The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-11-01
Charges the Negro
Has Been Betrayed
Geoge E. Wibecan Says If He is Left Alone
There Will Be No Race Riots Not
Surrender Any Rights Under Constitution

To this the Southerners agreed and
the contract was delicately worded,
but none the less stringent. 1t was
made a clause of the Constitution,
that the slave trade should not be
suppressed before the year 1903. 1t
might then be made the subject OF
debate and legislation. 1t was made
a clause of the Constitution that IL
the slaves of any State rebelled the
national troops should be employed
against them. 1t was made a clause
of the Constitution that if slave es-
capped TO a free State, the authorities
of that State should be obliged TO
give him up, and lastly, slave owners
were allowed to have votes in pro
portion to the number of their slaves.
such was the price which the
Northerners were to pay for nation
ality. But the Southerners had not
vet finished. The colonies possessed,
according to their charters, certain
regions in the wilderness and west,
and these they delivered to the ma
ton. A special promise was made
however, by South Carolina and by
Georgia, that at no future time
should slavery be forbidden in the
territories which they gave up or
their own free will, and these terri
tories in time became slave States. IL
is therefore evident that the South
intended from the first to preserve
and to extend slavery. They refused
to enter the Union, unless their prop
erty was guaranteed. They threaten
ed to withdraw from the Union when
ever they thought that the guarantee
was about to be evaded or withdrawn.
1t has never been recorded in history
where men set up the claim of free
government and made constitutional
provision for the enslavement of a
portion of the people.
Such were the rewards that came
to the slaves for their labor, their
valor and heroism in the war of the
Rebellion. They fought to make the
white man free, while the white man
fought to make them slaves. AS in
the Rebellion, so in all the wars of
the nation. The black man has Grim
soned it's battlefields with his blood.
Crispus Attucks, the black, was the
first to fall and shed his blood on
Boston Common. Black men fought
with deathless courage at Concord
and Lexington with the ragged con-
tinental army. At Bunker Hill, along
its slopes, with the embattled farm
ers fighting with dubbed muskets
with Mad Anthony Wayne leading his
men up against the streaming fire at
Stony Point; with Lawrence on the
bloody decks of the Chesapeake, when
he cried Don't give up the ship; with
General Jackson at New Orleans,
beating back the trained redcoats of
the British Army. In the battles of
the Civil War they helped to save the
Union. In the Spanish-American War
they rendered distinguished service,
and in Mexico
"The Declaration of Independence,
which declared we hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are
created free and equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with GER
tain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness was mockery to the
slave, as it is meaningless to the Ne
gro today in the South. The Negroes
presence in America enriched the lit
erature of the land. 1t gave inspira-
tion to Harriet Beecher Stowe, to
Whittier TO Lowell and to Longfel-
low His presence inspired states
men to great flights of oratory, re-
calling memories of Webster, Wen
dell Phillips, Sumner and Abraham
Lincoln.
Eliminate that period of the ma
tions history which included theac-
tivities OF William Lloyd Garrison,
Benjamin Lundy. Owen Lovejoy, DR.,
Parker. Henry Ward Beecher, John
Browne, Frederick Douglass, and the
history of our country becomes com
monplace. At the end of the Civil
War only six Negroes out of one hun
dred could read or write. Today his
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