The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-03-17

called Negroes, who are the descend
ents OF kentucky's most aristocratic
citizens on the one hand and Negro
slaves. In many cases they bear the
family name. For MANY years after
the war there were hundreds OF tho
leading citizens of Kentucky who lived
in open adultery with their black
mistresses and the practice is not ali
sOlutely obsolete at the present time,
although the cases are few and far be-
tween.
The ancestors Of the Southern slaves
were in Africa moral people; all OF
their immortality was acquired from
their Southern Christian masters.
Again Miss Burroughs says:
Prejudice is on tie increase anG
race hatred and sectional strife is
everyWhre felt. If / could believe ilat
the Southern people. with al OF ,leir
prejudices. with all of their animosi
ties, are Christians, or even civilized,
and that God is going to accept this
type and give them 4 place in the
kingdom, l would pray 70 Him to make
me savage and remove from me
every possible means of knowing that
| Jesus died to save and take my chances
in the last day among those who have
never even heard the name of Jesus.
If the Southern people, with all their
prejudicas, are Christians. then nc
people in this world who are free from
this type of barbarism are saints
There is no question about the in
erase Of prejudice and race hatred.
The average Caucasian Southern
Christian mother begins at the cradle
tn ~, l,oEo
despisa Afro-American people because
of their color; they are taught that
the whites are superior and the blacks
inferior. The state recognizes the col
| Or-line in providing separate and in,
ferior schools for Afro-American child
rem and filthy Jim Crow cars for the
ladies and gentlemen OF the black and
| mixed races. The Caucasian Baptist
Church makes color instead OF charac-
ter the test for those who aspire to
membership. After struggling through
/ life handicapped at every step by the
heliish color-line. the Afro-American
WHO i: SO unfortunate as to live and
die in Kentucky must be buried in q
separate graveyard.
! Miss Burroughs continues:
| The Negroes rnay be ignorant, sorle
, may be shiftlaSs, some nay be inlmor-
al, but it must be said to their credit
thy Lc-,,-cc never produced nd promo
! cd to the highest Office a barbarian
| like Vardaman. II the men in the
! highest positions in the Southland are
of this type, how will you rate the
masses? Governors, Senator'S, Repre-
sentaives, preachers, business men.
the upper class and the army CT poor
whites need missionaries and need
them at once
The missionaries are needed Ono
reason for the prejudice against the
| Afro-Alnericans is the ignorance OF the
whites concerning the race. The nv
erage Caucasian has no idea Of the
| Afro-Anericans except what is gained
through their intercourse at home
with their servants or their relations
| with black harlots and criminals
! whom they meet in the saloons AMI
dives.
Of the intelligent. refined class OF
| Afro-Americans, they know practically
nothing. yet there are thousands of
Afro. Americans in Louisville and
other cities OF the South who are the
equal intellectually. morally of the
! editor Of the Western Recorder