Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-12-18
RACE: MARRIAGE HIT.
RoDDENBERRY OF GEORGIA DE-
NoUNcES WEDLock OF
WHlTEsAND BLACKS. ~
PREDICTS WAR WILL RESULT
4 Southern Congressman Introduces
Resolution to Amend Constitution
4 to Forbid Marriage Of Negroes &
and Persons Of Other Color. Y

Washington, Dec. s13.-The recent
marriage Of Jack" Johnson, negro
4 prize fighter, to Lucille Cameron, a
white girl, in Chicago, was the sub
{ 1ect Wednesday of one Of the most
fiery speeches heard in the house Of
K representatives in fifty years.
After introducing a resolution to
4 amend the Constitution to forbid the
3 marriage of negroes and persons Of.
any other color, Representative s. A:
\ Roddenberry Of Georgia denounced
!. such unions as black slavery" char
\ acterized the action of the state of
+ Illinois in permitting the marriage In
question as "damning" and pIedictad
that the practice would plunge =
United States into as bloody a war
& as it has ever passed through. -
Mr.. Roddenberry' resolution was as
follows: s.5 -, \. 5s5 E@s3 II
THAT intermarriage between ne,
groes or persons of color and Cauca-
sian or any other character of persons
within the United States or any terri
tory under their jurisdiction is forever
prohibited, and the term negroes or
f persons Of color as here employed
shall be held to mean any and all per-
sons Of African descent or having any.
4 trace Of African or negro blood.
1--WE have heard q great deal in late
days about the white slave traffic and
its enormity in New York and Chica-
GOT said Mr.. Roddenberry Terrific
6 and revolving as it is, it is nottso re-
{ voting as that in Chicago, White
girls of this country are made the
slaves Of an African brute, sanctioned
7 by the laws OF the state and solemn
ICED by the form Of marriage cere-
{ mony. tss}sa5 @ s5 ..ssS
I'VE see an African with much
brutal force, with no moral character,
with no stamina, entering the office OF
a legal officer in that city, and calling
on him to issue to Jack Johnson!'--
marriage license to. wed a young
I. American woman Of our own blood,
our own race, our own color. The
young officer is directed to issue to
the brute legal certificate permitting
= white woman in these days to be
4 bound In the wedlock Of black slavery.
The negro question stands out in
the example of Johnson's marriage in
Chicago as presenting to you as grave
q negro question as ever confronted
your brethren in the south.
""The records of Chicago and other
cities show that from time to time ner
groes are binding themselves in mat
rimony with women of the white race.
Gentlemen, that does not happen in
I the south. i M. @S IA. (. &
5ss$3s DO you propose that in all the fu.
d ture years the negro men can seize
+ upon some weak minded woman OF
our race, who can .tantalize her, who
4 can overpersuade her and contract her
4 to wedlockdo you propose that these
I things shall go sanctioned by laws OF
( your states? =. II
s383S 1T lis contrary and averse to every
sentiment Of pure American spirit. It
\ Is contrary and averse to the very
4 principles Of a pure. Saxon govern
! ment. 1t is subversive Of social peace
4 It is destructive of moral supremacy
and ultimately it viii bring this coun'
try to conflict as bloody and as IA
H. -
duced.
when black-hearted, thick-lfpped
4 brutal-hearted African can walk into
G the offices of the law and demand an
Yedict Of the courts of his state guaran.
. teeing him legal wedlock to a white
woman, challenge any man to
y prophesy that the result will be for
& the good Of this country. It is debas.
u ing. ra-demoralizing and un-Ameri.
4 can:
NO blacker incubus ever fixed it.
\ self upon the social politics OF this
republic than the embryonic cancer of
negro marriage to white people that
II has lately been in evidence. No more
s5voracious parasite ever sucked at the
heart of pure society and moral status
than the one which welcomes or recog-
nizes everywhere the sacred ties of
!, wedlock between African and ,Ameri-
can"
\ y s Nj Find sidna Allen Guilty.
WytheVille Va, Dec. 13-Sidna
Allen, leader Of the Hillsville gunner
who shot up the Carroll county court
and killed five persons. was convicted
Of involuntary manslaughter Wednes-
day. The jury fixed his punishment
at five years Imprisonment. .a
Newspaper Mans Wife Dead.
De Kalb, ILL.,, Dec. 13.-Mrs. Clinton
Rosette dropped dead at her home
here Wednesday. Her husband, who
5tdied a few years ago, was founder of
the De Kalb Chronicle and ex-Dresi-