The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06


on the floor of the conference and
with tears in their eyes and sobs in
their threats pleaded 10 be allowed
to go with Their congregations. Not
that we want to go for our own sake,
they said, but for the sake OF our
people. We know it means suffering
and hard living, but we will work
with our hands for our support, that
we may minister to our people, may
keep them together that they may
not drift and be swallowed up in
the great cities of the north with no
spiritual or moral guidance to keep
them from the downward path"
They are going at night, these refu-
gees; the trains are full of them, anu
they are going with a mighty fear
upon them. A friend of mine was
strange world, their poor belongings
in clumsy, homely looking bundles in
the seats beside them. The stock was
left, they could not sell it, they said
and much of their household stuff. the
poor collection of years of labor-but
theirs.
Why They Go.
"But why do you go?" my friend
asked The old man, with trembling
| fingers drew out from his pocket d
crumpled paper and spread it out be
fore them At the top Of the sheet
was crudely drawn skull and cross
bones, below was written: you are
hereby warned that you and your en-
tire family must be gone from this
community within forty-eight hours
Your attention is called to symbol al
! top of notice" In the community
near which the man lived a woman
lad been burned at the stake few
months before. Her crime wa due t.
the naturalNH impulse Of mother
hood. She had dared to protect hcI
child from blows administered by ;
white man. And so the old man
fearing for his life, was fleeing II
the dead of night.
In another town in Georgia fou
four innocent Negroes were foul!
murdered in the usual way by al
insane mob The father of the FAM
ly was lodged in Jail for assault OF
an officer who came to arrest him
The mob therefore seized the famil,
the mother, two daughters, one o
whom was soon to become a mother
and ten year old boy. | cannot g
into the revolving circumstances o
it all. Suffice it to say that littl
white boys saw it and hence seeds o
brutality, hatred and revenge wer
planted in their young hearts. Man
Negroes are leaving that section
A Negro woman in Georgia resiste
! the offensive attentions Of whit
ruffan, with the result that her house
> with all her possessions was burned
, and note was served on her to leav
, the community at once or she woul
!, pay the penalty at the ropes end.
1t is not simply the poor, ire
sponsible, shiftless Negro that undeI
:, goes such treatment at the hands O
senseless mob, for example, the II
.. cent occurrence in South Carolina
,, when a Negro worth anywhere fror
: $4,000 to $4,000, a Jaw abidin
citizen, was cruelty put to death an
his family ordered to leave. His so
;. owned drug store, where he wa
doing a good business, all of whic
had to be sacrificed.
OF course, these outrages are pc
petrated by the coarse, brutal mo
q element. But what are the civ
q authorities doing about it? With tn
G exception possibly of the case, cite
= from South Carolina where Governr
;. Manning is demanding an investig
r tion we know of nothing being don
Il to restrain the mob spirit whic
n seems to be rampant.
r And what is the church doin
d about it? Do we know anywhere ,
J. any church taking an out and OF
o stand against such? We seem to |
t bound hand and foot What is it "
o are afraid of? To bring it close
= home What is our great Methods
:, Episcopal Church, South, dOin
f about it? Where is her influence
r Where is her voice? Who has gage
il her? Is she slave OF prejudice?
J. SHE Il COWdIu. vi 10 sue iSiCSp' w
G prefer TO believe it IS the last, but
e is time for her to awake up or
u great opportunity will have passf
| and God will find another instrumel
s through which to voice the wrongs
e an oppressed people.
r Not only does she seem to be ia
ing no measure to change eXistir
T. conditions, not only is her pulpit s
), lent with regard to these atrocior
a wrongs, but she, this great Method
It Episcopal Church, NSouth, wealth
V strong, influential, is actually failiT
l. to meet the responsibility of ia:
t already assumed. Paine College
8. the one avenue through which as
IS church, she has even pretended
4, minister to the Negro race, by trail
d ing its leaders, it's preachers.
d teachers, its parents Of the gener
Is tions to come.
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