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Show FBJLKCIIISS FOB NEGEO V- VXEY GRAVE MISTAKE. , , 1" ATLANTA, May 11. Rev. Charles 11. Parkhurst Of . New Tork Sunday delivered the annual convention sermon before the National Conference . of Charities and Correction. Dr. Parkhurst compared the case of the convict to that of the emancipated eman-cipated negro, upon this point saying, in part: - "The emancipation' pushed the bolt for the blacks. It let them out In the sunshine. sun-shine. There was a great deal of heroism-in heroism-in the course of the war North and South, but there was not much statesmanship in the construction ef a peace, and one of the radical mistakes made was in Supposing Sup-posing that altering the colored man's ' condition altered the colored man. that letting a wolf out of a cage domesticated the wolf, that aubstituUng the coat and trousers for swaddling clothes makes of an Infant a man,- and that emancipation not only relieved the slave of his fetters, ' but qualified, him to be a citizen." |