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ADVOCATE DEALS WITH THE NEGRO'Sarcasm Dealt Out to Its Chicago Contemporary,jji'IMALOVER CIVILIZATION I pi,Histcry of the Race Sirce Its Freedcm a Story of Retrogression—Sap of John Wise’s Sympathy Stirred Only by the Fee.cea-'anm:saan1In the Christian Advocate of this week there appears an editorial dealing in rather a sarcastic manner with certain ut-j teranccs of the Chicago Christian Advo-{ cate, and incidentally making a by no means complimentary reference to John S. Wise, of New York.The discussion by the Advocate is over the assertion by Its Chicago contemporary that Moses married a “ncgress” and that “God justified that action,” making Miriam a leper for laughing at the black woman as a punishment.” The Advocate of Richmond wants to know of the Advocate of Chicago If Moses fell In love with a genuine African woman, flat nose, thick Ups. kinky wool and musky odor.” and also “what became of the ‘yaller* progeny of Moses and the ‘negress.’ Did this superior man. Egyptian prince, lawgiver. leader, hero, leave In Palestine a lot of mulattoes of high station?” The Richmond paper wants to know what became of them.From this point the Advocate branches off into a discussion of the nego problem.It says in part:A GREAT WRONG.Mr. Lincoln did them a great wrong j In taking them from such environment— i from the Industrial training of the patri- 1 an hal and Christian civilization needed for four hundred years by the race, the j selected ancestors of Jesus.“One of the gloiies of our Southern Church Is the number of Christians among the ‘servile progeny of Ham.' as Wesley styled them. When their training was disrupted their morals we'e far superior to their character now. They protected the homes of their absent masters in days of . war. They now. rather their sons, ruined by ‘freedom.’ license, idleness. a~e com- ; nutting hideous crimes, unheard of In the : days of their regulated lives and religious j schooling bv devoted white m:ssionaries. :By their fruits we know civilizations. The negro, left to his own guidance, goes back. Havti. at our doors, illustrates.JOHN WISE’S SYMPATHY.‘‘The dominant race of this continent. 'In part mistaking a neg o for black Cau-cas’an, is shedding its fanaticism and gauging the African by his record. If left to himself he Is a failure. Never race had such coddling as the Southern ex-slave, j Money by millions, teachers by* the hundreds. enthusiasm riant—all at his service. In health, moral fibre, decent behavior. he has retrograded. Here and there a white man with negro blood, like Looker Washington, male progress and became a show negro. The animal In the African has grown over the civilization gained under the pupilage of the Anglo- j -f Saxon. “The fate of the negro In America !s j J dark. Slowly but surely it is coming to ^ balanced men that the negro peon of the South will In the end bewail the day when ‘freedom’ made him the victim of a , pitiless and masterful power.“Last week a lawyer of New York la- 1 * merited that he only, in all the lan 1. cared + for the ‘rights’ of the negro, and the sap of his sympathy flowed only when + warmed by a fee that emptied the pocket of the race in Virginia.”1
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Richmond Times
Richmond, Virginia, US
Thu, Dec 18, 1902
Page 2
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