Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-01-27
NEGROES RESENT
An PRESSION
GAINED ABROAD
Declare Stories Given Cir.
culation in Europe Are
Misleading.

London, England. - American ne
groes are waging an energetic cam.
paign in England to convince the
country of the untruth of articlet
recently published in Europe to the
effect that the blacks condition in the
United States is really all that any.
one could desire. The London Daily
News in particular is devoting much
space to tie exposition OF thei,
views.
Our people," says recent open.
letter on the subject in the News
columns, were emanctpated in q
Whirl of passion and then left naked
to the mercies of their enraged anc
impoverished ex-mast, RS. As our sole
means OF defense We were given the
ballot and We used 1t 30 as to secure
the real fruits of the war. Nc
sooner, however, had we got rid O.
nearly two-thirds of our illiteracy
and accumulated $500, 100000 worth
OF property in a generation than thf.
ballot was taken from US by force
and fraud.
Along with this has gone a syste
matte attempt to curtail the educa.
ton OF the black man. In every walk
OF life We meet discrimination based
solely on race and color. Worse than
all this is the wilful miscarriage OF
justice. Not only have $500 black
men been lynched in the last %
years, but regularly every day
throughout the south, the machinery
OF the courts is used to wreak public
dislike and vengeance and to raise
public funds.
Everywhere in the United State.
the old doctrine of recognizing fines,
wherever it occurs is losing ground
before reactionary policy of deny
Ing prefcrment to competent men II
they have trace of negro blood and
OF using the weapons of public insul,
and humiliation to keep such mer
down.
Against this dominant tendenc,
strong and brave Americans, white
and black, are fighting, but they
need and need sadly the moral sup
port of England and of Europe In
this crusade for the recognition OF
manhood, despite adventurous diff.
terences of race
The letter is signed by former AL
derman Clement G. Morgan of Cam.
bridge, Mass; Bishop Alexander
Walters of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion church; former Clerk
Of Courts George w. Crawford OF
New Haven, Conn; former Assistant
States Attorney B. s. Smith of Kan.
;as; Editor ]. Max Barber of 1.-THE
Voice of the Negro; Attorney w
Justin Carter of Harrisburg, Pa:
DR.. Owen M. Waller of BROOKLYN:
Editor William Monroe Trotter OF
he Boston Guardian; w. E
Du Bots, author and sci.
enlist; Grand Master Edward H.
Norris of the black American Odd.
fellows; William A. Sinclair, author;
Editor Harry c. Smith Of 1.-THE Cleve.
and Gazette; Attorney G. w
of Philadelphia; Prof. viii.
lam Pickens of Talladega college
former Consul to Sar
Domingo Archibald H. Grimke:
President James R. L. Diggs of Vir
,inia seminary and college, Virginia:
ormer Chairman c. E. Bentley OF
Dental Clinics at the st. Louis ex
Attorney Frederick L.
thee OF St. Paul; Pastor S. l.. Cor
others of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion church at Washing.
on; Pastor ]. Milton Waldron OF
hiloh Baptist church. Washington; !
secretary James L. Neill of the Ma
lonal Independence league; Attor.
ey N. B. Marshall of Brownsville,
exas, and Medical Director N.F
[ossell Of Douglas hospital, Phila.
alnhia