The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-15

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 about the blacks, starting
 oression of the African slave
 minate with the proclama-
 ncipation, 1t was the black
 le white people, who behaved
 ke Christian men and wom-
 abriel should suddenly blow
 l the world should come to
 blessed instant many a white
 pc found holding up black
 ad his case before the re-
 l."
 ood Among Slaves.
 rson gave some personal ex-
 follows:
 many of my boyhood days
 1tation in Tennessee, where
 ted in it's complete form, but
 Is better aspects and condi-
 the earliest dawnings of
 which I can remember, tine
 ca 10 me 1nOnSITOuS. IT SldN-
 rong. said Lincoln, nothing is
 I thought, and so I think.
 men fought and fell on the
 side in the war between the
 believed the same thing, as
 gton and Jefferson, and the
 Virginia who made the first
 voution.
 second American revolution
 S, llberating as by a single
 sword nearly 100000 slaves
 .ge, my sentiment of freedom
 <cess of my sense of the magni- .nd the complexities of events ac ed the situation. The three last amendments to the constitution l declared To the actual and final treaty of peace be- tween the north and south. It was my )pinion based on feeling, not on knowl- sdge and judgment, that. given perfect the newly liberated slave would be able to work out his own des- .iny. During the ten years of reconstruc ion that ensued I devoted my energies to- ward the habtation of the black man of he south as essential to the pacifcation )f the white men of the north and south
 ku kIux kIan.
 .There are black men still living in Kentucky who cannot fail to recall the ontest we had with the clements of dis rder masquerading as the Kuklux Klau ong after the disbandment of that dread organization of the states south of us, he struggle for the admission of negro estimony to the courts of law-in point f fact, the stubborn fight for the expur- ration of the old black laws from the tatute books of the commonwealth, mar owing itself down even to the right of he negro to ride upon the street cars" MT. Waterson expresses great sympathy or the struggles ofsthe black people Of he south. On this point he said: 'I must tell you, after forty years of ex- 'erienee and observation and reflection, hat l think we began wrong. We put he cart before the horse. Three mill ions of poor black people, with some enturies of abject slavery and many ges of barbaric night behind them, were mt equal to using the freedom that came o them so suddenly and especially the 'allot with prudence or intellingence low could they? I don't blame then, in he least On the contrary I sometimes wonder at their restraint. As during the ectional war they were faithful servants. at home and tilllng the field nd taking care of the women and chil- ren. so since the war according to their ights, they have tried to be good citi- ems. l glory in every step of progress hey have made-and they have made many strides--from that day to this, and ny heart goes out to the black man wher- yer I see him honestly struggling to aise his children to a condition better han his own
 Progress of Blacks. Of the progress of the blacks In the outh and their present condition Mr. Vaterson said:
 We may not escape our manifest des- iny. Neither of us can get rid of the ther. Schemes to that end however lgenuous, are wholly visionary. Since his is so let us take account of what as been done these forty years of free om.
 T stand here tonight to declare that he world has never witnessed any such rogress from darknes sto light as that mich We see in those districts of the outh where the negro has had decent pportunity for self development Look { Jamaica, nearly a century of emanci- alton, the negro is at a standstill-look | South Africa, riches piled on riches, he negro is still a savage and less >0n- ldered than the animals-yet 1t is md that pques heself on what she one for freedom and the black ma
 Barred in New England. Let the negro go to any New and community apd trv to a,,,