The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-20

premises aforesaid, and in con-
sideration of the further promises of
said Baptist Missionary and Edu-
cational Convention to aid annually
and regularly Roger Williams Uni
versity, in conducting, supporting ann
maintaining an institution of learning
for Negroes upon the property herein
described, and by authority of a
resolution of its Board of Trustees or
Directors the said Roger Williams
University, has bargained and sold
and does hereby transfer and convey
unto the Baptist Missionary and Edu-
cational Convention of Tennessee a
corporation, certain real estate stu
uated in Davidson County,
If they mean to protect our inter-
est by this conveyance, why not say
in consideration of $1,000 paid, etc?
That would have been better, to say
the least Who has our $4,000? Al
though the Revs. VIM. Haynes, E. M.
Lawrence, A. D. Hurt. DR., Townsend
and others on the 80 day of last May,
1916, chartered them a convention
for the purpose of getting control of
our $4,000 and on the 18th day of
March, 1917, the trustees of Roger
Williams wrote their immortal con-
veyance to this new corporation,
"The Tennessee Baptist Missionary
and Educational Convention" which
represents a small faction of the
| d. IT,, OF nd q 10
conveyance was filed for record on
the third day of this month (ApriD
1917, why not tell the people when
| it was done, since it is the truth,
It has taken these trustees eight
years to attempt to do what they
said and even say now was at frs.
done.
We will now have to wait period
for them to undo THEMSELVES. So
the Negro Baptists can ask the
Home Mission Society to do what ii
should do in this matter to protect
our interest, as they are the only
ones who can.
! TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said
property to said Baptist Missionary
and Educational Convention of Ten
nessee, corporation, its successors
and assigns, subject to the rights OF
the American Baptist Home Mission
Society as set forth in deed Of con-
veyance from the American Baptist
Home Mission Society to Roger viii.
liams University bearing date March
4, 1908, and recorded in Book No
| nf hn nttinQ
of Davidson County, Tennessee,
which deed is here referred to and
made part hereof.
The trustees have not conveyed
anything. Ain order to be in anv
sense legal, the Home Mission Socie-
ty of New York must join in the
conveyance (not this illbegotten one
that won't hold water which they
have made).
B-The acceptance of the one ($D
dollar is fictitious, for it is the only
certified receipt that we have any
record Of as ito what went with our
| $4,000. Where is the $1,999 that we
intrusted to Brother Haynes? The
Home Mission Society says in their
deed of trust that we paid IL, but
failed to say to whom we paid the
money. Certainly not to Mr. J. O..
Kirkpatrick and Son, for their deed
TO the Society failed to mention US.
+ C-The conveyance carries with 1t
all the restraining rights and powers
of the Home Mission Society set out
in their conveyance to Roger Will
liams.
Din one paragraph they convey
what they do not own, and in the
next paragraph they take back what
thew tried to convey.
This conveyance is also subject to
the further condition that the above
described property shall be occupied
and held by Roger Williams Univer-
sity, free of rent, so long as at uses
said property for the purposes of Ne
gro education under the auspices and
control of said Baptist Missionary
and Educational Convention of Ten,
nessee
Roger Williams has never done
more than hold by occupancy the
ground which belonged to the Amer
lean Baptist Home Mission Society.
Here agree with brilliant mind
who said, eve feel something like
respect for consistency even in en-
ror We lament the virtue that is
debauched into vice; but the vice
; that effects virtue becomes the
more detestable."
This conveyance is not intended to
, and shall not have the effect of, in
any way, disturbing or encumbering
the rights of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society as declared and
set forth in it's deed to Roger VIII
: liams University hereinbefore re
ferred to-.
E-The above being true yon can
see that the conveyance is not in
: tended to convex anything but is in
tended to FOOL THE PEOPLE
even the world that despises sim,
rlicity does not profess to approve
of duplicity." Even if the Home
3 Mission Society had joined - in this
+ bottomless conveyance, the Negro
: Bartists will have nothing for theil
r $4,000.
Now, gentlemen, why didn't the
: trustees tell the people that they
= made this conveyance on the 18th
day of March, 1917, and filed it for
r record on the Bird dav of April, 1917
t instead of on the Goth of October
1907? If the Baptists owned the
4 property at first whv did you make
0 this conveyance in this month?
;. II our friends" will attend to thei
3 side Of the street, we think they will
9 have is much as they can look after
= and in conclusion, we hope these few
e lines will find you well
= Why should we be told to attend
{ to our side of the street? are we no
a part of the Bauptists who raised
1.-The $4,000. and will honest brethren