1 10 345 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Brooke Royer Summary John Mitchell, Jr., gives a powerful speech drawing on his intense experiences of oppression growing up, gaining support and respect on behalf of the black community. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19020125&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The doughty editor of the Richmond Planet discourses eloquently upon Judge Lynch and his victims. Before an overflowing and appreciative audience- coming attractions. John Mitchell Jr., Esq., Editor of the “Richmond Planet,” held forth on last Tuesday before the famous Bethel Literary Society at Lincoln Memorial Temple in a masterly and eloquent address on “Judge Lynch and His Victims.” It was manifest from the very beginning of his remarks that Mr. Mitchell had the earnest and sympathetic attention of an audience, which more than filled the church, not only because the subject was of such moment, but because they knew that the speaker had come from the hot-bed of oppression and prejudice, and yet had stood it for years in fearless defense on the right. His remarks were rich in illustrating and drawing from a varied experience. Statistics were furnished as to material and intellectual progress of the Negro in the South, the same being considered the real cause of race animosity. Personal bravery on the part of Negroes, wronged or attacked, and race unity were urged as being essential to respect and success. A bright and entertaining discussion was participated in by Messrs Lewis H. Douglass, Jno. W. Cromwell, L.M. Hershaw, R.S. Smith, and M.J. Gordon. Mrs. Julia Wormley McAdoo recited selections from Eugene Field in such a brilliant manner as to receive vociferous applause. Mr. Wm. H. Joiner, 1st Vice-Pres., presided in the absence of Mr. F. L. Cardoza, Jr., President, who is detained at home because of illness in his family. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19020125-John Mitchell Jr. at Bethel-Royer Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-01-25 Title A name given to the resource John Mitchell, Jr. at Bethel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Benton Camper Summary Florida tries to pass a bill abolishing the Fifteenth Amendment. Black people will no longer be allowed to vote if the bill passes. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19070511.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound “A Senseless Resurrection.” The legislature of Florida had decided to test the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to that end has passed an amendment to the state Constitution: Whether judicious or not, Florida proposes to bring the fifteenth amendment to trial and test its validity. To that end, the Legislature has adopted a joint resolution proposing the following amendment to the State Constitution: “Every white male person of the age of twenty-one years and upwards that shall, at the time of registration, be a citizen of the United States, and that shall have resided and had his habitation, domicile, home and place of permanent abode in Florida for one year, and in the county for six months, shall in such county be deemed a qualified elector at all elections under this Constitution. Naturalized citizens of the United States at the time of and before registration officers their certificate of naturalization or a duty certified copy thereof.” The amendment thus proposed will be submitted to popular vote in November 1908, and there is little doubt but that it will carry. If adopted, of course, a test case will be made up by some Negro citizen or citizens of Florida will admit that its provision is in direct conflict with the fifteenth amendment was unconstitutionally adopted, and is therefore without force and effect. It will not be difficult to establish the truthfulness of that contention, but that the court will set the fifteenth amendment aside, after it has stood for a generation or more, with the acquiescence of the several States, is a contingency so improbable that we are at a loss to know how some men could have treated it seriously. Everybody in the United States will entertain the opinion expressed by our esteemed contemporary, if a moment’s consideration is taken and the truths of history are considered in the light of past experiences. We do not include in this statement however the opinion that the Amendments were unconstitutionally adopted: This journal continues: The Times-Dispatch held from the first that the entire movement was ill-advised, and we fear that it will involve other States than Florida in serious difficulties. The only thing to be gained is that the facts of history will be threshed out and the outrages of reconstruction. The past has been buried and the grave which holds it is full of bitterness. In God’s name, let it forever remain a closed sepulcher. The above expressions should be voiced by every patriotic citizen. But these rampant demagogues, Pharaoh-like will not be satisfied. They are rushing on to certain disaster, and so far as the citizen of color is concerned, it will prove a blessing in disguise. It will force a crisis in the political affairs of this country and we see in it much harm for the Southland. It will open the eyes of the North to a realization of the true feeling, and present attitude of a large proportion of educated southerners, and will dispel the dream of a Roosevelt that the days of harmony are here and the complete unification of all sections of the country under his administration has been accomplished. Let them test the Amendment. The Supreme Court of the United States has done much dodging, but this is one time that it will be forced to meet the issue squarely. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19070511-“A Senseless Resurrection.”-Camper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1907-05-11 Title A name given to the resource "A Senseless Resurrection.” Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elizabeth Lopez-Lopez Summary The Richmond Dispatch continues to support “Jim Crow Car” bill, but urges the presence of “colored women.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19000127.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound “Gone Daft.” The Richmond, Va., Dispatch had a recurrence of an attack of Negrophobia, in all respects as acute and as serious as that from which John E. Epps and the Richmond, Va., Times are suffering. It sees harm in every Negro and urges separation virtually upon every street corner. In its issue of the 21st inst., under the caption of “The Senate and Separate Cars” it complains of the presence of the Negro, and under the caption of the “Servant Girl’s Problem,” it complains of her absences. True to the propensities, it argues in favor of “bouncing” the colored men from the railways of the state as equals, and urges the clasping to its bosom the colored women in the dwellings of the commonwealth. But what does consistency amount to when it comes in contact with rabid race prejudice? It must be evident to all who have sense enough “to ball a buzzard” that it is against the “genteel Negro” that this contest is waged Mr. John E. Epps and his patrons of the bar-rooms and gin-mills are uneasy about the intelligent, respectable, property owning, refined Negro of the commonwealth, and vainly imagine that the progress of an individual Negro can be stayed by the enactment of oppressive and humiliating legislation upon the statue books of Virginia. As a result, Epps thinks he sees fame and re-election in the humiliation of the citizens of color. But the Dispatch goes so far as to coerce the Senate of Virginia and to threaten the railroads of the state. It says: “The theory of the bicameral form of the legislative branch of our government is that it is the province of the Senate to check hasty legislation, and thus give the people a chance to know their own minds. Should there be in the Senate any appreciable fight on the measure—and we do not anticipate that there will be—we would prefer to credit it to the influence of that theory, although in this instance the body would be proceeding on a false and mistaken assumption.” And again: “The action of the House in passing the bill was not hasty. It was a deliberate result, which events and conditions had for years been slowly and steadily conspiring to bring about. And that the overwhelming majority of the whites of Virginia—that is, the Democrats of Virginia—know fully their own minds in the premises, stands demonstrated beyond question by the tone on the subject of the Senate press, and of communications from every section of the commonwealth that have appeared in the Dispatch.” So the wishes of only one class of people are to be considered. If this theory holds good, how long will it be before the wealthy will proceed upon the same line in dealing with the laboring classes or the laboring classes will pursue the same policy in dealing with the wealthy classes? What consistent argument can be used to offset their reasoning if the majority of white people are to be permitted to ride rough-shod over the rights and privileges of either a white or a colored minority? It proceeds to threaten the railroads in the following language: “But if perchance—and we iterate that we would fain not take the suggestion seriously—friendship for the railroads is to-day a part in the Senate’s disposition of the bill, for the body to defeat the bill would prove a very poor way of showing friendship. Of all the States in the Union, Virginia has been one of the most liberal in dealing with railroads. This fact was admitted by Mr. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio, in an address he made at Williamsburg some months back. Should the separate car measure fail in the Senate and the people get it into their heads that the railroads were responsible for the failure, a day of reckoning will surely come.” We think that we violate no confidence when we say that the opposition of the railroads to the “Jim Crow Car Bill” comes from no love of the Negro. It is plainly a business matter with them,--a question of expense, whether they should be made to haul empty passenger cars over the railroads of the state, in order to ponder to an insane race prejudice when there is absolutely no cause of excuse for it. The feeling now existing in Virginia between the race is of the friendliest description, even in the face of the fact that every colored man in the state has been denied representation in the legislative halls of the commonwealth and while his rights and privileges are the subject of ribald jest, he is not permitted through his own representative to speak even in his own behalf. If this is not assassinating liberty, so far as our people are concerned, what is it? You have robbed us of our wages, you have confiscated our property, you have abridged, curtailed, and eliminated our right to vote by illegal methods, and now you propose to quarantine us upon every railroad in the state at the expense of the companies operating them. This is your last offering to King Prejudice. But all of your expedients will fail. You read history blindly, indeed if you fail to realize this fact. God’s hand is everywhere manifest and the oppression of to-day upon a helpless, but confiding people will return to plague your children of tomorrow. Let the Negro hating element, who desire the “Jim Crow Car Law,” defray the expense of operating the same and all objection to it will be withdrawn by railroad companies of Virginia. As for the colored people of the state they will protest against it, and let the matter end there, knowing as they do that unconstitutional laws are crowded upon the statute books of every southern state and that appeals to higher authorities for the elimination are worse than useless. The nation is drunk with race prejudice and its downfall will be steady and sure. Up with your Negro scare-crow! On with your march to certain destruction! Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19000127-"Gone Draft"-Lopez-Lopez Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900-01-27 Title A name given to the resource "Gone Draft” Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Liam Eynan Summary In preparation for the Republican convention, members of the Lamb political faction meet. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18960926.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Republican Lambs gambolled around the corner of First and Charity streets last night and had a merry, merry time of it. They endorsed everybody they liked and condemned everybody they didn't like. They assembled in response to a call from Alderman James Bahen and John Mitchell. Jr., who desired to open their eyes to a scheme "to do" them. The Lambs began to arrive as early as 7 o'clock and it was after midnight when they dispersed for their homes. The scheme exploded was one of the anti-Lamb faction to control all the delegates from Richmond to the Republican congressional convention, which will meet at Hanover Courthouse on Thursday, and the Lambs were advised to get at the precinct meetings an hour before they opened and remain until they hailed their own delegates and not permit the anti-Lamb people to make up the slates. Though the Lambs had no band they had the crowd. Upwards of a thousand Negroes attended the meeting. This was not the half of the faithful Lambs in Jackson Ward, said Alderman Bahen. The crowd was several times as large as that at the meeting addressed by Judge Tenny on west Cary street. The speeches were made from the balcony of Bahen's Hall. Charles W. Young was chairman. He had eloquence to burn and he not only made a speech at the opening of the meeting but sandwiched one in between all the other speeches. He read a telegram from John Mitchell, Jr., dated Lynchburg, announcing that Mary Abernathy had been set free and was on her way to Richmond. This news evoked great and prolonged cheers. Charles scored the anti-Lamb leaders, and said they desired to handcuff the voters of Jackson Ward. Benjamin Bailey followed Young, but as he did not evoke any enthusiasm he was asked to quit. Young here made his second speech. He closed by having Alderman Bahen, John Mitchell, Jr, Judge L. L. Lewis and Colonel Lambendorsed. The endorsing fever struck the croud very hard just here. Gov. O'Ferrall was endorsed for sending troops to Lunenburg Courthouse, and Messrs. Wise, Flournoy, Guigon were endorsed for their efforts in behalf of the prisoners. Mary Abernathy was also endorsed. Bernard Brown made a speech "roasting" the anti-Lamb men and had Judge Lewis, John Mitchell, Colonel Lamb, and McKinley, Hobart protection and sound-money endorsed in his peroration. Willam Glover followed the third speech of Chairman Young, who had John Mitchell, Jr. and Colonel Lamb endorsed again. Clover made a vigorous gold speech and highly complimented John Mitchell for his efforts in behalf of the Lunenburg women prisoners. He urged all the Negroes in the ward to stick to Mitchell. Chairman Young spoke again, telling the crowd that John Mitchell, their idol, was coming. He gave way to George Reed. Heed made a protection Mitchell - Abernathy - William Lamb speech. He had everybody endorsed again to show that the crowd was still faithful. He aroused a great deal of enthusiasm. He spoke until Mitchell arrived. Chairman Young paid a great tribute to the women in introducing Mitchell and had the Editor and Colonel Lamb re-endorsed. John Mitchell dealt with the issues of the day and told his followers in plain way the reasons they should support him in the primaries. At this close of his address a resolution was passed condemning General Edgar Allen and Judge Waddill tor keeping Mitchell from getting his share of the Republican national committee's barrel and endorsed him and Colonel Lamb. Chairman Young made another speech and had endorsed over again Bahen, Mitchell. Lamb and Mary Abernathy. He introduced Alderman Bahen at 11:25 o'clock. The Alderman first gave away the anti-Lamb scheme. Then he reviewed his politics career for the past fifteen years and said that he stood as a warrior brandishing his sword, ready for the fight, and felt confident that he should win, but if he did go down it was merely one man, and he would go down with the flag nailed to the flag nailed to the mast, fighting bravely. Mary Abernathy and child are at the house of Mrs. Betty Graves, on First street, and many Negroes called to see them to-day. Mary will be used as a mascot by the Lamb people to-day and to-night as Pokey Barnes was used at the spring election. Mitchell will have a jollification in honor of her release next week and hopes to have Mary Barnes out of the penitentiary by that time. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sept.docx Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-09-26 Title A name given to the resource A Big Crowd There Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary In a landslide Republican election, William H. Taft is elected President and James. S. Sherman Vice President; The Planet reports the voting results for each state. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19081107&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Republicans have swept the country, electing Hon. William H. Taft of Ohio and Hon. James S. Sherman of New York, President and Vice-President of the United States. At this writing the Republican nominees appear to have 309 votes in the electoral college and the Democratic nominees, 174. The Republican majority in COngress will in all probability be greater than it is at present. The returns show that it will have 211 Republicans and 169 Democrats. There are 11 districts not yet reported. The Republicans have carried the Fifth and Ninth Virginia Districts. New York City, the Democratic stronghold, yet the plurality there was so small that when combined with the borough of Brooklyn, Greater New York gave Mr. Taft a plurality of 202,000. Gov. Hughes, the Republican candidate for Governor carried the state by a plurality of 69, 819, running 132,181 votes behind the national ticket. This was on account of the antagonism aroused against him on account of opposition to race-tracks in the Empire State. New York has a colored vote of 39,908. The legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. The Republicans elected 26 out of 37 Congressmen. Pennsylvania went Republican by 300,000. The loss of the Democrats was even greater than ever before. The Republicans elected 27 out of 32 Congressmen. There is great rejoicing in this state. The colored vote in this state numbers 53,757. The Republicans at this writing claim Maryland, in spite of the disenfranchising laws enacted by the Democrats in order to keep it out of the Republican column. The Republicans elected 2 out of 6 Congressmen. The vote on the national ticket is so close that the official count will be required to decide it. The colored vote in Maryland is 60,924, but this has been cut down by the disenfranchising legislation. West Virginia elects a Republican Governor and legislature and the state is for Taft. The Democrats in this state put up a platform in favor of disfranchising colored men and “Jim Crow” cars in the commonwealth. There is great rejoicing among the colored folks of West Virginia. The colored vote in the state numbers 14,841. The Republicans have elected 4 Congressmen. All of the Negro Democrats in the state rallied under the Taft banner, or slept the sleep of the unjust on election day. Missouri elected a Republican Governor and the indications are that Taft carried the state. The Republicans elected 5 out of 13 Congressmen. The legislature is in doubt with chances in favor of the Democrats. Ohio gave Taft a plurality of 50,000 and at the same time defeated Gov. Harris, Republican and elected Harmon Governor. The legislature is in doubt with indications that it will be slightly Republican on joint ballot and thus assuring a Republican successor to Senator J.B. Foraker. If the legislature is close the friends of Senator Foraker will control the situation as no Republican can be named without their votes. The Republican elected 11 out of 18 Congressmen. The colored vote is 31, 624. Illinois went Republican by 75,000 electing both the state and national tickets. The Republicans elected 19 out of 25 Congressmen. The colored vote is 31,247. The Republicans are claiming Idaho on the state and national tickets. The legislature is Republican. All of the Congressmen elected are Republicans. Montana went Republican by 3000 plurality. The Republicans claim everything, but the Democrats say the Governorship is in doubt. The Republicans elected the Congressman. The latest returns show Colorado to be Democratic. The Democrats are also claiming the legislature. The Republicans elected one Congressman. The colored vote is 4,092. Wyoming went Republican by 5,000. The Republicans elected on Congressman. Minnesota went Republican by 80,000 but strange to say re-elected Gov. Johnson, Democrat by 20,000 plurality. The legislature is Republican and the Republicans elected 8 out of 9 Congressmen. Gov. Johnson was Mr. Bryan’s antagonist for the presidential nomination at Denver. The colored vote is 4,410. Washington went Republican by a plurality of more than 40,000 and elected the Republican Governor by over 25,000. Three Republican Congressmen were elected. California went Republican by 75,000. The Republicans claim the legislature. 8 Republican Congressmen were elected. Michigan went Republican by 120,000. The Republicans claim this Governorship. The Republicans elected 12 Congressmen. Delaware went Republican by 3,600. The Republicans elected 1 Congressman... Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Nov1 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-11-07 Title A name given to the resource A Great Victory Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Brian Schrott Summary The Chicago Times-Herald recounts the story of a messenger for the Confederacy that fails in his mission. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18970306.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Southern Confederacy was only a few month old when a financial agent was sent to England on a very important mission. Mr. Blank was a politician and a banker. He was also an elegant gentleman, with many influential, acquaintances on both sides of the water. Before leaving Richmond, he had a long talk with Memminger, the secretary of the treasury. “If I find that England will aid us,” he said, “I will send you word by some reliable blockade runner. It will be a very brief message, but you will understand it, while it will mean nothing to the enemy if it should be intercepted.” The confidential agent slipped through the lines, and in less than a month was comfortably established in London. In the metropolis, he found many southerners and many prominent Englishmen who sympathized with the secessionists. He saw Mr. Yancey, the Confederate minister, every day, and the two worked together in harmony. Mr. Yancey was a practical man and was not long in coming to the conclusions that no aid was to be expected from the British government. “The abolition sentiment controls here,” he said to Mr. Black. “Some of the statesmen would like to help the south in order to break up the Union, but the people will never consent. The south will have to fight alone.” Blank felt pretty blue when he heard this, and that night he wrote the single word “successful” on a thin slip of parchment and skillfully secreted it in an ordinary coat button. The next day he was visited by a southern friend, who remained with hum for an hour or more. During his stay, he removed the top button from his coat and sewed on one given by Mr. Blank. “I understand it all,” he said when he left. “If I get safely to Wilmington, I will go at once to Richmond and give this button to Mr. Memminger. I prefer not to know the nature of the message, as you say that it explains itself.” “Yes,” replied Blank, “it will be understood by the secretary, and as it refers to a state secret I cannot say anything about it.” The two shook hands, and the gentleman with the precious button took the next train for Liverpool, where he boarded a steamer bound for Wilmington. The steamer was chased by Federal cruisers, but she managed to reach her destination without any serious mishap. In the course of two or three days the mysterious traveler called on Mr. Memminger in Richmond and presented him with a button. The secretary cut of its covering in a hurry and smiled when he read the word “successful.” “Did Mr. Blank show this message to you?” he asked. “No. We both thought it best that I should remain in ignorance so that no telltale expression of my face would betray anything if the enemy captured me.” At a meeting of the cabinet that afternoon Mr. Memminger was in high spirits. He predicted that the war would be over in 90 days and said that England was preparing to recognize the Confederacy and send over her warships to break the blockade. “I have this,” he said, “from my confidential agent, Mr. Blank.” The name commanded respect, and when the secretary said that under the circumstances a loan of $15,000,000 negotiated in Europe would be sufficient everybody agreed with him. The weeks rolled on, and Erlanger in Paris Advertised for bids for $15,000,000 in Confederate bonds. Mr. Blank read this at his London hotel and dropped his paper in agitation. “Well, I’ll be d––––d!” he remarked. “Must be a mistake. I’ll run over and see about it.” The next day he was at Erlanger’s office in Paris. The French banker informed his visitor that there was no mistake, and then Blank swore vigorously. The bids rushed in from all quarters. If the demands of these spectators had met, $500,000,000 in Confederate bonds it could have been sold. When this became known, Mr. Blank again relapsed into profanity. He could not stand it, and, despite the danger of the trip, he made his arrangements to return home. His interview with Memminger was a stormy one when he arrived at Richmond. “I intended to write ‘unsuccessful!’” he said after a long talk. “Well, there is your message,” replied the secretary. “You wrote ‘successful.’” “I don’t understand it,” said Mr. Blank sadly. “Surely your advices from Mr. Yancey should have warned you that there was something wrong.” “His dispatches were intercepted,” answered the other. “I don’t understand it,” repeated Mr. Blank “Perhaps I do,” quietly remarked the secretary. “I have carefully noted your talk this morning, and I have discovered that you are a heterophemist. For instance, you say London when you mean Richmond and Richmond when you mean London. You similarly misuse the names of other places and persons and are unconscious of it. When you sent me that message, the word ‘unsuccessful’ was in your mind, but, being heterophemist, you wrote the opposite word and ruined the Confederacy.” “I may have made a mistake, sir,” said Mr. Blank, rising from his chair, “but I am neither a lunatic nor an idiot. I have the honor to bid you good morning.” Heterophemy is a fatal thing in diplomacy. ­––Chicago Times-Herald. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18970306- A Heterophemist Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897-03-06 Title A name given to the resource A Heterophemist Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Ryan Shah Summary The Richmond City Council passes an ordinance to expand the city limits. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19050819.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The City Council has at last passed an ordinance slightly increasing the boundary limits of Richmond and the Mayor has signed the compromise measure which has been adopted. He does not hesitate to say that it is faulty, but hopes to have some of the defects remedied by amendments. The fight was very bitter and it is a surprising thing that any agreement was reached in the matter. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Larger Richmond Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1905-08-19 Title A name given to the resource A Larger Richmond Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary Congress hosts a banquet at Manhattan Casino in honor of Charles W. Anderson, one of the first black political leaders. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080215.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The banquet tendered Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue Thursday evening, January 30, 1908 at Manhattan Casino, New York was a deserved tribute to a popular and worthy leader. We do not know a colored political leader in the United States, who has succeeded in avoiding the embarrassments that confront men of his calibre. The presentation of a handsome silver service was among the features. That this banquet had a significance in another direction must be admitted since leader from Mass. to Ohio were present. President Roosevelt sent a letter expressing his regrets that he was unable to be present and Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New York expressed a similar feeling. Even Dr. Booker T. Washington contributed to the expense of the occasion and was present. The question in our mind is, what does this all mean? That it has a political significance goes without saying. Is an organized effort already under way to persuade or force the Republican citizens of color in the North into the administration’s band wagon? It seems so. Well, one thing we know, -- the management could not have chosen a better method for doing it, or an abler man for leading the crusade. If Charles W. Anderson of New York and Booker T. Washington of Alabama cannot control the Negro vote then the gentlemen at Washington might as well give up the task. We can only read through from surface indications and we feel that we have an idea as to what is going on below. President Roosevelt will need missionaries and it's about time he was getting them before the colored people with fervent prayers and deep lamentation. Any Negro leader, who can explain away Brownsville satisfactorily to the citizens of color will be entitled not only to a gold medal, but also to a “high seat in the kingdom.” Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Feb10-A Leader Honored Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-02-15 Title A name given to the resource A Leader Honored Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Roberts Summary Arthur Pue Gorman, one of the most inveterate and dangerous enemies of the black community, dies, and The Planet says that his suffering helped him “atone to some extent at least for the great injury he did to us.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19060609&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A Negro Hater Gone The death of Senator Arthur Pue Gorman removes from the arena of public life one of the most inveterate and dangerous enemies the colored people had in all of this land. He was skilled in parliamentary debate and political trickery. His attempt to absolutely disenfranchise the colored people of Maryland was only partially successful and resulted in the split of his own party. He has gone to his reward and yet we feel no resentment in the premises. He has suffered much and no doubt atoned to some extent at least for the grant injury he did to us. OUr people are forgiving and forgetful and even now they bow their heads in respectful silence as all that is left of this Democratic chieftain is on its way to the tomb. Politically speaking, we are well nigh helpless, but God is raising up new white friends for us and taking our enemies away, where they can harm us no more in this world and do us no injury in the world to come. Brilliant, resourceful, scheming, persistent Arthur Pue Gorman is now sleeping his last sleep. We shall do naught to stay his downward transit to the tomb. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19060609-A Negro Hater Gone-Emma Roberts Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906-06-09 Title A name given to the resource A Negro Hater Gone Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elizabeth Lopez-Lopez Summary The Planet argues against The Richmond Daily Dispatch on “Separate Cars”, pointing out that black people are "humiliated." Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19000113.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Government and Politics Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A Plea for Separation The Richmond, Va., Dispatch in its issue of the 9th inst., proceeds to discuss “Separate Cars.” It says: “The plea is made that a separate car law would be humiliating to the Negroes. They say it would be, and they ought to know their own feelings.” The above is a concession which is thrown as a “sop to the whale.” It continues: “But why would they be any more humiliated in being compelled to go to themselves? As we view the matter, the real humiliation consists in their being willing and anxious to go where they must know they are not wanted.” The above is a fair question and is entitled to a fair answer. They are no more humiliated than white men would feel under similar condition. Pass a law debarring a certain class of white men from entering Pullman Palace Cars, simply because they could not trace a lineage to the “revolutionary fathers” and this class of white men would feel as much humiliated as does the Negro of to-day. When you place a requirement which is based upon an alleged inferiority on the part of the persons discriminated against, you then humiliate them and awaken a spirit of antagonism which increases as the objectionable features of the requirement are enforced. You will see therefore that the Negroes are no more humiliated than the whites would be under similar conditions. The Dispatch continues: “They must know the whites do not want them in the same railroad car with them, yet despite this knowledge the Negroes will insist upon going there.” This is the enunciation of a very dangerous doctrine, that the wishes of only one class of the body politic are to be consulted without any regard for the wished of the other class. The majority can force upon the minority any kind of oppressive legislation or policy without any regard for the inherent rights of the minority or the commands of the constitution, which is the compass of the government itself. The rich have the right to discriminate against the poor and the trusts against the people. It sacrifices the bed-rock principles of the Declaration of Independence and is a mild expression of the divine right of kings, the supremacy of the aristocracy over the decrees of the people. By this declaration, the inherent rights of the humblest citizen are sacrificed upon the altar of prejudice. The argument is so absurd as to almost provoke ridicule. It is a declaration that our democratic form of government is a failure. The Dispatch says: “If there were any question as to the class of accommodations afforded them, the matter would assume a different aspect, but in all laws providing for separate cars for whites and blacks provision invariably is made forbidding discrimination in the quality of service.” It is a promise “made to the car and broken to the hope.” There is not a state in the union which has provided separate cars for the citizens of color but what the services is inferior on the side of the blacks and superior on the side of the whites. It says: “Again, it is said that in the interests of education we ought to be willing to allow the present condition of things to continue, so that the black man may profit by observing the habits and demeanor of the white man. The answer to that is, that we have been doing that very thing for thirty odd years and we cannot see where it has been productive of much good.” Truly has it been said “that there are none so blind as those who will not see.” That the citizen of color has improved is sustained by testimony and statistics. We violate no confidence when we say that the example set for us has in many cases been anything but creditable. W.W. Watts at Newport News, Va., set an example which is in keeping with similar actions on the part of the white men elsewhere. We presume you know that he was charged with criminal assault upon a white woman. We presume you remember the case of Tom Penn, who committed a similar crime upon Lina Hanna (colored) at Danville, Va., several years ago. It continues: “In the judgment of most of the whites the colored people’s morals and manners are not improving.” In this, they are mistaken. It is true that we have a large number of boorish, ill-behaved people, who were “brought up in the cornfield” so to speak without the influence of good training, but they do not embrace the intelligent, substantial element while he is now protesting against the discriminations on the railroads. It should not be forgotten too that the masses of our people do not travel upon the railroads and the laboring elements to which you refer, invariably gravitate to the smoking or second-class car. It says: “So far from it, great numbers of them show positive deterioration as compared with the condition of their race in the days of slavery.” We do not believe this to be true, expressive as it is of an opinion of one inherently opposed to the interests of the race. During slavery, we owned nothing not even ourselves. Now, our wealth is estimated at four hundred million dollars, with our theologians, physicians, scientists, statemen, real estate agents, authors, editors, bankers, lawyers, and members of the race in all of the vocations of life. A man who cannot see progress is in the line with the man who will not see it. It continues: “It seems that the masses of them are not profiting by the opportunities and advantages put before them, and we believe the time is rapidly approaching when every Southern State must consider very seriously, indeed, whether the money expended in Negro education is wisely spent or not.” How can the masses prosper? You give their children about three or four months’ education opportunities to “unlearn,” all that they have learned. You reduce them to the level of serfs, rob them of their crops, and withhold from them their money. You oppress them with onerous laws and inflict upon them vexatious burdens. To say that the money devoted to education has not been wisely spent is to say that the education and not the Negro is a failure. How else could he have made the progress cited? Whence came the “genteel Negro,” if not through the civilizing influences of education and the beneficent effects of a Christian training? The Dispatch says: “We know of but one thing which can turn the tide of public opinion now setting in, and that is for the Negroes to show more appreciation of their responsibilities as citizens.” That is just what they are doing. It is the low, the vicious, the prejudiced, who are calling for oppressive legislation against him. It continues: “Candor compels us to admit that the whites of the South have not as much patience with the Negroes as they used to have. The reason is plain to see. The two races are no longer brought together as formerly. It takes a vast stock of patience to offset the red-hot indignation which arises and spreads over the whole land whenever an assault is made upon one of our women. Then, too many Negro servants—female servants especially—lead nomadic lives. They are here to-day and gone to-morrow. This is an evil which is not lessening, but increasing. So, as a rule, strong attachments cannot be formed between master or mistress and servant. In most households there is a never ending procession of servants—some going, others coming.” The above needs no answer. It is a confession of weakness on the part of this journal. It concludes: “In hesitating so long about ordering separate cars— “Jim Crow cars,” they are popularly called—our patience has endured longer than that of most of our southern brethren. Down South the separate car law is the rule, and not the exception, and it has not been found to work injury, either to the blacks or to the railroad companies. Usually, the railroad company partitions off each car and assigns one compartment to the whites and one to the blacks and there’s an end of it. “Is there any reason to suppose that a system which has worked so well in other States will not work well in Virginia? We think not.” The conditions existing in Virginia do not call for any such restrictive measures. The discriminations made in the South on the railroads is ridiculous and is a disgrace to the states permitting it. It creates friction, rather than avoid it, and causes colored men to regard with suspicion any professions of genuine friendship on the part of the white brother. The humble elements of the white races cannot afford to discriminate against the humble elements of the colored race. Let us have no “Jim Crow Car” law in Virginia. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19000113-A Plea for Separation-Lopez-Lopez Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900-01-13 Title A name given to the resource A Plea for Separation