CHAPTER VI.

IGNORANCE OF DECENCY AND LIMITED CHRISTIANITY.

There can be no better method of emphasizing and clearly establishing the facts which have been stated on the various subjects preceding _this_, than to end syllogistically:

(1) It is obvious that the colored race equals the white race in decency. They could not wash their white sister’s clothes without washing for themselves. They could not cook decently for the white families’ hotels and other public places, if they were not suitable for the position. Thousands of young men and women graduating annually, in all the professions and branches of labor, warrant the fact that the colored people cope with the white people in intellectual and industrial progress.

(2) Although about one-half of the colored population of the United States are followers to some denomination, yet the so-called Christian white people of the south, both pulpit and pew, limit Christianity to themselves and own house.

(3) In consideration of these things, we must conclude that eating, riding and social gatherings among the white people is not a desire of the colored race, and all previous conceptions of such are erroneous, and will be rectified when our southern white brethren reach a higher civilization and pure Christianity.

“For the President, Senate and Congress to stand still and allow any State in the Union to incorporate laws conflicting with the Constitutional rights of any of its citizens, is to me a fact that the national government is too weak to last long.”—REV. S. T. TWIGLER, Marion, S. C., Nov. 12, 1897.

An immense volume would be required to write one-fourth of the lynches in 1892-93—saying nothing of the other evil. The urgent demand for this book has contracted it. Other volumes on the questions embodied in this book may follow this agent of peace, equal rights, and prosperity.