The Washington bee., 1908-01-18
NEGRO EDITORS REPLY TO
JUDGE NORWOOD.
ON the Savannah (Ga.) News.

From the Savannah (Ga) News.
Editor Morning News: I ask you
to give to the public the enclosed clip
ping from The Bee a paper published
in Washington, D. c, by some Negroes.
Il IS valuable education for both races,
the ruddy and the black. 1t IS light
out of darkness 1t is proof out OF the
Negro's mouth Of all | said of him in
my review of his race December 81,
70 wit: First, that God has set an i'm
possible limit 10 the Negro's intellect
second, that as a corollary the white
mans effort to educate him beyond that
limit is not only useless, but injurious
10 both races; third, that the repres-
sion, during two hundred years of slav-
cry OF his non-moral pylogeny or ma
characteristics; fourth, that when the
ture, did not change or eliminate his
repressive power Of slavery was remoy-
ed, he, at once, developed this ingan-
ed, ineradicable psychic condition ex-
istine in Africa for millions of years;
fifth, that his only conception OF gov
eminent now is brute force. This ap-
plies to the generation since Emancipa-
ton.
This Negro's editorial demonstrates,
FIRST, the limit on his intellect; second,
the injury to him and the white race
caused by his so-called education third,
his non-percepton Of truth; fourth, his
inability to reason, and fifth, and es-
pecially, his racial brute-fOrce.
T. NJ. Norwood.
Thomas NJ. Norwood OF Savannah,
Ga, has paid for his vile wrath against
the colored man in the South. Else
where in The Bee will be read with dis
gust Norwoods attack upon colored
Americans in the South. Since the re-
tirement of Vardaman Of Mississippi
never have such utterances been made
against colored Americans IN the South.
The country may not know who Nor
wood IS. He was at one time IN the
United States Sentte. His record does
not show any degree Of brilliancy while
a member OF thai branch of Congress.
He was a candidate for Governor OF
Georgia against Colquit, and neither re-
ceiyed the nomination; they both ran as
Independent Democrats Norwood was
then appointed a Police Court judge,
such as we have in this city.
The South that IS a portion of 1t
loves to feed upoa such rot as Nor
wood throws to it. There are some
gentlemen in the South and there are
Southern ladies who do not fear the
colored man and feel safer in his pres
ence than they do in the presence of
the poor white trash.
This Police Court judge, who claim
ed to have tried over 1900 col
ored people, failed to state how many
white prisoners have been tried and
convicted before him.
This man has read no history of the
colored man. The greatest generals,
philosophers scientists. physicians, ,schol-
ars. orators, inventors and the like may
be found among the colored race. The
greatest thieves, murderers and scoun-
dels are found among the people Nor
wood claims to represent. The colored
man has not learned how to carry away
banks, trust funds, railroads and insur-
ance companies as yet. If the colored
American IS permitted to become con-
taminated with Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
ton he will soon learn all his tricks
and his art of destruction. fl At present
he is contented with robbing chicken
coops or ham houses and watermelon
patches. He doesn't attempt to debauch
the women of the white race ,as white
men do with Colored women. The col
ored man does not set up and maintain
white sporting houses as white men do.
II farther South is similar to the Dis
trict of Columbia, there are FIVE or six
colored sporting houses supported en-
tirely by white patrons. This kind OF
living does not speak very well for
Anglo-Saxon civilization, Of which this
Police Court Judge Norwood speaks.
"Our respectable colored girls in this
city are afraid to walk upon the public
streets for fear OF being pursued by
some white scoundel. There is more
immortality among the Norwood class
in the South than there IS among the
colored people"