Show WORKING TOWARD A DANGEROUS POINT A significant meeting was fadd the other day at Chattan chattanooga bof twin term it was a convention of colored 16 foiste but the attendance which was was I 1 large arge was not confined cou fined to people of that particular religious persua persuasion idda its object was the af f present issues notably the wrongs i 7 ta ched upon the colored race by r waite brethren jeome of the leading clergymen participated offered some becu prayers pr ayera ostensibly to the ne of grace but these appeals of such a character as to arouse ion that they were largely ed to the people the peers drew vivid pictures of horrid wrongs that had bad m n perpetrated upon and that B constantly being committed dain st the colored people of this bry among the elements of portrayals were appalling but es ea in which neither men n nor children were spared every glade having its tale of vader and woe these prayers wece vrem really graphic the wrongs referred to being delineated in and vivid lines I 1 in these times when a race conflict appears to be impending I any many thinkers say it is inevitable public utterances of the nature of those expressed at chattanooga are calculated dou to hasten if not to pre tate it one of the men who biased informed the lord that he worked through human agency it would be a black day for the apu country maltry if the colored people should through agitation of their religious actors get imbued with the adea that they are the human raff lucente r ts empowered to execute the vill of providence and that in ila that capacity it was incumbent zi them to inflict vengeance m the perpetrators of the wrongs foged to have been committed u not them and to wipe out the baue gaue of their afflictions by a pro of extermination 1 A suggestion that has been offered wo before ore was renewed at the formation of ofa League mutual protection of the entire dolored lored people those of negro blood sjma the american continent should f suph ucb an organization be effected and alty ity be maintained in it it would ve a powerful factor for good or IL il there are many chances to iowie apoe that it would take the latter direction because of existing political at present iu ID case of a erlane and the precipitation ofa of a race conflict the colored people would pon oon go to the wall they are now in jn unorganized condition and are weak and helpless let be solidified however by ah a league as that suggested N ion their influence would be bously increased they could ap i also be made more readily the jr of demagogues and conspire n tors tore to sum suin up the resultant situa tion a race conflict would be hastened |