Show NEGROES IN THE SOUTH we lve frequently hear it eaid the leopard cannot change hia his spots and the african cannot change t thi k I 1 color of his skin many terrible I 1 charges have been made against the 0 negro 0 while he was in servitude but since since his emancipation the complaints against him have been multiplied ti since his shackles were broken off and he became a free mon il it has been preached by many men that the negro ought to bo be elevated to social and political equality with the 66 white race they think this ia is according to the eternal fitness of things but all of this thin docs does not dot change the biggers nig gers nature many of bis his deeds are as black as the color of his hide since he lie has been given his freedom since he lie owned himself his atrocious crimes have I 1 been numerous and of such a character as to horrify and aud almost par aleze those who read them it ia is true there aro are exceptions there are undoubtedly some well conduct ed and trustworthy colored people but the numbers are comparatively few they are scattered over a vast a area of country and are far between where they most do congregate 1 or dwell the religious instruction has done little or bothin nothing to elevate them morally religiously or intellectually ly more especially is this tho the case in the south they appear to be obtuse and to have no conception of the value of religious or moral rectitude A short time since a southern church congress was hald lild at which rev dr tucker delivered an address on the condition of the negroes in the course of which he lie made some terrible revelations in regard to their moral status lie ile haa has labored among them he lie lias has had a great deal of experience and therefore ho he knows knowl whereof he speaks his knowledge is not obtained secondhand second hand it is the result of his own observations we make a few extracts from the reverend doctors address which is now printed the following is from the new york herald la in the midst of a prayer I 1 have hare known them to steal irom from each other and on the way home from a prayer meeting they will rob any hen roost that liea lies conveniently at hand and und this without any thought of bin sin i against god and even without any perception eption of an incongruity these are the very lightest of the sins of which the minister accuses the sable attendants at the anxious seats and penitent benches in hh church As he lie proceeds the catalogue increases and the crinus crims become of a deeper dye of a crimson hue bue this is what the doctor says of one of the most pious of the abr ebony oty converts the most pious negro ia is one co con fined in the penitentiary for an atrocious murder who bo can see eo no es especial P ec sin against bod in his crime 1 though lie acknowledged acknowledges un all man luau lie cannot be made to see that aud inest b be angry with leui and thinks that all intimations to that pra prater er or exhortation founded lu in dislike or prejudice or he lie is nut well drees dres s ed and liaa bas a bure sore tin hit lei leg A atsu cutely he lie munot bunot conceive e of any other rejon or for 11 taking part against him and imputing sin gud god tu to his crime the speaker gaye a fearful acla ton von of their social habits their family relations and their sexual intercourse lie vouches for the truth of everything he lie had said upon the subject and says he is fully pro pre pared to substantiate every assertion lie has made in fil regard to the colored race in the south he ile continues thus I 1 have known a negro preacher eacher cuilty i ity of incest an another of habitual I 1 theft IT ft a third with two wives being 0 married to neither a fourth who was 9 a constant and most audacious liardet liar yet who ho weye earnest and most successful pre preachers aebers I 1 could give names dates und and witnesses witt Lesses for these and rud twenty other similar cases and it woold would be easy to find any required number more yet the four men of whom I 1 were not conscious of hypo cri ay sy and nd their known sin sins did not diminish sh their influence with their I 1 race it was impossible to hear them preach and pray and doubt their sincerity dr tucker assures us that the picture is u not in the least 0 overdrawn and we are inclined to be lieva him especially as we have heard a number of persons whose veracity could not be questioned I 1 ass S 7 who have traveled and d lived in the south speak odthe of the condition oft of the ae colored race and their confirm in a great measure 0 those of mr tucker in speaking of their marriage relations lie says say 3 in one county in Mi mississippi siss 8 there were during twelve month marriage taken out in the county 81 clerks erka I 1 onico for white people according accordi cordi n to the proportion ro portion of population tion were there aou would pid have been ia in the same time 1200 or more fur for negroes there can ran be no legal marriage orally sort in mississippi wit houta license there were actually taken out by colored people i just list three I 1 know of whole neighborhoods including hundreds of negro families where there ia is not one single legally legall noor ried couple or couple arrieT who stay faithful to each other bo be 11 few months or few years at most often but a few weeks and if butof every negro families one excepts a few fl ew dozen who are legally married this statement will hold true for millions of the colored people and hese liese things that I 1 tell you oil tonight are but hints I 1 flare dare not I 1 cann cannot ot lull sell the full truth before a mixed audience the N Y herald says the southern churchman a religious journal publishes letters from five colored preachers in ml mississippi issis sippi and louisiana fully indo in dorsing dr tuckers account they also declare one half has hai not been told neither can it he be these preachers further that moral character ia is not considered the standard for church membership notwithstanding cheso dark pictures of a dark lark people drawn by an educated intelligent white man with all their moral turpitude they are considered by politicians fully qualified to be entrusted with the elective franchise and find their votes arc are earnestly and nud anxiously boli solicit cit i ed and if they cannot be obtained otherwise they arc are purchased at the ballot box and counted to elect not only members of the local state f governments but also to elect senators and representatives to the national Leggi legislature slature to make laws for the government of the whole country suppose these darkies should bould be largely in the majority and slid some of them be shrewd enough to know the power of their votes and they elect men of their own color and mental and find moral status to fill the offices what kind of governments we would uld they cl elect act to enact laws todi to direct and regulate the affairs of the states or the nation and yet if the statements of a number of white preachers in relation to their own race be true a great many of them rate but a little higher in the scale of morality th than an some of the southern negroes degrees there may be le more truth and significance in the compliment the colored man paid liis his white brother than he be thought there was when he said god bless him his skin is white but his heart is as black as any tiny of us the preacher says that the mission work in the south roust must be carried un on with desperate earnest earnestness nw of just jut BO so 0 we think there are also places in the north and elsewhere where the missionaries should labor with as much desperate earnestness as they should inthe in the south to elevate the white population and rescue them from moral and spiritual degradation it seems to us that the bead head is sick the heart ia is faint that the whole body of the modern re religionists 1 zionists ts is diseased in all parts of the union it appears to be as with the people so with the priests of christendom see chapter |