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Show Preacher Says United States Vill De Damned If the ' ; Black Race Is Not Protected. NEW YORK. May 12. At the Meth- i odist preachers' meeting . the Rev. j Charles S." Morris, speaking on "The Jilack Man's Side of the Negro Problem," Prob-lem," declared that the .charges of criminal assault against negroes In the S?outh were one phase of a preconcerted and determined assault being made, and systematically abetted by Southern men In the North, In the pulpit, In the pres and I In public addresses, with the avowed purpose to so blacken the good name of the negro as to get the North, to turn the whole problem over to the i South, to solve as the South sees fit. ' "Through length of residence, through 1 steadfast service to the country In both peace and war, and through the wisdom wis-dom he has shown in the use of hla vote, the negro haa a clear right to the ballot," declared Mr. Morris. "If the United States does not protect pro-tect the negro In his right to the ballot they deserve to be damned," cried a voice in the audience. "If they do not they will be damned," the speaker replied. . Irving G. Penn of Georgia, assistant secretary of ' the . Colored Epworth League, declared it would not be safe to- make such an address down South, nor would it be safe for. one living In the South to make such an address, If he expected to return to his home. |