CHAPTER XI.

AN APPEAL FOR JUSTICE.

Author Writes an Open Letter to Senator Tillman during the Meeting of a Constitutional Convention in South Carolina--He Sets Forth the Negro’s Claim upon the Whites for Justice and Fair Play--He Urges the Whites to Help and Not to Hinder the Progress of the Negroes--He Pleads for Negro Education--The Letter in Full--Is Asked by an Atlanta Paper to Write a Letter on the Benefits of the Atlanta Exposition of 1895--Complies in an Interesting Letter which Outlines the Benefits of the Exposition Alike to Negroes, Southern Whites, and to the Country Generally--This Letter in Full--Author Continues His Campaign of Speech Making in the North during the Winter of 1895-6--Speaks at Carnegie Hall, New York, Appearing with Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage and Others, President Grover Cleveland Presiding--Some Extracts from the Speech Delivered on this Occasion--Returning to Tuskegee to be Present at the Annual Meeting of the Tuskegee Negro Farmer’s Conference--In March, 1896, Speaks Before the Bethel Literary Society of Washington, D. C.--Answers Some Criticisms by Colored Newspapers of His Atlanta Speech.