The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-01-11

(Signed.) G. N. LANGSTON,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
! A WHITE MINISTER SCORED.
} In an recent issue Of the MT. Pleas
ant Record, Rev. A. s. Allen asserted
that the Negro questioned would not
be settled until the 18th amendment to
the Constitution was abolished. His
article was answered by DR.. J. O..
johnson, presiding elder Of the Colum-
bia District A. M. E. Church. We pub
lish herewith his reply to Rev. A. S.
Allen.
REST FOR THE NEGRO.
Rev. A. S. Allen raises the question:
"When and where will the Negro
find rest?" From the tone of the ar
ticle it does not appear that Mr. Al
len cares very much whether the negro
has any at all. He asserts that the
negro will find rest when he is dis
franchised. In every Southern state he
is practically disfranchised by educa-
tional, property and other qualifica-
tions. But this can only be temporary,
as negroes everywhere are fast redu-
cling their ignorance and accumulating
property. The South will finally ac-
cept the Fifteenth Amendment to the
Constitution with good grace. We
might as we'll talk about abolishing
the law of grayitation as of abolish
ing any of the war amendments" to
the constitution The negro has done
too much for this country in all of its
wars, and in developing its resources,
in the mines, on the farms, and as
servants in many capacities We
have a heritage here as much as any
white man, and though we are now
denied many of the benefits of the
laws-yet we still claim them. Revo-
lutions never go backward. The ne
gro will never be disfranchised.
The white man of to-day came UP
from barbarism to civilization. Any
man who has read Lord Macauley's or
Green's or Froude's history of Eng
land knows this. that the white man
of to-day had a very unpromising be-
ginning. julius Caesar declared that
the early Britons were unfit for civ
ilization, but to day these same men
are the masters of the world. Fifty
years ago who would have predicted
that the Japanese would have devei-
oped such a great civilization? or
that yellow race would have whipped
a white race as in this case.
Rev. Allen is certainly not informed
as to the real and essential progress of
the negro. He knows more about the
criminal negro than he does Of that
great progressive, upward-moving ne
gro who is lifting the burdens Of the
South and is building himself up and
buying homes and building churches
and schools. But no race is to be
Judged by it's criminals, 1t is unjust
for the South to be judged by Its mob
leaders or Ey men Of the Tillman and
Vardaman class.
It is very unfortunate that the press
should give so much space to proclaim-
ing the faults Of the negro, and this,
too, iii the face Of the fact that the ne
gro is universally trusted in thousands
Of important places in the life of the
South,
The gospel which Rev. Allen claims
will make the negro moral, has failed
! in this respect with a certain class OF
whites who still seek to contaminate
young colored women in the South.
am In a position to know that the ne
gro is making great progress toward
| higher moral standards, and the whites
ought to help US move in this direc
tion This can be done byiabolishine
the low di. this and other towns
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