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Show I0HCE AND BULLET FOR ' . WHITE MEN, SAYS NEGRO i Sensational Sermon by Colored Preacher onvRccent Race Riot In Springfield, Ohio. f 'f "You should contend, unto death, (or your rights. No race has ever 0 won anything without the Shedding of blood." THE B.EV. R. M. JA- COBS, NKQRO PREACHER. ON RACE TROUBLES. ' & NEW YORK, March 14. Employment Employ-ment of the torch and the bullet by the I negro to defend his rights and to stop the lynching of blacks by white men was openly recommended In a sermon by the Rev. F. M. Jacobs In an African M. E. church of Brooklyn. He said the negroes of . Springfield. O., where a black man was dragged from Jail and strangled to death by a mob, should carry on a war of reprisal and "burn their enemies out of business." The sermon created a marked sensation. "If wars are good for nations tfiey are good for race," said the Rev. Mr. Jacobs. "Bishop Brown of the Metho- dist Episcopal church says that a race ' ' war is inevitable in this country and the negro will be exterminated. This Is not true, for the negro is no coward; he will fight, and -in a war between the races be will give as good an account of himself as he did at Fort Wagner and before Petersburg. They tell us te . . pray, but we have been praying and praying and now is the time for tht -negro to assert his manhood. "The day la coming, the hour Is approaching ap-proaching when this must be done, for no race under the sun ever got Its liberty lib-erty without fighting for it. "There must be some sacrifice of life, If needs be to obtain the liberties of s people., The negro is no coward, and Germany and England know it from their African experiences. "Many of our lives are to be sacrificed sacri-ficed if we are to attain to manhood ic this country. I love to tell you to pray but all prayers and no fighting will dc no good." Colored preachers in other churcher urged their auditors to so conduct themselves them-selves as to win friends for their race. , i . - |