The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-25
NEGROES NORTH AND SOUTH
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FOuFGgdHCES LOT the WHITES are pro-
vided with. The waiting rooms have
identicaIly like provisions.
Can that justly be described as
species of cruelty? 1t suits them
better and it suits us better, and
avoids friction, irritation, and at
times, perhaps, violence. IF they are
satisfied with these conditions, and we
are satisfied, why should it provoke
spleen and ugliness from unconcern-
ed outsidersf
make the following quotation
from your article:
As an instance of the wholesale ex-
oduss Rev. A L. James, of OcaIa, Flor
ida. discovered a couple of weeks ago
that his entire parish had moved to
New York. He followed them. and is
organizing them into a church in the
metropolis"
Rev. A. l. James is still in OcaIa
and is pastor of his flock here
So what you say concerning him
h4ttob NC DIS q liant
| am enclosing you a letter under
his signature, written to the Evening
Star of this city, which 1 hope that
you will spare the space to reprint in
your columns You and your readers
will see how far wrong you are.
It is true, as he says, that he did
90 70 CT, L.
returns. and, like Booker Washington,
after travelling over the greater part
of the world, was convinced that the
south is the best place for the negro
TO work out his destiny-among the
people he knows and who know him
But, speaking of race prejudice, do
you come into the parliament of this
discussion with clean skirts? Is not
the history of the world the history
of race antagonisms? Has it not ex-
listed as far back as history and ira
dition reach?
Was there not antipathy between
the Egyptians and Hebrews? Between
the Jews and all other races? Are not
whole pages of sacred history but a
recital of the total humiliation or ex-
pulsion of races by races, and vol
umes of profane history tell the same
story.
After the Normans conquered Eng
land did not the prejudices between
the conquerors exist for a number of
centuries? Was It not for long
time considered a disgrace for the
proudest Norman knight to marry the
richest Saxon princess? Race hatreds
between the ancient population of
Spain and the invading Cloths lasted
for eight hundred years. Between
the Arabs and the Moors there was
bitter enmity. Do not race antago-
nisms still exist in Europe, and other
parts of the globe?
On this side of the Atlantic did we
not drive the aborigines back, and
back, and back, until now they hard
! ly have territory enough upon which
to rest their feet? And many of the
tribes have become totally extinct.
Benjamin Lundy was the first one
to start newspaper to create SEN
timent for the liberation of the slave.
| 1t is little remarkable that he should
have established it in the south, and
as long as it remained here he was
unmolested, but when he removed it
from Jonesboro, Tenn, to Philadel-
phia it was burned by mob.
| In 1884 Thomas Jefferson proposed
an ordinance that after the year 1900
there should be neither slavery nor in.
voluntary servitude in any of the
states. If the northern states had
voted for it that ordinance would
have been adopted.
Was not William Lloyd Garrison
mobbed in the streets of Boston? Was
not Mr.. Owen P. Lovejoy, Presby.
terrain preacher, who next had the te-
merity to start an abolition newspa.
per, when he moved it from ST. Louis
to Alton, III, Inundated, and was not
his office entered by mob and his
type, presses and everything connect
ed with it, destroyed, and when he
purchased new outfit, and in the
third attempt, was he not mobbed and
his printing plant burned?
That was long time ago, but was
not the same spirit manifested at
East ST. Louis, ILL.,, within the past
six weeks?
And what about the history Of Pru-
dence CrandaIl? She taught the first
negro school 1t was at Canterbury,
Conn. Samuel May of your own city
wa some who volunteered his services
as one of her attorneys. The meet
| ing refused to hear him. When her
school was finally opened she was ar
rested for harboring young persons of
color and was imprisoned in the coun-
ty Jail Finally ean act of the legis-
lature was passed prohibiting "pri-
waite schools for nonresident colored
persons" and the news of the passage
| of the act was received in Canterbury
| by the ringing of church bells.
But why prolong the story?
! We have but small community in
Ocala, but we are living in compare
tive peace and harmony. We have
but little if any friction between the