The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-06-20


made by Mr.. Mullins last week, Rev.
Jonah says the statements are untrue.
His reply in full follows:
Mullins and Jonah break. Former
claims that the latter has imposed on
him. Both of these statements which ap-
peared in the Nashville Globe June Is
were absolutely false. In the first
place there is no break between Null
Inns and Jonah. In the second place
there is no imposition. A few weeks
ago / came here and found Mr.. Null
Inns battling against great odds with
a proposition by which he could help
his race. talked the subject over
with him and | discovered that he
had the key to perplexing solution,
and that he was doing the very thing
that | was advising the race to do.
found him buying a large tract of
land at very low rate and parceling
it out to his people in small tracts
at purchase rate. | advised him to
go ahead as it was advisable that
many of those community spots
should be established so that the
colored people of Chicago and larger
cities could be helped in a Back to
the Farm movement and by this col.
onizing plan, land, farming implements
and stock could be put in the hands
of our poor blacks in our crowded
cities.
Further said would like to give
you my whole attention but the col
ored people with whom l am ac
quainted desire me to spy out piece
of land on a river where we could
ship into Indiana and Illinois.
Very kindly Mr.. Mullln put me in
touch with white gentleman and
after telling him my plans, he said
am In touch with a man who is
doing a philanthropic work for the
colored people and for your project
can get this rich land for IS per acre
which has been offered to settlers al
the same price. l consulted Mr.. Mul-
Inns and he spoke we'll of it. The land
| is partly bargained for and l discov
| cred that Mr.. Mullins was a capable
man with the soil of Tennessee and
one who could lay out farming com
munity. His name was used only as
one who should give me valuable ad-
vice, and he stated that he would like
to give it his attention but the HoT
tense proposition which he started two
years ago demanded his personal at
tention for the present.
l advised him not to give up his
Hortense proposition because water
melons and peanuts do not grow on
the same land, and the white folks
like the peanuts, and his race the wa
termelons, so both sites were surely
needed and so that is all the break
and imposition.
As far as me being the Moses OF
the Negro race, l would like to advise
that l am not seeking such wonderful
| honors, but want to say few words
privately that it has been these white
Moses that put the Negro in slavery
and it is white Moseses" that know
how to deliver them.
| The best detective has always been
/ the best thief, and the reason that my
mission is a mysterious one is be
cause ! am interested in seeing the
Negro race have the same privilege
that all other races enjoy, and the
one that is doing this work in the
Southland had better be mysterious.
Years ago when God called me into
this work. like Jonah Of old, | did
not want to go. Not because | was
afraid to meet my white brethren face
to face, but because | had to contend
with a class or race of men who had
no race pride, and who were tools for
selfish white people
Again, why | am anxious to speak
in colOred audiences, and take the
privileges which are offered me is
that | desire to Danish from the mind
of the colored people, first that their
| face was not made black because of
sin, but a beautifully designed plan of
God. Second that God wonderfully
used the black race in the house of
Israel and Judah, and the three noted
men of the twelve tribes took three
colored women for their wives.
When the dark race makes these
statements | have noticed that their
own race has doubted the truth and
have observed that when have re-
vealed these facts it has been believed,
and this is my method of reaching
my white people who would not hear
me under any proposition that I may
offer, and / thank God for the Negro
cooks and wash women that have car
ried my message into the back door
of the puny, narrow-minded white
race, and by that method my message
has taken very deep root.
AS in reference to living in the
town, | would say that while | have
been In the South and have always
made my home with Negro people
eaten at the same table, and that will
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