The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-09-19
The Demands of the Negroes.

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The Demands Of the Negroes.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Niagara Movement held at Har-
per's Ferry the negro leaders issued
what they called an address to the
American people, outlining their de-
mands. Among these demands are
abolition Of the Jim Crow Lawjgwyp
equal rights, manhood suffrage with
out discrimination the abolition Of
the jim Crow car laws and better
education for their children in the
South, for which, Of course, the
whites are expected to stand the ex-
pense. The leaders of the "Niagara
Movement" also resolved to "rs--,
consecrate themselves and their hen
Or on the scene Of John Browns
martyrdom to the cause of negro
rights and concluded with the,
declaration that the negroes ARE not
more lawless than the whites, but
more often mobbed" In commenting
On the demands and the resolutions
the Philadelphia Ledger, says:
con the day that the address was
isued a negro who made an atrocious
assault on little white girl in South
Carolina was shot to death by mob
in spite of the authority Of the Gov.
eraor Of the State. Within the past
few days two other brutes met the
same fate in the same State in the
face Of Governor Heywards most ac-1
tive efforts. Within the confines of
the city Of Atlanta half a dozen ne
groes made like hideous attacks on
defenseless women and children with
in few weeks, and the lyncaing mob
has been busy. In the meantime
Hoke Smith has won the fight for
nomination to the Governorship by an
overwhelming majority on the plat
form of negro disfranchisement and
discrimination against the race.
Moreover, the chronicle of negro
attacks on worlen from ot,le: parts Of
the Sou5h is becoming an aiarrl!agly
large part of the daily record of
events.
- i futile to aver that these re-
ports Of atrocities are the inventions
Of negro haters, fabricated for the
purpose of tanning prejudice into
fame. They are hideous facts. to
which bear witness the Governor Of
South Carolina, the authorities of At
lanta, the ruined homes of innocent
inen and the dangling bodies Of ne
e1pes riddlec with bullets.
'The men of the Niagara Move
vert, says The cnajta4:o ooga Times,
a'i.s+ that the negro harer has been
too active in the past year. There is
feling that the Niagara Move
ments' address was incomplete, and
in its incompleteness fails to take
the measures calculated to put the
rabid negro hater out of court
It is a notorious fact which has at
tracted the attention not only of the
Philadelphia Ledger, but other lead
ing Northern newspapers that there
was not in the address Of the leaders
of the Niagara Movement" a single
word of destestation for the hideous
crimes of the negro race that cause
lynchings, and is causing all negroes
to be hated and disturbed. There was
no pledge or promise made IL the ad-e
dress to consecrate the Intelligent
men of the negro race to the work
Of eradicating the great evil which is
the prime source Of the prejudice Of
the whites against the negroes.
It may be that when intelligent ne
groes such as those who are the lead
ers Of the Niagara Movement mani
fest a sincere desire to deal with the
new negro's crime in behalf Of
both races, their demands will be re-
ceived with more consideration than
shey are at, the presen time.-Wil-
Star.
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