The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-10
FS sting arc Pr.Yer.

Bishop Alexander Walters, Of the
National Afro American Council, has
issued a proclamation asking the Afri-
can race in America 10 observe Octo-
Der I as a day Of fasting and prayer
for the bettering OF the condition OF
the negroes in America. We have
read this proclamation, and we think
it rather peculiar document, which
is calculated to stir up strife between
the negro and the white man in the
South, instead OF benefltiDg the negro.
1t calls attention to the many wrongs
of the negro, but says nothing what
ever about his numerous faults and
short comings. We give a few extracts
from this proclamation so as our read
ers can judge for themselves OF its
character.
The pre reclamation opers by saying
it is call from God, and is sent forth
by divine authority. II then goes on
20 say that ''in these days when so
many men OF power and influence, AID
ed by a prejudicisl pless, are using
their Office of trust and honor to de-
grade and destroy ten million Amer
ican citizens, and the greater major
ity of sixty million look on in silence
it is time for the ten million thus op
pressed to rise IN their own de
tense" This is an Indictment againsi
every white man in the South, and
suggests that it is time for thesnegr e,
20 rise ar d wipe them out. That l.
The plain meaning of. the paragraph
quoted above.
The proclamation further says
when the Jsrealites We're oppressed
Mordecai called them to their knees
and he, with them, in dust and ashes
cried unto the God Of the oppressed
who heard them" The plain infer.
ence Of this paragraph is that the
negroes are oppressed and that they
must ask God to deliver them. b;
whom are the negroes oppressed:
# any of them are opp, essed in
this section except by their laziness
and vices we are not aware of it The
same may be said of other sections Of
the South. The effect Of the charge
that tie negroes are oppressed is cal.
culated to cause trouble and no doubt
has much to do with the attack Of
black fends on white women.
Among the things that the negroes
are told in the proclamation to pray
for are to "beseech the Almighty tt
cause justice to be done to all the peo.
pie in all the States by all the Off
Gals" and'that the statute books up
on which are written infamous dis.
eliminating laws and court records
containing entries Of unfair decisions
of judges and juries be burned, and
the nefarious convict lease system
will cease it's operation; that justice
will not unbllndfold herself when a
colored prisoner comes to the bar and
that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
| Amendments to the National Constl.
tuition will no longer be the National
lie in that great document" This is
a wholesale Indictment Of all.ofdcials
in the States Of the South, which will
have tendency to make negroes re,
gard these officials as oppressors in
stead OF officers of the law entitled tc
the respect OF every citizen.
What We have quoted is fair sam.
pie Of what this so-called proclama.
tion contains F1om beginning to
end it speaks Of the so-called wrongs
and oppression OF the negro race and
they are told to fast and pray and ask
God to deliver their race out OF the
power of the white race, who are held
up as the oppressors. It does not tell
the negro Of his sins and warn him to
seek forgiveness, but it makes him
out a martyr suffering because he is
a negro. 1t does not say one word OF
warning to the black fends over the
beautiful Southland who are waiting
cnance to vent. their hellish designs
upon white won en-. Oh. no. These.
too, are classed among the oppressed.
We speak very frankly when we Say
that such papers as this 1pcendiary
proclamation is not calculated to help
the negro in the South. 1t is rather
the cause Of such outbreaks as that
which occurred in Atlanta recently.
1t would be good idea for the negro
race on the day appointed for them to
fast and pray to ask God to deliver
them from their fool friends who pro-
mulgates such wholesale SANDERS
against the white people Of the South
as is contained in this so-called pro
clamation.
The "court en- banc," composed Of
all the circuit and the supreme court
Judges, which met in Columbia on
Friday, refused a new t'ial to E. a.
Adams OF Colleton county who is un-
der sentence Of death for the muroer
of his kinsman named Jacques.