The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-04

hear of the South. in or near what
Is known as he Black Belt SO "on-
ceiss IL, q part of the mission of mis-
school is expressed In the purpose and
determination 70 assist the race in
laying such a gradual and permanent
foundation I'm right living, through the
accumulation of property, industry,
thrift, skill. education of all character,
moral and religious habits, and that
which means our usefulness TO the
community in which We abide. tina,
naturally, logically, alphabetically.
We shall make ourselves grow into the
full and rightful enjoyment and in.elli-
gent use of the privileges and rewards
Of citizenship"
That is the utterance at Tuskegae Of
the principal mulatto photograph Of
O.denism addressing the South.
"A part of the mission OF this
school"-then there is another part
That is not emphasized in the Soure.
But the clue To il may be given 10
close students of Ogdenism as IL APP
pears in all parts OF the country. The
other part of the mission is not con-
cealed, even though the natural mask
OF the negro is strengthened by the
adroit touch and unresting advice ami
tutelage of the white brain in Ogden
ism, the white brain behind Tuske-
gee.
"A part OF the mlssion"-what is
that other part?
The tune has changed within five
years from advising negroes 10 scatter
in the country to an effort 10 move
Heaven and earth and, some people
think, Hades, To keep them massed n
the South, to prevent them from ge,ing
into the North, and especially 10 New
YCrk. Ogdenism has its headquarters
in New Yo-k and it is Just managing
10 survive Tth so. 600 negroes next door
With 100000 negroes in New York
city, and with he magnificent oppor-
tunitieS thus given for a postgraduate
course there in Il study of the rea!
negro, especially the "m~iseducated"
negro, Ogdenism would be hooted ont
of the notOriety upon which i thrlVes
and be left to spend all the proceeds
of millionthropic delusion on its secre-
tarles, assistant secretaries, literary
heTalds and other appendages, while
noI even a Southern institution OF
Gaming" would be willing 10 be caught
With Ogdenism's goods upon it.
That education about the negro
would make the country pretty sick
OF education of the negro upon o.
denistic lines, with the unfolding Of
the other part of his mission"
It is mapped in utteranceS of me
journals, the leaders, the employees.
the proteges and the supporters OF
ncrIar ;r-, @~I 49, s~l:;l-nI l. r-l~-.
Ogdenism has featured at its confer
enceS for education in the South. Their
names need not be used here. Some
of them having won renown, some OF
them having enjoyed m~uch-needed SAL
aries in an emergency, some Of them
haing become heartily ashamed
of themselves, or some of them having
been used to the limit, have faded into
the lonely isolation" from which they
were rescued or have lost their en-
thusiasm for the holy cause" Their
names need not be recalled until the
writing of the history of this educa-
tional frenzy. But the teachings Of
the negroes by some of them must be
mentioned, as follows:
1T makes the same appeal to patri-
Otism that the problem of obliter-
ating slavery made-with this fortu-
nate difference: The abolition Of slav-
cry had to be accomplished against the
opposition Of the South, and the aboli-
ton of ignorance may be accomplished
with the South's heartiest co-opera-
ton"
20 promote education within the
United States without distinction CT
race, sex or creed.
I'VE hold these truths to be self
evident that all men should
have equality of opportunity"
The Southern men who are en-
gagged in educational work stand
squarely for the same training fol
the blacks Is for the whites"
The control of the South after the
war, was at it had always been. il
the hands of the very few. In order
to keep it there, the ignorance of the
man, white and black, was essen
tial. = 1t does not at all follow
| that because the ballot is now being
taken away from the blacks it is
| therefore, a failure"
1--WE need to insist not only thar
| the pen door of hope shall not bt
shut in the face of any man, but tina
absolute justice shall be done The
| negro under the changed condition:
that now prevail in the SouIherI
States"
The realization of the American
ideal, which opens wide for every
child of whatever race or color the
door of opportunity"
The Southern people say tnt
negro is unable to rise, but if he doe:
he must be put down. That is a nat
ural feeling for ex-slave holders Il
have"
We are here to say 10 the coIo.eC
people of this nation, friend go VI
higher | trust that the South /
', risiu" out of Saxonism into human,