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SATURDAY .. DECEMBER 24, 1904
Mli. SIMMONS' CORRECTION.
New York, Dec. 20, 190-1.
My Dear Mr. IflTflBltliTl
In your ? ditorial reply to Mr. Jones,
di your last iesue, 1 nota that you write
"Nowhere within the confines of the
southern states tloes a Negro hold any
otlice under a state governniont." Is
this true? Is not West Virginia a
southern staler and does not Sam Starks.
vour Supremo Chancellor hold the posi?
tion of State Librarian over there.?' 1
nui quito sure you were not thinking
slowly when y.m wrote that
Starks* position is a BOOd one; and
when he was appointed, lifty whito inen
Wata applying for it.
This is no criticism, just a br tin jog
Sincerely ycurs,
Koscok C. Simmons.
Mr. John Mitchkix. Jr.,
Richin nil, Va.
Geographically speaking, "the point is
well taken," but down here, Maryland
and West Virginia are not regarded as
southern states, for the reason that both
cast their lots with the Uuioii during
the late civil war. Our reference was to
the roek-ribbt d "Jeff. Davis," Confed?
erate States who swore by the "buuny
blue fing" and died by it until Appomat
tox caino. West Virginia is1 a repub'.i.
can state and Afro-American appointees
are to be just as much expected as they
are to be, in New York city ?rlaOa. Tam?
many controls. Northern Democracy
and tho Republicans agree on the Ne.
gr?i appointment question.
We presume that you stand corrected
and so do we. We said what we meant,
and wo meant what we said.
?IV. OR. J 0 H1 SI?' A N S W E II ?1).
??? great and good friend, Rev.
IIakvky Johnson, D. D., of Baltimore,
Md., takes issue with us in another
column of this journal, ou account of our
comment upon Mr. Thomas Nelson
Pack's article on "The Old Time
Negro," and our tribute to Judge Wilk?
inson of Mississippi in his charge to the
Lincoln county grand jury.
Dr. Johnson asks many questions.
The giiod white people of the South are
thoeo who realize as does Judge Wilk?
inson that brutal exhibitions and out?
landish murders whether practiced up
on Negroes or Indians tend bo injure
the Southland hy driving away capital
damage the individual, by searing
the conscience and multiplying crime.
To this end. they are makmg 'egitimate
efforts to check lawlessness of every
description, stamp out lynching and
encourage the better class of colored
people to traverse those avenues of in?
dustry which lead to the temple of
finance and material prosperity.
To these of us who are worthy, they
lend a helping hand, giving us advice
encouraging us in business and doing
all in their power to guarantee the safety
of our lives ana the security of onr
property. The white hoodlums are
those who stand out in Opposition to all
of this.
The South of to-ilay is not the South
of thirty years ago. There are liberal
minde?l white men who have decide?!
views on this race question aud they do
not h? sitate to express them. It is to
avoid the estrangement of this element
that our conservative articlesare written
for without their help, we see only au
abyss of de?pair b?-youd.
We are of tho opiuion thai ????. Dr,
?Johnson does himself unti tho Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia a great in"
justice when be ?-.peaks lightly of itf
decrees'. Certainly it has been more
favorably disposed towards us in the
matter of individual rights than has
that august tribunal, known as the
United States Supremo Court at Wash?
ington.
It was by its decrees that Maky
Arkrnathy ami Porky Barnks were
saved from the lynchers and ultimately
from the gallows, a??d to-iiav thect>lored
man convicted and sentenced to death
for killing a whito brakeman is iu the
jail at Covington, Va., having been
granted a new trial by this tribunal of
Virginia, composed of white meu who
saw uo color, but adhered strictly to
reason and to law.
The men who composed the uncorsti
tutioual "Constitutional" Convention
were elected by tho "poor whites" ami
were directly their agents.
Dr. Johnson evidently over-looks the
fact that there was a strong white
Democratic opposition to the calling of
even a constitutional conventi?: ? to re?
vise the suffrage. This element fought
the proposition to the bitter end, carry?
ing their fight to theficor of the uncon?
stitutional "Constitutional" Conven?
tion itself. A glance at the record of
that remarkable body will show that
these people "spoke out in the meeting"
Is it right then, is it proper, is it jnst to
class this liberal element of Virginians
with ;hoso who oppose and oppress ns?
Would not this be practicing the same
injustice upon them that has been
visited upon us, that of classing all
colored people together asa bad element
and assailing them accordingly?
We do not think, Doctor that the
?Good Book, ti e precepts of the Saviour
teach any euch lessons.
We do not think that it would be the
part of wisdom for us to do otherwise
than encourage this liberal white
element, with a hope that their numbers
may multiply, it is but fair to say that
the colored people have some friends
among the lowly classes of whites. But
as a rule they visit upon us their oppo?
sition.
Dr. Johnson peremptorially demands
that tho best white people shall put
down the White Caps and Red Shirts
aud Farmers Leagues ami yot- proceede
to criticize Judge Wilkinson of Lincoln
?TJonnty, Mississippi, who is atter?*??"
? to Ui> CUI? ->?? ftlllajT a.'iVo.i?."???.'.>
i report that oue hundred lyucners aud
? "white-cappers" are under indictments
j in his Court. It is not for us to con
i demn bun for having no use for a
! Negro. We rather admire him
I for having the ' courage to say
t sc, divesting himself of hypocrisy
? while at the same time eccording us
: protection and justice. Wo ask only a
\ man's chance caring nothing for ?special.
favors. What matters it to us if the
Devil brings relief, provided the Lord
; sent it?
W?? desire equal opportunity with any
! ?)ther citizen and a removal of the liandi
? caps to our advancement along all lines,
? religious, industrial und political.
We hardly sec the need of the better
class of the white people petitioning
; tlie national government for aid to
assist iu putting ?lown the mob. Such
? a petition was .sent from Colorado to
the authorities at Washington anil was
flatly refused by tho ollicials there.
! Such a petition was inaile to the Presi?
dent of the I'nired States by the exiled
Negroes of Wilmington,North Carolina.
! The writer was the spokesman of one of
; the delegati >ns that made the plea r?>
I the late President William McKinley
? in the White House at Washington.
The world knows the result.
Such a plea was made by the white
citizens of Kentucky when lawlessness
was rainpaut and even a former Gover?
nor was made an exile within tho eon
fiues of the state cf Indiana, where he
resides today. Every child of a school
age, who roads the newspapers knows
the result of these efforts.
If then, the national government
turned a deaf ear to the white men of
Colorado anil Kentucky aud the
Negroes of Nokth Carolina, why
should it be expected to heed the cries
of the lib;-ral minded w hite men of the
southern states? Is it not evident that
wo have the leaven here within our
own borders? is it not apparent that
we must look to the stato governments
for relief ami to our owu arms for pro?
tection, ?lying if need be iu our own
defense.
Certainly Dr. Jchnson must have for?
gotten that it was Gov. FirziirjGH Lek,
of Virginia who saved the fifteen year
old Simon Walker from tue gallows.
It was Go v. Charles T. O'Ferrall
who with the troops of the state pro?
tected the Lunenbnrg ? risoners. It
was the Virginia Supreme Court that
gave them a new trial. It was Attorney
< ?Vaerai Scott, whose son is now a
Circuit Judge iu this state who enun?
ciated the principle that human life
was paramount aud in its protection all
lawful expeiients were justifiable.
It was Hon. Asa D. Watkins of
Prince E?lward who entered a nolle
prosequi in the face of a jury virtually
howling for Pokey Barnes* blood. It
was Judge J M. Crute who granfid
him permission so to do. It was Mavor
Harry Wooding of Danville and his
corp of officers, backed up by Judge
A. M. Ai ken of Danville, Va., who
recently not only protected an innocent
Negro from a mob, but jailed some of
the white lynchere.
It was Governor Aycock of North
? '.indina who has taken high grouml
up?).? the lynching question. It was
Gov. A. J. Monta?.ce who detuiled a
regiment of soldiers to guard Henry
Wii.li-a.ms, (colored) the eonfossed as?
sailant of a white woman at Roan?>k<\
Va. Think you that Gov. Montai.ce
had any sympathy for Williams?
Think you that he learue?! otherwise
than with satisfaction of his execution
upon the gallows? He was doing his
duty, executing tho mandates of the
law and preserving those institutions,
without which, government is a parody
and liberty a play-thing in the bunds of
the 1 iwless.
The time is at hand when nieu de?
serve credit for doing their duty. God
forbid that at any tline during the
coming years that we should be other?
wise than just iu our advocacy of great
principles or that we should withhold
from any of the libera'-min?ed
white men of the South-laud any of the
honor, credit or commeudation to which
they are jnstly entitled.
All of these cases cited involved colored
people and their alleged victims were
white ones. It is the Governor of
Alabama who has ferreted out the "*law
Jess organized bands which have for
their purposes the injury of Negroes.
These are the people who constitute
the best class of white people and we
shall add the name of Judge Emory
Speer of Macon, Georgia to tne num?
ber.
Our fights iu the defense of colored
people and our success along these lines
have been with the active support and
encouragement of the liberal minded
white people and the opposition of those
of the Negro-hating kind.
These white people are not Negro
lovers, but they see in the spread of
lawlessness and the dcgreflation of the
masses, the destruction of the republic.
Thoy love the South-land and its people
aud they know that its true advance?
ment and prosperity can never be se
cure?! save by the observance of great
principles, and a strict adherence to its
laws.
If commending this element of white
people is treason to the Negro race, we
say to the colored people of this coun?
try,?make the most of it.
The words of the Saviour come
thundering through the ages, as potent
to ?lay as when they were first uttere?!
to the wondering multitudes upon the
mount or voiced, with mellifluent
grandeur by the silvery elc?paeuce of
St. Luke:
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do ye
eveu so to them."
MR. THOMAS >F.LSON .'AUK'S
?i A il ? ATI VE.
??. Thos ? N'?! son Paof'r ? r??
tive on "'lue Old Timo Negre in
Scribner's Maga/ine for November
grows more interesting as he proceeds.
He says:
When the war closed aud the Negroes
wer?? set free, the feeling between them
aud their old matters was never warm?
er, the bouds of friendship were never
more close. The dev?>tiou which the
Negro had shown during the long strug
gle had created a profound impression
onthe minds of the Southern whites.
Even between the Negroes aud poorer
whites who ha?t always boon rather at
enmity, a hotter feeling hud grown up.
The close of the war had accomplished
what all the Emancipation Proclama?
tions could not effect. Tho masters uni?
versally informed their servants that
thev were tree.
This was literally true among the
slave-owners of the better class, but
among many others, Lincoln was
cursed and Si'mner abused. Mr. Page
came from the kind-hearted Virginia
stock, where ?ervants wero treated as
human beings aud**boucieuco ligured
conspicuously in all earthly affairs.
He says further:
The ohi time Negro has almost ?juite
paused from the earth, as have his old
master and his old mistress. A few still
reiiiniu, like the last leaves on the tree,
but in no loug time tn?y, too, will have
disappeared. But so long as he isurviv??.s
the old family feeling of affection will
remain in the hearts of those who knew
linn. Every week or two the newspa?
pers contain the mention of tho passing
from the stage of one or morn of those
whose place in some old family has
made them notable in their lives ami
has caused them to be followed to the
grave by as sincere mourners among the
whites as among the blacks. But how
many of them j;a>*s without any other
notice than the unfeigned mourning of
those whom they loved aud served so
faithfully.
No Southerner, whatever his feelings
of antagonism may be to the Negro ?ace,
ever meets an old Negro man or woman
without that feeling rising iu his breast
which one experiences when he meets
some old friend of his youth ou whom
time has laid his chastening baud.
Nor has the old feeling by any means
died ont in the breast of tne old Negro
himself. Only as the whites look on
the young blacks with some disapproval,
the old Negro regards the younger gen?
eration of whites as interior to the gen?
eration he knew.
Mr. Pa?jecould not have stated the
condition better. He tells the follow?
ing amusing story:
Not long since a friend in Richmond
told me the following story: He said a
friend of hie in that city invited him
in tue shooting ?????? to go down to his
father's pin???? to shoot pan ridges. The
' bonse had bean b.irned down, but he
' said old Robin was still living there,
ami had fold limi not long before mat
? there were a good many birds on the
I place. Accordingly, the two gen?lernen
OBVa in?irning took their BJUn?i and dogs
and drove down to the Old Bill plnnta
t;.ui where thej arrived about sunrise.
Old Robin was cutting wood in front of
his e.it.in, and asy friend baajno t<> shoot
| for him: 'On, Re bin! Oh. li?>biii!" The
old fellow stopped, and coming t?> the
brow of ihe Bill above ?1?????, called,
"Who dit know me so mudi bettoli
den 1 know him?"
"Come down bore!" calleil his master.
When the old f? liow ?li.?? cove rent who
it wash?? waadelighted.
"Yes.sah," sai?l he; "dyah's plenty
of buds down heroon de hi auch. 1 sees
*em eve'y eveniu' most when I comts
down attor my c You go 'long and
kill 'em and I'll Be keer of yo horse
for you and tel Mandy to hev some
snack for yo 'bea 'wehe o'clock."
Justas he was leavintr, he stopped,
and leaning out of the wagon, said:
'Marse Gus, d?M yo' shoot any old
: tk.siny gun down
? down at ter my ?
. too fas' for me, ?
? shoot an old by ah
' m ?lebaid."
viven and was kept
they were about to
?t then a tine han?
't Marse GOB, and
?. Iu his ardor he
ed it over. At that
was iieanl calling
ap to the house as
' 1 very good luck,"
? t any old hyahs?"
hyahs down ?1er??
wid me when I
cow. Dein bud
but I can m ma
if I ketch one s?. ? :
Tho promise v-?
by the hunters UB
stop for luuch.
jumped up in fr j
gave him a fair s
tired at ir and ki
moment old Kob
to them to come ?
"snack was read
"There,"' said vins, as he picked op
the hare, "now I have gone ami killed
this, and that old inau will never for?
give me. '
?'Take it and eive it to him for his
wife." said his fra?rid.
"Oh, no," he said; "you don't know
old Robin, he will never forgive me"
"Well put it down in tn?? bottom of
y?mr game big: be wiil never know the
difference," said his friend. And this
was saanieles?dy done.
They were greeted by the old man
cheerfully, with *You must have got
plenty of but ?. I heard you shoot so
much".
"Oh, yes, w
saifl the huutsn
"You ?lidn't
he ?said confidei
The silence a: . as d his suspicion, and,
turning he shot a keen glance at his
master, which look in the well-filled
game bag.
"What you got dem game pockets
to make *em look ")ig? You certaiu'y
am'shoot as many buds in dat in dis
time?"
Gus, convictea, poked bis hand into
his bag aud drow oat the rabbit.
"Here, Uncle Robin,' he said in some
confusion, "this is the only one I shot.
I want you to take it ami give it to
Mandy."
But the old Man declined. "Nor I
don' want it and. Mandy don' want it."
he said; "you dm ? shoot it aud now yo'
bettub keep it."
He stalked on up the hill in silence.
Sudd?#nly. stopping, he turned back.
"Well, well," he said, "times cer
tain'y is changeai! Marse Gus, yo' pa
wouldn't 'a' told me a lie for a mule,
let 'lone a' ole hyah."
But we are nearing the close of this
recital and we shall leave the subject
here until our next issue.
ONCE COLLEGE GIRL;
NOW A STONE MASON
Finding Diploma Useless Pretty Grad?
uate Learns Trade and Is
Successful.
Buda-Pesth, Hungary.?If all the
young women of Hungary had half
the pluck of Miss Helene Preda, whose
home is in the ?village of Maroavasdr
holy, the RtaXaTaVer sex would have
trouble in k d*ig the upper hand in
all the trade She is only 20 years
old and is co ddered the mos: beauti?
ful gir. i" >tv ,
?umijn un. o-a?, s? ?
ehe made her wt> in ? ?ni?,? ?oleaje and
parried a degree ? ' c than a year ago.
Armed with ibis ahi fancied she would
have no diffirulty
ment as a teaCBBT
Weeka IB search of
SUi'eeSS?lll.
It was ? hen aha
tttng employ?
-?]>..? spent aerara!
I lace, but was un?
ni,iye.1 her cour?
tage. Her diploma . lag ?ailed to pot
A. COMPETENT stoni?: MASON.
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she first went to the rUlage mayor ami
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The casa w.i> bo novel the official
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-THK NKw ???:t.'? Agents are making >5.oo per Day
Editor-in Chief and Owner of
Selling ''McGirt's Magazine."
?Alc?irt's Maga/i ite.**
AGREAT periodical published even' month in order
that wc may have a paper that will be read by both
races, the white as well as the colored, that the white
race may know the m any great men and women of the colored
race and v. hat th mJ *?.re saying and doing.
Thousand;- of whit??, M well ?s the etilorod, r? ad thi.?? aafagBBlnB every month.
Some Of tin m ?helare that they have lrarned mor?? alniut th?> great men of the
< ?ilor. <l rana ???p????) thiH Magazine thiin th? y ever knew before and that without
? ih ?bt this j ? ? nxiwal is far in advani?? of anything y? t attempted by the Negro.
Eu? h in nth it contains articles fioin the -?realest writers ?if the ruce. Agenta
Bla just ns sure of making S??.(X) per ?lay si-Ding this Magazine as they are in an
sw? ? nifi this atlvertiseimnt.
W ? it?? ut ?mee timi voli may be the first in the ????1<1. Band ?50c. for agente'
t?'ims. ? utl.t. and a BaTftB number of MaaaaJPBB, With which y?>u may begin work
at unir. Mibscription larice to evtry one is One Dollar i'er Year. Write?
JAMES E. McGIRT, 420 S. nth St., Phila Pa.
Ikn?Qbts of H^tb?as,
_?. ?., S. ?., ?., ?., ?. AND ?._
This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and iu?
progress has beeu phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jur?
isdiction over ail of the cities and counties " ? this state. Thirty male?
are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid onstitute one
of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything
else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be?
nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will hud it an order
worthy of their heartiest support.
It pays au endowment and burial benefit of 5200.00 for all ages. It
nave +4 rwo wr wee1. s:ck dues. The badge, costing 75 cents each is the
only absolutely necessary /ega.ia. for Juto-m-tion concerning tie urgunizatioii :>f lodges,
apply at the main office.
The Courts of Calanthe
Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of
thirty persons to organize ;i court. Its members are pledged to exhibit
Fidelity, exercise Harmon)- and prove Love one for the other. It pays
an endowment and baria] benefit ^f #150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick
mes. The only expense tor regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and
? r?sete sfn'?- 2* cents for iuneral occasions.
G??? bANDS OF ^ALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes
a feature and person.; c 1 nn >. ;.? Oetter ? ? 10 entei the little ones in tin's mystic circle.
Tlv. expense is nominal ano i.i.r ben lu . ' that could be expected. It pays from $1.00
to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits ?>? from ? -.oo 10 $40.00. If you have? no Pythian
Lodge or Court or Hand in your neighborhood 01 'anise one.
For all information concerning the Children's Department, address,
Mrs. Anna Taylor, \V. M.,
120 VV. Hill St., Richmond, Va.
For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR.,
?membership for new lodges and courts address 311 N. 4th St.. Richmond, Va.