The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
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The Negro Problem North and

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There wasn't any difference in the
ardor OF his speeches wherever he
went. Taking the ground, while dis
cusslng The Negro Problem in its
Material and Moral Development,
that the problem IS the outgroWth Of
a slavery system. practiced while prot
liable. by both North and South. he
expressed Il faith in DR.. Shepard's
school which he believed no other idea
yet advanced, car Justify. The North
ern nelghbors. with very few excep-I
tons" he continued, sold the slaves
i'll slavery to the South. The North
freed them and now it Is the duty Of
both North and South to give to tn
negro such religious and industrial
training as will fit him for the exer-
else of the blessings of liberty. II
the negro IS to remain here. ana ne Is.
It is as much your duty to help him as
ours"
Whether the North has received q
correct story of Southern slavery or
not, the governor did not stop to eX-
plaln. He said one striking thing:
In all of that conflict over slavery
and secession. | have yet to hear of one
act OF cruelty or outrage perpetrated
by the slaves While their masters were
at the front fighting against them.
And I am willing to rest the cause of
the South upon that sole circumstance
and leave it to history to write that
such We're the relations of master and
slave, that while the slave was master
and the master was slave, not one
crime against the women and the chill
dren was committed
As to Passing the Hat.
Governor Glenn might have brought
more money to the Durham school
had he been satisfied to employ his
hour solely in making appeals and
passing the hat, His task was not SO
easy. DR.. Shepard had frequently told
hjc audiences that tho Snnfhorn
Wfsites and blacks were never SO
friendly as now. Governor Glenn told
what made it. The radiance of the
carpetbagger, the ex~purgation of the
ballot, removal of the criminal and
very illiterate black vote, and later the
white vote, these all he assured the
North, made up the good conditions
now approaching ideaIity so far as
feeling goes. He defended the suf-
frage amendments and his audiences
a~pplauded Ter he told them that
these laws are not one-sided. but APP
ply to Dot races, though he took time
to explain that at first they did not,
And when he said that every State of
New England and of the Union, would
profit by this same course, there was
tearing down applause. even II il was
in the churches and on Sunday nights.
Always Did the Negro Justice.
And throughout the North Governor
Glenn was humanitarian. He did not
leave his audience to infer that the
blacks down South were saVages, but
that the have shown marvellous ca
pacity for development. What they
lack most. he believes Is an educated
ministry. He declared that there are
10000 ers Of which mum Der 81
900 are ~uneducated, and only 5000
enc trained at all. Many Of these
he said, are immoral, if not immoral,
certainly immoral, the blind leading
- .-3 thok Ii~ r-11a0
to be started in Durham, now nearly
| ready for its summer course and cha
tauqua Is the most strategic point of
upIift / know. The colored people
have their classical schools institu-
tons Of manual training and high
| schools. but thew need more. They
| need mental, moral and industrial
teaching to make them W~eli-rounded
men and women This school gives 1t
to them. DR.. Shepard has said that
his idea Is that the quickest way TO
reach the masses readily is through
knows the power Of the NEGRO minis
ter. It matters little whether he Is
good or bad, he has the Influence and
that influence IS very nischfeVous IN
less the heart and mind of the preachr
less the heart and mind OF the
preacher are right"
DR.. Chapman quoted judge Pritch-
aIo oS A"1N Ii"
preacher in voting days was always to
be depended upon, that peace with tn"
preacher meant the solid negro vote
Il venture to say continued Dr.
Chapman, that there ism a politician
In Essex county, who wouldn't BE GLAD
to know that Q deliver h vote
of my congregation solidly to Inn.
And imagine it wouldn't make much
difference whether my congregation
paid my salary or not
Giving Indifference Of the North TO the
Negro.
The short contact with the North
ern people, an association on trains
and with the street fTeQuenters, gave
one good reason for SAYING that the
North has grown in its indifference TO
the negro. rather than in kindness.
The ill-inforlned man there believes
tina. the South d~isfranchises all Of
the race, suppresses its ind ustry, de-
MES il any opportunity and 1ynches
opo or two every week to make hood