other.
It was with no show OF fear and
with favor to none that Carroll spoke
II he gave loating negroes a verbal
chastisement, he also rebuked the
white people for tolerauirg itand thus
encouraging laziness on the part OF
the negroes. For three hours he
poured forth Common sense SuggeS-
tions which are the crystalized r, flee
tions Of the thought Of this negro vino
loves all the south, including even
the so. called poor white man,
DR.. Finn in presenting Carroll told
Of the orphan home near the city,
built on the site OF the ante, bellum
mansion of the Trenholms and later
the home Of Rev. Jno. L. Girardeau,
D. D., one Of the most eloquent
preachers in America, who had given
many years Of his best work TO the
uplifting Of the negro. DR.. Finn de.
clared that the southern white people
should do all they can to educate the
negro, to reinstate in measure that
fine family control Of the Old south
which was so much for the negroS
own good.
DR.. Finn at the night meeting told
Of his visit to the orphan home. He
remarked upon the cleanliness which
there he found. Economy and indus
try are taught there. Nothing is
wasted and each ward of the institu-
tion has his work to do. The institu.
tiOn teaches morality by precapt and
by example. He declared Carroll to
be a thoroughly unseltish man.
Carroll captured the attention of
There was no ditlidence In his man
ner. He had q message, he had the
power to deliver that message, and
he felt it. While he has the ele-
ments of an orator, he did not at.
tempt any fine speaking except on one
or two thoughts, particularly his
tribute to southern womanhood.
While the lower floor of the opera
house was nearly filled with white
people, there was not Such large
crowd Of negroes on the balcony above
which had heen reserved for the ne
groes. Sunday night the attendance
OF negroes had nearly doubled, show
ing that Carroll Is coming more into
favor with his own people. Carroll
declared that he does not like to talk
to mixed audience, for he cannot say
to the white people what he would
like for fear Of giving to negroes the
idea that he is impertinent. The
white people would understand him.
The negro served the south faith
fully for 200 years. He made the
south rich. The south before the war
was the richest section OF the world
The negro can make the south rich
again. When the men OF the south
went to war, the negro served them
faithfully; he burned no use, he
the women; he made the very bread
for them to eat. After the war came
the politician. The south never had
negro rule. The negro is not race
to rule, but to follow. No race g
musical can rule. The negro needs
no organ. He buys one because he
sees the white man buy ing it. His
breast Is full OF music. He sing,
when he Is mad and he Sings when
he is in jail. When in slavery he
stopped singing, the white people
knew that he was thinking ana were
troubled until the negro startco to
dominate. He is a singing, noo il
thinking race.
Inverting phrase but recently
coined but even Low trite, CarrOll de.
clared that not only is il true that
the southern white man Is the negro's
best friend but the negro Is the b ST
friend OF the white man. 1t is the
hybrid races that the Angl Saxon
must fear, the mulattoes, OF whom
there are lot enough to be a menace,
the Indians, the Mongulians The
Anglo. Saxons will in the next 25 years
regret the day that they gave en-.
cOuragement, sympathy or assistance
to the Japanese. He read from Re
velations Johns vision OF the horses,
the respective color OF which Carroll
applied to the races Of the earth
The black horse carrying the balances
he said, is the black man who will in
time to come have the balance OF
power between the Anglo Saxon and
the Mongolian, and he will turn that
power to the white man. The white
race will rule the world because OF
the assistance OF the negro. He de-
clared he would rather have the
southern white mans problem than
the northern white mans. The
north, from it's tide OF undesirable
immigration, will in ten years be ap.
pealing to the south for assistance
And the negro will help the white
man then, he exclaimed.
Gen. Lee wanted the negroes put
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