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Mob Violence and the American Negro My Experience in the Sunny South - Velley Lester · The Frontier in America History

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  Speaker 1: Section one of The Mob Violence and the American Negro,
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  Speaker 1: My Experience in the Sunny South. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Mob Violence and the American Negro My Experience in the
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  Speaker 1: Sunny South by Valley Leicester Introduction. My friend of many
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  Speaker 1: years and parishioner for three years has asked me to
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  Speaker 1: write a brief introduction to this volume. I do not
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  Speaker 1: see the need of any such preface. Mister Lester is
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  Speaker 1: so well known the country over that to undertake to
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  Speaker 1: make him better known is like trying to paint the
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  Speaker 1: lily over or adding another color to the rainbow. Yet
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  Speaker 1: I am under such manifold obligation to the author. I
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  Speaker 1: am glad to comply with any request of his Mister
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  Speaker 1: Lester has not attempted anything approaching to a complete portrait
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  Speaker 1: gallery of his usefulness and sacrifices that he has made
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  Speaker 1: for his race and country. This man, fearless as a
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  Speaker 1: lion and harmless as a dove, is better known in
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  Speaker 1: his home town, why Nona, Mississippi, as the Stranger's friend,
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  Speaker 1: his confidence in humanity and his sympathy for the unfortunate,
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  Speaker 1: always keep the door of his heart as well as
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  Speaker 1: the door of his palatial home, open for reception of
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  Speaker 1: those that need his aid. My conception of Christianity is
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  Speaker 1: not found in the man that shouts the loudest, but
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  Speaker 1: in the man's good deed. I'm not trying to give
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  Speaker 1: a sketch of the life of the author, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it would be out of place for me
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  Speaker 1: to mention a few of the unthought of deeds of
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  Speaker 1: this good man. One rainy morning, an old, deaf, dumb,
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  Speaker 1: and blind man was seen wandering around the streets. Simon
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  Speaker 1: or Sime, as everybody called him, could find his way
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  Speaker 1: almost to any place he had been to more than once.
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  Speaker 1: But on the above mentioned morning, Sime seemed greatly in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: As he plodded along, feeling his way and muttering as
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  Speaker 1: any mute would, it was evidently seen that Sime was lost.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, men and women would pass by him,
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  Speaker 1: some with jest, some would taunt him, while the better
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  Speaker 1: would pity him and wonder where he stayed and where
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  Speaker 1: he was trying to go. Finally, as I was going
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  Speaker 1: down the street behind Sime, he met the author of
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  Speaker 1: this book, and, leaving the beaten path, stepped into the
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  Speaker 1: deep mud in the street and took hold of Sime's hand. Sime,
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  Speaker 1: as was his way, began to use his sense of
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  Speaker 1: touch to determine who this friend was. He gave a
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  Speaker 1: careful examination, and when he put his hand on his head,
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  Speaker 1: he knew it was his friend, mister Leicester. So at
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  Speaker 1: the very moment Sime knew who his friend was, he
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  Speaker 1: threw both arms around him, and mister Lester's arms at
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  Speaker 1: the same time went around Sime, and an old time
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  Speaker 1: shout went up, and for a few minutes, it would
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  Speaker 1: have touched the heart of any individual to see such
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  Speaker 1: a demonstration in the muddy street. I was somewhat curious
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  Speaker 1: to know the cause of Sime's love for mister Lester,
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  Speaker 1: and on investigation, I found that mister Lester had given
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  Speaker 1: him one of his nice rent houses to live in
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  Speaker 1: and was furnishing him with food and wood. A few
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  Speaker 1: days before, or rather the day before this incident, mister
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  Speaker 1: Lester had moved Sime out of a four room house
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  Speaker 1: into a two room house, so being in a new place,
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  Speaker 1: he lost his way to mister Lester's home as he
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  Speaker 1: was accustomed to go for his breakfast. Every unfortunate stranger
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  Speaker 1: that comes through Winona finds his way to mister Lester
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  Speaker 1: and always finds comfort and help from this good man.
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  Speaker 1: I could write a whole chapter concerning the work and
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  Speaker 1: worth of mister Lester. In the church, he is the
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  Speaker 1: preacher's friend, and his home is the abode of nearly
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  Speaker 1: all of the visiting preachers in the city. Now, dear reader,
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  Speaker 1: it would be unjust for me to close this sketch
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  Speaker 1: without mentioning the two things that showed to me the
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  Speaker 1: real spirit of the author. When war was declared, he
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  Speaker 1: was the first man in Winona to give a son
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  Speaker 1: to fight for democracy and the Stars and stripes. He
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  Speaker 1: has only two boys, and both volunteered, the younger being
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  Speaker 1: only seventeen years old. But notwithstanding the sacrifice of these boys,
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  Speaker 1: mister Lester was the leading man of his race in
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  Speaker 1: all of the war drives. He laid down his work
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  Speaker 1: and gave his time unstintingly to his country. Second, when
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  Speaker 1: the great and destructive influenza epidemic was ravishing our town,
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  Speaker 1: the government had called away all of our doctors except
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  Speaker 1: two or three, and those that were left were sick,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of one. And terrible was our condition,
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  Speaker 1: one doctor in more than six hundred cases. In one
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  Speaker 1: house there were eleven down. I was doing all I could.
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  Speaker 1: Being on foot, I could not get around as fast
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  Speaker 1: as I desired. So mister Lester took me in his
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  Speaker 1: buggy and we began the fight together. I cannot paint
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  Speaker 1: the dreadful condition the town was in, but the condition
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  Speaker 1: was so serious that relief stations were opened to furnish
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  Speaker 1: the poor and needy with medicine and food. All during
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  Speaker 1: the day, mister Lester and his faithful horse Joe could
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  Speaker 1: be seen with his buggy loaded down with buckets filled
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  Speaker 1: with soap and other nourishing things for the sick. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation
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  Speaker 1: and a better understanding between the white and black races.
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  Speaker 1: His denunciation against mob violence is bitter, but pleads for
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  Speaker 1: just treatment and a fair deal in court and equal
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  Speaker 1: protection from the authorities of the law. Yours, Sincerely, W. H. H. Murrele,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor of Haven Memorial m E Church, Winona, Mississippi. End
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  Speaker 1: of Section one, Section two of the Mob Violence and
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  Speaker 1: the American Negro Experience in the Sunny South by Valie Lester.
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  Speaker 1: This Liebrivox recording is in the public domain. My lecture
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  Speaker 1: at Rockport that nearly caused my death True man and womanhood.
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  Speaker 1: The joy that cheers us most in this life springs
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  Speaker 1: from our worthy acts and good deeds which we have performed.
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  Speaker 1: Let us study the things which promote peace and progress.
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  Speaker 1: Let the adornment of the young woman be that of
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  Speaker 1: character and intellect, and not the false showing of expensive clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that confusion may come to an end, and sweet
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  Speaker 1: peace cover the earth as the waters do the deep.
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  Speaker 1: Take heed, my friends, while the doors of the twentieth
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  Speaker 1: century are opened to you to this day the road
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  Speaker 1: that leads to eternal life. These thoughts ponded in the
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  Speaker 1: heart will show to the outward world that we are
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  Speaker 1: members of some Christian organization. This one can testify from
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  Speaker 1: past experience and knowledge that the way to the celestial
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  Speaker 1: City is delightful and leads to a mansion above. No
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice is too great if victory comes at the end.
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  Speaker 1: With this thought in view, let us go to the
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  Speaker 1: work of this year with a high purpose that we'll
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  Speaker 1: call forth our cleverest thoughts, tenderous sympathies, and earnest resolves
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  Speaker 1: to the end that we may accomplish that which will
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  Speaker 1: make us happy, children, better citizens, and our deeds will
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  Speaker 1: be handed down to generations yet unborn, My friends, let
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  Speaker 1: your lives be so clean and upright before God that
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  Speaker 1: only the grand architect of the universe could have designed
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  Speaker 1: it better. Let those of you who are in the
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  Speaker 1: broadway that leads to death eternal return and enter through
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  Speaker 1: Christ into the marvelous light of His countenance. Wherein the
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  Speaker 1: world cannot reward you. Here, let us lay aside foolishness
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  Speaker 1: and feed the people on the bread of truth. Think
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  Speaker 1: of the condition of our schools and churches some forty
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and compare those of that time with our
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  Speaker 1: institutions of today. Why not let your thoughts improve like
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  Speaker 1: the works of industry and education have done these many years.
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  Speaker 1: You may lay out your plans for a long life,
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  Speaker 1: but you had better prepare to meet your God. Do
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  Speaker 1: all you can every day of your life for the
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  Speaker 1: upbuilding of our people. You are not too old to
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  Speaker 1: do something for your man. Some of the best works
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  Speaker 1: that the world has ever seen were written after the
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  Speaker 1: authors began to think that they were too old. Isaac
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  Speaker 1: Walton wrote his biography after he was eighty Christopher Wren
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  Speaker 1: continued in architecture until he was eighty six. Kato learned
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  Speaker 1: the Greek language at eighty Hobbsitt eighty seven wrote vigorously
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  Speaker 1: and transplanted the Iliad, and Fontanell wrote memoir of his
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  Speaker 1: own life at one hundred and fifteen years. The man
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  Speaker 1: who reads books, newspapers, and travels knows of the great
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  Speaker 1: evil that in temperance is doing in this country and
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  Speaker 1: its damnable effect upon the human race. After a man
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  Speaker 1: sees all of this and tries not to check it,
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  Speaker 1: in my estimation, he is a poor citizen and is
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  Speaker 1: a promoter of wickedness and a criminal too. I appeal
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  Speaker 1: to the higher powers. Don't protect the people only for money,
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  Speaker 1: but because it is your duty to protect them. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says that the wicked shall be cast into hell
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  Speaker 1: with all nations that forget God. I say today, let
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  Speaker 1: us pray and work day and night until we shall
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  Speaker 1: have succeeded in putting out of the way drunkenness, adulteries, loafers, liars, thieves,
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  Speaker 1: and all other bad characters from our land. If we
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  Speaker 1: can't stop the wicked, then let us ask God to
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  Speaker 1: take them from among us. Oh, my friends, just think,
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  Speaker 1: Christ said, come unto me, all ye that labor and
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  Speaker 1: are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. It
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  Speaker 1: is the laborer only that is invited into the mansions
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  Speaker 1: of rest. Whiskey takes your money, injures your body, and
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  Speaker 1: weaken your mind, then whiskey has injured you in great
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  Speaker 1: many ways. A great many of our people call themselves
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  Speaker 1: Christians who run hotels and other public places. Yet they
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  Speaker 1: keep rooms to rent to bad characters. They may be
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  Speaker 1: money getters, but bad citizens and no Christians at all.
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  Speaker 1: Many people of our city's delight in skating rooms and
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  Speaker 1: beer gardens. But the right name for them is schools
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  Speaker 1: of evil doings that are sure to carry your boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls to ruin and an endless punishment. You never
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  Speaker 1: knew of a loyal Christian to run such places. If
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  Speaker 1: they were a good thing, then they would be attached
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  Speaker 1: to some Christian church. What is not good, then it
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  Speaker 1: is evil. The Bible says, go ye into the world
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  Speaker 1: and preach my gospel to every creature. Not one place
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  Speaker 1: does it say to build up to lead our people
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  Speaker 1: to a burning hell. Oh, Father and Mother do not
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  Speaker 1: encourage such things. They will prepare your souls for the
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  Speaker 1: degraded walks of life. Step by step they go from
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  Speaker 1: one degree of crime to another, until they land in
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  Speaker 1: a devil's hell. Leave Father, Mother, Kindred and friends to
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  Speaker 1: grieve their demise. Such characters work shame and disgrace in
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  Speaker 1: our country. They become robbers of virtue and capital offenders.
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  Speaker 1: This is enough to stir the blood and manhood of
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  Speaker 1: every law abiding citizen throughout our land. Whisky deranges the
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  Speaker 1: minds of men and women who are led by its influences,
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  Speaker 1: which finally dispatches them to a lifetime disgrace. Whisky is
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  Speaker 1: the worst enemy to Christianity. Whisky makes the murderer and
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  Speaker 1: causes many to go insane. Whisky makes orphans of children
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  Speaker 1: and paupers of the rich. It is the co partner
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  Speaker 1: of gambling dens, which leads its inmates to an untimely
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  Speaker 1: great Whiskey allures many of our noblest girls to everlasting shame.
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  Speaker 1: Whiskey crowds the city courts, and every Monday morning the
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  Speaker 1: fines increase the city treasury. Whiskey sends thousands yearly to
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  Speaker 1: a drunkard's grave. It robs our people of their homes
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  Speaker 1: and causes them to lose self respect and care for God.
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  Speaker 1: Why should you endorse any public place that is not
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  Speaker 1: fit for your wives and daughters, mothers and sisters to visit?
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  Speaker 1: If I were you, I would not go there either.
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  Speaker 1: The railroad companies will not hire a man for a
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  Speaker 1: single day if they know that he drinks, Then why
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  Speaker 1: will you, girls, value your good sense and moral standing
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  Speaker 1: by joining hands with him as a life partner? Life
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  Speaker 1: insurance companies will not in sure drunkard's life? Then why
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  Speaker 1: will you have the confidence in yourself to manage such
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  Speaker 1: a being when the companies will not risk them? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Mother's savior, boys, what a power a mother has? Mother?
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  Speaker 1: Have you forgotten your power? Handed from Mother Eve down
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  Speaker 1: to our day. Woman has a great power for good
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  Speaker 1: or for evil. A woman's nobility consists in the exercise
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  Speaker 1: of a Christian character and influences. And when I ponder
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  Speaker 1: upon the powerful influences of Eve upon her husband and
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  Speaker 1: the whole human race, I conceive that the frail arm
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  Speaker 1: of a woman can strike a blow which will resound
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  Speaker 1: through all eternity. In the dungeons as well as upon
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  Speaker 1: the heights. The requisite is to live a clean Christian life.
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  Speaker 1: The next is to raise god fearing children. Put this
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  Speaker 1: impression upon their minds while they are young, to be truthful, honest, loving,
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  Speaker 1: and obedient. This will show them the way to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And the only way is to love God with all
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  Speaker 1: of your heart, soul, mind and strength. Thirdly, to treat
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor as yourself, or as you would have others
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  Speaker 1: to treat you. Who is my neighbor anyone who will
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  Speaker 1: administer to me in the time of need. Mothers, teach
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  Speaker 1: your children to be kind to them that are oppressed.
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  Speaker 1: For as the wind changes and the river rises, so
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  Speaker 1: do nations. God says, love one another. Go out into
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  Speaker 1: the highways and the hedges, find them and compel them
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  Speaker 1: to come to Christ. The way to make the people
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  Speaker 1: better is to be kind to them and teach them
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  Speaker 1: what God would have them to do. Then you live
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  Speaker 1: what you teach. Be as honest as the artist was
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  Speaker 1: when he was called upon to paint the likeness of
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  Speaker 1: Alexander the Great. Alexander had agree scar on his forehead
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  Speaker 1: that would ruin the picture. In the estimation of his admirers.
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  Speaker 1: So the painter concluded to leave the scar off because
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  Speaker 1: it would not give a perfect likeness. So the artists
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  Speaker 1: decided to make the painting Alexander leaning with his arm
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  Speaker 1: on the table with fingers over the scar. The artists
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  Speaker 1: painted a perfect likeness of Alexander the Great, drawing out
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  Speaker 1: the things of anyone's life. Seek for the good and
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  Speaker 1: the bad will try to hide forever. Cover them with
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  Speaker 1: good things, or else they will ruin your life. There
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  Speaker 1: were many Union soldiers wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg,
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  Speaker 1: and as these soldiers they die on the field, a
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  Speaker 1: Southern soldier was seen to take a supply of water
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  Speaker 1: and carry it to the sufferer. As he lay in
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  Speaker 1: agony and blood. Saw the act of this brave man
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  Speaker 1: was and what he intended to do. They suspended fighting
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  Speaker 1: for one hour in order that the man might finish
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  Speaker 1: his acts of kindness. For every charitable act you will
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  Speaker 1: be rewarded. Don't confine your good deeds, for God will
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  Speaker 1: reward you. Never let vain thoughts enter and contaminate the
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  Speaker 1: mind with evil deeds or desire. Our thoughts are ever
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  Speaker 1: forming over our characters, and whatever they take in it
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  Speaker 1: will tinge our lives. Take the first lesson. It takes
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime to build a reputation, but it takes only
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  Speaker 1: a moment to lose it or lay it down. This
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  Speaker 1: shows to you that no man is safe unless he
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  Speaker 1: continues to go upward. Many have risen high in the
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  Speaker 1: sphere of life that leads to true manhood and godliness,
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  Speaker 1: but by living reckless lives and being led by others,
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  Speaker 1: they fall to eternal misery, shame, and woe. What a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Every man has his choice. He can choose upward or downward.
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  Speaker 1: Sincerity is the first step to virtue and noble living.
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  Speaker 1: So man without this essential quality is not a man.
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  Speaker 1: Quito was a deaf pauper, a hopeless case, you would say,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he became one of the greatest biblical scholars
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  Speaker 1: of his time. Let this be a lesson to you.
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  Speaker 1: Let out your powers and you will save someone from
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  Speaker 1: shame and ruin. Israeli, the young Hebrew I'm being hissed
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  Speaker 1: from the house of Commons, said that the time would
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  Speaker 1: come when you will hear me. So true to his words,
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  Speaker 1: he forced his way through race, prejudice and surprised England.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be discouraged because your chances are not as good
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  Speaker 1: as someone else's. But push your way. Henry Fawcett had
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  Speaker 1: both of his eyes shot out by his father while
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  Speaker 1: out hunting. This grieved the father very much, but Henry
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  Speaker 1: told his father to never mind. That blindness shall not
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  Speaker 1: interfere with my success, and Henry became prime minister of
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  Speaker 1: that country. So don't get discouraged, but go on to success.
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  Speaker 1: Charles Lamb, who was addicted to strong drink, said that
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  Speaker 1: if men could see as he now does, why they
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  Speaker 1: would never take the first tempting drink. They would flee
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  Speaker 1: from this great evil. This habit has carried many a
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  Speaker 1: man downward, and he cannot help himself, but he can
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  Speaker 1: never forget when he was at the point to choose
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  Speaker 1: between good and evil. My friends, the only way to
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  Speaker 1: be a man or woman of credit to your community
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  Speaker 1: is to lay aside for volity and build up a
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  Speaker 1: solid foundation. Then build and shape your life so that
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  Speaker 1: men can read your thoughts and rejoice in the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: way in which you have shaped your character, and others
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  Speaker 1: will tread in your footprints and follow you to the end.
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  Speaker 1: Let us be heroes. Go out with the helmet of
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  Speaker 1: Salvation on your head, the shield of faith to protect
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  Speaker 1: the body, shoes of the Gospel to peace on your feet,
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  Speaker 1: your loins girded about with truth, breastplate of righteousness, and
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  Speaker 1: the sword of the Spirit in your hands. You have
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  Speaker 1: on this full armor. You don't like to lay around
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  Speaker 1: the fort, but go out into the field where work
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  Speaker 1: is to be done, and victory is the chief of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. You read in the papers of great ball
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  Speaker 1: players winning different games and are being crowned with success
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  Speaker 1: as the heroes. You may also read where a man
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  Speaker 1: has on the championship as a great fighter. But this
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  Speaker 1: may seem great in the eyes of some people, but
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  Speaker 1: with God it is nothing but shame. For this class.
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  Speaker 1: It does not require a moral temperament. So let that
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  Speaker 1: kind of heroism go and be a hero for God
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  Speaker 1: in order that you may gain and everlasting life. This
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  Speaker 1: is what it takes for a man to be a hero.
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  Speaker 1: A man that looks high and believes in purity and
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  Speaker 1: graces a more worthy aspiration for the royal manhood of today.
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  Speaker 1: England's prince is no longer great because he is a prince.
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  Speaker 1: Every man is measured by what he is yield, not
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  Speaker 1: to temptations, but shape your end well and you will
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  Speaker 1: be a hero, and that will help to make others great.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the world needs today. Moral heroes, spiritual heroes.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone can slide downhill, but to rise and require some efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Try to help yourself and others will help you. Be
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  Speaker 1: God's heroes. Long suffering for parents, and self denial in
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  Speaker 1: pointing other souls to a pure, ennoble life in Him
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: who is able to defend us. Parents, remember your children
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  Speaker 1: and others who are coming after you, so take the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: straight path, for they are going to step in your footprints. Fathers,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: remember that your sons will call for the same drink
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that you take, So call for water and thus save
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  Speaker 1: your sons from e general ruin. Today is the only
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: chance for you to save your boys and girls. So
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: be a hero for God. A set of men were
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: crossing a mountain of Scotland, and they came to a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: place where only eagles and angels had been. These men
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: were studying the works of God in the rocks and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: flowers as well as the beautiful sceneries. They saw some
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: flowers on a projection which was too dangerous for them
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  Speaker 1: to try to get. They saw a man and his
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  Speaker 1: son nearby, and they called to the boy and told
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  Speaker 1: him that they would tie the rope around his waist
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  Speaker 1: and let him down to the flowers, then draw him back,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and they would give him a great reward for the flowers,
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  Speaker 1: as they were a beautiful specimen of rare beauties, which
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: they were very anxious to obtain. The father consented because
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the boy had been lowered so many times to the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: seabird's nest. The boy looked around at the men and said,
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  Speaker 1: I will go. If father will hold the rope, why
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: not you launch out and fight for God when he
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: says that he is with you always, even to the end.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And God is able to tear down and build kingdoms,
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  Speaker 1: care for the sick, and raise the dead. Don't fear
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  Speaker 1: anyone but be a hero. Don't think that you are
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  Speaker 1: so powerful that you can drive men like or cut
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  Speaker 1: a world out of paper. For you are as shallow
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  Speaker 1: as a milk pan. There are others who will soon
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: find out that you are as empty as an electric globe.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: And there's plenty of room for improvement. And they will say, oh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: what a great head, But there is but a little
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in it. A good many people continued to talk, but
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: never say anything. I heard of a learned man boiling
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: his watch for an egg, and another one forgetting that
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: he was to get married on a certain day, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he would have lost his lady had not a friend
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of his letting out of his study. Think of this, boys,
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  Speaker 1: and rejoice to know that you have not so much
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: learning that it would cause you to lose respect for
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: those who are not so well up to modern improvements.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: A boy was raised by a widowed mother, one that
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: loved him beyond excess. This widow sent the boy to school,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and she had to wash in order to keep him
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in school. The woman longed to see the day come
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: for her boy to graduate. The years rolled on, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: she continued to rub clothes. The time came for her
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: son to graduate. The mother was delighted to know it
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  Speaker 1: because she had told it so long in order that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he might be prepared for life's duties. This would have
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: been bent by the effects of many years labor over
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the washtub put her in a somewhat ugly shape. She
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: began to rejoice in telling her friends of the day
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that her son was to graduate and she was going
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  Speaker 1: to be there, and that would be the happiest day
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  Speaker 1: of her life, and when she saw her son graduate,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it would pay her for all that she had done
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: for him. The old lady sent her senna new suit
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: of clothes and told him of the day that she
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: would be there herself. So the old lady, with the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: assistance of her friends, prepared for the trip. But the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: day before she was to start, she received a letter
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: from her son saying, mother, don't come here. You've always
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: been in the country and are not up with city style,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and coming would be unpleasant for us, both for you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: don't know how to act. This dear mother melted down
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in tears and grief, but she tried to apologize for
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: her son, but she was never happy anymore and soon
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: died of grief. Never forget mother, Let this be a
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: lesson for you boys and girls. There was an old
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: horse that had done service at a bart mill for
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: many years, so on account of his age, he was
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: set free for the remainder of his life. At the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: time of day for him to do his work, he
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: would go around in a circle. The passers by would
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: stop and look at him, and were led to say, Oh,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the force of habit has fixed itself on him. Let
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: this be a warning to you, one of our greatest generals,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: filled and nearly grave by the habit of smoking. So
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: be careful about your habits in early life. Let your
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: mind in daily walks be for the good. Only. The
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: indolent cannot by a wish become industrious, nor the spendthrift
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: through nor the libertine virtuous. The habit of controlling our
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: thoughts in tune with true virtue and cheerfulness will ensure
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: beauty and harmony in character. The will is the main note.
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  Speaker 1: Let it assume its rights. Now is the time for regret.
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  Speaker 1: Will not change your course. So if you have any
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: bad habits, change them today. You have done wrong. Why
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: don't you see as the prodigal son did. He began
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: his journey back and continued until he had reached his
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: father's home. So he had to eat no more husk,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: neither to feed swine in order to live. He found
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: plenty of room, as you will find if you will
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: only consider that your way is not our father's way,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: which bid you to come home to nourish in the heart.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: No evil claims and purposes is not in it self
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: sufficient for the attainment of life's true end. Some of
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the noblest aims have been to evaporate resolution into thin air.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: The conviction of duty, right, desires, and good resolves are
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: all needed, but they are not enough For derections must
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: be carried out, desires transplanted entities, and resolves crystallized into
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: solid facts. There's nothing in daydreams or wishing for improvements.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Get up and go to doing something, and you will
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: fill your mission. The world is full of people of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: good intentions. With their millions in the banks, they think
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of many things that they could do, but they do
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: none of them. So he is no good to the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: poor and the suffering, and they keep their money hoarded
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: up while they need their assistance. Stop talking of what
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you would do if you had the means, while at
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the same time there are ten thousand of things that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you could do if you would, and it would be
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a great benefit to our people. Cheer up and live
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a clean life and teach the truth. Don't be narrow
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and don't really want to do good to your own people,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: but help all that you can in every good way.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: There was a certain rich man who wanted a servant,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and he tried a good many of them. So he
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: asked one how near it. Could he drive to the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: gulf without danger? The servant said four feet, another said
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: three feet, and another said three inches, another said one and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a half inches, and the last one said, kind Sir,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I would drive you just as far from that gulf
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: as I could. The rich man said that you are
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the one I want. That is the kind of an
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: individual that God wants. Stay away from bad places. Don't
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: allow things to be with you. As it was with
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the king eagle and the humming bird. The eagle whips
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: all of the other birds that come near him, but
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the hummingbird sits on the eagle's head, pecks and pecks
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: until he injures the brain of the eagle and sometimes
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: causes the eagle's death. So it is with some people.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: They seek the weak spots in the lives of others,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and they continue to peck at their influence in good
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  Speaker 1: name and character until he or she kills the person.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: The Bible says, thou shalt not kill. Follow that precept
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in letter and in spirit. Amen end of section two,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Section three of the Mob Violence and the American Negro.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: My Experience in the Sunny South by Velli Leicster. This
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain in Hattiesburg, the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: treatment of the right kind of men with the same,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and how to make friends of all men. Leaving behind
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: me all that I knew among negroes of Mississippi's capital city,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I soon found myself among strangers in a strange land.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: As the giant engine made its way and time rolled on.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: A short time we arrived at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Here I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: found many colored people having all the comforts of life.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Colored people good and bad, men and women, as both
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: are in the world together and cannot be entirely separated
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: until the day of the General Judgment, when Jesus won't
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: make the separation. The first occurrence on my arrival there
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: was the meeting of a stranger who led me to
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a white restaurant for luncheon, which was served in a
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: paper bag from the kitchen. On my way back to
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the train, he said to me, as I find you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to be a gentleman, kind sir, I present to you
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: this pint of old blank. My friend said, I I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: will declare to you that I've never tasted that kind
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of a drink in my life. I'm a temperance man,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a teetotaler, kind sir, in all things intoxicating, He said, sir,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: pardon me. I thought you was a preacher. Why, my
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: kind ser, do preachers drink whiskey? He answered, all idea
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: with do. I then handed him one of my books
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: on temperance, truthfulness and honesty. As I heard the conductors
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: all aboard, I boarded the train. Looking before me, I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: saw the head of a white gentleman whom I knew.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Said I, good morning, mister Porter. Why hello there, Lester,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: how are you this morning? Thanking him kindly in my
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: accustomed way with good manners of etiquette. He handed me
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: his hand, giving me that friendly grip of a pure
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: blooded Anglo saxon that boasts of its purity, to which
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I gladly responded as a son. At Ham said he
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: where are you going, Blesster, to Golfport? I replied, where
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: are you going, mister Porter. I'm going to Gulfport to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: try to purchase some property, Lester, So am I, mister Porter,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: said I. About that time, the train started off, and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I said to him, I will see you in the city,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: mister Porter. Okay, Lester, he replied. I rushed up, caught
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: on to my car, and the giant engine plowed on
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: through space until evening when we arrived at the long
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: wished for city and port. Now the first thing that
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: attracted my attention was the beautiful station house with separate
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: waiting rooms for two races of people, and everything beautifully
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: arranged on my arrival at Gulf Port, and what I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: experienced in the sunny south at the hotel. The proprietor,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a fine and courteous gentleman running a first class business
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: with no blind tiger connected to the left. A fine
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: dining room with beautiful fruit pictures on the walls and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: polished tables to serve the guests. In the pantry was
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: everything to be found that was palatable and nourishing for
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a visitor. After getting ready for lunch and partaking of
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: some of the dainties, made one all in love with
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the hostess. They then carried me to the second floor
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and presented me to a seat on the front gallery.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: For thirty minutes, I enjoyed the cool breeze and looked
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: southward over the great waters of the Deep and seeing
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the giant ships playing their part through the mighty waters.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: After this, I was assigned to my room, where I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: made a change in costume and prepared for the church,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: which was only a short distance over the Sandy Street
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to make I heard an able sermon by a black man.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I returned to the hotel and wrested from my labors.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I awakened on the morning of the eighth of August
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: on the Gulf coast, and only a few hundred feet
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of land between the Great Waters and me. Everybody seemed
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to be happy on their way to their work, whistling, humming,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and laughing. Then I was forced to say, surely this
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: was the happiest place that I had ever seen. Good.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Many people get mad when you awake them early in
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the morn, but way down in Dixie it makes them
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: jubulant and jolly. At nine o'clock I met my man,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: mister Porter. The white man that I mentioned at Hattie's
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: birth was one Hello Lester. Good morning, mister Porter, ed
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: once said to his friend, when I was asking the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: people of Leicester or if they knew of his whereabouts?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Did I misrepresent him? As far as you can see,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: mister Lewis, I told you that he was a man
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and far beyond the average in looks, stress, manners, behavior, costume, intelligence,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: and a fine looking colored man. Mister Lewis's answer was,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: he is all okay, and I find him only for business.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So I like that of Leicester. Now boys, let us go.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Mister Porter, you sit behind and let Lester sit by me.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: So we got into the carriage drove through the city.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Mister Lewis took great pains in showing me all of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: his property in that section of the city, the manure factories,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and all of the improvements, both school and churches, and
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the homes of the noted negress of that part of
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the state. Now, Lester, I'm going out this evening, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I will be glad for you to go with me.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Owing to a previous engagement, mister Lewis, I'm sorry that
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I cannot go. When can you go? I will go
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, all right, I will look for you. Come
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: down to my home Leicester for breakfast. We eat about
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: seven thirty, Thank you, mister Lewis. So I took a
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: car went speeding along a beautiful beach. Finally the conductor
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: came to me and said, where are you going? I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: want to get off at mister i E. Lewis. Oh, okay,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: how will I know? I said to the conductor, you
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: will find his house to have a brick basement, large
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: columns of a very joy style, a fine building painted white,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: with a pair of steps extending to the second story,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollar building. Thank you, sir. I found mister Lewis,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: as the gentleman had said. I met him as the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: same courteous white man as he was long ago, which
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: had only made him king. Mister Lewis told the old
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: colored man to hitch up the single buggy, now we
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: will be off. We took in the farming sections of
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the truck farmers as much as we could cover it.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: By one o'clock, met one truck farmer who had in
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: four years paid for one hundred and sixty acres of land,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: paying from twenty five dollars to fifty dollars per acre,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: And during this time he had banked fifty three thousand
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: dollars to his credit. August eighth, another man had in
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: one year made nine hundred dollars on one acre of land,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and so on and many other things. I might write
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: you of my experience, but I have not the time now,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: but I will when I have more time. Back to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: mister Lewis. When we got to his home, I wanted
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to go right on to my boarding house. No, you
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: must stay and get dinner. So I did at this
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: beautiful home away down in Dixie and on Long Beach,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and in this fine house is where I had the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: privilege of dining and trying the finest tribe for all
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: of its worth. Then the winged tribe for its fullest value.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Sweet potatoes, corn bread, beans, cabbage, lettuce, beets, and so
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: on were raised on his farm. I certainly enjoyed my
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: trip to the Gulf Coast. Mister Lewis is a real
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: estate dealer and a gentleman. So mister Lewis and I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: came back to the business section of the city together
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: on the street car. I went out on the pure
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: owned by mister Jones of the G and s I Railroad.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Saw many vessels loaded and unloaded from foreign countries, and
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: there was employment for many of our men working for
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: reasonable wages. Leaving the peer we went back to the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: business section. Found everything rushing, so many opportunities for the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: young Negro in this coming city will be someday one
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: of the greatest of this country. As long as I
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: stayed in the city, I was made welcome in every
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: phase of business by both white and black. I talked
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: with the business men, and I found out that they
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: wanted men and not a thing on the Golf coast.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: They would give anything to get rid of the loafers,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the liars, and the thieves. Goodbye, mister Lewis. So we parted,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: glad to know that they are shipping the bad elements
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: by degrees. If you are for business, you are welcomed
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: by all. I left on Wednesday for New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Visited the Great Pythian Temple immediately after my arrival in
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the city and found their a fined kept garden for
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the pleasure and enjoyment of the people. I found in
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: this building some of our great men in their office.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I was introduced to a great many of the leading
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: white men there. They all gladly received the introduction to
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: a temperance man. I stayed until Sunday, then leaving, thinking
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I had done all the good that I could, standing
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: up for that which I thought to be right in
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord. I went back to Gulfport.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Over the Hellen n Railroad. I met a man who
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: was a stranger, though he invited me to his home,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: wanted me to lecture in the protracted meeting which was
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: going on. I accepted the invitation, thinking I could do
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the people some good by so doing. I went with
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the brother to his town, found it a fine looking
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: little village. Then the conveyance of his own took me
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: to his country home. As we were going, one had
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to wait for something. So a man came up to
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: me and said, hello, my friend, do you know where
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: you are? I told him that I did not. You
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: do not unless you have been here before. Have you no, sir,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: this is my first visit. You know where the word
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Christmas gift came from? Now, sir, I answered him. When
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: God first met the devil, the devil said, good morning God,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the Lord said, good morning, Devil. The devil said to
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: the Lord, Christmas gift. So the Lord said, I will
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: give you certain countries in Mississippi, and this is one
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: of them. And this has been hell ever since. Was
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the answer to the man. Well, I guess that I'm
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: like the old preacher that went off into the high
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: grass to study his Sunday's sermon and went to sleep,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: as most colored people will do when they begin to
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: read the Bible. While the old man was asleep, some
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: boys went all around the old man and set the
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  Speaker 1: grass on fire. And when the old man awoke in
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  Speaker 1: finding the fire all around him, he said, in a
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  Speaker 1: loud voice, been preaching forty years. This day I have
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  Speaker 1: awoke in Hell at last, no more than what I
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  Speaker 1: had expected. Now I must make my way out. Just
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  Speaker 1: about this time the driver drove off. About one twenty
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  Speaker 1: o'clock that night of August fourteenth, Monday morning, mister Hayes
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  Speaker 1: took me in his buggy and carried me to the
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  Speaker 1: MBC five or six miles further into the country away
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  Speaker 1: in the furthermost part of Heathenism. Two preachers preached, called
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  Speaker 1: for money, and opened the doors of the church, and
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  Speaker 1: then closed it. I supposed for the next services at
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  Speaker 1: three p m. They declared that the doors would be
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  Speaker 1: opened by Brother Moore. Mister Hayes told Brother Walls that
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  Speaker 1: he had a distinguished brother who possessed a great deal
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  Speaker 1: of experience, whom he wanted to introduce to the people
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  Speaker 1: of our vicinity. All okay, responded the brother. So the
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  Speaker 1: good man took great care in reading my card to
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  Speaker 1: the congregation, saying what he could for a stranger in
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: my behalf. Brother Walls was seated. There were several white
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  Speaker 1: people on the outside. I extended a special invitation to them,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: asking them to come in and be seated, and they
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  Speaker 1: did so. I began by congratulating the two ministers for
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  Speaker 1: the able sermons which they have preached. When I asked
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  Speaker 1: the congregation to bear with me for five or ten minutes,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I first called the attention of the parents to the
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  Speaker 1: filling up of their penitentiary and state farms by our
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls. And how fast that the number was
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  Speaker 1: growing to two thousand and forty five years in one
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  Speaker 1: little state. Will you allow me, my dear friends, to
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  Speaker 1: tell you publicly how to stop this? Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: was the answer. The first thing to do is to
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  Speaker 1: examine yourself and see how you are spending your life
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  Speaker 1: before your sons and daughters. First lying on my neighbors
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  Speaker 1: and their families, breaking peace and happiness in any home
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  Speaker 1: which I can pray upon, will not pay my honest debts,
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  Speaker 1: hating the brother who is to live right and provide
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  Speaker 1: for his family. If one will save his or her
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  Speaker 1: earnings and come in possession of a respectable home, and
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  Speaker 1: will not allow you to go and make a carpet
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  Speaker 1: of his loved ones you who will not have anything,
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  Speaker 1: will go to the people telling them lies on this
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  Speaker 1: good man in order to get him run out of
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  Speaker 1: the country or to lynch him. Won't you do this?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes? Then again some of you will go to
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  Speaker 1: the courts and swear lie against your brother or sister,
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  Speaker 1: won't you yes, yes, So by this time you are
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  Speaker 1: studying all the time how to steal the name of
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  Speaker 1: some poor virtuous individual that you to be teaching, how
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  Speaker 1: to stand up for the right and never to surrender
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  Speaker 1: to wrong. You will go into the white people's houses,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I mean these old Negro women, because that mistress will
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  Speaker 1: give you a cup of coffee, and you will tell
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  Speaker 1: her everything that ever has happened in your part of
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  Speaker 1: the country for forty five years back on the Negro
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how much in order to make it interesting.
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  Speaker 1: When you run out, then you begin to lie, and
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  Speaker 1: they come thick and fast. Let it hurt whoever it may. Chewing,
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  Speaker 1: dipping and drinking coffee. Then lying on your brother is
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  Speaker 1: your profession. Why don't you be as the good white people,
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  Speaker 1: stand up for the right and die before you will
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  Speaker 1: surrender to wrong things. Then you will not mistreat anything
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  Speaker 1: which belongs to your race, character, property, livestock, fowls, land,
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  Speaker 1: good name, and nothing to hurt him. He thinks that
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: he is rich, What a pity. Let him be rich,
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  Speaker 1: Make him rich, For one rich negro in a community
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  Speaker 1: is worth all of the worthless negroes in the state.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, if you will be honest and keep
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  Speaker 1: your good name, then your sons and daughters can marry
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  Speaker 1: in that rich man's family. Oh, what a blessing it
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  Speaker 1: is for a negro to be rich. When you are
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  Speaker 1: living on a farm where no one but Negroes live,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: you can easily lie to the white people and cause trouble. Now,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, that is why our sons and daughters are
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  Speaker 1: going so fast to shame and ruin. It is because
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  Speaker 1: nothing from nothing leaves nothing. Of this class, which I
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  Speaker 1: might describe as jail birds, are the descendants of such characters. Clean,
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  Speaker 1: honest Christian gentlemen and ladies can raise children of such
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  Speaker 1: a character that will inherit the earth. I will bless
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  Speaker 1: them to the third and fourth generation. If you will
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  Speaker 1: keep my commandments. Saith the Lord, and I will curse
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  Speaker 1: them if they fail to keep them. Love the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thy God with all thy heart, soul might and strengthen
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  Speaker 1: their neighbors as thyself. Do you do this? God means, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: that you must love the white men, the red men,
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  Speaker 1: and the yellow men, regardless of color. Love Him, Do
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  Speaker 1: all the good that you can for them, and do
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  Speaker 1: by them as you would for them to do unto you.
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  Speaker 1: I know that it seems that some white people hate
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  Speaker 1: a black man, though that is none of your business.
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  Speaker 1: You love him just the same Jesus said for us
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  Speaker 1: to love one another, for you will have to come
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  Speaker 1: into judgment only for yourself. So how can you keep
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  Speaker 1: from loving the white man of your own sunny south
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  Speaker 1: and of the far northeast and west. The White Man
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  Speaker 1: sailed upon the trackless Blue Sea to the jungles of Africa,
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  Speaker 1: at the risk of his own life, found you perfectly
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  Speaker 1: wild and clothed in ignorance, not even knowing of a
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  Speaker 1: true and living God. So he took you up in
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  Speaker 1: filth and in chains, brought you from that dark continent
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  Speaker 1: into this world of light, and told you of the
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  Speaker 1: true in living God for many years. After keeping you
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  Speaker 1: for many years in slavery, he saw that was not
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  Speaker 1: pleasing in God's sight to hold you as such. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Civil Rights Bill was passed, which caused many to
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  Speaker 1: die upon the battlefields and culminated into the greatest emancipation
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Then again, think what a true friend
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  Speaker 1: the white man has been to us, for which the
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  Speaker 1: intelligent negroes thanked him. For such favors we were set
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  Speaker 1: free and finding ourselves without food, clothing, and shelter. My brethren,
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  Speaker 1: just think for a moment, when I was hungry, who
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  Speaker 1: was it that gave me food? The white man? When
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  Speaker 1: I was naked? Who was it that gave me clothes?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: The white man, of course, The white man, of course.
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  Speaker 1: When I had no home. Who was it that sold
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  Speaker 1: me land? When I had no money? Who loaned me
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  Speaker 1: the necessary means by which to meet my obligations? The
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  Speaker 1: white man, of course? When I was sick? Who administered
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  Speaker 1: unto me? When I was uncouth and ignorant? Who taught me?
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  Speaker 1: The white man. If the white man turns his back
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  Speaker 1: on you, love him just the same, for the southern
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  Speaker 1: whites have been our friends. Let us stand by the
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  Speaker 1: ones that have proven themselves to be worthy of our support.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: God will bless you. He is still helping to build
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  Speaker 1: your churches in order that our people may be better
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  Speaker 1: citizens Christians, thereby becoming more friendly towards the white man.
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  Speaker 1: There are many Negroes who are willing to stand up
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  Speaker 1: for the right and die for the maintenance of the
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  Speaker 1: good names of the blessed saints of our country, let
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  Speaker 1: it be black or white. We don't mean to protect
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  Speaker 1: a man any longer when he is in the wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but we mean to die for the right. We want
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  Speaker 1: to do all the good we can to put an
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  Speaker 1: end to blind tigers, lying, loafing, stealing, and other bad
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  Speaker 1: things may be dispatched from our land. We the better
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  Speaker 1: Negroes of the sunny South, love the name, the land,
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  Speaker 1: the climate, the home, and the people of the South.
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  Speaker 1: And we acknowledge that this is the place for the
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  Speaker 1: black man. And we ask you for your protection as
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  Speaker 1: citizens of this country of yours and ours. Now, my friends,
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  Speaker 1: you mispardon me for my scattering remarks. The thing that
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  Speaker 1: I am trying to impress upon your minds is that
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  Speaker 1: the negroes of the South have more land, money, and homes,
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  Speaker 1: the smartest men, and who are prepared for any vocation
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  Speaker 1: of life than any other state in the Union. We
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  Speaker 1: are living in the right place. If you will only
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  Speaker 1: learn to be pure and not full of deceit. Be
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  Speaker 1: a man, stand up for that which is only right,
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  Speaker 1: and don't surrender to the wrong to any man, but
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  Speaker 1: die first. Be true to your trust, protect the virtue
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  Speaker 1: and the good name of your women. Teach your daughters
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  Speaker 1: that when they have lost their good name, they are
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  Speaker 1: then fit for nothing but to be trodden under the
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  Speaker 1: feet of men. I hope that the time will soon
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  Speaker 1: come when I can lecture to you. I hope that
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  Speaker 1: all confusion may soon come to an end this moment
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  Speaker 1: or very soon, and that sweet peace forever may be yours.
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  Speaker 1: After this I received many a hearty handshake from the
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. Four or five white men stayed in
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: the building and finally made their way to me. Grasp
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: my hands, one the left and the other the right.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: They said to me, we want you to lecture again
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  Speaker 1: on tomorrow. Your lecture is the best I ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: For the benefit of the present situation and to harmonize
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  Speaker 1: the two races. God blessed you. I hope and try
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  Speaker 1: that my mother may be fortunate enough to hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I will bring her tomorrow. I'm going to bring my
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  Speaker 1: family tomorrow, said one and another one said, I'm certainly
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  Speaker 1: going to bring the girls, and so on were the
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  Speaker 1: encouraging remarks made by the white men On Tuesday sixteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I lectured, there were many whites enough to fill the church.
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  Speaker 1: Men and ladies had a glorious time. My subject was
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  Speaker 1: how and the only way we can live to raise
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  Speaker 1: noble sons and daughters. This thrilled the hearts of many
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  Speaker 1: who had tried to live right and for the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of the time that we now live and for future generations.
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  Speaker 1: For a man to do this, he must be a
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  Speaker 1: clean man and temperant in all things, and learn to
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  Speaker 1: do things that will be a benefit to himself or
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  Speaker 1: someone else. Abstain from chewing tobacco, smoking, burning up your
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  Speaker 1: daily earnings, and dipping snuff is one of the most
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: disgusting things that a man can practice. Then again, think
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  Speaker 1: of it. There's nothing in it but as so by
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  Speaker 1: which my money goes from me and my family and
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  Speaker 1: no one benefited. Then again, chewing, dipping, and smoking are
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  Speaker 1: not decent. It is merely an old, idle habit that
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  Speaker 1: our people took up when they had nothing else to do. Now,
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  Speaker 1: at this age, if you go to learn this filthy habit,
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  Speaker 1: some boar a girl will be weakened and their way
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  Speaker 1: to a higher sphere in life will be thwarted. And
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: in the near future you will have to look up
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  Speaker 1: to your superiors by borrowing money to pay your bills
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: in order to hold up your good name. Any economical
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: man could readily fill your wants because he does not
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: burn up his money, neither chew and spit it on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. You cannot afford to support a blind tiger, gentlemen,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: but you must try to get them from among us.
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  Speaker 1: There is only one way to do this, and that
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  Speaker 1: is for the church to stop patronizing such individuals. And
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: if the preacher's teachers and members of the different churches
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  Speaker 1: will stop buying these filthy dregs, why the blind tigers
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  Speaker 1: will close have to go out of business. There is
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  Speaker 1: nothing to benefit you in the rum traffic and drunkenness.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on a man who will be an habitual buyer
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  Speaker 1: from an unlawful retailer, which is a violation of the law.
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  Speaker 1: You should not support it. Such indulgence only prepares our
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters for a degraded walk of life, cease
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  Speaker 1: to lose self respect for parents, friends in God. Then
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  Speaker 1: let us try to stop such a practice by standing
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  Speaker 1: up for the right and not surrender to the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Be men, stand up for Christ Free invites you into
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: that mansion of rest if you will only labor for him. Now,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: my dear friends, let us love one another and be
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  Speaker 1: true to the trust and live as God would have
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: us to live. Then again, think of the effects that
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: whiskey has upon our people. It is no friend to you.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: It takes your money from you, injures your mind to
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: a great extent. At times, it puts you in a
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  Speaker 1: state of unconsciousness so that you don't know your mother,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: thus losing self control of your own body and mind.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a pity you can't see this is no
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: friend to you. When rum boast to the devil telling
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  Speaker 1: him it will get that trustee, class leader, steward or
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: deacon of that church if you will make O John
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  Speaker 1: believe that he can get rich by exposing me only
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: to the members of the church and the members of
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the Lodge Odd Fellows, Masons, Pythians, Witman, Knights of Honor,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: and these other little orders which we have. Oh, oh brother,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: what a mistake that you are making when you force
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: the mind to be bent upon such stuff a damnable
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: poison to destroy manhood and womanhood. You must suffer for it.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: If your children will suffer, the consequences and convicts will
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: be made of your sons and your daughters. Thus chaining
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: hand and foot for a degraded walk in life. What
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: can you promise good for your people but a degraded
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: career in life when you carry them and put them
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: in the path that leads to evil doings. What a
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: blessing when men can see their mistakes in life and
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: we'll love right in the place of wrong? Will you
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: be for Christ? If so, be a hero, stand up
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: for the right and never surrender to the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all. I thank you. End of section three,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Section four of The Mob, Violence and the American Negro
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: My Experience in the Sunny South by Bellie Lester. This
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapters eleven, twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen. Chapter eleven. On August eighteenth, I arrived at Jackson, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 1: at eleven a m with a glad heart, thinking that
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I had done a great good in the lower part
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: of Mississippi. Writing more the nineteenth I began telling my
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: many friends of my joy and success as a Christian
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: lecturer had added to the church forty two souls. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm going out on tomorrow for a greater work. Saturday
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  Speaker 1: evening I boarded a Gulf and Ship Island train stopped
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  Speaker 1: at d Lo. There I met my friend, who took
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  Speaker 1: me to his house and gave me all the comfort
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that that vicinity could afford. Sunday morning was a bright
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and glorious one. I awoke with the birds in their
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: own language, singing their sweet songs, seemingly to be praising
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: the God from whom all blessings flowed. I rose at
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: once and bowed in my humble way to thank God
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: the Father, for his son Jesus, and for my knowledge
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: of him who died that you and I might have
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: eternal life, so filling the command of the divine spirit.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: It came to me as a natural voice, saying, I
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: am with you always. This made me feel that I
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: am a child of the King. I was called a breakfast,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: and while sitting at the table, thinking how I was
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: to get seven miles into the country today, a young
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: man said to me, doctor, I cannot care you, for
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: all the teams are out, not a one in the
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: livery stable. At that moment a man, a stranger, came
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: to the door and said, doctor Leicester, I will care
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: you in my hack. Thank you, my friend. I thought
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: that God would provide some way. At ten o'clock the
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: man called for me. I got ready at once, and
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: we started on that hot summer day for seven miles
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: in an open top hack. We got to the church.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: The church was surrounded by buggies, wagons, and all safe
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: and sound, although everything was very hot. I went into
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: the church art and as I entered the gate, I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: was met by a black boy, seemingly to be eighteen
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: years of age, tall and slender. Doctor. I'm glad to
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: see you. I met you at Rockport. Do you remember me? Yes?
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I remember your face. Now I cannot help but tell you,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: although you keep it to yourself where it may not
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: be so, I heard the white people said that they
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: were going to break your neck just as soon as
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: you've made your appearance in Lower Mississippi. Why, my brother,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: that cannot be because I belong to God. Although I
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: thank you for telling me, what are they wanting to
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: kill me for? Well? I don't know, though it is
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: something They claimed that some negroes told them that you
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: are teaching the colored people down here. You don't know
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: then what it was, do you, no, sir, Well, I
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: know what I'm teaching all the people. First is to
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  Speaker 1: love God with all of your heart, might and strength
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: and his neighbors, says himself. And to do this he
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: must be a good citizen by being temperate in all things.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Then be truthful and honest, My dear friend, if any
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: white man on God's green earth wants to kill a poor,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: helpless negro for trying to lecture and persuade his people
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: to be better citizens in order that they may raise
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: better boys and girls and prepare them for more trustier servants.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Teach them to stand for the right as God wants them,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: and not bow to wrongdoings. But die first. We want
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: men and women and must have them. And if I
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: am to die for the right, I will have to die.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: So goodbye, my boy. I don't believe that any white
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: men in the world would try to hurt me when
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: he finds out that I'm trying to teach my people
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: to love the right and stick to it, then we
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: will be able to save them from shame and ruin.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: By this time, we will be able to raise sons
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: and daughters. The Negro is trying to accuse me of wrongdoing,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to lecture right here today. Brother r
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: how are you. I'm all right? Doctor? How are you?
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I'm well? Thank you? Have you met the pastor? No, sir,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: I've not come right in. I am an officer here.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Feel welcome, just as though you were at your home church. Doctor.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I've heard of your wonderful lecture at other places. Glad
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: to have you with us. Reverend H. Meet doctor Lester
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: from New Orleans. Oh, doctor, how do you do. I'm
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: more than glad to meet such a wonderful lecturer as
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: you are. You shall speak to my congregation at this service.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Reverend. My dear members and friends. I take
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: great pleasure in introducing to you one of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: colored origins on the American soil, whom I hope that
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  Speaker 1: you will gladly received him as your speaker for this occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Reverend H took his seat. The congregation arose to their
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  Speaker 1: feet to extend to me a welcome. I congratulated the
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  Speaker 1: worthy pastor upon having such a refined audience. My subject was,
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  Speaker 1: how are you spending your life before your sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Are you living for Christ? Only a few of us
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  Speaker 1: want our boys and girls to be saints. Oh, how
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  Speaker 1: strange it is that you chew, smoke, dip, and drink
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of intemperate drinks, get drunk, come home, curse, swear,
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  Speaker 1: and fight your wife and still want the children to
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  Speaker 1: be saints. Is this not strange? Then again you will
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  Speaker 1: by rum and sell it to a miner or anybody
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  Speaker 1: you that will not turn you up for violating the
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  Speaker 1: law by unlawful retailing that old drug that has filled
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  Speaker 1: many a prey with our sons and daughters. It has
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  Speaker 1: taken our money and fill the city treasury, and even
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  Speaker 1: has caused us to turn our backs on our best friends.
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  Speaker 1: Rum will cause one to act shamefully upon the public
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  Speaker 1: highway and bring discredit upon their good name, which will
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  Speaker 1: last all through life. Whisky has brought some of our
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  Speaker 1: noblest sons and daughters to everlasting shame and disgrace. There
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  Speaker 1: are men and women today in the penitentiary caused by
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  Speaker 1: the influence of whiskey, and it will carry you too
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  Speaker 1: if you do not let it alone. How can you
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  Speaker 1: have the heart to buy whiskey when your wife is
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  Speaker 1: sick and needs the care of a physician. Your children
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  Speaker 1: ee clothes and shoes, and you yourself are poorly clad
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  Speaker 1: and living in a rented house in the city. No
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  Speaker 1: home of your own, no cow, no horse, neither a
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  Speaker 1: decent bed in the house, very little food for your family.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, what can you promise yourself? Only a short
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  Speaker 1: life and after death a devil's hell will be your
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  Speaker 1: everlasting portion. Working on sharecrop and stealing everything that you
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  Speaker 1: can get your hands on from the negroes that are
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  Speaker 1: trying to have something, and selling in order to buy whiskey. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what a pity that such a man was ever in
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  Speaker 1: the world. How are you spending your life before your
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters? Are you for Christ? If so, be
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  Speaker 1: a hero, never surrender to the wrong, but die first,
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  Speaker 1: Oh preacher, will you be for temperance? Ask Rum, has
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  Speaker 1: he ever educated a man to go as a missionary
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  Speaker 1: to any of the foreign lands to tell the story
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  Speaker 1: of a risen savior? He would say at once that
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  Speaker 1: that was out of his line of business. Were you
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  Speaker 1: to ask Whiskey if he ever built a church for God,
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  Speaker 1: he would answer, no, I'm a worker for the devil.
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  Speaker 1: I will come into your church and make a disturbance,
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  Speaker 1: and take your deacons, stewards, class leaders, trustees, elders, or
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  Speaker 1: even your preacher, and make they lay in the hog
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  Speaker 1: wallows of the streets of the city. Not only that
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  Speaker 1: I will bring down princes and kings. I am powerful
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  Speaker 1: when I get my influence over you, Oh whiskey, who
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  Speaker 1: are you? I am a co worker with the devil
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  Speaker 1: create robbers, gamblers, thieves and murderers. Now, by brethren, I've
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  Speaker 1: told you a few things about whiskey. I've tried to
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  Speaker 1: interest upon that subject on account of the power which
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: has damaged this section of the country and has brought
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  Speaker 1: shame and disgrace upon us civilized community that is just
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  Speaker 1: five miles from here. Even the white people have not
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  Speaker 1: been able to have preaching in fifteen or twenty years
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  Speaker 1: at night, the cause of which was whiskey. What a pity,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: never heard of such a shame in any community for
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: men to allow such a thing to be done. You
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  Speaker 1: need not ask me why is it that it seems
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  Speaker 1: that the time has come when we cannot raise a
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  Speaker 1: good boy or a girl. Think of your past life.
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  Speaker 1: They are just as you are, only a little improvement
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  Speaker 1: as the world grows wiser. You must be men and
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  Speaker 1: women in deeds of valor in order to grow a
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  Speaker 1: boy or a girl that will be able to stand
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  Speaker 1: the temptations of this world. Don't steal, but be honest,
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  Speaker 1: don't lie, be truthful, don't drink, be temperate, and the
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  Speaker 1: world will miss you when you are gone. Be a
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  Speaker 1: hero for Christ. God bless you all, Amen. Reverend Hazda,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Lester Goo lecture here again on tomorrow, chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Now my lectures over cheers from all parts of the church,
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  Speaker 1: from both saints and sinners. Doctor, you come and go
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  Speaker 1: home with me. Thanks to all for your invitations. Though
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  Speaker 1: if anyone wishes to see me, you can find me
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  Speaker 1: a brother and sister Rogers. The congregation is now dismissed.
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  Speaker 1: So off to the home of my newly made friends.
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  Speaker 1: There I was made welcomed and honored as a king,
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  Speaker 1: mister r being a mason and a woodman, brother are
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  Speaker 1: I said to him, do you know there met me
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  Speaker 1: on the church ground today a boy who told me
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  Speaker 1: in his way that the white people of this vicinity
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  Speaker 1: were getting up a mob to hang me. Doctor. Do
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  Speaker 1: you mean that he said to hang you? Why? I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it, although a few years ago a Negro
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: got mad with one and had the white people to
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  Speaker 1: kill several Negroes before they found out that the negro
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: had lied on his race. What is there to kill
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  Speaker 1: you for something that I am teaching my people? Where
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: did you do this? Talk? At at Rockport? My brother said, Brother,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe there is a man on earth that
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  Speaker 1: would hurt a man like you, brother, are I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to put my trust in God, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stay here and do my best for these people. The
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  Speaker 1: world must feel me as well as hear me, for
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: I intend to live for Christ's Kingdom's sake. My brother,
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  Speaker 1: if you are rooted and grounded in Jesus, you are saved. Pocahontas,
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  Speaker 1: a wild Indian, saved Captain John Smith's life, and she
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: was only a girl. So I'm going to Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: has the reins of death and the keys of the
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  Speaker 1: bottomless pit in his hands. Oh, Blessed Jesus, So this
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  Speaker 1: may be true, I am going to my Lord with it.
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  Speaker 1: He is able to save the Lord, save Daniel, the
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  Speaker 1: three Hebrew children, John on the Isle of Patmos, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that he can save a black man. Though
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: they tell me I am in Hell, I will trust
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  Speaker 1: him who snatched a man from the belly of hell
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  Speaker 1: to bed to rest from a labor. Good night, Chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, brother Lester, A fine and glorious morning. How
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  Speaker 1: are you this morning, my friend and brother, brother Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: I never rested better in all my life, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: I was in a Christian home and being protected by
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the angels of the Lord. Doctor. Your lecture was on
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: my mind all the night, that advice which you gave
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  Speaker 1: to our people, admonishing them to be true men and women.
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  Speaker 1: I will try each day of my life to get
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: closer to the Lord. You have certainly stirred me from
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: the depth of my heart. I trust that all men
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: and women have felt that it is time to stop talking,
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  Speaker 1: but do something for fallen humanity. We want to let
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  Speaker 1: the white people of the South see and feel that
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: there is a reality in the black man's religion. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing that you can exercise in this land is
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: your religious gift. So let us praise God everywhere and
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: anywhere and before anybody. By so doing the world, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see whose side that we are on. Let us stand
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  Speaker 1: up for Christ and the upbuilding of his kingdom until death.
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  Speaker 1: My brother, I'm never surrendered to Satan nor his imps. Doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I am with you, brother Rogers. Invite others to Christ
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  Speaker 1: by the way you live. One of my white friends
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: said to me, Doctor, I heard you at Rock point
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  Speaker 1: two of the greatest lectures that I ever heard from
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  Speaker 1: any man. I hold diplomas from two of the leading
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  Speaker 1: schools of the East, and I know when a man
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  Speaker 1: is saying something. Thank you, kind sir, for your honored compliments.
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  Speaker 1: I've noticed you every time I lectured in this vicinity.
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  Speaker 1: You were there. Yes, I love a true man, regardless
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  Speaker 1: to color, a man that can do the people good.
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  Speaker 1: You are worth more than every preacher in this country
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  Speaker 1: to these people. May be that your words are too strong,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: mister H. Well, I mean just what I say. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that I can do something to better the
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  Speaker 1: way of living among my people of America, of the world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, mister h all of the people. Now, Doctor,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: I want to say to you. Two negroes have told
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  Speaker 1: the white people that you are here in this country
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  Speaker 1: teaching the colored people to rise up against the white
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  Speaker 1: people and kill them. So I've been told. I don't
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: know whether it is true or not, but I will
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: find out today and we'll tell you all about it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, kind sir, I replied, I can't believe that
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  Speaker 1: the white people could believe such, for you know that
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  Speaker 1: every time I lecture, I'm nearly as many whites as colored.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a man for God, and if a man is
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  Speaker 1: leaning that way, we are together. If not, why he
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  Speaker 1: is not my man. I'm only trying to save my
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  Speaker 1: people and make them better for the world's sake. End
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: of section four, Section five of the Mob Violence and
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  Speaker 1: the American Negro My Experience in the South by Bellie Lester.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, chapter sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going right out to work for God. If
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  Speaker 1: I am lynched, I will report to God. Why the
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: words of a strange white man, say, doctor, did you
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  Speaker 1: know that the white people are getting up a mob
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  Speaker 1: to hang you today? A black man told me just
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  Speaker 1: as I was leaving. Mister hs, No, I did not
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  Speaker 1: know it. Well. Now, listen, they had a meeting on
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: the matter yesterday at the white church, and that large
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: crowd of white men that went out there were the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: missionaries to see if you got here on yesterday. So
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they are going to do, but
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: they have sworn to hang you. Well, my brother, white
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: men killed Christ because he was for the right. How
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: could I escape? Thank you? I must lecture there once
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  Speaker 1: more before I die, if Jesus says so. And to
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  Speaker 1: the church I went, not believing a word that I
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: had heard. I was introduced to the congregation. I met
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: them with a smile as usual, and the past had
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: gone from me like a shadow. My dear congregation, it
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: affords me no small degree of pleasure to have the
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  Speaker 1: honor to try, in my weak way to convey to
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  Speaker 1: you an intelligent message this morning, with so many visitors
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  Speaker 1: of a race that is now the fathers of the
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: civilization of this the western continent. When this country was
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: wrapped and bound in ignorance, over all of this whole earth,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: I saw the white men in my imagination land at Jamestown,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Virginia in sixteen oh seven, and began to fight the
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  Speaker 1: wilds of ignorance with intelligence and the strength of ajax,
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  Speaker 1: and the same as a hard fight to this day.
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  Speaker 1: So today, well the white man forgets the Indian wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in all of his sneaking ways. But while he is
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: trying to conquer the Indian I heard the whistle or
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: the noise of the bell on the ship in the
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  Speaker 1: year sixteen nineteen that had just sailed from Africa. The
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  Speaker 1: old bell, in her voice or way, was saying slaves, slaves, slaves.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: As she came into port. There the black man saw,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: or had, for the first time in life, a chance
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: to prove his generous tact and gift from God to
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  Speaker 1: the American fathers. The Negro in a short while showed
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  Speaker 1: to the white man that he meant to be true
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  Speaker 1: and loyal to every trust, and from his gentile way,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: he made such an impression upon the white race that
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  Speaker 1: they began to see that it was wrong to enslave
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the Negro, and they soon began to give the negro
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: is rights and freedom. Mister George Washington, the first President
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: of the United States, saw that the Negro was such
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: a hero on the battlefields of the Revolutionary War that
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  Speaker 1: he freed his slaves, and others of the North did
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: the same. Finally, the spirit of the East and the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: North soon spread over the country, and being so between
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the white brothers, that they in the South found the
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Negro the greatest advantage on the plantations of all improvements
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: on God's earth. So the white man of the South
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: decided that was what the black brother was made for. First,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: because it takes sunshine for cotton. Second, it takes out
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: door exercise for the black man. Then the white man
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: has declared that to put a white cotton suit of
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  Speaker 1: clothes on a negro in the fall of the year,
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  Speaker 1: put him in a white cotton field, and let the
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  Speaker 1: cotton be opened from top to bottom. And this negro
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: there la bring in toiling for himself, and the good
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: white man he makes the painted picture of such a
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  Speaker 1: nature that can be esteemed by any Southerner or any
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  Speaker 1: citizen of America. Why First, because the negro is prepared
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  Speaker 1: with brain and muscles to fill any vocation of life.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Oh what a being. So I shall say to the
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  Speaker 1: colored people to day, in the presence of the white
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  Speaker 1: brother of the South. In the beginning, God made Adam
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: and finally made Eve from these two, one man and woman,
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  Speaker 1: all races, spraying, if the Bible be true, which I
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: believe do you? Yes, yes, was the answer. Now, my
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: black brother, for two hundred years or more, you made
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  Speaker 1: the living for the able white brother. So you were black,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: slick and greasy. Then, so you've got to continue. So
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  Speaker 1: if you stay anywhere on earth where he can even
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: hear of you, laughter and applause. Today every Negro in
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  Speaker 1: America is willing, if he has the right mind, to
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: thank the Lord for his coming to this country. Although
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: he has served as a slave, which was a disgrace
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: to civilization. But he must now acknowledge you the truth
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: at all of his worth as a citizen and knowledge
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: of God. And his first lesson was from the white man.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: But today the Negro can say, though you have deprived
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: me of the ballot which rules the government of the self,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: but I'm glad to know that my race, or the
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Negro man was once in the U. S. Senate lieutenant
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: governor of Mississippi and was registrar of the U. S. Treasury.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: So you took the ballot box and carried it away
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: and told the Negro that you would exchange your land money,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: find churches, high schools, and other comforts of life, and
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: a good name for the ballot box exchange, sir. The
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: negroes of Mississippi took the white man's money and opened
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: twenty banks, built a town oil mill, fined gins, of
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: modern style comfortable homes out of log cabins to stone building,
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  Speaker 1: half thousands of acres of land and money to buy more.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: Fifty years of freedom to the Negro has made a
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: wonderful improvement upon his welfare and intelligence that he would
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: never have gained elsewhere. But in the South, the garden
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: spot of the world. We have add a steady eye
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: upon you, the white, as a living model for others
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: to work by. Now, to the white brothers of the South,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: we thank you for your clothing us when we were naked,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: feeding us when we were hungry, and giving us shelter
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: when we had no homes. God bless the southern white
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: man that has been our friend. Brothers stand by him
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: and for his protection, for all this is his. The
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Southern white men promised the Negro an honest deal which
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: some give. Again. I say to the white man that
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: the Negroes thank you in which you have sold us
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: our homes, giving time and a liberal interest on borrowed money.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: We thank you for helping us on our churches. With
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: your thousands of dollars, we are able to put on
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: these tall steeples that point to man, telling him that
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: the only say way is to go up up again.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: We thank God for such men as those who never
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: say a good word for the Negroes. Though his cook, nurse, coachman,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: and those around him are Negroes. His dirty clothes are
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: washed by a negress, and his living is made by
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: the muscles of a negro. So I say to the
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Negroes of the world. God said to love one another,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the unjust laws and the finds that the
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: courts impose upon you and our race for nothing in
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: matters or cases that are frivolous, Pay your fines, work
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: out the days, and love the white man just the same,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: for God will sooner or later write everything. Dear white friends,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: the old negro obeyed his master because he freed him,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: and he was the law. Though today the young negro
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: obeys in honor of all the good things you have
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: done for his race. Then we ask for the protection
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: of the law in the right and of the white
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: people of this great country. I am in favor of you,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: good white people, having all the Negro servants that you need.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: But I am frank in my convictions. If you were
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: not a good man to me, you could not get
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: my services nor support. I would be afraid of you,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: and I would stay as far from you as I could.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: A great many colored people want to go north, some
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  Speaker 1: out west, some to heaven, and if you mean ones,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: soon go to hades and there to be with the
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: devil and all other mean individuals who want to impose
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: upon the helpless. I say this because it is right.
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  Speaker 1: There are only two sides to any question, and that
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: is the right side on the wrong side, the good
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: and the bad. To my colored friends, I would say
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: that the north is a fine country, the West is
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: a fine country, but the South is the finest of all.
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  Speaker 1: This is the place for everybody that wants to prosper
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  Speaker 1: and do well. God is everywhere, and he has promised
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: to be your protector if you are right with him.
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  Speaker 1: Is your heart right with God? If so, no mob,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: no storm, no fire, no wild beasts, no serpents, no
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: man can hurt you. Stay where you are, rent the
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: land by the homestead, work on the halves, or for wages.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: But the thing in this life is to see that
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: your heart is right with God. Pray for your enemies
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: and love them. Stick to the man who is your
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: friend in the time of need, who fed you when
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: hungry clothed you when clothesless, gave you a home when
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: homeless us the southern white man, remember this and tell
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: him and mean it. The farmer may come, but I
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: am at home to stay. Stop sending your money out
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  Speaker 1: west to buy land when there are millions of acres
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: of land here at home that you can buy just
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: as cheap and you don't own a foot of it.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Shame on you. Why don't you, pour negroes, learn to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: stay in the country and raise your children right instead
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: of moving into the dirty and filthy places of our
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: towns and cities where your children have the toughest of
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: the tough lower class of the degraded set with whom
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: to associate. I want to know if you can raise
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: anything besides thieves, murderers, drunkards and prostitutes surrounded with such
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: a class for your beloved ones to associate. When we
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: were all in the country, we raised such men as
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I Montgomery, John R. Lynch, E. W. Lampton, E. L. Lackey,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: Ee Pettabone Hr Revels, and a thousand of others. Why
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: not stay where you can make a living and learn
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: your children to work in the place of loafing. Do
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: you know that on one acre of land near Gulfport, Mississippi,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: a man made nine hundred dollars in one year truck farming.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: You can make more than that because this was a
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: white man. You know how a negro can work. Stay
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: in the country. Surround your home with such enjoyments that
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: will make your children happy. Fix up the fences, renew
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: the outhouses, whitewasher, paint your home, feed and water your
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: stock in order that they may look like a big
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: negro's property. Then buy an instrument of some kind for
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: the home, and have your children learned to play and
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: to sing, for there is no place like sweet home,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Yes Home, Sweet Home. By this you will learn to
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: be kind and sweet to your family, and your children
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: will love home. How can you leave these beautiful churches
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: and cemeteries that are filled with your loved ones that
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: once spent many a happy day with you, and these
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: pretty homes and friends, to go to a far country
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: and among strangers, to spend the remainder of your life
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: in misery and grief, to see them behind you. You
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: are forever thinking of home. The devil is everywhere, but
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: you must see to it that your heart is right
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: with God. If so stand your ground and fear no evil,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: for God will make your enemies your friends, and your
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: hindrances your stepping stones to success and glory. Now, dear people,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: love one another, Stand up, dear friends, for the right,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: and die before you will surrender to the wrong. I
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: pray that all confusion of this country will end from
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: this time on, and that all hearts will be filled
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  Speaker 1: with love and sweet peace. Abide with us all now
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: and forever. Is the earnest prayer of thy servant, Amen jeers,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: and a general handshaking from the whites and high compliments.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: At three o'clock PM, I was called upon it once
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: by Reverend h the pastor, in a frightful manner. Oh, doctor,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: he said, there is something wrong here. There are four
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: or five hundred white men with guns and ropes out
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: here in order to adjust a matter with you, Oh brother,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do about it? Why, my
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: dear preacher, there is only one thing to do about it,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: and that is to put my trust in God. Wait,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: one moment, I will see a white friend of mine.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: Do you know any of these men know? But I
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: belong to God and he will make a friend for me.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: I turned from him I looked and saw a crowd
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: of white men standing near me. I said to two
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: of them, gentlemen, let me speak to you, and they consented.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: We walked off. I said to them, I'm a stranger here,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: but I'm not a stranger to a good many of
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: your race. I have many men of your race. Who
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: are my friends? Who are they? Doctor B. F. Ward, W. B. Kelly,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: ed Loggins, C. H. And h Aldridge, W. S. Webster, Banker, JB.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Small Banker, W. L. Huntley, Marshall, J. K. Vardeman, and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: ten thousands of others in Mississippi. These men, gentlemen, you
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: can phone and see and find out as to who
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: I am. What is the trouble? Well said that good man,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: mister Hayes, whom I will always love. I don't know you,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: but I believe that you are all right. There has
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: been a Negro boy who lives with mister Love. He
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: heard you lecture and fast religion, joined the church and
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: came straight home, and his conversion was a lie. I believe.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: He said that you had a meeting while at rock
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Point and was teaching the negroes down there to rise
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: up against the white people, kill all of their men
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: and take their wives. To whom did he say that
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: I told that to, gentlemen, He said that he saw
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: you and a real black negro standing out in front
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: of the church, and that he heard you tell this
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: negro these words. Now, gentlemen, I must say that I
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: never heard of such a thing before in all of
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: my life. I'm a Christian lecturer, fighting blind tigers and
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: all these mean things. I have some of my lectures
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: which you can read for your own benefit, and there
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: you will know what kind of stuff that I am
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: teaching my people. Bring me one. So I did wait
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: one month. I guess that you promised to be with
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: me in the time of trouble. I pray for that
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: time to come even to my rescue. This very moment,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: I went to my wagon where my suitcase was, and
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: took from it two of my books, which contained my lectures,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: and handed them to two of the men. Now, gentlemen,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: if anyone wants to know any more, tell them that
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: I would gladly answer them. At this moment I heard
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: someone say good evening. I answered and turned around and
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: said good evening. And the next moment, a revolver, a
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: thirty eight or forty four special was thrown into my face.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: Death seemingly to be at this moment A voice, consider
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: yourself under arrest. All right, sir, was my reply. What
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: have you got? Nothing, sir, but an honest name? Was
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: my answer. Well search him, mister Lloyd. So he did.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: For what, gentleman, for your advice to the negroes. All right, sir,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. If that is my lot, I'd
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: better carry my suitcase. So should I never get back,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: they will not have anything of mine. So we went
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: through the great crowd of people and my audience. During
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: the morning service of my lecture, many had become devoted
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: to me, and I could see sorrow on their brows,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: and tears began to fall from their eyes. And as
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: I walked away, I said, the world once had Paul Silas,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: John Peter, and our blessed Savior Jesus Christ. This was
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: all the consolation I had, saying, if there is no cross,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: there is no crown. When we had got out of
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: sight of the congregation, I said, O Lord, I trust
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: my life in your hands, Save me, if such be
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: thy holy will. I did not know where I was going.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: All of the consolation, but I had was mister h
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: who said, just as the man said good evening and
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: arrested me. The mob is on. Is all that I
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: could say. I don't know what the end will be.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: I looked down the road and saw two hundred men
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: with guns waiting for the black coon. I walked up
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: to the crowd, stopped, and sat my suit case down.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: I was too hot to be afraid. Good evening, gentlemen,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: then answered, good evening. Quite a good number. This is nothing.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: The men that are going to hang you are in
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: the bottom. This is only a few. And I found
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: it true. The bloodthirsty mob, I mean, as they had
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: been recommended to me. One said I'm going to have
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: that ring. Another said I'm going to have that watch,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: another the chain, another of the scarf pin. Another said
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have that hand toe, and so on.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: I said, gentlemen, just before I die, I want to
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: make a will, as I am not broke, and you
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: all want a remembrance of a hero, and as I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: am at the of an angry mob, it is for
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: good only that I make this request. I will give
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: these things to those who want them. Good evening, gentlemen,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: Quite a crowd, indeed, I never saw so many men
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: with arms before in all of my life, and all
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: of these are for the life of one helpless, poor,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: humble Christian gentleman, who is helpless and has no friends
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: but Jesus. So, my kind friends, I congratulate you for
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: your kindness. Thus far, no one has been haughty or
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: mistreated me. Now, gentlemen, I hope to have the privilege
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: of speaking to you in my own way, and to
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: clear the truth and the truth only as this is
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: the day for me to be hung, as I now
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: see the rope on that horse's saddle, that it is, sir,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: only a few things to ask of you. First, I
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: consider I am a man. Second that I am a
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: human being and have feelings and a soul to be
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: saved as well as you then remember what you saw,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: you shall also reap. Not only that, but more. My
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: life is now in your hands, and you can do
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: just what you wish. But if you kill me this evening,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: some day you will have to appear before a living God,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: and your hands will be stained with an innocent man's blood,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: And God says, thou shalt not kill. I'm here, even
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: without a knife or a pin with which to scratch you.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to teach my people to do God's bidding.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not giving the white man a thought, believing them
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: to know what is right and would act accordingly. I'm
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: here today with a clean heart, not taught against any
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: living being on earth. Wait, don't you know that you
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: told a Negro that you have things fixed to kill
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the white men? Mister wait, allow me to say this.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: What could the negro do if it was not for
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: the white man? Where does the negro get his food
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: and clothing year in and year out? He looks to you,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: for he never has any money, very long at a time,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: but he always has a friend from whom he can
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: get what he needs, and that is the white man.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: Do you think that he would be foolish enough to
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: feel his own will when the water is good? Why, gentlemen,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: I never had such an idea in all of my life,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: never heard of such a thing before. I am frank
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: in saying to you that if any man or woman
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: would come to me with any such stuff, you would
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: never have the time to call seventy five men together
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: on a Sunday and hear the statement of a dirty, thieving,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: good for nothing, scoundrel, everything but clean and truthful. He
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: is a dirty Negro buzzard who would tell a story
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: like that that man ought to be killed, And I
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: would do that myself in the defense of saving many
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: other negroes lives. What could the negroes do with the
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: white men? Haven't you got everything in your possession? The
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: men who don't mind killing a fellow at any time
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: of the day or night. So what is there for
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: the negro but death? Should he start anything? Kind sirs
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: agree with me, and let all voices go up in
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: one accord saying loose him and let him go, which
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: I will declare to you that I am only for
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: the right a voice. What did you tell them to
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: do for one another? I tell the Negroes to learn
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: to love one another and to be true to their trust,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: and stop lying on one another because one had a
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: little more wealth or brains, or stood better in the community,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: or seems to raise a more respectable family than yours.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: Then set him to have him killed or run out
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: of the country by telling lies on him to the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: white people. Then you may move on the plantation own
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: by a Negro, and you go there to close him out.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: He will not half work. They want to go to
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: town every day in the week and buy for the
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: whole family like a millionaire. They want to eat equal
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: to the landlord. Then write off to see the sick
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: nearly every night, except when you are and can't ride.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Then they will have and must have the sisters to come.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: When Christmas comes and you haven't got anything, don't spend
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: all of your money and what you made. You will
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: swear and tell some white man that I am done
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: with a Negro. I worked hard this year with old Ike,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: and he brought me out in debt. How many men
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: in your family bill? Only ten of us outside of
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: me and the old lady and granddad. How much cotton
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: did you make? Fifteen or twenty bales of cotton? No, sir,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: I made four bales of cotton three loads of corn.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: What was the matter? The man you were living with
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: made twenty one bales of cotton and plenty of corn. Yes, sir,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: But the Negro works night and day. I want to
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: say this to you, old Darky. Everything on my plantation
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: gets the gun boss. I can get it too. Now,
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: my friends, we must quit this and be men. Whenever
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: we see a Negro trying to do something in the
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: financial world, us all go behind him and push with
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: all our forces, just as the white man does his race.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: Try to make him a millionaire. If you can, then
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: live a clean life before your children. And then some
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: day your son or daughter may marry in this man's family,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: and then you will be a rich Negro too, and
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: another big negro. See how easy it is to help
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: one another. All we have to do is to stick
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: together and be honest, and we will have lots of
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: money men in our own race. Don't try to tear
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: each other down, but build each other up is the
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: thing to do. Then, when you have a moment to spare,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: think of the old standard bearer that stood by you
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: when you were without food or shelter. Who was he?
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: The white man? Never forget him, love him, honor him
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: with true politeness. If he don't use his you use yours.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: He will soon decide that he can't afford for the
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Negro to have more manners and politeness than himself. And
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: the next time that you meet him, he will speak.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: Then again, I told the color to stand to the
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: white man that stood by him in the time of
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: peril and sore danger. Now, gentlemen, that is what I said,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: as near as I can remember, and now my life
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: is in your hands. It is up to you as
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: to whether I live or die. Yet, there is one
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: more thing that I ask of you. It is to
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: put yourself in my place, teaching your people to do
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: all the good that they can do. All men stand
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: up for the right, and never at any time surrender
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: to the wrong, but die first. Then think a dirty
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: man of your race would be so bitterly against the
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: right that he would try to get you killed by
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: lying on you. Then, after you do those as a
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: Christian gentleman, than if you would desire death to be
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: the penalty for trying to make your people honest, truthful
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: and loyal citizens. Why I say hang me by that
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: rope to day, though, If you think that you ought
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: to live on to continue to teach the right, why
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: your life will be a wreck and your farms will
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: be barren. Sickness will be in your family's, disgrace will
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: enter the homes, shame will be the lot of your children,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: and your hearts will be made to bleed, as my
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: mother's will when she hears of my going to glory
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: from the hands of a heartless mob. God has promised
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: to let you receive what you give, how can you ask,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: spotless Anglo Saxons have the heart to take the life
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: of a poor, innocent man who is only for the right.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: There was a doctor from Mississippi. God bless that man,
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  Speaker 1: for he wiped his hands and walked away. Many followed him,
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  Speaker 1: but it did no good. My hands will never be
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  Speaker 1: stained with that man's blood. Mister h said, he told
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  Speaker 1: you all that he was all right. Then another good
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  Speaker 1: man said, I told you all that he was a
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  Speaker 1: man of note. I heard him lecture at p R
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  Speaker 1: each time he was there. Up jumped a little Negro
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  Speaker 1: hater andrew his gun on me in the shape of
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  Speaker 1: a club. I will knock your brains out, he said.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him what I had done to him. You
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  Speaker 1: threw your hands close to my face. Pardon me, mister,
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  Speaker 1: why I wouldn't mistreat you and any other man that
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  Speaker 1: was helpless for nothing in the world, though I would
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  Speaker 1: do all I could to see that he got justice.
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  Speaker 1: Then a voice comes from the crowd, saying, put down
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  Speaker 1: that gun and get away from so close to him
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  Speaker 1: that he will not hit you. Thank you, my kind sir,
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  Speaker 1: was my answer. The justice of the peace comes, and
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  Speaker 1: he is all right. No fault can be found of him.
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  Speaker 1: Where are the brother Mason's woodman and Pithian's. You had
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  Speaker 1: better get up here around your brother's. Someone asked, are
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  Speaker 1: you a mason, Yes, sir, indeed I am. At this moment,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: someone asked, can you climb one of those trees out there?
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  Speaker 1: My reply was I used to be an expert climber
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  Speaker 1: when a boy, and I think really that I could
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  Speaker 1: climb now if in case of necessity. This is business
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  Speaker 1: and not foolishness. Was the voice of someone. He is
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  Speaker 1: a worthy, embrave man and he must be treated right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. May you live long and have all
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  Speaker 1: of the comforts of life. A voice said, I wish
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  Speaker 1: that half of this large crowd of five hundred men
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  Speaker 1: were half as good as you are. Now. You are
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  Speaker 1: a freeman and have the friendship of these men who
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  Speaker 1: have come here to take your life. You have changed
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  Speaker 1: their minds and have made them your friends. God must
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  Speaker 1: be with you. The only request that we ask of
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  Speaker 1: you is that we want to lecture for the good
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  Speaker 1: of this country now and at any other time that
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  Speaker 1: you may see fit. You are welcome and have all
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  Speaker 1: these men per detection. So doctor feels safe for we
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  Speaker 1: all are with you, and we are going to give
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  Speaker 1: that negro a lesson which will last him the balance
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  Speaker 1: of his life. We are going to put a stop
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  Speaker 1: to the negroes lying on each other and causing trouble
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  Speaker 1: in our country. The negroes lied on each other and
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  Speaker 1: cause three or four men to be killed a few
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  Speaker 1: miles from here several years ago. Through we are going
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  Speaker 1: to put a stop to these rumors before they developed
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  Speaker 1: some serious trouble. Will you lecture to us before you go?
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  Speaker 1: I will. A voice was heard in the crowd to say,
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  Speaker 1: give lying negroes, h I will do all that I
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  Speaker 1: can for that class. Now we are going to show
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  Speaker 1: you that we are not as mean to you as
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  Speaker 1: you thought. We are going to cure you back to
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  Speaker 1: the church and to your people. Three or four on
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  Speaker 1: each side, A great number behind me. So they delivered
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  Speaker 1: me to the church, saying he is all right and
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: has proven himself to be a great Christian worker. He's
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  Speaker 1: made friends with us, all said one voice. Indeed, he
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest negro living, said another, look for us
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  Speaker 1: on tomorrow. Thank you, gentlemen, thank you a thousand times.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you. I pray God's blessings upon all of you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: A mob found me in August the twenty third at
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  Speaker 1: God's Church, where I had gone to lecture in the
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  Speaker 1: defense of right. The church was well filled to its utmost,
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  Speaker 1: and around the church for quite a distance, where vehicles,
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  Speaker 1: wagons and ox carts the conveyances of the people who
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: had come to hear the man lecture that was to
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: have been mobbed yesterday. Everywhere I looked, I could see
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  Speaker 1: people of every description, color and age. I was introduced
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  Speaker 1: by the pastor, Doctor H, a kind and Christian gentleman
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  Speaker 1: and one of the best prepared ministers of Mississippi. He
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  Speaker 1: is loving, kind and true to all, and believes in
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  Speaker 1: the advice of this scripture to be careful as to
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  Speaker 1: how you treat a stranger. The Doctor will not turn
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  Speaker 1: you away, but will certainly give you a chance. I
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  Speaker 1: hope to see brother H someday to be known in
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  Speaker 1: all of the lands as a model Christian gentleman for
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  Speaker 1: the narrow minded, begrudging Negro leaders to use in shaping
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  Speaker 1: their lives before the races that are now living, and
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  Speaker 1: for those that are to follow. The Doctor is plenty wealth,
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  Speaker 1: but not like you, high minded, but humble. That is
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  Speaker 1: to be a leader. You can't drive people to be
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  Speaker 1: kind and expect for them to follow you. To Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I hope to see this man someday in some high
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  Speaker 1: honored office helping the world as doctor's boyd Penn and
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  Speaker 1: others who are competent for leadership. You will make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake in trying them, for they are among the good.
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  Speaker 1: That is what we need. Men. End of section five,
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  Speaker 1: Section six of the Mob Violence and the American Negro
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: My experience in the sunny South by Valley, Leicester. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. My talk next
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  Speaker 1: day to my mob and friends. Dear church and congregation.
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  Speaker 1: This is like the dedication of the Washington Monument on
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: Bunker Hill. Never saw so many people in the country
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  Speaker 1: before in my life, a thousand seemingly voices. Neither have
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: I thought, as doctor Hardy has said, I am the
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  Speaker 1: black man that is to entertain you at this hour.
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  Speaker 1: I've never had such experience in all of my life
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  Speaker 1: as I have had since being in South Mississippi. But
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  Speaker 1: I am going to try and instruct you for a
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  Speaker 1: short while. I have had a pleasant trip and visit
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  Speaker 1: in your homes but there is one place which I visited,
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  Speaker 1: with its surroundings I did not enjoy. Though it is
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  Speaker 1: only a lesson for me. The theme of my discourse
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: will be is your heart right with God? To have
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: your heart right with God is first You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be and prove yourself a man by loving one another
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  Speaker 1: with that brotherly love and affection of a man. Then
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  Speaker 1: you are willing to stand up for the right, and
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: you will not surrender to wrong on any grounds. But
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: you would have all men to know that they are
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  Speaker 1: when you have the chance to let them know what
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  Speaker 1: side you are on. Is your heart right? Have you
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  Speaker 1: a clean heart, one that makes you honest, not steal
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  Speaker 1: that which belongs to your fellow man, but that which
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: is truly yours? Is that the kind of a heart.
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  Speaker 1: You have a heart that will make you love and
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  Speaker 1: pray even for your enemies, and visit Him in time
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. Have the heart that won't make you tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth and not lie on your neighbors, your strongest friends,
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  Speaker 1: nor enemies. How is your heart with God? Have you
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: that heart that will enable you not to carry pistols, nucks, razors,
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  Speaker 1: and other weapons with which to fight in a Christian
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  Speaker 1: and a civilized, well protected country by the good law
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  Speaker 1: makers of Mississippi. Have you the heart that will make virtue, temperance, truthfulness,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: and honesty and a good name above all names? O,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: my good people, how are your hearts with God? Are
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: your hearts of such a nature that you are willing
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  Speaker 1: to do unto others as you would have them do
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: unto you? Do you love the words of the Scripture
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: where it says that you shall reap what you sow.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: We ought to be very particular how we live and
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: how we treat people. You may rob me of my
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: good name, which will cause my heart to bleed, but
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: it will come back on you some day. I was
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  Speaker 1: happily received by the congregation, which I left heartbroken, brothers
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: and sisters to see one of the members of their
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  Speaker 1: race led away from his beloved to be among enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and hurried to his end by a mob thirsty for
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: a negro's blood to be swallowed up by the earth. Oh,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: my friends, have you ever been led away by a
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: mob telling you every step that your life is over
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: and that you can't escape, and that you must die?
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: Then all among strangers? Do though, if you are for Christ,
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  Speaker 1: he will be with you as he was with me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't put confidence in man, but put your trust in God,
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  Speaker 1: and he will save you. God will not let your
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: enemies touch you when you are led upon by a heartless, dirty, begrudging,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: and hell deserving negro an ape In principle, the meeting
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: was stopped that evening, and all walked, watched and prayed
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: that my life might be spared. Two or three hundred
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: prayers went up to glory, asking God in a few
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: moments to save me. So his son Jesus Christ came
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: to my rescue at once and brought a legion of
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: angels to fight my battles. So be true in God.
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  Speaker 1: We'll protect you if you will only be worthy. Dear
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  Speaker 1: brethren and sisters, I am here once again. Oh my God,
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: my God, cried a number of voices, How did you escape?
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: My Jesus was there. I shall never forget this time, day, place,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: and these men who had planned to kill me, And
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: Jesus sent his army in order that I might not
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: get hurt, though I have made friends in this part
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: of the land. On tomorrow, let us have a glorious day,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: sing and shout praises to God, from who all blessings flow.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: Here are brother and sister Rogers who are waiting for me.
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  Speaker 1: I am to go to their home. Oh doctor, were
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: you afraid? No time to be afraid? That was a
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: business time. Why I would have died had it been me,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: some said, And you will be only reaping what you
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: have sown. Then again, my dear white friends, though my
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: people lied on me in order to get me killed,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: just because I told them the truth, And how can
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: we lie and expect to see God's face and peace? Gentlemen,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: I do not want the Negro killed, but I do
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: believe that a light brushing might do them good. And
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: I say to you, as I am a Negro and
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: know a great deal about my race. Now do not
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: misquote me what I said, thinking that I said that
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: I know all about the Negro, for I do not,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: and no one else save God. And I expect that
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: he is put at a test at times in order
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: to see after the Negro and his angels. I want
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: to warn you white people of the brutal, minded, hell
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: deserving Negro who is the one that hangs around your
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: back door grinning, and every time that he gets a chance,
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: he has a great deal to tell you on some
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: other negro, O white man, you who have stood by
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: me in these ordeals, This is to your interests to
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: get the secrets which I am going to open to you,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: and you send the same to your friends to the
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: end of the earth. Listen. The negro that is always
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: grinning and comes and tells you everything that happens to
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: his people is no friend to you. He is only
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: trying to get your confidence in order that he can
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: get a chance to steal something. The negro that you
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: can hire to tell lies and bribe other negroes. That
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: same negro can be hired to burn your dwellings and barns.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: Negro that can be persuaded to get our women and
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: girls to come to your command. The same dirty rascal
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: will attempt to sault upon your best women. The negro
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: that will come to you and tell you a lie.
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  Speaker 1: But I never thought or would allow any man to
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: come on any man in this world and take his
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: life or do him an injury at all. Why that
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: negro will try this when you are asleep, So you
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: had better get rid of him, if you have to
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: do so, even by foul means. These principles are laying
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: mighty heavy upon his mind, and he is a bad
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: Negro and will not do so. You may look out
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: for horses to be stolen and a great damage to
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: be done by this class of negroes. He has a
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: heart to desire a white companion. I'm almost in favor
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: of killing him now, for I and all other true
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: Negroes of the self love our own pretty yellow, brown,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: dark black, and chocolate colored good women. God bless the
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: words spoken. We are all pleased. God has blessed us
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: and has given us all colors, just as Joseph's coat was,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: and all kinds of hair and eyes. What more do
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: we want? White? I would not be anything else but
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: a black man, as I am. For the issue has
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: done the negro as much good as the good, truthful
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: writings of doctor B. F Ward when he began telling
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: you of his experiences of over half a century with
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: just such a class of no account negroes. Some of
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: you have read your own doings and have refrained from them.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: God bless such men that are something to their race,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: men like Moses and Lincoln, who were bent on doing
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: something to better the negro's condition by reforming his social
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: and religious propensities. Such men are not your enemies, though
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: they never say anything good. Why because you do so
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: many bad ones, you don't give them time. May both
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: the issue and doctor Ward live and enjoy the black
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: scenes prepared for them even from the foundation of the world.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: To the white people, I would say that the southern
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: Negro only wants a fair and an honest treatment. And
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: we are willing to forever stay at home and let
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  Speaker 1: the North be the North, in the west the West,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: but we will stay in the South where we like
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: the best. You know that we opened up this wilderness,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: builded these beautiful road streets, and this beautiful mansion for
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: your sons and daughters to enjoy. There are nearly two
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: thousand convicts of my race that employs over one hundred
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: of your race to keep them steadily employed. A man
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: in each county of his state has the oversight of
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: the prisoners of my race that are habitual lawbreakers. Then
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: my race works your streets. My race enjoys being your servants.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: They love to bring in the bales of cotton for
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: you in the fall of the year. My race loves
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: for you to be kind to him. My people want
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: you to accept his friendship as a citizen and a
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: humble servant of yours, and he wants you to prove
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: that you are his friend by the kindly and friendly
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: way which you have treated him. As my time is out,
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: I shall only thank this great audience, which I've spoken
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: to for one and a half hours, for your many
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: praises and honored greetings. My last words are, let each
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: one see, if not so that your heart is right
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: with God. May you love one another, and the strong
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: may not oppose the weak. God bless each of you
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: collectively and individually. Amen, Cheers, cheers, and a general handshaking.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: My donation from this vicinity at large was over four
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Once my enemies, though now my friends, pray
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: that all men may obey the law and enforce the law.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: This gives to all men a fair and impartial trial
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: by the law. Then you are right in of section
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: six section seven of the Mob Violence and the American Negro.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: My Experience in the Sunny South by Velli Lester. This
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. A few moments
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: talk to women's work, the beautiful works of God. God
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: wants us to be useful to Him with our invisible inabilities.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: Then it is said, I will not write the law
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: no more on tables of stone, but will write it
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: on your hearts and stamp it in your mind. So
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: we see that God has used the minds of men
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: as mediums through which to convey messages or his will
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: by writing the messages on the heart, sealing and stamping
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: it in the mind. The stamp is a right of authority.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: So anything that the mind brings to you that hasn't
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: God God's stamp upon it, you may know that it
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't belong to you. Yes, you may know it doesn't
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: belong to you. And if you take it, you have
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: no right to it because it was not accompanied by
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: the stamp or spirit of God. Now, brethren, God has
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: always used the heart and mind of men for his purpose.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: Since the mind will go out beneath the silvery shines
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: of the moon, and under the twinkling rays of the stars,
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: and en sweet and golden shadow of the sun, and
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: there take its seat under the neighboring hilltop, and surround
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: itself with objects of attraction visible and invisible, and launch
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: out through the sky with all its beauty and hails
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: at the beautiful gates of Zion, and meet the cooperation
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: of a heavenly union and their commune with God our Father.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: And God made known his will, which the mind, when
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: again reunited with the body, was made known to the Church. Therefore,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: I claim that God made known his will to the
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: Church by inspiration which was conceived in that mind of
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: the prophets Forever happy in the full enjoyment of Christ. Oh,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: Blessed Lord, grant that in the great and dreadful day,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: when Christ shall come to judgment, and when we must
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: all appear before His tribunal gait, that we may be
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: found at your right hand and hear him say to us, Come, ye,
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  Speaker 1: blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
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  Speaker 1: from before the foundation of the world. May God bless
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  Speaker 1: you amen the power of knowing. Among the variety commodities
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  Speaker 1: which attracts the attention of mankind, there is one thing
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  Speaker 1: of more value than all others, a principle which, if
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  Speaker 1: once possessed, would greatly assist in obtaining all other things
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  Speaker 1: worth possessing, whether it was power, wealth, riches, honors, thrones,
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  Speaker 1: or dominions. Comparatively, only a few have ever possessed it,
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  Speaker 1: although it was within reach of many others, but they
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  Speaker 1: were not aware of it or did not know its value.
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  Speaker 1: It is worth wonders for the few that have possessed.
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  Speaker 1: Some it enabled to escape from drowning, while every so
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  Speaker 1: who did not possess it was lost in the mighty deep.
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  Speaker 1: Others it saved in famine, although thousands perished all around them.
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  Speaker 1: By men have been raised from poverty to the throne
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  Speaker 1: of empires. By the possession of it. It raised men
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  Speaker 1: from a dungeon to a palace. Those that possessed it
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  Speaker 1: were delivered from the fire flames, whilst the whole city
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  Speaker 1: was burned, and every other soul perished. But they that
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  Speaker 1: had in their possession the knowing o horrors. Will you ask,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? What can that thing be? Inform me,
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  Speaker 1: and I will purchase it at the sacrifice of all
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  Speaker 1: my earthly possessions. The thing I am talking about is
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  Speaker 1: for knowledge, a knowledge of things, to come shine on
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and knowledge as the light on a hill. We
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  Speaker 1: explore regions unknown to mankind. We gaze upon opening glory
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  Speaker 1: as they present themselves on every side, and feast ourselves
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  Speaker 1: with knowledge which is calculated in its matters, to enlarge
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  Speaker 1: the heart, to exalt the mind above the little groveling
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  Speaker 1: things of the world, and to make one wise unto salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Let us ask know about four knowledge Genesis six, chapter
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth verse Let's talk with Lot Genesis nineteenth, chapter twelve
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  Speaker 1: to thirteenth verses. Read about Joseph in the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: telling Pharoh his dream, Joseph going from the dungeon to
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  Speaker 1: the throne, Elijah's talk with a hab. There are others
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  Speaker 1: that I could have you to see what they say
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  Speaker 1: about four knowledge. But I know this will convince you
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  Speaker 1: that all men haven't the same knowledge. So believe these
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  Speaker 1: sayings for it they are true. God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: My first visit to the capitol, my experience in great Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: On a visit to the capital, I've witnessed the love
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  Speaker 1: and respect of the people have for the leading Negroes
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  Speaker 1: as their friend. As I feel it in my duty,
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  Speaker 1: I shall try and write that one great man may
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  Speaker 1: live even in the minds of unborn generations, hoping to
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  Speaker 1: see the day when the world may be full of
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  Speaker 1: such noble and strong men only for the right and
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  Speaker 1: won't bout wrong. I've found some of our strongest men
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  Speaker 1: of the race in the city in grief and sorrow
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  Speaker 1: over the death of a man that had stood in
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  Speaker 1: the defense of right to all thinking. Who will be
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  Speaker 1: the next man that will speak in the defense of
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  Speaker 1: justice without fear or trembling to all men? He is
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  Speaker 1: here today, President Wilson. This was in the month of
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  Speaker 1: May the thirteenth or fourteenth. It was the senior bishop
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  Speaker 1: of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His earthly home was Jackson, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: This great man has reached the end of the earth
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  Speaker 1: and gladden the heavenly court by his presence. He was
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  Speaker 1: a friend to humanity. No man's condition was so obscure
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  Speaker 1: or poor that he could not find a place in
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  Speaker 1: his heart for him. Many a heart was made glad
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  Speaker 1: by his presence and words of cheer. The lamp he
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  Speaker 1: kindled for his own way has given its flames two
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  Speaker 1: thousands of others. The words he spoke to and of
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  Speaker 1: me once, in the presence of a score of strong
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  Speaker 1: minded men linger with me to day. The Bishop asked,
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  Speaker 1: who will risk going to the hotel getting my grip
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  Speaker 1: for me? Though this train was here. I at once
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  Speaker 1: sprang to a trot, saying I will go, being only
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  Speaker 1: a boy, but love great men and pleasant faces and
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  Speaker 1: kind words. And when I returned, the train was leaving
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  Speaker 1: the station the good man on board. So I boarded
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  Speaker 1: the train and hurried to him with his grip. He
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  Speaker 1: looked in my eyes and said, if you are not
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  Speaker 1: a white man, I never looked in the face of
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  Speaker 1: one handing me a piece of money, which I kindly refused.
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  Speaker 1: Then I said, kind sir, it pays me well to
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  Speaker 1: have the honor to carry your grip. He then smiled,
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  Speaker 1: handed me his hand and said, God bless you, and
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  Speaker 1: got hurt and answered that prayer. The words he spoke
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  Speaker 1: are still echoing in my life. Many times this brave man,
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  Speaker 1: to lead, heroic, to suffer and endure, would reach to
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  Speaker 1: my people in their humble churches and thank him gladly.
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  Speaker 1: His influence was confined neither to his own race nor church,
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  Speaker 1: but he was known as a power for good in
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  Speaker 1: all churches and among all people. He was loved, honored,
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  Speaker 1: and praised wherever he went, but this never moved him.
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  Speaker 1: His heart was always bigger than his head, his face,
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  Speaker 1: his eternity, and his residence. Creation. God lent this magnificent
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  Speaker 1: spirit to the earth, who was too noble and sublime
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  Speaker 1: of character to be flattered, and too rich a soul
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  Speaker 1: to be purchased. His culture fitted him to minister to
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  Speaker 1: the most intellectual, while his practical skill in leadership made
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  Speaker 1: him bold enough to depart from traditions seemed necessary and
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  Speaker 1: to adopt means of effective value. It was a warrior
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  Speaker 1: who fought on the side of right and God. At times,
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  Speaker 1: some of his friends parted with him on some of
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  Speaker 1: the unpopular issues, the saloon and the Negro problem, but
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  Speaker 1: he stood firm and inveterate to the saloon, A lifelong
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  Speaker 1: friend to the negro's cause, to education, he believed the
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  Speaker 1: negro had a right to a fair chance and even break.
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  Speaker 1: Not favor, but a chance. His advice at all times
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  Speaker 1: was to a higher walk in life. The Negro lost
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  Speaker 1: a great champion the world, a great sympathizing friend. He
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  Speaker 1: was born a great leader because a splendid follower of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Ten million negroes, men, women and children more in the
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  Speaker 1: loss of this man of God, such men come to
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  Speaker 1: the earth by ones. We miss, Bishop c GG, but
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  Speaker 1: will never forget him. End of Section seven, Section eight
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  Speaker 1: of The Mob, Violence and the American Negro. My experience
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  Speaker 1: in the sunny South by Villi Leicester. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Lecture on Religion and Education
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  Speaker 1: at Jackson to the people and for the benefit of
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  Speaker 1: the people. As I am now in your midst and
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  Speaker 1: see so many needs for the people, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you of a great need that will lead to a
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  Speaker 1: higher and a better citizenship. My subject will be Christianity
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  Speaker 1: and education. To me, it seems beyond all possibility I
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  Speaker 1: can meet the demand of today as an orator. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to put my thoughts in some
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  Speaker 1: of my experiences in writing, God being my helper, that
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  Speaker 1: it may help some fallen man, woman or child to
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  Speaker 1: turn from shame and ruin by seeing their mistakes in print,
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  Speaker 1: and grow to noble man or womanhood. That which should
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  Speaker 1: awaken this nation is to work for the advancement of
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  Speaker 1: God's kingdom in my heart, to use this privilege to
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  Speaker 1: the glory of Him in whose name all men ought
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  Speaker 1: to speak the noblemen. That this is to be criticized by.
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  Speaker 1: That thought affects me very much in my beginning to write.
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  Speaker 1: But the great people will have sympathy for me and
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  Speaker 1: will say you have to make a start in life
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  Speaker 1: with this thought, I will continue if I could only
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  Speaker 1: give what my people need or deserve. Of course, my
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  Speaker 1: writing with merit enshrinement in the annals of immortal truth.
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  Speaker 1: Will you take these ideas for your consideration, First from
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  Speaker 1: the nature of Christianity. Second is the testimony upon which
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  Speaker 1: it is offered. The life of Christianity is love. All
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  Speaker 1: hearts are oppressed with feeling that the world is ajar.
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  Speaker 1: Then nothing is complete, nothing perfect. Here all hearts are
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  Speaker 1: you learning for the perfect. And so we are turning
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  Speaker 1: day by day from this thing to that, searching vainly
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  Speaker 1: for that which will or can fill the soul. And
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  Speaker 1: this is the apostle to the gentile, speaking of the
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  Speaker 1: glory which shall be unveiled in us declares that the
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  Speaker 1: earnest expectation of the creature waited for the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: the sons of God. So the object of religion is
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  Speaker 1: not to rob you of pleasure, but to add to
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  Speaker 1: your life joy. Oh, why are we so far from
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  Speaker 1: home seeking the pleasure of sin? The disciple declares E
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  Speaker 1: that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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  Speaker 1: Now Christianity re establishes the relation of love originally existed
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  Speaker 1: between God and man, and so brings us back to God. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: happy souls, you know that now your sins are forgiven.
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  Speaker 1: The happiest home on earth is that rule by love.
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  Speaker 1: The happiest soul in that home is that one that
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  Speaker 1: loves most. Do you wish to know the fullness of joy?
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  Speaker 1: Go to God, who is love and glory is in love.
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  Speaker 1: So you see, though you are young, if you are
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  Speaker 1: a Christian, your soul will be filled with joy. Revelations,
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  Speaker 1: chapter eight, verse seventeen says, I love them that love me,
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  Speaker 1: and them that seek me early shall find me. Also
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  Speaker 1: First Peter, first chapter eighth, verse whom, not having seen,
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  Speaker 1: ye love, and whom, though you now see him, not
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  Speaker 1: yet believing ye rejoice. So ye see this promise is
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  Speaker 1: to you. It is perfectly easy for the young to
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  Speaker 1: become Christians. For Solomon says, remember now, thy reader, in
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  Speaker 1: the days of thy youth, it is proven that religion
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  Speaker 1: is good for the young. So is education. There are
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  Speaker 1: three necessities to be noted here. What is at education?
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  Speaker 1: Who should have it? How are they to have it?
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  Speaker 1: It is that force in the world that seems to
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  Speaker 1: idolize itself in the world, and especially in the mind
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  Speaker 1: of humanity, and its purpose is to draw out that
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  Speaker 1: which would most likely lead us astray. Education feels in
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  Speaker 1: nature that consoles our way. It takes from us the
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  Speaker 1: darkness of distrust, and shades in us a light of
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  Speaker 1: intellectuality and hope. It takes from us that idle disposition,
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  Speaker 1: and fills in us a busy spirit of life. Why
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  Speaker 1: all people should be educated because it helps you to
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  Speaker 1: think right, act right, and do right. Education will enable
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  Speaker 1: you to think magnificently. We don't want to educate to
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  Speaker 1: play smart men and women, not to get positions, and
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  Speaker 1: if not big places, no place at all. No, that
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  Speaker 1: is not its object. If you want success in life,
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  Speaker 1: don't escape the small opportunities as being beneath your dignity
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  Speaker 1: because you are educated, but have a yearning and passion
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  Speaker 1: for life that shall be rich and fruitful of service
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  Speaker 1: to your fellow men in small things as well as large. Then,
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  Speaker 1: when we have failed from the small engagements of life
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  Speaker 1: to the lofty height of intellectuality, you can rejoice with
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  Speaker 1: your comrades from the place from which you came is
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  Speaker 1: the free school. All we need by the opportunity the
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  Speaker 1: free school offers us. No, it cannot fill the long
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  Speaker 1: felt need or won't for education among us. But as
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  Speaker 1: an honest people to our children, we must tax ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and put our money into high schools where there are none,
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  Speaker 1: that our children in the rural district may have equal
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: show with the children of the city. You want eight
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  Speaker 1: or nine months school for your loved ones, If it
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  Speaker 1: takes that to educate and train the mind while young,
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  Speaker 1: then when strong in statues, strong in mind, that they
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  Speaker 1: can attain the temptible things of this life by earnest study,
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  Speaker 1: we will get each of you in the joyous springtime
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  Speaker 1: of life. Now I leave these last words. Commit your
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  Speaker 1: ways on the Lord, and he shall direct your path.
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  Speaker 1: Not for the sake of angels, but for him whose
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  Speaker 1: handiwork is seen in the firmament, who, day by day dashed,
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  Speaker 1: is the evening sky with glory and makes the world
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  Speaker 1: a gallery of beauty. His hand will touch your life
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  Speaker 1: into loveliness, and that life redeemed, sanctified, glorified shall be.
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  Speaker 1: I verily believe the greatest art work by the greatest
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  Speaker 1: art master. Invest your money trying to save the young people.
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  Speaker 1: Then if they fail to heed, you have done your duty,
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  Speaker 1: and God will bless you as the free giver to
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  Speaker 1: the needy. Thousands are starving for a chance to know
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  Speaker 1: the right way to true man and womanhood. The last,
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  Speaker 1: but not the least. Don't spare the rod and lose
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  Speaker 1: the child. Educate the heart and hand, and make men
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  Speaker 1: any women. May God help you. In the section eight
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  Speaker 1: Section nine of the Mob, Violence and the American Negro,
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  Speaker 1: My Experience in the Summi South by Velli Leicster. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: Read this and put the seller and make her to
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  Speaker 1: an end, and save the boys and girls. My lecture
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  Speaker 1: and defense of temperance in the South. Subject wine is
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  Speaker 1: a marker, and strong drink is raging, and whosoever is
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  Speaker 1: deceived thereby is not wise. In the first place, in
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  Speaker 1: this chapter, the prophet compares the nation of Israel to
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  Speaker 1: a vineyard planted by God, who loved them with an
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  Speaker 1: everlasting love. He did everything possible for them that they
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  Speaker 1: might bring forth the best fruit obedience, righteous living, the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of holiness, joy, love, peace, and all the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit, intelligence, noble character, and mission work. Among
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  Speaker 1: the nations. He placed them in the best country in
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  Speaker 1: the world. For that purpose, he hedged them around with
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  Speaker 1: laws and divine institutions, and with his own care and
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: love defended them from all enemies. He planted in his
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  Speaker 1: vineyard divines of his promises, his words, his commandments, and instructions,
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  Speaker 1: and holy things. He placed there the wine presses, which
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  Speaker 1: represented the various advantages conferred on the people, to help
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  Speaker 1: them bring forth good fruit and present it to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: But the expected fruit was not brought forth. He looked
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  Speaker 1: at it that it should bring forth grapes, and it
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: brought forth wild grapes. So with this nation in general,
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  Speaker 1: and race in particular, princes the cause of most crime
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  Speaker 1: in this country? What is the cost of intemperance, money, bloodshed, suffering,
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  Speaker 1: and morals, all to gain the affection of the devil,
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  Speaker 1: and forever to be punished in a devil's hell. In
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  Speaker 1: this Christian nation, the land of the Free and the
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  Speaker 1: home of the brave, the people spend each year more
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  Speaker 1: for drink by twenty times than they spend for education.
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  Speaker 1: The nation's drink bill exceeds that of our clothes and
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  Speaker 1: food combined. Over a billion dollars a year is spent
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  Speaker 1: for drink. We have more saloons than public schools, and
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  Speaker 1: more blind tigers than saloons in our prohibition counties and
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: states where the state law allows men to pay license
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  Speaker 1: to sell rum. The world needs men that will help
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  Speaker 1: the law and officers to run down these lawbreakers and
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  Speaker 1: show them that this demon must not be sold to
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  Speaker 1: the unfortunate sufferer. We want him to be safe with
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  Speaker 1: the blessed. Men seem to believe more profoundly in the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of strong drink than in that of the Gospel's transformation. Friends,
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  Speaker 1: did you know that hell saloons and blind tigers are
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  Speaker 1: triple sisters? Think, then, look and see this standing army
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  Speaker 1: of six hundred thousand, staggering drunkards daily reading their way
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  Speaker 1: through a Christian nation. What is the fruit of this army?
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  Speaker 1: Nearly three thousand murdered wives, five thousand suicides, seven thousand murders,
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand widowed mothers, sixty thousand fallen girls, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand or from children, ten thousand insane, one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: who die from drink annually, one million boys who take
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  Speaker 1: the place of the dying, four hundred thousand paupers made annually,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand criminals two million sufferers. The
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  Speaker 1: grave wars of the world for twenty five years from
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  Speaker 1: eighteen fifty two to eighteen seventy seven, including the Franco
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  Speaker 1: German War and our Civil War, cost a fraction over
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  Speaker 1: twelve billion dollars. The cost for intoxicants for the same
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  Speaker 1: period in the United States was over fifteen billion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: three billion dollars more than all the wars of the world.
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  Speaker 1: And for every one thousand killed in battle, rum killers
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  Speaker 1: got twelve thousand. In the territory covered by the United States,
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  Speaker 1: there has been killed in wars during one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years, six hundred thousand persons. Strong drink has killed
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  Speaker 1: seven million, five hundred thousand. If all the blood that
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  Speaker 1: strong drink has caused to be shed could be collected
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: together in one lake, it would be a sea of blood,
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: and many ships could sail there. And if all men
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  Speaker 1: could see this truth, they would stand up and fight
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: for temperance and save the people. Look here in this
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: drunkard's home. This is for your consideration. Girls. The first
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: few months the home is provided for fairly well. After marriage, though,
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  Speaker 1: he tells his old friends, boys, I'm coming out again,
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: I can't live this way, So that encourages him to
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: come very soon. The furniture is sold for debts, and
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  Speaker 1: he moves into a smaller house or room on a
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: back street or in some desolate country place. He leaves
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  Speaker 1: his wife alone and goes to the saloon or blind
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: tiger to loaf and drink. Soon, his wife is forced
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: by circumstances to earn her living at the wash tubbor
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: some cook kitchen. Sometimes she is so fortunate that she
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: can make it with her needle, though after a hard
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: day's work, she returns home with a broken heart, thinking
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: of her mistake in life. Yes, I've made the mistake
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  Speaker 1: of my life, My happiness says no more. I'm now
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  Speaker 1: alone without fire, waiting for that drunkard to come in
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  Speaker 1: that staggering and qurelsome way. Oh, if I could only
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  Speaker 1: recall my childhood days and enter my father's home, I
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  Speaker 1: would take my parents' advice. Yes, the clock has struck.
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  Speaker 1: D well, Hush, I think I hear him. No, that
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  Speaker 1: is only the cold, bleak winter wind coming howling over
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  Speaker 1: the hills and through the crevices of this drunkard's home. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my god, I hear him coming. Drunk Oh, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I had never seen him. I am suffering without bread,
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  Speaker 1: without fire, without shoes or clothes. Then to be tormented
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  Speaker 1: with a drunken demon is more than any poor woman
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  Speaker 1: can endure. She hears him fall against the door at
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  Speaker 1: one o'clock. She gets up and takes the bar from
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: behind the door. The first word is a muttering oath.
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  Speaker 1: I want the money you made today, or I am
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  Speaker 1: going to kill you this night. He enters with murder
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  Speaker 1: in his heart. Oh, the drunken demon. His drunken passion
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: has overcome his better judgment. In that moment, he pours
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: his wrath upon the dear one that he promised at
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: the marriage alter to love and protect. He continues to
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: pounder until she falls unconscious under his blows. The drunkard's
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: wife is the greatest sufferer. There may appear at times
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: that all things are well in a drunkard's home, But
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: if you could only know the brief of that broken
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  Speaker 1: hearted mother, even the saloon keeper would melt down in
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  Speaker 1: tears illustration. The farmer sows in springtime, and his children
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: rise up in autumn and assist in the harvesting. So
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: it is with the drunkard he sows, and all share
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: in reaping, and from the depths of my soul. I
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: urge every woman to watch and pray and never enter
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  Speaker 1: into the drunkard's snare. The drunkard's home is hell on earth.
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  Speaker 1: No young man who turns the intoxicating cup to his
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  Speaker 1: lips as a beverage, whoever expects to should ask a
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: pre beautiful young woman for her heart and hand in marriage.
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  Speaker 1: The liquor traffic is the cursed and shame of our country.
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: It clogs up the wheels of our racial progress, and
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: the deepest disgrace of the nineteenth century. It is the
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: mother bird that hatches out the daily blood a villanese,
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  Speaker 1: the father of anarchism, the mother of riot, and friend
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  Speaker 1: of everything that menaces the church and home. Indeed, these
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: are plain words. This is not the time for smothering
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  Speaker 1: sentences to dull the edge of truth. I know nothing
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  Speaker 1: in this broad land so out of place, so disgusting,
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  Speaker 1: so sickening to the soul of man or woman who
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  Speaker 1: really loves God. Home in native land as the sight
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  Speaker 1: of and works of intemperance before an enlightened conscience and
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: family affection. It is said that a young preacher was
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: to preach his first sermon one Sunday while the prayer
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: service was going on, when of the old members came
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: to him and said, you are just starting out, and
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: it is my duty to tell you how to go.
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  Speaker 1: Then you are a stranger here. Look over there in
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: the amen corner there is fivers of our best paying
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: members that take a drink when they want to. Then
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: right in front there are two distillery men that make
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: the good stuff and they pay well. Then the fat
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: old woman there to your left, she sells it. So
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  Speaker 1: don't say anything about the making or selling or drinking rum,
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  Speaker 1: as there are no Jews here. Preach about the sins
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  Speaker 1: of them. The Jews. Oil and water will not mix.
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  Speaker 1: Genuine gospel religion means a clean man, a clean prayer,
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  Speaker 1: and a clean worship. So whiskey and religion won't mix.
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  Speaker 1: It costs in morals. With its iron feet, manhood is destroyed,
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: womanhood is dis botched, and childhood outrages by the poison
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: that is causing humanity to bleed at every poor. Oh,
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: what a mocker is in temperance in this country through
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: its doors there is passing a great multitude already under
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: the fatal spell of appetite. And there they are drinking
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: day and night, and over the bar down human throats
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: runs up mighty stream of alcoholic poison. Indeed, there is
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: no tongue to tell, nor pen to describe it, in
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: no words furnishing the meanings that will equal the intolerable
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: cursing that comes out of the saloon. It is the
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: worst of the consumptions of all the world. Its records
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: show hundreds of thousands of soul's ruin, but none save
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: by it. It consumes energy, will, character, body, and soul.
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: A lesson to you. A rich man said to his
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: son as he entered his home one dark and stormy night,
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: staggering drunk, My boy, I've done everything I could for you,
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: and you only live to disgrace our family name. The
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: father then pushed his only some from the door into
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: the darkness. But the old man heard him say, yes, father,
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: you've done all this for me. But it was the
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: whiskey you keep in the cellar and on the sideboard
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: that lured me to drink, and now brought me to this.
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: Death came for the boy that coldreary night. The next
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: day he filled a drunkard's grave, and the father soon
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: died from grief and the broken heart. Let us further
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: reflect openly the fact that drunkenness is of the very
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: same nature as suicide. This is surely the bottom philosophical
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: fact which rests the exclusion of the drunkard from the
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: kingdom of Heaven. Every man who indulges in the evil
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: of drink is thus a gradual suicide, for he does
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: with full knowledge that which takes away his reason, health,
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: self control, and happiness, and which is the sure destroyer
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: of his highest ambition, whether for earth or for heaven.
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: Millionaires have been made paupers by the degrading beverage. Scholars
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: have been converted into fools, and philosophers have been transformed
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: into driveling idiots. Time will not allow me to tell
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: the whole story. It is the incarnation of disgrace, poverty, ignorance,
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: and death. It is sin operating in the earth in
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: its most privileged form. All the forces of ignorance, wickedness,
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: and weakness is found in every glass of liqueur. In
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: this beautiful world which God has given us, there are
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: some things that we must leave alone. This was true
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: in eden Ere the serpent tempted and threw Adam from
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: the high pinnacle of honor. It is still true today.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the hardest lessons we have to learn.
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  Speaker 1: There is not a place or class of people who
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: do not actually feel the blighting hand of the drink habit.
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  Speaker 1: This reminds me of the awful fact that no man
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: liveth to himself, but that we are bound together by
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: the care of human interest. We must suffer if we
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: live in a land of suffering. In our own times
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: and among our own people. We are warned that the
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: drink habit is the most commanding purse aside from one
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: I mean outrage upon the female sex in the columns
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: of the daily papers. It has the ears of the
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: student of philosophy, in the eyes of the statesmen and
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: of religion. There is no question so fraught with danger
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: to the republic as this one. His baneful influence speeps
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: into every home in the land. It calls great preachers
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: from their God given pulpit throngs im pulls them in
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: disgrace to the gutter. It has snatched the incident of
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: power from the millionaire and king and led him among
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: his ranks of beggars. It is to warn the tongue
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: of eloquence from the mouth of the orator and left
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: him a speechless idiot and drinking simpleton. Is wrap the
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: honest laborer of his job and made him a shameful
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: occupant of the almshouse. There is no crime that has
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: not been committed by the drunkard and the moderate drinker.
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: Poverty is alcohol's delight, while honor and salvation are hated
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: by this king of sin. Let us show this nation
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: in general, and race in particular, is responsible for the
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: iniquity that has befallen the conscience of the nation. The
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: American peoples are guilty of being drunkards by choice. Those
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: who are drunkards choose to be. They exercise their personal liberty.
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: No man can, except by unconscious influences, force another into
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: drinking or drunkenness. Hence, it is, to my mind, a
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: matter of choice. This is the basis of the objection
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: raised against the prohibition movement, that it prevents freedom and
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: would legislate morality in men. Here is another way we
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: as a nation have become responsible for the drink habit.
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: It is the admission that this nation grants the traffic,
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: the commission, the national state, and city governments all over
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: the country receiver revenue from the men who traffic and
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: the making of drunkards. Every bayonet of the national government
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: is morally bound if such a state of affairs should
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: demand it to support the traffic, since it receives its
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: license from their national government. The same is true of
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: state and cities. Where it is licensed, the constabulars is
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: bound to protect the agents by which it thrives. Common
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: sense demands that this positive licensing and the quiet consenting
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: to it are the two elements responsible for the presence
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: and the nation, the worst foe to human organized government
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: that has confronted a civilization. It is a refreshment of
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: soul to note the different attitudes that the nation turns
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: to the drink habit and that which they presented years ago. Today,
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: instead of the pulpit being under the control of the
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: demon rum as formerly was to found, we find the
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: pulpits of all denominations crying out in no uncertain sounds
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: against the traffic of liquor. I thank God that the
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: ministers of the Gospel are the leaders of state and
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: national movements for the final defronement of king alcohol. The Church,
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: through its leadership, has taken higher ground and is now
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: combating every inch of the ground against the foe of
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: the home the church in the state, a cry has
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: heard the money from the saloon for the education of
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: the youth. Pray tell me what does the intemperance care
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: for the education? It is but an open field for
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: the creation of the drink hapeitaite among our boys. So
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: put it out by your vote and take care of
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: the youth. God bless you all. End of section nine,
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: Section ten of the Mob, Violence and the American Negro
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: My experience in the Sunny South by Velly Lester. This
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. My lecture at
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: Gulf Port asking for the law. Now to my many
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: friends of my race, there's one thing we want to learn,
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: and that is to make friends. There's no way of
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: knowing whether we have more or less today than in
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: the days gone by. This question need not be answered.
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: But today the Negro is in very sad need of
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: strong friendship among white men north and south. The Negro
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: needs friendship that finds its basis not in sordid and
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: selfish motives, nor yet born of pity and mere sympathy.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: But the Negro needs the friendship that finds its tap
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: root in a belief in his capacity for development, and
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: believe in the creation that all men were created equal
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: and are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: Some say it is now time for the Negro to
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: act for himself. Fifty years of help has brought justifiable results,
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: and that his fullest development is to come by an
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: exercise of the strength. Already the Negro heartily thanks you
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: for all past favors. But the whole race rejoice when
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: he learns from any source that the White Brother is
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: yet his friend. The night when Lawyer Harris of Oklahoma
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: City failed to meet his appointment, the Lord sent doctor Ball,
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: who took up the cross for Jesus. Those hearts stirring
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: words from that broad man of God made me think
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: of two of the greatest men for the right I
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: ever heard from the pulpit, though they both are at
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: rest waiting the final resurrection, them to help crown him
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: Lord of all. One of them the m E Church South,
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: the other m E Church. We love men that are
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: for God. Let the ministers invite the White Brother that
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: he can see that we are not dragging, but we
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: are going forward as you started us. There are some
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: that think we are a poor, helpless, ragged, forlorn, wretched
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: and despised people. But kind serves we are passing from
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: the epoch of sentiment unto the period of worth and merit. Alike,
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: the negro's friends and the negro himself must make a
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 1: fair interpretation of his movements. Nevertheless, the negro is in
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: need of patriotic friends. The negro needs courageous friends, men
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: and women who count not in championing the right. We
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: ask for nothing more for the Negro than can be
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: asked in the name of American principles. Opportunity to make
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: out of life all possible, unmolested and untrammeled morally, and
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: all other ways that mean upward for a fallen race
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: that has served the other for nearly three centuries, we
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: now ask for your friendship and protection as a helpless people.
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: Don't make us prisoners just because you are the law
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: and the country is yours. We know this and want
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: to be law abiding citizens. We have a part. We
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: ask you to punish the guilty when he violates the law.
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: There are things that if you think some negro is
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: guilty of you want to kill the first negro you see,
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: and generally do kill maybe two or three before you
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: are satisfied, or get the right party that it'd be
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: another's sister or anybody that is wrong. God has got
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 1: his eye on you. He will not bless your children
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: unless you learn to obey his word. I want to
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: feel at home and safe as long as I am
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: right with the law of God and the law of
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: the land. We want your friendship. You are strong. Won't
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: you help us to feel that you are for the
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: right and for the right only. We ask you in
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: the name of God to punish the violators and protect
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: the innocent. May God bless you even if you are
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: not right, and you may see your mistake and get
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: right today. One question to you reader, is your heart
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: right with God? If not, I advise you to get
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: right today. This may be the last chance in this life,
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: as life is uncertain, but death is sure. Prepared to
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: date to meet your God. My last word to you
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: is to love ye one another. End of section ten
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: Section eleven of the Mob, Violence and the American Negro
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: My Experience in the Sunny South by Velli Leicester. This
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain, the greatest and
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: most marvelous war in the ages of the human race.
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: The Negro took a great part and filled all requirements
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: with honor and heroic deeds, from the common labor to
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: the highest office given him by merit. He gave his
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: life freely, believing to be made things better at home
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: and to help hold the honor that America has won
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: in the past. He did not go as a slave, conscripted,
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: or a deserter, but as a valiant soldier. He died
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: for the great cause you told him, to make the
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: world safe for all nations to live in. For more
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: than four fearful years, the war swept fearlessly through the
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: continent of Europe, emblazed in many many ports of Africa
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: and Asia. Thirty nations and scores of different races were involved.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: Nearly ten million men were slain in battle, thirty million
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: were injured, thousands were made cripple or insane. No country
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: on Earth escaped the losses and terror of the war.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: In some of the many forms, the high seas were ravaged.
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: The Negro helped to stop it, but thousands of ships
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: were sent to the bottom. Mothers, daughters, little children, nurse
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: teachers and ministers of all religion were slain or suffered
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: death by starvation and disease. When horror was at its height,
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: when the world stood aghast and the defenders of civilization
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: were almost overwhelmed. Then America, with her great force of
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: white and black, plunged into the hottest furnace of the
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: war and snat victory from the jaws of defeat. Who
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: would have believed such before it happened. Two million American
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: boys were rushed across the dangerous seas to fight in France,
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: and three million more were ready to follow. White and black,
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: we were together in war, why not together at home
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: in peace? Miracles of valor were wrought in foreign lands
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: by our own boys, white and black, who but yesterday
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: were quietly stocking the things most needed at home, playing
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: bass and football, working in offices, factories, mines and farms,
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: and so on. Though today the war is over and
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: many a sleeping beneath the trouble soil of France, this
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: alone has plenty to stir the manhood of all the
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: world to see how freely we gave our boys to
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: the call. Now try with all their power to protect
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: our people by the law and let all the people
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: will preach and teach one thing thou should not kill.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: Here is one trouble that caused a deal of hatred
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: against the negroes not dealing with him and taking here says.
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the white man sees the negro's progress in city
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: and country and his great preparation he is making, asks himself,
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: won't this someday demand social equality? The negro answers, no,
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: why not? The negro does not want social equality and
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: won't have it. The self will never consent to it.
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: You are the law. Though, as soon as the Negro
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: begins to ask for a higher education, better homes, churches,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: and more prepared leaders, someone says he wants to assist
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: with the white people, But that is a mistake. He
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: is only preparing to have someone in his own race,
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: a high noble character, to associate with. Now, my friends,
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: do stop lynching. It doesn't mean that the Negro will
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  Speaker 1: be any greater than he is at this present day.
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  Speaker 1: But it only indicates that the Negro will think that
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  Speaker 1: you have decided to obey the word of God, the commandment.
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  Speaker 1: Not to my southern friends that love law and order,
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  Speaker 1: will you only decide to give all men justice, and
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  Speaker 1: let vengeance be gods. You can protect the purity of
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  Speaker 1: the white race and never lynch a single man. Let
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  Speaker 1: your statue law have its course. I believe in every
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  Speaker 1: race forever remaining as God made them, and all men
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  Speaker 1: believe the same when they believe. Right, my southern friend,
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  Speaker 1: I know why you are not willing to open the
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  Speaker 1: door of politics to the Negro and try to keep
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  Speaker 1: him as far in the dark as you can, thinking
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  Speaker 1: that will be one step towards social equality. But I
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  Speaker 1: must say that is not true. If that was true,
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  Speaker 1: it would take six hundred and sixty nine years for
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  Speaker 1: the Negro in the South to climb the ladder and
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  Speaker 1: reach its height, making sixty rounds per minute. Give him
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  Speaker 1: a square deal in all business things, two thousand years
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  Speaker 1: in advance, continuously going at electric speed. Give him a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Please help us to raise the strong, ought to help
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  Speaker 1: the weak. Then why not give the Negro the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of the doubt. As you have made the laws. We
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  Speaker 1: are not happy at times, though we never desire to
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  Speaker 1: be anything but what God made us. We do not
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  Speaker 1: ask for social equality and do not want it. We
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  Speaker 1: only want law and order to all men alike. You
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  Speaker 1: help us by your life and work to develop great
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  Speaker 1: things in the Negro Lynching is only a disgrace to
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  Speaker 1: any civilized nation. We like wealth and happiness, though we
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  Speaker 1: want to be Negroes and not. Now is a god
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  Speaker 1: fearing race and one who the world ought to be
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  Speaker 1: proud of. Don't allow your hatred on the act of
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  Speaker 1: progress to cause you to try to prevent the progress
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  Speaker 1: of a helpless race. You are in front, so lead
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  Speaker 1: the Negro to higher and nobler things, as he is
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  Speaker 1: expecting this of you. Do not hinder us, but help us.
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  Speaker 1: If you do that. Teach and preach to the Negro.
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  Speaker 1: Never tell him that he can never be great and
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  Speaker 1: that only the white man can. You will change the
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  Speaker 1: idea of the few that want to be white back
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  Speaker 1: to where he belongs. Only a few Negro women in
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: the South want to be white, and they ought to
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  Speaker 1: be lynched if anybody on God's earth ought to be
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  Speaker 1: for trying to rob a white girl of her lifelong happiness.
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  Speaker 1: A Negro can be great and noble as any man,
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  Speaker 1: if he will work and make preparations to that end.
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  Speaker 1: It is the advice to encourage him to stick to
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  Speaker 1: his own race at all times, in all places. Then
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: encourage him to make preparations to own farms and some
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  Speaker 1: of the best land of God's earth. Build beautiful homes
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  Speaker 1: on the farms, raise plenty of poultry, hogs, horses, mules,
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  Speaker 1: and last but not least, and a host of noble
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters. Encourage them to have good churches, painted houses,
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  Speaker 1: music in their homes, churches and schools. Then employ the
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  Speaker 1: best preachers and teachers. Then have your community fairs and
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  Speaker 1: everything to encourage good farming and stock raising. Stop lynching
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  Speaker 1: and help the negro by treating him as you wish
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  Speaker 1: to be treated. Then the North cannot do you any
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  Speaker 1: harm for contradicting your word. The negro is killed as
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  Speaker 1: soon as night comes in certain communities in some parts
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  Speaker 1: are worse than others. Though you can beat kick, take
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  Speaker 1: his daughters or wife and drive him from his home,
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  Speaker 1: or do anything to him you want to, and he
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  Speaker 1: can't say a murmuring word. This is all the past,
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  Speaker 1: I hope, and not in this generation since the war.
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  Speaker 1: And may the South, the place the negro loves so well,
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  Speaker 1: remain his home. Tell him you are the law, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take care of you by the law
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  Speaker 1: as you are trying to be a man. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to to help you. Then stop lynching, and that will
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: satisfy the negro. Let the law settle all cases. You
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: are the law. The law will hang him. Wait a
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: few days. Don't allow the sentiment to take the law
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: regardless to what happens. I know some things are mighty hard, though.
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  Speaker 1: Just wait a few days. The law will do the
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: same thing of a mob. Men, be patient. We do
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  Speaker 1: not want to protect crime, but believe in punishing criminals
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  Speaker 1: and protect the innocent. Don't you let democracy ring and
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: all men love the law and obey the same. Then
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: have a safe world to live in, as you have
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: made the law safe for the protection of the people.
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  Speaker 1: Make the black man safe in America and where he
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 1: wants to live and die, but not by a mob,
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  Speaker 1: but a civilized death. Then we know that all the
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: good things must have started sometime or another from the
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: white man. As you are a producer and an inventor
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: for good or bad. So we want you always to
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  Speaker 1: feel that we need more good and noble things to
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: continue to fill our minds that no bad things can enter.
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: Don't want to live in the white neighborhood. If you
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: give him, proper protection by the officer, good streets, walks,
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: light and sewer, and other things for the convenience and
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: happiness of the Negro as much as for the whites.
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: Give our teachers wages that will satisfy them, and we
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: will assure you there will never be a Negro that
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 1: will ever desire to enter one of your schools, any
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: branch of learning. We want to be as we are
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  Speaker 1: and associate with our own race and not the white.
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: Why not put two or three of these little schools together,
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 1: you make one good school with prepared teachers. Teachers and
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 1: preachers can help to stop the cause of lynching. Give
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: us a chance to prepare our children, and you will
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: never hear of one wanting to be white. You can
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: find in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Negro can go to
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: any school, though they have colored schools in colored districts,
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: and many children attend their own school in order to
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: be with their race. So we are anxious to be
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  Speaker 1: with our own people. He believes that social equality will
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: injure him as bad as you think it will. You.
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: We thank the self for trying to let each race
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: prove his worth in this great world progress, and to
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: keep each race separate. The Negro knows what it would
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: mean for the white man to be in our homes
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: with his money, education, looks, and power. It would mean
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: a moral destruction. So put up the fence socially higher
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: that he may never get in our race without shame
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  Speaker 1: on himself or as people as well as ours. So
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: don't handicap our women by introducing anything to them in
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: the self but purity. We mean to go upward and
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 1: to live with Jesus who suffered and died on the cross,
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  Speaker 1: that we all might have a right to the tree
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  Speaker 1: of life. Women, be loyal to your father and husband.
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: Do unto others as you wish others to do unto you.
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  Speaker 1: The white man is not so bad, though it seems.
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  Speaker 1: When brought in contact with some women with physical attraction
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: in whom he has no respect, the sexual passion asserts
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: itself powerfully and with no respect or fears. Then he
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: advanced his thoughts and words. As our women are the
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: mothers of a great race, we must keep all intruders
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: out that we possible we can. How bad the negro
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: would feel if he were called on to associate with
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: the white people, I will say, for my whole race,
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: if you would stop lynching the negro and try all
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: cases according to law, give the negro the advantage of
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: the doubt, according to the evidence we would prove to
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: you are worth. Give him a fair chance on the farm,
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: give him a chance in business affairs, and stop the
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: immigration to make the Negroes the happiest people on earth.
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: Give him justice. Make this law appear in your state,
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  Speaker 1: that any county or state where a man is killed
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: by a mob must pay to his legal representatives five
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: to ten thousand dollars, and there would be no more
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: lynching among negroes. You have hung only a few women.
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 1: A few years ago, a mother and daughter were hanged
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: in the same state, a very sad affair. It was indeed,
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 1: I passed at the time, and the mob hissed me on,
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: and I did go. It was a shame on a
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: civilized nation that lost thousands of her sons over the
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: sea who were fighting for democracy. May God rein at
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: home and then spread abroad. Our southern hands are stained
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 1: with the blood of few innocent negroes for a crime
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: and no guilt. The two girls were innocent associates for
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: a Southern paper. A trial before a court would have
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: been among us with no stain of innocent blood. At
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: the same time, two brothers boys hanged for the same offense.
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: Later they found out that the party had committed suicide.
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 1: Yet for my race paid the penalty, which was death.
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 1: Now think for one moment how easy a white man
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: can appear as a negro by disguising himself with painter sooot,
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  Speaker 1: and the crime is put in a negro of the
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: same size, and the girls are the only way to
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  Speaker 1: identify him. I know a case where two white men
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: and two women met two colored men and went to
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 1: a certain place for the purpose of robbing a house.
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: They killed the inmate of the house, set the house
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: on fire, then let the negroes go that they might
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: return in opposite direction and go with them to do
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: the robbery. Now, after the house was burned, they felt
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 1: guilty and sought to lynch the two colored men for
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 1: fear they would tell it is an eyewitness to many things.
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: If the court knew them, they could make this a
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: better country. But if you will tell the negro, you
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: will lynch him. And this is a white man's country,
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: you say, the poor fool will say yes, sir, and
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't own it to God. You don't have to
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: keep the Negro down. Just keep going as you are,
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 1: and you will keep in front. Help us to get up,
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  Speaker 1: mister President, Senator, Congressman, Governor, and all officers of the USA,
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: as you are a few out of thousands that know
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: why the Negro is in such a stir in trying
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: to find refuge, since you have saved Belgium and so
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: many foreign nations. The Negroes were in the fight over there,
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: and now he is at home, asking every American to
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: make all parts of America save for the Negro, to
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 1: live in the South as well as the north, east
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  Speaker 1: or west. I'm a Southern man. I want to remain
• 2:45:49
  Speaker 1: in the South, and I appeal to all my race
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: this is the best place to live. So help me
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  Speaker 1: by making the law his protection, not some other part
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  Speaker 1: of the democratic government. Be as your leader, all the
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: world's friend who is now during the USA trying to
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: give you light, And I'm writing asking you to accept
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: the same and be men for right and die before
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: you will surrender to the wrong, protected by the law,
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  Speaker 1: and the Negro is satisfied and will remain at home
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: forever and ever. Amen in of Section eleven. End of
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: the mob violence and the American Negro my experience in
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  Speaker 1: the sunny South by Belly, Leicester,