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In every letter that you write us never fail to give your full name and address, plainly wntten post office county and state Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature." -John-Stuart Mill. OH, FOR ANOTHER EMANCIPA- TOR! Today is the fifty-first anniversary of the issuance of the first Emanci pation Proclamation of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. He emancipated 4,000,000 of the people of the country from slavery, whose de scendants, now grown to be 10,000,000 citizens, or, one-tenth of the entire population of this country, need to be emancipated from the blighting curse of color prejudice that seems to warp the very souls of the other nine-tenths of the citizens. Oh, for another emancipator from this condition almost as damnable as slavery. CONVERTING TH E ESKIMO. Christian missionaries seem to have made little headway in converting the Eskimo the far north, according to Donald B. MacMillan, head of the Crockerland expedition, who has re cently returned to New York, after four years in the Arctic. Mr. McMillan was in daily contact with the Eskimos. He finds them lovable and easly managed. The members of the expedition trusted, im plicitly the little colony of six fam ilies at Eta, base of the expedition, on the northeast shore of Greenland, and never suffered a loss by theft. Yet the same understanding of the Eski mo character has made Mr. McMillan skeptical as to the power of mission ary work to better their social stand ards. "I don't believe the missionaries will be able to change the social customs of the Eskimos very greatly. They are a happy, care-free, jovial people. They are continually laughing. If they see a man in serious thought for more than a few minutes at a time they think something is wrong with him. And, really, they have all the, neces sary virtues right now. They love each other, they care for each otherfe welfare, and they protect each other. If one is hungry all are hungry. They have a perfect socialism. "And they are absolutely honest. Our supplies at Eta lay on the ground in plain view of every one in the set tlement for four years, and no one ever touched them without permis sion. In New York alter dark they wouldn't remain four minutes before being stolen. "Piblockto" is the word that ex- presses what the Eskimos think of the world at war, Mr. MacMillan said. It means "run amuck gone clean crazy." The Eskimos believe that all the white man nations have gone "piblockto." "I tried to explain," Mr. MacMillan said, "that the war started because Germany wanted to acquire more land, but they wouldn't believe it they only shook their heads and said 'No, that's impossible. There is plenty of land for everybody.' When we were getting ready to leave Eta they begged us to remain with them 'Why go back there?'meaning civilization they asked us, 'where everyone is pib lockto? .Stay here with us and be happy.'" THE APPEAL believes that the mis sionaries who are trying to "convert" the Eskimos are "piblockto," espe cially those from the United States, who are trying to impose the Amer can brand of jimcrow Christianity on them If they have all of the neces sary virtues right now, why waste time and money teaching them the murder ous Christianity of America? ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE FATHER OF SLAVERY. The firsrman to advocate the intro duction of slaves from Africa into the new world was Bartholomew de Las Casas, a Spanish priest, who was born Seville, Spain, on Aug. 23, 1474. "The father of African slavery in America" first crossed the Atlantic when, at the age of 19, he accompan ied his father with Columbus to the West Indies. On returning to Spain, he determined to fit himself for the duties of a missionary and to return to America, "there to spend his days in preaching the gospel to the Indians, and humanity to theiT oppressors." It was his tender regard for the mis treated natives that led him to sug gest that African slaves be imported to labor in the fields and mines and thus relieve the Indians of a burden they were temporarily unfitted to bear. His suggestion was followed, and the African slave trade'was inaugurated. A dozen times Las Casas crossed the ocean to plead the cause of the In dians at the foot of the Spanish throne. The town of Cumana, in Ven ezuela, still boasts of an old church in which "the father of slavery in Amer ica" preached. Las Casas returned to Spain late in life and died in Madrid at the age of 92. In a recent speech ex-Senator Elihu Root said: "America's great oppor tunity was slipping away, but at the eleventh hour we grasped it and found opportunity to restore ourselves. Through it we shall find our national soul and I have faith in God's people, for they are the earth's democracies." The New York mayor's committee for National Defense will start a cam paign this Fall for the Americaniza tion of the foreign-speaking people of the city. The slogan is to be: "One city, one loyalty, one people." "The said committee members. !^1 ,"l'-^^W?^^^Jzk '-KT '^ST'^CK- "W Whose First Proclamation of Emancipation Was Issued September 22, 1862, Fifty-five Years Ago Today. The colored man has a large part in raising cotton in the South. More than one-third of the cotton farms are cultivated by colored men, either as owner or tenant. PROTEST AGAINST SEGREGATION. Colored Chicagoans Wire President Wilson Opposing Jimcrowism in the New National Army. Protesting against the announced policy of keeping colored and white soldiers separately in cantonments and insisting "that regiments be formed and training provided with out making any distinction based on race, a letter of protest has been sent to President Wilson, signed by the executive committee of the com mittee on national citizenship de fense, at Chicago, 111. The signers are: Rev Archibald J. Carey, pastor, and warden Insti tutional Church Edward H. Wright, assistant corporation counsel Maj. Robert R. Jackson, member Fiftieth general assembly Edward D. Green, former member Illinois legislature Louis Anderson, alderman, sec ond ward, George W. Ellis, assistant corporation counsel Robert S. Ab bott, editor Chicago Defender, and S. B. Turner, editor Illinois Idea. A CORRECTION. the Editor of THE APPEAL. I became interested in an article which appeared in your issue of the 15th September inst, because it was carried by a very attractive, and, to me, compelling headline, namely, "The Father of Slavery." But, I was doomed to disappointment, for I found that your statements were but a reassertion, substantially, of an unfounded charge against a man, whose power and greatness in the early history of the Western Hemis phere have compelled students of that science, after a lapse of cen turies, to become more familiar with the details of a life of such marvel ous activity in the interest of prog ress and justice. You stated that Las Casas was the "first man to advocate the introduc tion of slaves from Africa into the new world," basing your opinion, I presume, on the assumption that it was on his suggestion that "the African slave trade was inaugurated" in America. Las Casas was not guilty of either of these charges. By royal mandate given Sept 3, 1500, to Don Nicholas de Ovando, Gover nor of Hispaniola, Negro slaves were introduced into Haiti, and the his torian, Herera and other early writ ers, assert that the number of Negro slaves was increased for years after wards. In the year 1516, it was known that the "Spanish monarch gave letters to his Flemish friends empowering them to engage in the traffic of Negro slaves for the Indies. It was not until 1517,'years after the introduction of African slaves into America and the undoubted es tablishment of the slave trade, that Las Casas came on the scene with his plan^of emigration which has since serred his enemies as a basis for their outrageous charge against him. Tn the interests of truth and fair play, I would ask you to find space for this correction your" columns-, lj&s Casas wa fo a na melting pot st he Made to melt," S o^eVn'g speciallya desig Spanishsin a priest, desig 1 SiceT & minds of colored people against the "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT/' My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. Hefindshis fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotesliis brother, and destroys: "Us human nature's broadest foulest blot. -Cowper. Catholic Church by the method, so generally in use, of circulating false hoods, whether or not by design. L. L. THEOBALD. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 19, 1917. DO NbrHAVE FAIR DEAL. Fight and Die for Country But Are Not Given Honor. they have done so creditably, but they does not appear the published re ports COLORED TROOPS. Baker Says They Will Be Trained in States Where Raised. that, coloreU n troops as separate organizations will (From the Christian Register, Boston.) an1 the country a no san man'' The mutiny of~ of the war department has announced main fin, *J, 2l k. troops drafte intO the of Lhe *nn\ TLo*t colored troops be adhered to," said Mr. Baker. "The P*nS thereby giving an opportunit,ysto the officers at thcalled campst to assemble the organizations of which they are parts substantially all at one time. They will not be called last, but they will be called separately May Volunteer for France. "All colored men called in a state which has a cantonment in it will be organized and tram there. Provision will be made for the assembling of colored troops from those states which have no cantonments. It has not yet been made. An opportunity will be given to both white and colored men among the selected forces to volunteer for service and training in certain lines of communication organizations, which is necessary to form, and it is hoped that an adequate number will volunteer for this military but non combatant service, but there will be both combatant and noncombatant or ganizations, just as there are white organizations." Those who volunteer for this ser vice, it is said, will have an early op portunity to go to France." Graduation of Colored Officers Is De ferred. WashingtonThe date of gradua tion of the colored officers training camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, is deferred until Oct. 15, Secretary of War Baker announced today. Instruc tion at the camp will be continued un til that date. Police Officer Is Indicted for Houston Riots. Houston, Texas.Lee Sparks, the Houston police oflicer whose alleged assault on Sergt. Baltimore, a colored trooper of the Twenty-fourth infantry, is said to have preceded the riot of the colored troops on August 23, in which seventeen persons were killed and twenty-two wounded, has been in dicted by the Harris county grand jury on two charges. One indictment charges him with aggravated assault on Sergt. Balti more. The second charges him murder in connection with the death of Wallace Williams, a colored civilian who wasthe shot to death on the Sunday following the riot. Why Did They Prefer "Colored?" (From the New York News.) We trust that all of the advocates learned and otherwise, white and black, North and Southof the use of the "word "Negro" as a race term have caught the full meaning of its use at Houston, Texas. At the re quest of the Twenty-fourth Infantry men themselves, the authorities de cided to refer to them henceforth as "colored" soldiers. They had been de rided and nagged and goaded by the corrupted use of the word until for bearance ceased to be one of their virtues. They had become contemptu ously and constantly referred to in the daily press not as American sol diers, or Americans, nor as "Uncle Sam's Boys" or in any other respectful terms. They had been designated and debased in the public mind there these brave, manly defenders of the American flagas "Negroes." Per ceiving this eVil practice and influence the while officers of the Twenty-fourth appealed to the authorities to use the word "colored" instead. With the word "colored," troopers or soldiers would .have to be used. A kindlier feeling between the soldiers and the townspeople they were sure would in evitably result. They were profoundly ra "rJ right, but they were too late. Had' HL5 the practice ohtinprd nrinr tn t.hofr the prior to their coming in Houston, a different state of affairs might have ensued. We ask all promiscuous, wilful and indifferent users of the word-"Negro" to ponder this situation slowly. The request of the troopers and their officers for the change should be a striking example to all Doubting Thomases as to just how the practice works out today in hard, everyday life. Whatever the ar gument about making it respectable in the future, Tt decreases respect for the race today. It does no good today. It does much harm. What reason, then, for its use? Are you willing to be called a "Nigger?" Are you pleased to nave your wife or mother called a "Negress?" Then discontinue using "Negro." If you think it worth while for you to be referred to as a man and your folk as people, insist on the use of the word "colored." & V^JpSR- SrSWflSBf-e .g6*g*-j^v HAMPTON AND TUSKEGEE. The Following Article is Taken From The Cleveland Gazette, ana is Only One of Many Such That Have Ap peared From the Trenchent Pen of Rev. William A. Byrd.Read and Ponder. That Hampton and Tuskegee have done much good for the colored race denv colored soldiers, and but thertelarge, wil their murderous procedure, is pecul iarly unfortunate at the present time. It adds fuel to the flame of race hatred. Those who espouse the cause of colored people as against the unfair treatment they suffer by no means commit themselves to any extenuation of their wrongdoing. The crimes com mitted by these soldiers should be brought home to those guilty of them But it should be recognized, even here, that colored soldiers do not have a fair deal. They are allowed to fight jmen constantly advise the for their country and die for it, and *acn tcontinually me are not given corresponding honor I more and grievous burdens. Colored The salute is not required, or at least men are continually reminded that is not given, to colored officers equally the southern white man is his "best with white officers. It is possible that friend" and this white "friend" is much provocation, if not justication,' continually showing his friendship by lies behind the insubordination which oppression, violence and death. Be- S same consideration and treatment U o'the efforo^that insHtntfnn f, heretofore given them under the rules to maVp tha nnwL L Ke K^J- Rockford Units frl ntw is a Washington. D. C.-Seeretary Baker goXn^r^'akdVeTiowe'd''to re $"" will be assembled and trained with life unTer such en*SlrSS S IhS6 L, their state troops as separate organi- iTwRnNH W?*M zations, the same as Aow do/e is^Eriority oM^ eoSAn'S the regular army. Sii ~Z w.../-. "The rule of the regular army in the matter pf the training of the colored 1i! S whlt Will Be Called Separately. informewhit thatof a ent Ma, nea seriouse ques- tion as to the harm they have also done. Hampton in Virginia empha sizes humility for colored men. Tus kegee in Alabama emphasizes non-' resistance and deep respect for "southern traditions." Such men as Seth Low and many others have built and do maintain Tuskegee because they hope through it to uplift the colored race and in a measure solve the race problem. The trouble with this policy is its one-sidedness. These be patientheap whileuponecolored th white them sides these evils both Hampton and Tuskegee stand for the kind of edu cation the south is half way inclined to tolerateindustrial training, "teaching the nigger how to be a good servant." From Tuskegee a sen- ^^to Amsterdam wai UU1U1Bd LlUOpS Qraiied a th Ipptliro frnLm Womnrnn'o u&e Uefn LUIS United States army will receive the ^^^SpreSSd^^S?SSt^ vemmav call for colored men will be postponed himselfn stopped at the "Onandaga," In Africa and out of Africa it until one of the latter calls that ^hel most expensive and exclusive was never applied to the higher types they will be a a separate time tha i hote days ago that he did not aspire to be can for his race. Heads of southern the southern policy. The colored race is unalterably opposed BUT THEIR POLICY SHOULD BE CHANGED. The colored youth should be taught to shun bullyism. but love to embrace those principles of cour ageous manhood which resent wrong when wilfully and maliciously given The weight of these institutions wili be sought to stem the tide of emigra- nothing to fear by leaving there They may die by reason of the cold in this section (and this it not at all probable) but that is more merciful than dying by the rope and at the mouth of the shotgun. Here in the the black people to remain there let voting, protection of life and prop- de S greate thought and action Pa? pl ml *r unde alt a lant a timent of this kind goes out over the T^S lS,,v country. The head of Tuskeeee rmi*t i cannot too heartily congratu- stand for S sentimentT ight hke ^J^^T^^-^^ whateve? W wh^i drafted in states having camps of, S cive th^ segregation of the people of color. Its hiir. a sou own will trained in them I terine a spntimpnr f. which means that the Illinois continl Jhe black manT^Ttlie IhK ^rJ our speakers and writers, especiallC gent of colored troops will train at 2 tieco?ored^ vouth toAccent' ^T andS yout i Rockfor Unit from other states as a factTand nrenarp to k ,,pf,,i t!?i ?'Na -_ justice in order to do what good he (among themselves) terms, "Nigro" WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO." th ST.^J^^JL^ ^,5+l. in usCm tins &b give them The are fos us is on the increase only because acW^ .cep thi repetition ad n* tinfo-* th I Ji olore even a advance sons: roiiowing rea- course,little secured for a. It,has never stood historically or Moton, after he was chosen inrthe presentnoble anywherupliftin in the worldt Tuskegee, a very humble stop fo anything or Mos Place in Syracuse, N. Y., but he high-grade Africans repudiate it city. When a protest but to Guineas, Sudanese and Sene- was made against such, he said that gambians only. .ia.onn1:t he regretted it, but did not want it c. IJs derivatives, "Negroism" "Ne- published He should have been more grofy," and its compounds, Negro- of a man than to have done such a head, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all J, thing where discrimination is unlaw- clearly, in their associations degrad- V11]011' much like equality of the president justly and correctly used to define of Tuskegee N. & I. Institute with your wife and daughter and sweet- an "agent of Hampton, who chanced heart, if you favor the use of the mas- to present his black school progeny. Southern whites for two centuries Major Moton was very wise when he when formally speaking or writing told his New York audience a few about an Unworthy criminal man the leader of the colored people in speak"colored this country. No southern man who must live and make his living there. can be this leader! Major Moton must suppress his own resentment at in- an schools cannot be the leaders in civic S- A and national matters pertaining to anese diplomat it colored people. In church and state in schools these teachers must accept thought, sympathy and co-operation towould other self-respecting race not accept Th danger of Hamptoh and Tuskegee is their building up a man- 1 hood of weaklings and non-resistants. They are making colored youths be-. anything as its portion whic any wt lieve that they are right when they h^? Je humbly take southern sand and sav they have sugar. These institutions HfmcauseS should remain and be encouraged I S P]aces Negro lt cus tent mor tion from the south. We hope they' Negroes than to call all white people will speak out and utter the truth. I Turks or Armenians."Ex-Assistant The colored people of the south have United States Attorney. ambition will not be curtailed by class of people who has not been In making them believe and recognize Intimate ans fallacy that they are inferior to th some one else. If the south desires class. wh them lift the embargo on education.' know erty, and discontinue "jim-crowism," who have come into intimate and sym segregation and general cussedness.' Pathetic relations with large numbers Black people are insulted when they i of that race whom their Southern are asked to accept such as their friends have never known and of the portion. The trustees of Hampton two sets of people we should say that and Tuskegee should recognize the the second knew the colored people fact that their work must fail if they better than the first. They know aspl- continue to try to build up a race rations among them that the others tnat is too weak and cowardly to do not know, or, knowing do not demand its rights. These white trus- enter into anrdvery tees should demand for their wards capabilities by direct contact with the fi. than! a l0re *J afi i N 5 establishind policy whicha the whole blinded. If those wh know the col- race willrebe asked to accept. Now, ored race through the mass and bv InS i rE 2JJ^ loud stan vl8 an fo mouthed proclaiming that thueinsC colored tennoe At ancolore-e rat E r'n^f a pol 3e uk th an mos Ma S. M^? ampt tni i I *5 T THE SIN OF SILENCE Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says it Causes Mental and Physical Segregation." (From the Amsterdam News To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro test. Nad no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in- quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox. WU peo P? 6r States nitei wi by dehgb ot tll te whlt c- poent abring a un or a to 5?* a h$Ss- fa Presentt toi th ^untee Whyg The real tht+aaw""".k"ts*rm^oyicoumga 'V ?!.dmos ta physica ^je- utO masse 1fS necessary th Washingtononl feelabsurdl that its nauseam 1 ro not milhon k? 0 t6 but tJ the colored people,a it is also alarm- a emphasized W ear reliably mglT injurious, for the followine rea- ful. For Major Moton to stop in the ing. defenseless annd a the merc,yoof whitew same hotel with him would be too Its feminine form "Negress" is to have a white skin." Mind you, an culine term. resistanceThaand "rather be bdegrerouy agent begging the public for a chance e. It has been the word used by the sa woman of the racer For when he oS the worthy he not 1 f- vnm^ hav had no such contactothere but 8 i nave. The panderingb to the wishes'observation Individua ccep htheir fav doin tn able conditions so far as real man-i hood is concerned, but he is unwill-l ing to advocate what he has accepttA as the policy of his?tltutionto as race. We take off ou hat to hih i this. The time 0 7J'r IT, J *n pe Universities to ._ re ceive their meed of praise. These in stitutions have not wavered in their demand for the best and highest for our people. Their plansocial jus tice and manly recognition of worth wherever it is found regardless of raceis deserving the highest praise. Too much money cannot be given them for their great work. (Rev.) WM. A. BYRD. The Eternal Gospel (From the Martinsville Pioneer-Press) We have no respect for a servile, cringing colored man. He is of more service to his people under the sod than on top of it.Richmond (Va) Planet That is our eternal gospel, preach it in the valleys and on the mountain tops. equal of any members of the dominant race in the highest abilities and in the clearest aims. No estimate is worth much which does not take .people at their best. OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSITION (From the Boston Guaniiau That we much rather be. and asso ciate among ourselves, is a saying Ly Colored Americans that has be.um almost trite That is a mistake, it is a feeling of avowed cowardue di. i innate inferiority. It is an utter i possibilitay for the two races to bub scribe to a common government, and, at the same time, each race worn, its own salvation. The "theory" has been tried and resulted into a s?ras. failure instead of making for bar mony and cordial good feeling LB tween two races, it has lncr^^e race hatred and antagonism in leaps and bounds. We have heeded too long the advice from false and treach erous leadership that resistance is wrong, that it only breeds race hat red and antagonism that the thing for us to do is to get property and other rights will inevitably folk We have followed this "advice" fai:l fully and have been rewarded in terms of residince segregation,l Begre S pp brute ar and tUTth6l Bflve8-" wlth confls an ma fer dlce "Nigger" children, anw*tgo ourselves, to mixeddron hasusnoff th a unquestioned nuenc in cutting from the accepting Asiatics and Islanders of the Yonder TIC JUXTAPOSITION, Ver truly yours, OWEN WALLER, M. D. Hate hatred. It because it th .r M. Negr tem ter i th use ofinge th segregation of th be used in contempte it is an excuse for 1 publi dlsfranc hising him and. it is an ex- lynching him Onl one fo of one per cent of the colored Peoplet ino Americaalcan de trace their scen Africa and there is no ri Sh to call, colore people General Wm. Lewis, Boston, Mass Must Judge A Group by It Best (Fro north their children can receive the i MasB.) education any child receives, and their N the Christian Register,s Boston,. one can be said to know any sympathetic relationfwith best a well as the worst the Wethe compare, manthinpersons live in South and the thee colored race, with appreciate theyeknow of freedom of best of the race which others ar obli flrm,y other by thei acquaintance are they now vious of they know qualities which only respecmerelysympathy or the south is noc makintgh it better out they know possibilities to which i^ south and can bring could know what possibilitieo are demon- Judgments and possibly sof- theI policy of the South. Colored men Btrated in growing numbers of the working there have the sympathy of elect, and would be courageously can those of us who are not there, but did with themselves, theye would re- they ought to credit to thos on whom gee they charge ignorance the lueprejudices. that comof from know r- to many of that race are the nc GOD GIVE US MEN., God give lis men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts true faith and ready hands Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy Men who possess opinions and a will Men who have honor-men who will not lie Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherousflatterieswithout winking! Tall men, son crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. J, G. Holland. therefore, can only be worn down# attrition. Wee mustr stated by an eminent Jap- institutions ajjd other places whpr ca sr estreet at oraaiTiage-which is confiscatioIn los of pe t? oandr ou wome..s tna 0 lnc separatet schools jimcro tesMatmg exclude eve Ne8ri immigration These resuming from "non evl are with the same effont wn and terrible legislation icrh ou Property is taken ana leBislation will our political and le8lslatiowitdegradinsameedpffon+rv-iprehiRacg.sthibeingh1n,atedc nhooos differentiatedinvariably in the 8 thought of the whites from an th eir favorite and generally used ua ca an inim wel rights be taken from u* That0 i fact Every congress of send th othe races an consequentlyWELCOMEaccustomed becomeE on millions of colored Africans WE another ABOV ALLD THTNHotPRA MUS AN i S Of One Biood. (Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom I am a human being. I do not pro pose to be cooped up or shut in in my love and criticism to mer geographi cal streaks or spots of people on a planet. This planet is small enough as it is, when one considers the height and depththe, starry height and depthof the hitman spirit that wavers and glows through us all Wasner and Shakespeare. Tolstoi and \Tolttre' Though th-e cathedrals quar rel together and 8jng Not Worthy of Freedom. (From the Richmond Planet.) When a race or an Individual sub mits uncomplainingly to oppression, it Is a practical demonstration that the race or the individual is not wor thy of freedom. **^st*jNI praises with siege-guns to their own little foolish naMonal souls an^j ram bombs on each other's n*vev i take-my stand bv thp erreat bellr/ rinsine in their towers, by the soii^is of their'poets overriding the yearsV bv the nraver* and songs of their he\oe? artistq in ventors, by the mothersnfcmd the little children. We are all in the same wbarid are all alike. I will not say of anv one nation what I will not say of tb others and I will not sav of any man what I will not say of myself. Agreed to Be "Set Aside." (From the Eagle, Washington, D. C.) No, the colored delegates to the M. E. General Conference, held -at Sara toga Springs, N. Y., recently, did not "walk out." They simply assented to arrangements to be "set aside"to be segregated into a colored general conference, to be presided over by a white bishop, being denied the privi lege of directing their own labors in the Master's vineyard. Two years from now the two wings of the M. E. church, North and South, will unite and the separation of the colored membership and the refusal of bishop ric honors to the 350,000 colored com municants are designed to clear the way for the approaching "love feast." There is verity in the assertion that, in its primal manifestations, the church is a social organization, with religion as a by-product. I Jl *r i