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

laily atrocious murder had beer
done in Dedham, his home Thf
citizens fathered to hunt the
criminal. The old orator hac
long been retired from public
speaking, but the crowd, in pass.
ing his home called for him. He
stepped upon the balcony, and
IN tones which rang and thrilled
as IN his palmiest days, he cried
Fellow citizens: Let no man in
is in Jail" WI q
That is the voice and spirit 7
want to hear from every honest
or decent negro of the land: and
rapes will cesdl cesd day and night
will cease. snchings
1t any one asks me to specifv
further, let him put to me 2
SPECIFIC question, and | will trv
to answer it. But till this IS
done, l need say no more.
cannot close, however, with
out alludlng to two most discour-
aging facts. First, in the Bryce
letter put in the pillory of in
attention and inaction on this
topic, among others, the Ameri-
can Missionary Association q
concern claiming to be specially
devoted to, and in charge of
the religious welfare of the
negroes of the South. After
broodlng over the charge the
greater part of a month. one of
US secretaries comes forward
the fair and hosplraDie aHn sp.l Maru M
The News and Courier allows
him to present in its columns.
The defence reaches its height
in the assertion that the reason
why these so-called religious So
cieties at the North have not
spoken more directly and freely
on the subject of rapes by negroes
of white women is simply be-
cause it would do no good. 1t
would reach nobody likely to be
guilty of the crime" How, then,
| would like to be told, do these
societies reach or hope to reach,
the average negro sinner of the
South? | had supposed it was
by printing and circulating their
so-called religious literature, and
by pearching and praying in pull
pits before congregations of
negroes. Am l not right? Are
not such methods precisely fitted
for the work | am now urging
them to do?
The same writer sums up his
opinion of my remedy, though
proposing none of his own, ex-
cept preaching and talking
purity and goodness" by call
ing it IAN attempt to expel ini-
quity and to extirpate lust by
proclamation" Even so; but /
understand the Christian religion
to owe it's original start and it's
widespread precisely to procla-
nations. To proclaim it was the
commission of it's author, and
the work and glory of his apos-
ties.
But | think the bottom or top,
whichever it be, of irrationality
was touched when the editor Of
the New York Independent ac-
tually writes and prints in its
issue of October 20, 1904, this
sentence: 1T is worth while tc
say that the remedy he CD pro
poses, namely, a great mora
crusade among the negroes
against the particular crime Of
rape, would be more likely tt
suggest than to prevent the
crime" | hope my old friend
DR.. VIM. Hayes Ward, still a
least, the titular editor of tn
Independent, did not write tina
sentence, though at least he mus
be responsible for it. If he di
!. write it or approved it, then
am forced to say he is not fit t
discuss any moral question. Tn
: remark is a libel and involves
falsehood, a libel on the Who'll
negro race, a falsehood in assum
, ing that the negro race is im
+ pervious to moral influences
Such things as this rouse gray