Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-10-12

assessed at ASosS = 4 1881 I'VE million
eight hundred and forty-four thous- (
and. nine hundred and ffty-three dol /
I lars. The assessed value of the land
and building lots owned by them is
/ ($17. 27S,343) seventeen million. two
hundred and seyenty-eight thousand. /
three hundred and three dol (
T lars. The assessed value OF their
/ personal property is Cs5,9S9.O4S) (
nine thousand and forty-eight dol
lars.
The total assessed valuation OF the
I property. both real and personal of
/ the colored people of Virginia is
F.. (S23.267391) twenty-three million,
two hundred and sixty-seven thous-
and. three hundred and ninety-one
dollars. AS the assessed valuation
Is only two-thirds OF it's actual value
the colored people fin Virginia own
. property both real and personal TO
the value of C3A9O1.0S5) thirty
four million. nine hundred and one
thousand, and eighty-fve dollars.
These people were pennuess at the
/ close of the Civil War and have been
living ON what may wei be termed
starvation wages ever since Fur
/ Their comment along this line is uu-I
+ necessary. It continued:
So far as the church is concerned
iaus increase u numbers and gainI
in intelligence and iu piety they win
Zoe am increasing source OF cmbarrass
meut at church gatherings. Wheth-|
or race prejudice is right or WRONG.
"e must recognize ID ass "a fact ItI
may DE hard, unjust. sometimes
cruel but o. ls as much a part OIL
the life of white people, certainly
Lac tine south. as their aUpeltcs for|
food or their thirst for water. Thore|
fore, The fact. is that however uiousI
the Ncgro may be. however useful
his work or pure bis character. heI
must dee made to recognize every day
of bis contact with Southern xliteI
people that they viii not and cannot
accept him ass their equal socially"
/ These coIored people are not ass-I
ue for social equality. They are iu-
sis,ius upon civil equalty.-their
rights under the laws of God and the
canous off che Church. Can Chris,
tian body as areat and as strand as
che Episcopal body AFFORD 90 bow To
,race prejudice and yield mp vital
principles iu the face OF the demands
,of che Devl2 The Nevs-Loader said
further:
Nothing is more pathetic than theI
appearance of "a few Negro commuui
I canrs iu au Episcopal church. hum-I
I bly, and patiently accepting their lott
as separated people. going even 20
the altar as apart from their whitel
brethren. Yet the consequence to|
tlc Southern mind ol amy m0difca-|
itou of Che barriers arc too horrlble|
even for consideration. Free social.
intercourse and commiugi ir- ineyita-
h.y would lead Goo misce-euatiou. be-.
SHINING among tlo lowest clements
of both races ana dcvolounr us "a
race of iudiscrimiuatc molgrcls. the
blood ol each race mixed and diluted
generation after generation until the
purity and strength of both would
disappear.
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land woman. who is of less fban
|one-fourth Negro blood. however