Selling Lots of Papers
May 17, 1902
Summary
A white man gives detail to the Baptist church’s meeting about Mitchell where “their good brother was expelled”. The man argues that Mitchell’s opposition to the suit promotes the sale of “lots of papers as a result of the whole matter”.
Transcription
(Rockville, Conn Leader (white.))
The editor of the Richmond Planet, a paper published by and for colored people, like any number of white editors, has a suit to advertise him. It appears that there was trouble among the Baptists there, and Editor Mitchell was quite aggressive. He also published some of the proceedings and for this a few of his enemies censured him. A meeting was called at which about one hundred and twenty-five out of a membership of twenty-five hundred attended and at this meeting their good brother was expelled, yet was not left out in the cold, as another church of the same denomination in the city considered him good enough to be taken in.
Editor Mitchell's "crime" appears to have really been in accusing one of the good brothers of forging names to a petition for the call of the meeting for the expulsion of the editor. For this a $10,000 suit was brought against Editor Mitchell, but, as the boy said of the schoolmaster's ruler, "Its a poor rule that will not work both ways," so now the editor retaliates with a $10,000 suit against that brother and it is probable is selling lots of papers as a result of the whole matter.
The editor of the Richmond Planet, a paper published by and for colored people, like any number of white editors, has a suit to advertise him. It appears that there was trouble among the Baptists there, and Editor Mitchell was quite aggressive. He also published some of the proceedings and for this a few of his enemies censured him. A meeting was called at which about one hundred and twenty-five out of a membership of twenty-five hundred attended and at this meeting their good brother was expelled, yet was not left out in the cold, as another church of the same denomination in the city considered him good enough to be taken in.
Editor Mitchell's "crime" appears to have really been in accusing one of the good brothers of forging names to a petition for the call of the meeting for the expulsion of the editor. For this a $10,000 suit was brought against Editor Mitchell, but, as the boy said of the schoolmaster's ruler, "Its a poor rule that will not work both ways," so now the editor retaliates with a $10,000 suit against that brother and it is probable is selling lots of papers as a result of the whole matter.
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Upper Right Quadrant
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Brooke Royer
Citation
“Selling Lots of Papers,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed April 24, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1058.