Endorses the Appeal
January 5, 1901
Summary
A letter from a reader endorses an article entitled “An Appeal to Race Pride.”
Transcription
Editor Mitchell:
I have always admired the Planet and have paid attention to the various articles contributed upon the leading Negro topics. I wish at this period to pause and second the article in the last edition of the Planet under-caption of the Planet under caption of “An Appeal to Race Pride” by Rev W. R. Gullins. Instruction is always in order but sorry to say we delay in receiving what experience has taught our superiors.
According to the week judgement the gist of the “Appeal” has been the yeast for all the people who have attained anything. It is useless for me to cite historical happening along this line.
Again the gist of Bro. Gullin’s article is the basis of proper individuality, of citizenship, of our being considered the square of our white brother.
The argument used against us to a great extent you well-know is in substance. We are an unknown factor in the general equation. Enstil from […..]is the value of the martial spirit, that all races need defenders, as well as the prisoner needs an attorney, that scholarly attainments determine the social and political position of a people and that journalism molds them, then when it comes to clear the equation of fractions we may, or it can be done by substation rather than by elimination. As the brain is impressed by the sense of sight more than by any other of the senses we could no better rear up our posterity with their attributes than by having our homes adorned with pictures of those satellites of the nineteenth century mentioned by Bro. Gullins.
At the expiration the, of the next century the human […]words that have gone down with this one hundredth revolution will have a streaming milky way subtending toward them. Such though will not be done I am afraid, unless more Bro. Gullin’s come to the aid of our Mitchells, Fortunes and Coopers.
Yours,
Edward Richie
I have always admired the Planet and have paid attention to the various articles contributed upon the leading Negro topics. I wish at this period to pause and second the article in the last edition of the Planet under-caption of the Planet under caption of “An Appeal to Race Pride” by Rev W. R. Gullins. Instruction is always in order but sorry to say we delay in receiving what experience has taught our superiors.
According to the week judgement the gist of the “Appeal” has been the yeast for all the people who have attained anything. It is useless for me to cite historical happening along this line.
Again the gist of Bro. Gullin’s article is the basis of proper individuality, of citizenship, of our being considered the square of our white brother.
The argument used against us to a great extent you well-know is in substance. We are an unknown factor in the general equation. Enstil from […..]is the value of the martial spirit, that all races need defenders, as well as the prisoner needs an attorney, that scholarly attainments determine the social and political position of a people and that journalism molds them, then when it comes to clear the equation of fractions we may, or it can be done by substation rather than by elimination. As the brain is impressed by the sense of sight more than by any other of the senses we could no better rear up our posterity with their attributes than by having our homes adorned with pictures of those satellites of the nineteenth century mentioned by Bro. Gullins.
At the expiration the, of the next century the human […]words that have gone down with this one hundredth revolution will have a streaming milky way subtending toward them. Such though will not be done I am afraid, unless more Bro. Gullin’s come to the aid of our Mitchells, Fortunes and Coopers.
Yours,
Edward Richie
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Nathan Lyell
Citation
“Endorses the Appeal,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed October 9, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/164.