Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-12
Representative Roddenoerrv of Georgia, Denounces
 Recent Marriage.
HE WOULD FORBID IT
Says White and Black Unions Will Bring on RIOOdiest War in
 Country'S History.

Washing on, Dee. 11.-The recent marriage af Jack Johnson, negro prize fighter, to Lucille Cameron, 4 white g'l in Chicago, was the subject today of one of the most fiery speeches heard in the House Of Rep- resentatVes ill fifty years.
 After introducing a resolution to amend the constitution to forbid the marriage of negroes and persons of any other color, Representa- ye x. X. RoddenEerry. of Georgia, denounced such unions as ''black slavery,' characterized the action Of the State of Illinois in permitting the marriage i'll question as "4amning" anl pre- d cted that the prs ctice would plunge the United States into as bloody a war as it had ever passed through. Nr. RodlenbelTy's resolution was as follows:
 That inter-marriage between ne gro6S or persons of color and Cau- casians or any other char cter of per sons within the United States or any territory under ;heir jurisd ction is forever prohibited and the term negro CT person or color as here employed, shall be he'd to mean any and all persons of African descent or having any trade of African CT negro blood. ,
 "We have heard great deal ill late days about the white slave traffic and it's enorm ty in New York and Chicago said Mr. Roddenberry. "Terrific and Tevolting as it is, it is not so revolting as that in Oh cago, where white girls in this country are made the slaves of an African brute, sanctioned by law of the state and solemnzed by form of marriage cere- mony.
 "We see an African with much brutal force, W tn no stamina, enter the officer of a legal officer ill that city and calling on him to. issue-'to Jack Johnson-a marriage license to wed a young American woman Of our own blood, our own race, our own color. The young officer is rectea to issue 10 the brute legal certlfi- cate permitting a white woman III these dsys to be bound ill the Wedlock of black slavery.
 "The negro question stands out III the example of Jchnson's marriage m Chicago as presenting to you as grave a negro question as ever con- fronted your brethen in the South. Do you propose that in all the 1u- ture years the negro men who can seize upon some woman of our race, who can tantalize her and persuade her and contract her in Wedlock-do vou propose that these tn ngs shall go sanctioned by laws of your sta'e
 .sIt is contrary and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. of is contrary and adverse to 'he very principles of a pure Saxon gov ernment. It is subversive Of soclaA neace. It is destructive Of moral su- nremacy and ultimately it will bring this country to a conflict as bloody and .as fatal as ever .he other days have produced.
 "Whhn black skinned, thick ,inne,a brutal-bearted African can walk into the office of the law anu demand an ed ct of the court of hls
 ra+e guaranteeing him legal wed- lock to white woman I challenge any man to prophecy that the result will be for the good of this country It is dehasing, nltra-demorailzihs and un+American. .a
 "No blacker incubus ever fixed N- self n,pon the soc'al politics of thls republic than the embryonic cancer of negro marriage to white peop1e that has lately been in evidence. NO more vorscious parasite ever sucked at the heart of pure society and moral stains than the one which welcomes or recognizes the secret of Weuioch hetween Africans and Americans.
 He closed tn a plea to the mem hers of the House to supporl ms res clutioH