Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-01-14
made of one blood All nations % men lor

to dwell on all the face of the earth"
The eighth commandment, Thou shalt
not steal" was violated when the first
twenty Negroes were stolen and sold as
slaves from the Dutch man-of-war In 1919
on American soil. The fruits of this long
standing curse are still being reaped
This sin cannot be covered but must be
repented of. Armies can't shoot it out
Naval forces can't drown 1t. Political
trickery is an imperfect cloak for 1t.
Conventions for peace have failed to
please. Wrongs have a place of redress.
which is the throne of God. This is the
court for the nations prayer.
The Negro in this country is the prob
lem north and south, east and west, as
long as he is legislated against II he is
received as a part and parcel of the body
polite there is 10 Negro problem. He is
here and cannot be exterminated. He has
been dragged through the iron mills of
slavery. In the furnace of fire they af-
fiicted him from 1919 to 1863, a period of
"a years. In this period he was forced to
be ignorant, bossed by masters To know
books and letters was a crime His priv
ilege to serve God was by permission
Yet they multiplied 'If God be for us
who can be against us?"
The Negro was possessed with an In
born feeling that at some time and in
some way he would be free, and he pray
ed through generations to that end.
The smoldering' fires burned, with occa-
sional outbreaks in efforts for freedom
such as % Nat Turner's uprise Aug. n,
1881, who, with twenty ODD men, shed
blood from house to house. aiming to
throw off the yoke.
~ John Browns Harpers Ferry actions
Oct H. 1853 were heroic in the same in
terest. He was put to death on Dec Of
the same year but his manly struggle
Tor freedom imnortalized him in Amer
lean history.
The underground railroad, Uncle Toms
Cabin Henry Hyland Garnet. Frederick
Douglass and many others too numerous
10 mention formed chapters of the signs
OF the times.
The Negroes prayers have always been
effective. Through them God touched
the heart and hand of the sixteenth presi-
dent of the United States in the person of
Abraham Lincoln who signed the eman-
clation proclamation Jan. l, 1865
From then until now special legislation
has been enacted for his detrirnent and
to crush from him his manhood, pushed
Into dirty Jim Crow cars. disfranchised,
organized out the market o, bread w<n.
ming by labor unions, given the smallest
wages and roughest work and segregated
in many cities. In the face Of all this 1t
can be truthfully said there is not known
to history a race on the face of the earth
which has made as much progress under
similar circumstances in forty seven years
as the Negro.
This is true in the business world and
every line OF profession. Do not be salts
fed with so little of this worlds goods;
not less religion, but more Christianity;
more patience and greater confidence In
God.
New Political Emancipation.
The independent vote Is lroclaiming
a new emancipation. says the South.
western Christian Advocate eman-
cipation from the tyranny of the party
whip and from the sneers and scorn OF
those who would brand the man rs a
traitor who dared to vote as he thought
best
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