RECONSTRUCTION of the NEGRO RACE

BY

M. M.

MADDEN, Supreme

President of the

National Court of Protection, Terre Haute, Ind.

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REV. G. W. WILLIAMS, Pastor Allen A. M. E. Chapel, Terre Haute, Ind.

'He's a

man

for the day; he's a

man

for the hour."

INTRODUCTION.

1.

First, the reconstruction of the ra.ce.

2. Eleven million of people misled for over a half century with reference to their citizenship in the U. S.

are 3. Special representation in Washington, which you entitled to by virtue of the constitution failing to provide for

your citizenship.
4.

The

first

and second

article of the

14th
its

Amendment

state the object of the

amendment but not

completion.

5.

The cause
Mobilizing

of

Abraham

Lincoln's death.

6.

the

to the

government

to create the position for the race to

negro for the purpose of petitioning have

a representative.
7.

For the race

to

by selecting a

man

that

have the intelligence to fill the position is qualified for the same.

8. To petition the government to colonize the race and give us self government, which is wisdoms roots, since the two races disagree so far, we do not ask for citizenship but colonization. We believe that greater opportunities would present

themselves.

These are the outlines of Dr. Madden's address to a large audience in the fairgrounds at Muskogee, Okla. After this address Dr. Madden received a charter from the state of Oklahoma, to perfect an organization known as the National Court of Protection. Dr. Madden is one of the builders of the world yet to come.

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Reconstruction of the Negro Race.

nature of regulation will always exist, family was small, and only consist of two people it was not necessary to give ten rules of regulation. You had no need for the Ten Commandments at that time. One charge was sufficient to take care of the situation, The
fast as in fears,

As

when

the

human

which you eat therefore, you shall surely die. That human family for a long time. But as fast as the people multiplied so did their sins, and the day did apwhich existed pear when there were ten inferior qualities among the people, and a rule of regulations provided. There was a law written upon stone by the hand of nature, and handed down to the human family. That took care of the situation for a good long time, but as fast as the people multiplied so did their sins. Under that very same method of sin, the wages of sin became death, and it took the gift of God to be eternal life, and the rule and regulation provided no graver question than the race question is today confronting the American people. The white man's promise to the negro when he could vote was just as' munificent as a cross section of the Ten Commandments edge with the 'Pilgrims Progress.' But since you have ceased to become a political factor you are today rapidly becoming to realize your real position. In a Placing your feet upon that new plane of knowledge. great measure you are able to work out what the future holds in store for you and your off-springs. This is a great race
day
in

took care of the

Your being in number today (one tenth) of the population of the American people, giving you a population of eleven million (11,000,000) people with no enterprise, not even seeking the material, civil, nor moral welfare of this country and of the South in particular. There is not a people in America, that can disregard this element of our populations and ever reach the highest success. In other words the value, the manhood of our race must be recognized. There is an interest that we have in this government that must be taken care of, and can only be taken care of by reprpuof ours.

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Every people in the U. S. is ception of the negro race. There is center of this government that was ton, representing a straight pole in
tation.

represented with the exa law tree setting in the

set

by George Washing-

the ground from earths sorrow to heavens glory that meant equal rights to all men. Every time that congress has met since the death of George Washington and legislated, they have not set another pole they only make an amendment and attach it, which represents a limb on the law tree. Just as many times as Congress has met and legislated, since the death of Washington, there are just that many limbs on the law tree today. There is a limb going out in favor of every Indian by tribe
Polish,
Slavish,

and Hungarian,

town incorporations,

rail-

roads incorporations oil trusts, tea trusts, every thing that is operated in these U. S. is made mention of on the law tree with the exception of this 11,000,000 negroes. You are not made mention of on the law tree of which you are living under by reason of the fact you have never been represented by anybody. You can go to Washington today or tomorrow, you will find five big Indians sitting there representing the five big Indian tribes of this country; a big Jap representing the vitality of Japan, a Mexican representing the vitality of Mexico just as all other nations have given their vitality to their country, you will find a man representing that people, constantly preparing bills, presenting them to congress; getting You can not find a negro there any legislation for his people. where, outside of a janitor. Every law that is made in this

country is made as an act of congress and if you havent any one there to prepare a bill and present it to Congress to act on, tell me, how could you hope to get legislation. Is it not true that there is a certain percent of every man's business that absolutely belongs to him. There is no one going to take care of the obligations of your home but you. There is a certain per cent of every race'sbusiness that absolutely belongs to them. Anytime you think that another race will take up the interest of your race and foster it before this government, you have overlooked your hand. Fifty-two years should teach you that fact. You never knew an Indian to press the claim of a Chinaman, and you never knew of a Chinaman pressing the claim of a Jap, and you never knew of a white man who pressed the claim of the Negro. Every race presents its own claim. Then why has the Negro been sitting here for fifty-two long years waiting on a white man to press his claim. Every Negro that ever came through this country making speeches from any political
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standpoint has been advocating some white man's cause, and this race going to hell swapping ends, drawing on our imagination, telling us that the time will come, that you can take a that time will never be. They teaspoon and dip the sea dry; have told you that the time will come when you will not tell a black man from a white man, that time will never come. They have told you that the time would come that God in his Infinite wisdom would so arrange it that the lamb and the leopard would lay down together. They are laying down together now, but mark you, when the leopard gets up the lamb is always IN the leopard. Every effort that you have ever made to take care of yourselves in this government, rather than relieve the situation, you stronger demonstrate that you are not able or capable of self government. You have been sending delegates to WashYou have ington ever since you have been a free people. no business sending a delegation where you have no representation. You have no one there to send a man to or a set of men to. They will go up there and give the bill to some one, they know not who; just as apt to be a janitor as any one else. They will never show you your mistake, you must find your own mistakes to be able to profit thereby. They will look on the heading of that bill and see that it is headed with some little auxiliary of a church or fraternal order, however it's an individual affair and does not mean the race. And they will say all right John, we'll take this and take care of it for you. And it goes on the table, and from on the table it goes under the table, and from there to the waste basket and from there in the fire. Then you are ready to say that your man went up there and sold out, when he had nothing on God's earth to sell out but that piece of paper and he could have sold that to you before he could have sold it to any one there, because you are always buying something that is worthless. Any man or any set of men that represents this 11,000,000 Negroes should be an authorized indignant of this people, all over the U. S. When the day comes that you would voice yourselves in one sentiment and let one man's voice be the sentiment of the race you will not only attract the attention of this government, but any other government under the sun. You will get anything that you ask for that is right, fair and just. I don't want you to ask for anything more than justice, and I don't want you to be satisfied with anything less. Every right that the Negro has in America has been donated to him without a title. The constitution of the U. S. does not provide for the citizenship
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of

the

Negro

in

America.

fifteenth

amendment

The thirteenth, fourteenth, and of the constitution of the U. S. did not

complete the citizenship of the Negro. The 13th amendment set him free; the 14th amendment only created a position by which he was to become a citizen. Final steps taking advantage of that amendment to make him a citizen were never
taken.

The 15th amendment guaranteed the right of The white man makes the law, he interprets the
This

citizenship.

forces the law, and all that the negro does is is what should have grown out of the 14th

law, he enabide by the law.

amendment

of the Constitution, all persons of African blood of the vitality of Africa to the U. S. shall from this day and date be known

as adopted citizens of the U. S. and their ancestors shall be born bona fide. They shall have all the rights of suffrage and

There shall not be a state in the privileges of citizenship. union that shall reserve a right to abridge their rights. Due to the fact that we did not have a man authorized by
the race, neither qualified to prepare such a bill and defend the same before the government, your rights stop right there.. You might search this country just as Sodom and Gomiah
\vere searched, to see how many Negroes you would find in America that knew the cause of Abe Lincoln's death, and you would not find as many Negroes in America that knew the cause of that man's death as you found righteous people in that city. Abe Lincoln, died for the same cause that I am talking to you on tonight. He says, "I must adopt these people as citizens of the U. S. to protect this government further down the road. These people are ignorant now but they will not always be so. They have learned to imitate. They are going to educate, and in that they will seek the very highest marks of intelligence, you can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. These Negroes will understand that they were enslaved for 228 years upon the ground that After which we have contradicted our they were property. own statement and declared them people. They will understand that if they were people then they must have been people to start with. They will also understand that it must have been an error in the government. They will further understand that any government that is not responsible for the same

that they incapable of establishing statuatory laws, in rise up and ask for indemnities for 228 years of servitude. That is not all they will understand at the beginning of the late rebellion of this country it was unconstitutional to
is

would

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impose military service upon any man who was not a citizen. we could have imposed military services upon people whether they had been citizens or not, without a question that 4,000,000 Negroes would have had to gone on to war to start with. But it was unconstitutional to start with, was it not also unconstitutional to end with. But simply because it became a military necessity, military services were imposed upon that 4,000,000 Negroes who had always been counted something less than a human. And in plain violation to every law there was in the world 1,500,000 of these Negroes died on the battle field for the liberty that they today enjoy, this government was responsible for these dead men and the race should have been paid for it. But we can adopt them right here as citizens of the U. S. and have them to become a part of the government, and in that they will never reserve a right to issue an indemnity against it. The white man arose in arms against Abe Lincoln and says, "No," We have bought the country beyond the price of money. We have bought it by blood, every dollar that we are worth in this country is invested here, either in a business manufacture, or a home industry and to suffer an invalid people who have had only fifty odd years of civilization
If

whose capital does not amount to a dollar, to come in and share an equal right with us, hold positions over our head that would be of such a nature as to govern our home and say what we should do with our wealth, why ignorance would be bliss; and it would be folly to be wise. Prosperity has become a naught, investment would be wiped out of existence before we would suffer such a thing to be, we will kill the man that is advocating such a cause, and that will stop the situation in its bud. For that cause they killed Abe Lincoln, then there came a secret organization among the white people, never to let this Negro know but that he is a citizen. He can not read or write. The only way that you can get him to understand is
to
to "get him told." Tell him that he is a citizen and to establish this fact with him, you will have to allow him all of the Let him eat and privileges of citizenship of a white man.

Let It's not going to hurt you. sleep with you for a while him vote with you for a while. Let him ride on the train
to the place

with you for a while. When you get him thoroughly educated where he thinks he's a citizen, and will never know the cause of the effect then you can detract these privileges from him, one by one and fence him off again as property.

Dear people

let

me

ask you the question, "Where are you

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today?" The worst has not come to you if you do not wake up to a sense of your duty. Every right that you have in the U. S. is donated to you without a title. Any right that the constitution does not provide for, you have no protection of the same. As the case stands today, every state in the union can abridge your rights without violating the constitution of the
at

U. S.

To make this statement more clear I will interpret the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment of the Federal The 13th Amendment of the ConConstitution, as follows:
That stitution says that no slavery shall exist in the Union. simply prohibits the white man from owning slaves. It also
prohibits the five civilized tribes of
slaves.

Indians

from

owning

amendment was enacted there was an Indian in this country known as the "Creek Indian." They adopted their slaves. After which that slave is known today upon the record as an adopted citizen. He became a citizen by
this

But when

virtue of his adoption. You also had an Indian in this country who refused to adopt their slaves, known as the Chottow Indian, but under certain acts of the 3rd and 4th articles of the 66th treaty they

After which gave them 40 acres of land which was home. that slave is known today upon the record as a Chottow freedman. If the 13th amendment made him a citizen, why is he known as a Chottow freedman. The white man failed also to adopt his slaves, when the fox of the wood had holes, and the birds of the air had nests. They turned that Negro loose without his adoption and without a place to lay his head. So you are known today as American freedman, not one Negro out of 10,000 knows that. I spoke in the Hampton University I asked the professor of that school what at Marshall, Texas.

He said, '"The Freedmen Bureaus of supported that school. the North." I asked him what did the "Freedmen Bureaus" consist of. He said, "An organization of white men appropriating money to educate Negro freedmen of the south." I said to him then
you are known as a freedman "instead of a citizen," are you not. He said to me, "Judge I hadn't thought about that." We had a Negro to get in jail in Mexico. He reported to the government of Mexico that he was an American citizen from Kentucky. The Government of Mexico wired to the governor of Kentucky, and told him that there was a negro in jail here, that claims to be an American citizen. The Governor of Kentucky wired to the Governor of Mexico and said, "If he is a black man, I don't see how he can be a citizen. We haven't
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any black citizens. You may turn him loose. He is Freedman, he thinks he is a citizen." That completes
thirteenth

our
the

amendment

of the Federal Constitution.

in that that provides for a Negroe's the fourteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution which says, "All persons born or naturalized in the U. S. shall be a citizen of the same, or in the state wherein he resides." Born or naturalized, there is a technical point

Do

you see anything

citizenship?

Now

that you could not only drop the state of Indiana in but you could drop the U. S. in it and never find it. The constitution of the 11. S. readily provides for three classes of citizens. 1st adopted; 2nd bona fide; 3rd an alien. The alien citizen has no light that the bona fide citizen has a right to respect; and it ie impossible for your child to be born bona fide without the naturalization of their fore-parents. You have two classes of heirs in the home. One *s an illegitimate and the other is a bona fide child. All children that are born to you out of wedlock are illegitimate, by the reason of the fact the fore-parents of that child have never complied with the law in adoption and

matrimony.
All that are born to you in wedlock are known as legitimate, which means a bona fide right to your inheritance. Then it is impossible for your child to be legitimately birthed to you On the other until you have met the requirement of the law. hand for citizenship, if the Negro race had been adopted citizens into the U. S. when they were declared people instead of property you would have been born a bona fide citizen to this country by virtue of your fore-parents adoption. But as they were never adopted and your interest has always been neglected, it brought you illegitimate by birth in the U. S., known as an alien by birth. So that completes the Do you fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. see anything in that that provides for a Negroe's citizenship? Remember that this did not become a U. S. until the south had

surrendered to the North.

Then the two governments had become known as the U. S.) Prior to that time

America, or the New England states. vided for allegiance in this country until the 14th Amendment was enacted. So the 14th Amendment provides for all races
that

was was known as There vas no law prounited, (which

this

come under

its

jurisdiction.

Amendment of the Federal Constitution says that no state in the Union shall reserve a right to abridge the right of any citizen. There is no citizens rights abridged, but whenever there is a law enacted prohibiting you from
the Fifteenth

Now

marrying any one that<you want, or anybody that wants you, your rights are abridged. Whenever there is a law enacted prohibiting you from walking up to the ballot boxes casting a vote to protect your property, your rights are abridged. Whenever there is a law enacted prohibiting you from riding in any car that you like, after you have paid the same fare that every other man has paid, your rights are abridged. This all being a fact then your rights are abridged just as far as the American soil goes. Then what does the 15th Amendment guarantee to you and me any part of the Constitution that congress does not have It 1/ower to enforce is not worth the paper it is written on. takes you 1,000 years hard labor to educate a child. You need not hope to complete your work in the first generation, you only carry your boy, or girl to the zenith of their underWhen those two children marry their children are standing. born unto them a little more intelligent than their parents, even had a chance to l>e. You can not complete your work So generations are only stepping stones into an educathere. tion. White people have had 5,000 years to become what they are, and are making improvements all the time. You have only had fifty years, so you can only hope to get your experience as the years come and go. Ignorance is not a fault, but rather an affliction. So this race is badly afflicted, yet by virtue of its short coming. Now getting back to what the race has got to ask for, you have more to ask for than any people under the sun, and you are asking for less. Is it not true from history that this country is made up from the vitality of other countries. Every man or woman who has

come to this country has come of his own free will, their own knowledge and consent. Did the Negro come that way? The question answers itYou are the only people that have been captured self, "NO!" in your own country and then forced to come to this country;
which they have forced you to clear the forest; drive back the great beast, built the railroads; make the bread and pay for the college education of the white man. And what did you ever get for it, the meanest name, the cruelest treatment, that hell itself could devise, has been poured out upon you without being mixed with the least degree of mercy. If you had voluntarily left your home and country and come to this country as other nations have, it would have been simply a matter of your choice, but being captured in your home and forced to come to this country in the manner that you were, it, it not a fact beyond any reasonable doubt, that this country
after

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Every man with a teaspoonfull would say "Yes." The reason why you have not got it is, you have never ask for it. If Negro organization would have stood for anything we would have been in a home long The government is ready and willing to comply with ago. such a request; but you must come through the proper channel, and that is through a representative in Washington. That is not all that you have to ask for. You have served the country 228 years, without compensation, upon the ground that you were property, instead of people after which they contradicted their own statement and declared you people instead If you were people then were you not people to of property. start with? The question answers itself, "Yes." Then who made the error. It was the government beyond all question. Any government that is not responsible for the same is inThen if this governcapable of establishing statutory laws. ment is a worthy object of making its own laws, without a question, they are subject to indemnity to this people for 228 years of servitude. The reason why you never got anything is, you never ask for it. A thing that is not worth asking for, is not worth having. That is not all you have to ask for, at the beginning of the late rebellion of this country, it was unconstitutional to impose military service upon any man who was not a citizen. If they could have imposed military services upon people whether they had been citizens or not, that 4,000,000 of Negroes would have had to have gone into war to start with. The other fellow would have stayed at* home. But it was unconstitutional and they could not do that. Then if it was unconstitutional to start with, was it not also to end with. But simply because it became a military necesof sity, military services were imposed upon that 4,000,000 Negroes, that had always been counted something less than human. One million and a half of your fathers have perished
is

responsible for your home.

of sense

on the battle fields of this country in plain violation to every law that there was on earth. This government was responsible for those men's lives and this race should have been paid for them. And the reason why you were never paid you never I hope that you ask for anything. may see into this that, Negro organizations are not standing for anything. That is not all that you have got to ask for, and I hope you will mark these words down on your memory, write them down on the table of your hearts, never to be forgotten through generaYou never will be a people on the face of this earth tions.
until

you get your representatives

(

in

Washington and make

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DR. MADDEN,

Who

will represent the

Negro Race

at

Washington,

an application
elves.

to this

government

to colonize

you

to yours-

Chickens and gardens are not healthy together. A lamb and a leopard will never socially communicate together, spiders and flies never build their dens together. Water and oil will not agree. Vinegar and soda will never quietly and Neither will you ever harmonize the race peacefully mix. question with the two races together. If God almighty ever su<Tered an object of pity to exist on earth, without a question; it is a Negro man. He deserves the sympathy of the fowls of the air, and the beast of the field. Here he stands with his wife and children staring him in the face for a living; and here he stands staring the white man in the face with tears in his eyes, for a job. How can you serve your family independently so long as you are dependent upon the other fellow. You must make yourself a job. That same railroad out there is owned and controlled by the white man. You can not stick your head in any farther than a jim crow car. That same road can be owned and controlled by Negroes in a colony of their own; that road must be built; those ties and steel rails must be laid, and it can be done by Negroes. Those cars must be built also that engine. That You train must be operated which can be done by Negroes. must educate your boys as lawyers and doctors, as brick maEducate sons and carpenters, as electricians and machinists. your girls as teachers and stenographers, and to do anything any other race is educating its people for. What can you see ahead of you today 'when you lift your head and look for the future hope of your children, outside of hewers of wood and drawers of water. Educate your boy or girl above common labor if you dare and before they would resort to common means for a living, they would bury themselves and the race also in disgrace up to its neck. Two-thirds of the divorce cases that have gone into the courts today are by reason of fact that the wife was tired of taking care of the home. She is in a wash tub up to her elbows, her husband rooming the country looking for a job. The two are out in the world striving to feed But when their little children and no one is rearing them. the avenues of life are opened up to them or to the Negro men, and doors of industry are thrown open to him, the same opportunity confronts Negro men as it does other men to support their families, then wife can stay at home with her famiYour children then come up with better ly and children. morals and manners from the very fact that they get better attention. Then hearts will be brighter, homes will be hap(13)

worth living, and the world at large will be any reason why this race should be colonized, any fair minded person would say "yes." 2nd Reason. That is not the only reason, the next reason man's literature will is, we do not believe that the white ever give the black man a complete education. It will open the eyes of the white man, and blindfold the Negro. I do not mean to say that it will not give you some advantage. Anypier, life will be

better.

Is that

thing that is subject to criticism is not complete. The spirit of the literature teaches that your color is a curse, and that everything in heaven is white, and if you are ever to get there you will have to go to your grave or somewhere else and turn white. They forget to tell you that there is a rainbow that encircles this element, that consists of seven colors. And God has just as much glory in one color of that rainbow as he has in another, because it is all a part of his creation. And if I thought I would have to go to my grave or somewhere else and turn white before I would be a fit subject for my father's Kingdom after being a part of his creation, I would by far rather go to a devil's hell, yes a thousand times than to see such aGod as that. But there is not a word of that true. There was a man that spoke through inspiration a little better than six

He knew nothing of this* literature. He "You shall know each other in heaven even as you are known on earth." I know my brother on earth is a black man, then to see him in heaven as a white man, would I have any reason to know him. And what does that make of the literature that you are teaching the children, as fast as they become
thousand years ago.
says,

advanced

in

the

literature of this

superiority of the white

man and

country, teaching the the inferiority of the black

man, it only suffers your grievances to go up and over shadow your opportunity. The past rises before me. I see my dear old mother coming right up out of servitude, uneducated as they might have been, unfortunate as it might have been for my race of people, but that dear old mother understood from an animal instinct that it was her duty to move the little children on their career of In that I see that life a little better than the producer was. dear old mother standing over the wash tub from early in the morning until late at night. Standing over the ironing board I saw her as she wades through until she fell asleep. the snow and the sleet that she may keep her daughter in school, that she might become an intelligent woman. As soon as she does she gets her diploma in this infernal literature what learn, she learns that her mother is something less than hu(14)

she also learns that her father and brothers are of a worthless race, and in that she would rather be a white man's woman than a Negro man's wife. The time has not got to come but is here now that an undoubted loyalty should be demanded of every Negro in America, both inside and outside of fraternalism. The elevation of every people on earth depends upon the credit of your women. Then if your women don't amount to anything your race don't amount to anything. Is that any reason why these two races should be separated. Any fair minded man would say

man,

"yes."

SUBJECT OF ORGANIZATION.
Every people in the U. S. are organized with the exception of the Negro, and you have organized, and organized, and ororganized until you are discouraged. Thirty-three secret ganizations are hanging on the walls of this country today, and every one of them claim to be a iDower in Europe, Africa, and Australia. You may be a power I am not in a position to say you are not, but I am in a position to say this, "If you are a power you are not standing for anything." In the last 42 years that you have been catering to those worthless things hanging on walls of this country, you have lost everything that a race would loose. You have lost your recognition as a man; you have lost your redress to court; you have lost your seat in trains and in waiting rooms; you have lost your road to the ballot box; you have lost protection to yourselves, your family and your property. If you live in the world from now until God Almighty bid you dust to rise, you have all to win and nothing to loose. Is that any evidence that you are carrying dead men's bones. Thirty-three secret organizations only have a tendency to put you farther apart. Take a stick the size of your finger, you can break it with all the ease in the world, but bind a score of them together, can you break them? No, you canYou can break one man, not. It is even so with us as a race. however great he may be, but it is impossible to break a great
race of 11,000,00 of people co-operated together for the upThat co-operated unity, that building of laws and justice. would concerted action is necessary for all the people who seek the light of better days. Is that any reason why this You can never be a people any race should get together. other way. Right in the very face of your organizations I see them coming right in to your homes dragging a man out of

bed right before his wife and

little

children's

eyes,

and

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murdering that without the law, without jury and without I see his own fellow men going on disinterested, "I judge. haven't anything to do with that he couldn't give me any Pythian sign." I see another one hanging to a limb, with 500 bullet holes through his body, his tongue hanging below his
chin, his eyeballs laying out on his checks, and his own fellow men going on seemingly disinterested. "I haven't got anything

He could not give me any Odd Fellows sign." see another one tied to a stake with fifty gallons of coal oil poured on him, the blaze going fifty feet above the man's
to do with that.
I

head, and the groans going up to God that cannot be uttered. The earth has opened up its mouth and swallowed the man's blood as a testimony against civilization, and I see these same

men

He could saying, "I haven't anything to do with that. me the Masonic sign." What kind of a sign can a dead man give more than a dead man's sign. Before you will
not give
ever be a race of people on this earth that will amount to the snap of your finger, you have got to come to this one particumislar place in life, whenever one Negro man or woman is treated let every drop of Negro blood be insulted. Everything on earth ought to stand for something. If you are a man of a family and the father of a home stand for that, be just as good a father, just as good a husband, just as good a provider for that home as any other man can be, then your wife will not have to quit you to try another one. If you are a minister of the Gospel stand for that by going right down into the facts of God's eternal truths, and bringing up things both old and new. Analyze them to the world, and feed the people of God. How many ministers have you got out in the world today that can not say enough about the Kingdom of Heaven to induce you to want to go there. They can not say enough about the Lord Jesus Christ to induce you to love Him, yet they are preachers. They are not standing for anything, they are nothing more or less than professional bums. If you are a farmer then stand for that, let your profession vouch for your living. Don't tell me you are a farmer then every spring wear out a sack under your arm hunting for seed potatoes. You are out there in a farmers way, but you are not Now what does your organization standing for anything. stand for, one says I am going to be a Pythian. "What do you want to be a Pythian for John?" Answer, "All these railroad men are Pythians, they are not going to put you off the train Then he's fixing to beat a train, that's if you are a Pythian. what he stands for. " Another one says, "I'm going to be an Odd Fellow," and he is asked why? His answer is why they
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Right then he has some one picked going to shoot, and that is what he stands for. Another says "I want to be a Mason," and he is ask why, and his answer is why if you are a Mason a white man will shake hands with you any place in the world. Then all he stands lor is shaking hands with a white man. Not long ago I was in California and I saw some little white boys going fishing, they entertained that same ambition that all white people entertain they threw in a nickle a piece and hired a Negro boy to go along and wait on the crowd. The Negro boy put his bait in a small can, stuck it in his pocket and away they went
don't

hang Odd Fellows."

is

out that he

to the river. He was going along giving all of the boys bait. Near by there was a log that stuck out into the river at one end of this log the water was possibly eight feet deep the little Negro was running in and out on this log, and he went to the end of this log to make his turn, his foot slipped and he went head foremost into the river. His little white companions saw him go down, he threw off his coat and cap and into the water he went, he came up swimming with one hand and the Negro boy in the other. It was not long until he was all right but one of the other white boys called Jake and says, ''I did not think that there was a white boy on earth that suppose you had of thought that much of a Negro boy; drowned that water was eight feet deep." He then said I don't want to play with you any more. Jack scratched his head and frowned then explained, "That was not it, he had the bait." So when ever you see a white man shaking hands with a Negro, whenever you see a white man buggy riding a Negro, whenever you see a white man going arm and arm with a Negro, that is a another Negro that has got the bait. He has You have surely got something that that white man wants.

got to stand for something. Congress has got to create the Such a position for you to have the representation there. position has never been created yet by the U. S. government. But 11,00,000 of people can get any law created that they want that is right and fair, whenever you take the sufficient endorsement as much as 12 men out of every state in the Union, twelve men out of every state means 576 men would Seat consist of your cabinet and go with you to Washington. that body of men before congress and President, they get up and make your: "Honored President of the U. S. and worthy
of America, I represent this body of men. They represent the states in which they live, relative to the vitality of Africa to the U. S. through this body of men I represent 11,000,000 people. They recommend that I be seated in the

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American Congress Hall to vouch for the interest of the race. We have an interest in this government that must be taken care of and can only be cared for by representation.. The same being the hinges by which hang the right of all the people. We could not hope to be taken care of any other way. We also understand that such legislation must be through the recommendations of the President to congress, so we pray that the President would recommend Congress to
I am today solely at your mercies." create such a position. The President seeing that you have come with the proper endorsements will recommend Congress to create such a position and they will create the position by a unanimous vote. Then

you get two rooms

in the lobby of the White House with all the other lobbyist of the nation. Then when you get ready to

send your delegates to Washington you have some one to send them to and they will not be so liable to give that bill to' a Then you can prepare a bill and present it to Congjanitor.

recommending that some thinly populated part of the U. be set apart as a reservation for the Negro and condemned as a colony. The government appraised negro property throughout the Union and pay for it. After which negro property becomes property of the government. It would naturally bring in return the same money it would require to condemn Move them all to this new colony where they would reit. serve a right to make their own laws by treaty with the U. S. At the same time he takes an oath of allegience to protect the constitutional laws of the U. S. When the U. S. flag is insulted the negro is insulted, he becomes a factor in the powers of war. Then the two races would spread forth the emblems of eternal peace, and be friends forever. That is the only soluress
S.

tion under the sun for the race question. I would like to call attention to something that happened in the mail department
in

Washington.

in the mail department.

They separated the white from the colored The colored people partitioned

against it and sen* a delegation before the President Wilson. Mr. Trotter the editor of a Boston paper, was the speaker of the delegation and when Mr. Trotter told the President that all he was asking for was the rights of a bona fide citizen the President became highly insulted and ignored Mr. Trotter The President told Mr. Trotter that he had lost completely. his head and that he would not hear him any further. He also turned to the delegation and said, "If you ever have any occasion to come before me again you will certainly have to

am

He also said to the delegation, "I bring another speaker." deeply in sympathy with the Negro race, and do admire
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the progress that you are making, but the thing that is to be sought by you people from this government is a complete independence of the white people. The white people are will-

What more could ing to do anything possible to assist you. Mr. Wilson have said, he simply meant for you to get to yourselves and transact your own business, so all Negroes who want to be Negro leaders should get into this movement and play the part of Moses and Aaron, and if you die on the way God will prepare another Caleb and Joshua.
The race
Negroes
is

that

suffering today from the want of a leader. you call leaders today are followers.

preacher never gets to a place until you all get there. Doctor never goes until you all get there, the lawyer never goes until you all get there, all that I have made mention of are following you, so now where is your leader? The race has been trying to colonize ever since it has been free, by setting up the lower parts of the city which is called "Negro quarters." In many parts of Oklahoma you have exclusive Negro towns especially Boley, Oklahoma, a town with inhabitants of 3,000 negroes. They have their own banks and stores, and out of the 3,000 negroes there was not one qualified to vote. They call that colonization, but I would I will take time to explain to you the call it "Bunching up." difference between colonization and segregation. Segregation means for the Negro to eat in the kitchen, and the white man in the dining room; it also means that you must ride together on the train or walk. Colonization means that a certain portion of the country is set aside for you, and each one of you have a certain portion of land, each one of you draw a certain proportion from the government. If the Negro had known what colonization was every one of them would be in a colony today. The white

The The The

And without

people highly favor this movement and the act is plausible. a question any negro who expects to make a living with his hands and be the support of his family will favor this movement. While this is a public talk I am making, and if you desire to know the further details of this movement, we would ask you to come and cast your lot with the National court of protection, and if there is anything written in this book that you do not understand I will be glad if you will call and see me for further satisfaction. The white man is in the saddle in this country and he is in there to stay. He is ahead of you financially; he is ahead of you in education; he is ahead of you in art and in science. He came to this country ahead of you and he is going to stay
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ahead of you; so what star of hope can you see rising over But I am here the pathway of that weary footman of color. to tell you that a new morning star has risen, a brighter day God Almighty has always prepared a man for the is dawning. When women were packing day, and a man for the hour. mortar on the walls in Egypt, little infant babies were tied to their mothers back as she was following the ox through the field, the groans of that people went up to God that could not be uttered and troubled the Master on the throne. And God came down in the image of fire and halted Moses on the mountain and said, "Moses take off thy shoes for the ground which you stand on is holy." I have a holy communication to make with you, the groans of my people have come up before me, I want you to go down into the land of Egypt and tell Mr. Pharoah if he cannot use my people to a good advantage that I have a land prepared for them. One man lead the children
of Israel to victory. I look down the line of life a little nearer, I saw 4,000,000 of people sold at the poles and whipped at the mother's breast post, little infant babies pulled from their

and sold

to foreign emigration.

In that

father, brother neath the feet of mighty. All that was

relation of

mother and

I see all that fond and sister buried bedone here under this

I saw those dear old people hoverbeautiful flag of the free. ing in the back yards of their masters covering their heads to keep from being heard, yet they were praying to a God

was millions of miles away, but God Almighty heard their prayers and sent us another Moses in the person of Abraham Lincoln. At one stroke ot a goose quill he liberated 4,000,000 of people. No wonder John the Revelator said, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and first earth had passed away." Any time there are 4,000,000 souls leaping for joy if that is not heaven where are you going to find I look it, since the Kingdom of God is in the hearts of men. down the line of life a little nearer, I see 11,000,000 of people who have fought in every war that this nation has ever had has been a factor in the power that has won every victory that this government has ever ask for. This same government that we fought, bled and died for has left us unprotected to ourBut God Almigthy has selves, our families and our property. always prepared a man for the day and the hour. The darkest hours of your life are just before day, a new morning star has risen, a brighter day is dawning. There was a ship lost at sea for many a day that suddenly sited a friendly vesel. From the mask of that unfortunate vessel was seen a signal go up. "Water! Water! or die of
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The answer came back, "Cast down your bucket thirst." where you are." The third and fourth signal for water was answered, "Cast down your bucket where you are." At last the captain of that distressed vessel heeded the instruction and cast down his bucket, and to his great surprise it came up full of fresh sparkling water right from the mouth of the Amazon river. To those of my race who depend upon bettering your condition in a foreign land, or who under estimate
the importance of cultivating that friendly relation of the white man, which is your next door neighbor, I would say, "Cast down your bucket where you are," cast it down in making friends, in every manly way of the people of all races whom you are surrounded. Cast it down in agriculture, cast
it

down

in

commerce, cast

profession.

it down in domestic services, and in The greatest danger is in that great leap from

slavery to freedom, you may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live from the production of our hands. You fail
to

keep in mind that you shall prosper in proportion as you

learn to dignify and glorify common labor. You shall prosper in proportion as you learn to draw that line between the superfluous

and the substantial, the original gulgo of life as well as the useful. No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as there is in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life where you must begin, and not at the top. Neither should you permit your grievance to over-

We who think, and understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is of extremist folly all the blessings and all of the privileges that would come to you must be the result of constant and severe strugshadow your opportunities.
gles, rather

to contribute to the

No race can have anything markets of this world as long as in any degree ostracized. It is right and fair that all of the privileges of the law be ours. It is vastly more important that you are So an opporprepared for the exercise of these privileges. tunity to earn a dollar just now in a factory is worth infinatemore than the opportunity to spend a dollar in a opera ly house. That being true let us put forth our best efforts in the forest and fields, in mines, and in factories, and much good will come. Yes far above and beyond that material benefit will be that higher good. Then when you have done all that has been assigned to your hands to do, let the praying part of our people pray that God will come in the blotting out of the sectual differences, and racial animosities in that determination
than
artificial forces.

to administer absolute justice in that willing obedience to all classes unto the mandates of the law. And to, in working out

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measure in the years encouragement, the guidance that the strong can give the weak, so it is very necessary that we all are bound together in that great fraternal world in order that we might assist each other and soon throw off the shackles of racial prejudice and hatred and rise as it is risen our beloved country, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness unto that atmosphere, into that pure sunshine where it would be your highest ambition to serve man our brother, regardless to race, color, or previous conyour differences you will need
that are to
in a large

come the

help, the

ditions.

Now if you will be faithful over these few things which are easy to believe, some day you shall be transported into that region that is more vast where you shall be face to face, the fulfillment of task, a thousand times greater than you ever witnessed in this life.
Your present life and its requirements are only stepping stones into vast temples where you shall see the spring of all powers, that center of all good, that fountain head of all glory.

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