Show S sash r i F ADVICE l wa mahroh wish to address a few re marjii k i ine t a cowardly negro the negro who seems to be made up of amore vare rabbit than man we I 1 grow frantic more or less when i treading the press dispatches where innocent inoffensive and industry ona negroes are chewed at and 0 wa abde to leave their homes and I 1 belot belongings i on the most frivolous provocation they are am made to jl cross cron their hanns to be tied in order older to be dragged to death they are an made to open their doors only to be shot down in cold blood they are an made to tie nooses for their own ill fated necks and made to provide boxes etc to get on and to leap off into eternity and have his body y riddled with bullets this and more he does dissenting nothing nor offering the least resistance he is indeed ea as a sheep led to the daughter he is dumb he not his mouth Is it that the negro is afraid of dying is it that ho he fears fean the law or is it that he yet believes in martyrdom we are inclined to the latter we ad dressed ourselves to the cowardly neero for convenience only the many deeds of valor and heroism done by the negro in defense of 0 his country his defense of his masters home and dear ones and his many deeds of daring displayed in the common of life take him oat of the category of cowards as commonly used when we remember the great amount of dying that has been done in this country at the hand of cruel masters whom he lived to support and died to defend at the hond of unfair juries in prisons and on gallows and at the bloody hand of judge lynch etc we cannot understand how that the negro can yet fear to die but bat when we remember the late outrages in id georgia mississippi and arking arkansas we are am forced to the conclusion that the negro thinks it necessary to offer himself up upon a duel cruel altar of and white capiak in order to make it possible possible and for those of his 6 posterity that shall come after him just here we would say that we steadfastly believe in law and orders order sobriety and decency patience and endurance but all these we e think cease to be virtues when they ore an outraged and trampled under foot by those of our fellow citizens and even those who are sworn to uphold them the officers be it far from us to encourage lawlessness in our people but we axe are compelled to say that the negro must gain the respect of his white brothed and this he can do only by industry intelligence and manhood industry that will cause one to spurn charity oppose object abject poverty and aspire to material independence pen pelm dence intelligence that will ruse raise ones ideas broaden ones sympathies and heighten ones ambition manhood that scorns the menial low and cowardly man an hood that yearns to live hot honorable arable if possible and die bravely if need be manhood that honors god respects respect athe the brotherhood anali and lives only to applaud the brave console the unfortunate manhood that will assert ass itself manhood that god loves lava and that man honors these and these then only will save the negro the white man has shown himself courageous and brave and for this we wa takeoff take off our hat he loves and will honor only true manhood let ue the negro shake off his superstitions about dying anil and to resolve to live honestly and to die bravely this in our humble mind seems to be bea the only panacea for the ills of our people the tae JC rov son san antonio alfonio An fonio texas |