The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-07-28

! ly and srighteously exasperatee
sentiment. they are often as pow
erless k the dead leaf before tn,
gale NY hope is that, slowl,
perhal# but surely, we NAV hy
appeal such as the best leader:
OF Sou94ern sentiment, most no.
sably friends. the editors OF
lhessH&rleston News and Couri.
er, are naking, in season and
out OF season, restore the broken
reign pf law. But how quickly.
oy con,parison, would this result
be reached, if only the negroes.
the whole body and race, could
be aroused to the work of stop
Iplng 1apes. l say no man who
sssoWs the South-both it's races
VIII doubt this. 1t is certain.
noWSeome to another phase
OF this particular question of
rapes and lynchings. How saw
many, hoW, by what precise
meanSscan what you assert. and
we all cqncede ought to be done
De done! | do not wish to shun
any difficulty. Ioffer myself for
examination and cross-examina-
tlon by friend or foe. NV answer
is, 1T can be done just as other
IKE, though less Imperative
things are done. How is any
great mosal, or even political or
merely 3cial reform carried?
teu,no1o, aow, ororexamplee,. has the great
as It haebeen, to a high degree?
Ans:<Tthese questions, nv in
4dlrlng or criticising friends.
and you will have answered tha
question with which you perhans
Fancy l am to be posed. Great
moral movements crusades is a
good word for them-are pushed
on and carried, if have observed
or read Alright, by setting everv
force that can move, create. or
affect public opinion, in full ope- |
ration. Such forces now are the
press, the pulpit, the platform
the school, the Church, the mis-
sion, the domestic circle. Who |
that knows history, or has ewes
to look about him TODAY can
doubt that if these enumerated |
ing the sin Of rape. tba max
most theme in all men mel ssp9ets saflt,
women's and children's minds, |
in every house and cabin of the
negro race, the crime would be-
gin to decrease and finally, and |
in no long time, would cease?
Go about it, | say, just as Garri-
son went about his crusade; or
just as Yancey and Wigfall went |
about theirs at a later day, or |
just as Peter, the hermit, George
Whitefield and John Wesley went |
about theirs. They knew no
such word as fail. They were
apostles, fiery, stern apostles,
and did they not win, every one
of them? Even Yancy and Wig
fall won, for their aim was to
bring on Secession, though his
tory will not, l think, record that
they did or won much else.
In such a struggle, too, the
negro could command the whole
armory, physical, intellectual,
and moral, of the white race at
the South, certainly all it's better
and best and most powerful ele-
mentS.
Now, what is actually doing in
this behalf? | might with sub
stantial truth, answer, nothing.
/ will not, because tits not neces-
sary, repeat the list of those who
are the chief delinquents. Mr..
Booker Washington finds abund-
ant time to go, this season, to
Indianapolis for a weeks con-
ference on negro affairs, and
another week at Boston more
recently. | have not seen a
word from him on either occasion
regarding lyching orrapes at the
South. | mean, nothing in the
way of remedies, or special con-
sideration of the question. Why
is this, | ask, and | repeat, why
is this? An orator, and a leader,
held up as the selectest ornament
of his race, its bright, consum-
mate flower, is the condition of
his race so safe and satisfactory
to him in this regard, that he can
spare no word of his multitude
nous eloquence to tell us, and to
tell his own race whether they
have any duty towards a state