The American eagle., 1905-12-17

rison and the whole history of our re
public warns us against this counsel
We should not take too much for
granted.
The time when all the odious and
| wicked discriminating laws in the
south should be abolished, is NOW
| The time when every Jim Grow" car
should be side-tracked and burned, is
! NOW. The time when the ballot
should be guaranteed to every citizen
on equal terms, regardless of race or
creed, is NOW The time for the
south to cast away as false and wicked
the notion that God made the African
! to be serf of the white man, is NOW.
Must Claim Rights Now.
The time for Negroes to stop saying
| they do not want social equality with
every other human being, when there
is mutual willingness, is NOW. Any
human being, who says that he wants
no social equality with all other hui
man beings, when it is mutually desir-
able, is either knave or an imbecile !;
| surely he has not received the spirit
of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and
Elder Brother of mankind, who said:
'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
SELF
| The time for black men to claim and
expect every right and consideration,
| which every other man claims and
should expect, is NOW. When free
men complain, setting forth clear bill
of real grievances, a response is
awakened in the hearts of freemen
everywhere. This is not whining or
playing the baby act Self-respect and
our wives and children make protest
necessary.
The time for those to speak out for
the broard principles of justice and
| brotherhood, who for policy's sake,
have kept silent hitherto, is NOW.
The time to stop the lyncher as the
| worst enemy of the state and society,
is NOW.
We should follow truth wherever
| it leads us. We should not try to
forecast possibilities and probabilities,
and do the right if the results suit our
| theories and prejudices, but do the
wrong if they do not
This is the hour when as never
| before we need the veracity and
courage of Garrison. We need his in
sight to detect all make-shifts and sub
| terfuges. We need his relish for gen.
erous chivalrous brotherliness, and his
uncompromising devotion to those
principles which unite mankind and
| make enduring states.
If a Negro commits a crime, the fact
| is invariably written up in all the pa
| pers: Negro brute, etc. But the
reporters never say: German brute, y
or "Anglo-Saxon brute" or French
brute" But attention is always called
to the race of the Negro criminal,
which is forever making capital
again,t us as a class.
| If a Negro wishes to settle in a
decent neighborhood, there is great
| five or ten dollars more per month for
| the same house than white tenant
would have to pay.
am not a pessimist l know there
is a glorious day of brotherhood COM
| ing, but l am stating the things which
hinder the good time coming.
What a spectacle that was not long
since, when a leading white congrega-
ton became Historically opposed to a
| Colored congregations (of the same
denomnation) purchasing a church op-
posite them. There is no fellowship
Christians, yet they profess to be pur-
chased by the same blood and serving
| the same Christ, commissioned to
evangelize the same perishing world,
an1 are going to the same Heaven. A
spectacle like this grieves the Holy
Spirit, wounds our Saviour and makes
| the world believe that our religion is a
spurious article. Suppose the injunc-
| tions of Christ. Il command you,
| that We love one another" were
obeyed, how quickly all race problems
would be solved!
Mixed Schools Advocated.
1t is a conviction with us that sep
aratlOn in education is largely reSpon-
sible for much of the misunderstood
ing and arrangements between the
races In training the future. citizens
of the republic everything should be
done to make them Homogeneous. Con
| tentment and equality under just laws
is rich legacy to leave to posterity
and this is our duty to do.
The day must come, when through
| the length and breadth of the repub-
| lie, there shall be mixed teachers and
mixed pupils, great care being exer-
| cised in selecting teachers-character
and efficiency being the test, not color
Every Negro is justly proud, however
| the noble company of men and women
who teach our Colored schools, and OF
the great gain which has come to us as
a race, intellectual and financial, by
reason of the separate schools. But
we are speaking of the underlying
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