Show THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH BUT few of the people in the north know of the opportunity and good results accruing to the colored people in the far away south during the worlds fair I 1 in chicago the editor of the broad A ax had the pleasure of making the acquaintance uain tance of professor booker T washington who is sometimes sometime es styled the moses of the colored ram race and we wish to say a few words as to his history and his great work among our race in in the south he was born a slave in in virginia irginia in in 1858 and among the earliest of his re recollections collections is is the occasion when forty or fifty slaves were assembled on a veranda to hear bear read a docu 1 ment which made them freemen with the right to go and come as they pleased professor washington i then a mere child started to walk to wet went virginia with his mother and after many days of weary travel arrived at the salt furnaces and coal mines of that state i w where here he began work to support his i I 1 m other mother while thus at his hi daily toil he heard of the colored school at hampton Hamp fou va and determined to get an education he returned I 1 I 1 i to his native dative state part way on I 1 foot and after wandering eastward for days and weeks he at last arrived at gen armstrongs school at hampton where he be applied for admission on terms of working for his schooling and was admitted and worked his way through that institution after completing his course of study at hampton he be concluded to go to the far south the black belt of the gulf states and devote his life to providing for the youth of our race the same kind of a chance that he had bad found for himself at hampton in 1881 he be barted started the tuskegee institute in a small mall shanty with one teacher and thirty students since that time the institution has grown until it has connected with it sixty nine teachers and eight hundred young men and women representing nineteen states the work of protestor professor washington is highly appreciated by all classes and rams races in the south but by none more than by the poor colored youth who are enabled thereby to get a good english education and a practical knowledge of business the effect of this institute is quite quit marked in in the vicinity of its location as many families w who ho were formerly shiftless and ignorant by the education of themselves 8 and children at this institution have become the owners of comfortable homes free from debt and are prospering and happy growing wiser as they grow older the philanthropic spirit of patience and persistency exhibited b by Y professor washington is best shown by himself in a recen recent t published article the closing part of which we quote if ever there was a people that have obeyed the script scriptural u ral injunction if they smite thee on one heek cheek turn the other also that people has been the american negro to right his bis wrongs the russian appeals to dynamite americans to rebellion bellion the irishman to agitation the indian to his tomahawk but bat the negro the most patient patent the most md and law abiding depends for the righting r of his hia wrongs upon his soup songs ids his groans aud and on an inherent his midnight prayers faith in the justice of his hia cause and if we macj may judge adge tha eidum by the past what man an W wilf caay that the nezro is i not r ebe went into im OR R 41 slavery pagans we came out american citizens we went into slavery without a language langua to e we came out speaking the proud anglo saxon j tongue we went into slavery with the slave chains clanking about our i wrists we came out w with 1 i th the american ballot in our hands hand s such words should inspire all the members met of our race to take courage and press pres onward and upward and keep in touch with the progress of the age |