White Gentleman Speaks.
September 14, 1907
Summary
A white man agrees with The Planet’s stance on Taft and believes Taft has dishonorably treated the soldiers in the Brownsville case.
Transcription
White Gentleman Speaks.
“Remember Brownsville.”
To the Editor of The Planet:
Sir:
I wish to congratulate and thank you for the timely editorial on Secretary Taft’s Lexington speech. You have successfully demonstrated that he is a truckling issue of justice for all civilians and soldiers of the United States.
You show successfully how Mr. Taft dodges the main issues that discrimination on account of race do exist. What the country wants to know is what Mr. Taft would do about it if he were President.
The country wants to know is what the President promised in his loud preachments about it if he were President.
The country knows what the President promised in his loud preachments about a “square deal” and everybody knows his historic “failure in the performance” so far as the colored race is concerned.
Remember Brownsville will go into history along with “Remember the Maine” and Mr. Taft is indelibly tarred with the Brownsville big stick Mr. Taft’s blinking at the problem now solving itself through the colored man’s best friends, the white men of the South is not reassuring either to those familiar with “A fools errand” or to the innocent victims of “the bloody trail.”
I am glad you republished Gen. Butler’s splendid eulogy of the colored soldiers at Ft. Harrison in 1864. I only wish all my Northern “dough faced” white brethren could read it. There is still a remnant of white men who believe that justice must be equally administered in the United States if the Republic is to endure. This number is rapidly growing since the adverse advent of my policies.
Yours for the Constitution and its enforcement,
A. B. Humphrey.
New York, Sep. 9, ’07.
“Remember Brownsville.”
To the Editor of The Planet:
Sir:
I wish to congratulate and thank you for the timely editorial on Secretary Taft’s Lexington speech. You have successfully demonstrated that he is a truckling issue of justice for all civilians and soldiers of the United States.
You show successfully how Mr. Taft dodges the main issues that discrimination on account of race do exist. What the country wants to know is what Mr. Taft would do about it if he were President.
The country wants to know is what the President promised in his loud preachments about it if he were President.
The country knows what the President promised in his loud preachments about a “square deal” and everybody knows his historic “failure in the performance” so far as the colored race is concerned.
Remember Brownsville will go into history along with “Remember the Maine” and Mr. Taft is indelibly tarred with the Brownsville big stick Mr. Taft’s blinking at the problem now solving itself through the colored man’s best friends, the white men of the South is not reassuring either to those familiar with “A fools errand” or to the innocent victims of “the bloody trail.”
I am glad you republished Gen. Butler’s splendid eulogy of the colored soldiers at Ft. Harrison in 1864. I only wish all my Northern “dough faced” white brethren could read it. There is still a remnant of white men who believe that justice must be equally administered in the United States if the Republic is to endure. This number is rapidly growing since the adverse advent of my policies.
Yours for the Constitution and its enforcement,
A. B. Humphrey.
New York, Sep. 9, ’07.
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Upper Left Quadrant
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Benton Camper
Citation
“White Gentleman Speaks.,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 19, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/856.