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JESUS CHRIST
HAD NEGRO BLOOD
IN HIS VEINS.
The Wonder of the Twentieth Century.
BY
W. L. HUNTER, M. D.,
Publisher,
302 Clermont Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
REVISED EDITION.
1904.
Copyright, 1901, by W. L. Hunter.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
Introduction 5
Four Hamitic women married into the royal family of which
Christ came 13-15
David married a Hamitic woman 15
Solomon married the daughter of a black king 15
Solomon's temple was built by a negro 25-27
Freemasonry founded by a negro 28-29
Melchizedek was a Canaanite .30-31
American religion reviewed 33-45
Love cannot be bound by man : xx
The negro has fought in all of America's wars 34-35
What the negro laborer has lost through unjust deal 36-37
INTRODUCTION.
Because it is generally taught that the Hamitic race has
never done anything worthy of note in the world, and be¬
cause it is also generally taught, even in our schools, that
these people never were anybody—for these reasons,
given above, the author has written and sent forth this
book. The book has been revised and enlarged. It con¬
tains much new matter that is not found in the old book.
Aside from proving that Jesus Christ had negro blood in
his veins, it also shows that David and Solomon both mar¬
ried black women.
It is also proven that Solomon's temple was built by a
negro, and that a negro was the founder of freemasonry;
and that the first righteous priest that is recorded upon
earth was a black man.
The American religion is reviewed in the light of the
Scriptures, and the amount lost to the negro laborer
through unjust deal.
CHAPTER I.
In these times, when so much is being said and done
against the Hamitic race by the learned, the unlearned, by
teachers, professors and statesmen, trying to impress upon
the world the idea that the black man never was anybody,
and there never was anything of note connected with his
history; and going so far as to even deny the possibility of
his ever being fit to associate with the rest of mankind, no
matter what his education, religion or refinement might be;
and speaking of him as though he had always been dis¬
honorable in the estimation of mankind and in the estima¬
tion of his God; I have thought it necessary, therefore, in
these times when every man's hand seems to be against the
negro, trying to crush him and to sink him into oblivion,
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to show that he has been honored by the greatest men of
earth and by his God.
The Lord God not only honored the black man by allow¬
ing him to bear the cross of Jesus Christ, which he did
when white men were leading Him away to lynch or to
murder Him, as they did the prophets who were before
Him, and as they lynched all of the apostles, excepting
one.
God honored Ham by allowing or having His Son Jesus
Christ carry negro blood in His veins. The black man,
while bearing the cross for Christ and following after Him,
represents the whole Christian Church bearing the cross and
following after Christ, but he had the Christian's badge
and glory upon him, for the cross of Christ is the Chris¬
tian's badge and glory everywhere, and it represents the
Church itself, and a black man was the first to wear that
badge in the world that Jesus came to save; and to the
writer's mind this was great honor indeed.
But we started out to prove that Jesus Christ had the
blood of Ham in his veins, which we will do. Shem was the
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progenitor of the patriarchs, prophets, of the Jews, and of
Christ, and on these accounts the renown of the house of
Shem has been great in all the earth, and into this renowned
family Ham, the black man, married, and he, too, thereby
became the ancestor of David and of Christ.
This brings us to the thought that the black and white
people have always intermixed. Their intermixing dates
as far back as Abraham; for Abraham's son, Ishmael, was
born of Hagar of Egypt, a black woman (Genesis, 16th
chapter). Joseph, a son of Jacob and Rachel, the great
and wise governor under Pharaoh, who saved so many
thousands from starvation and death, married a black
woman. Moses, the great Hebrew legislator and lawgiver,
married a black woman. Samson, a deliverer and judge
of Israel for twenty years, married a Philistine woman, and
the Philistines were black people, they being the descend¬
ants of Ham.
Salmon, a chief man of the tribe of Judah, married a
Canaanite, a descendant of Canaan, a black man.
Judah himself, the tribe of whom Christ was to come,
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married a Canaanite, a black woman. I speak of these,
not because I favor the mixing of the races so much, but to
show that it is not an unheard of thing, and to show that
Jesus Christ had plenty of Hamitic blood in Him. I
speak of it, secondly, because there are such great efforts
being made at the present time to keep the two races apart
—in churches, schools, restaurants, hotels, steam cars, trol¬
ley cars and everywhere, excepting in heaven and hell; and
many white men are opposed to their being together in
heaven, and if it were in their power, they would try to
induce the Lord to put all of the dark-skinned people in
some back street and build a high fence between them and
the white people.
I mention the characters above to show that the white
and black races have been intermixing as far back as nine¬
teen hundred and ten years before Christ; and the Hami¬
tic women in marrying such men as Joseph, .Moses, Sam¬
son, Judah, Salmon, David and Solomon, have married the
greatest men that the earth has yet produced, and even
away back in the dark ages can we see the fondness of white
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men toward black women, and that fondness has never
died out. The intermixing of the two colors is almost as
old as the races themselves. They always have mixed and
always will, if there is no law against their marrying. They
will mix lawfully in some cases. If there is legislative law
against their marrying, they will mix unlawfully, as in the
Southern States of America. They have been intermixing
for thousands of years and are still intermixing in every
country where the two races exist, and will till the end of
time.
Love is a passion of the human heart that is inflamed by
whoever delights it, and this passion of the human heart
can never be controlled by any law that man can make.
No lock and key will ever hold or keep it from the object
that delights it. No chains nor iron bars will ever keep
love from its object. Even death itself cannot destroy
love.
The children of Israel broke divine law and married black
people in old Canaan. Samson was one of those who broke
divine law and married a Philistine woman, and the Philis-
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tines were black people, they being the descendants of
Ham.
But I must get back to the subject. Was Ham a black
man, and was his blood in the veins of Jesus Christ? If so,
how can we prove it? Well, we first say that according to
history, cyclopedias and Bible dictionaries, that Ham, a
son of Noah, was born black, and if Ham was born black,
his sons must also have been black. Ham was the father
of four sons—Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan (I Chronicles,
1st chapter). Cush, Put and Mizraim settled in different parts
of Africa; Canaan settled in the southern part of Asia. They
were the primitive settlers in said countries after the flood.
Ham was the ancestor of the Canaanites, Southern Arabians,
Ethiopians and Egyptians (Genesis, 10th chapter, from the
6th to the 20th verses). Canaan being a black man, and
his tribe being the first to settle in the southern part of
Asia, which was afterwards called the land of Canaan,
therefore all the people who inhabited old Canaan prior to
the entering of the Israelites under Joshua were black peo¬
ple; for there were no other people in old Canaan except-
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ing the Canaanites, the descendants of Canaan, a black
man. Well, says one, what has that to do with Jesus
Christ having negro blood in his veins? Very much, as we
shall show further on.
Now, the Scriptures teach us that Jesus Christ was to
come and did come of the tribe of Judah, the fourth son of
Jacob and Leah, born in Mesopotamia, B. C., 1755. The
Scriptures plainly teach that Christ was of this tribe. Old
Jacob himself, when he was blessing his sons just before his
death, said that the sceptre should not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come,
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be (Genesis,
49th chapter and 10th verse).
This Judah had two sons by a Canaanitish woman
whose name was Tamar. She was a descendant of
Canaan, a black man. The names of these two sons
were Phares and Zarah. The name of Phares, a half
white and a half black or mulatto man, appears in the
generation of Jesus Christ (Matthew, 1st chapter and 3d
verse). So the reader can see plainly that Judah, of
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whom Christ was to come, starts off by presenting to
the world a child by a Canaanitish woman, who was a
negress. This royal family begins with a child by a
white man and a black woman (Matthew, 1st chapter and
3d verse). Having shown the reader that Judah married
a Canaanitish woman, a negress, and that the two children
spoken of in the chapter referred to above were also chil¬
dren of a negress, and after stating that Judah had no
other children excepting those that were by Canaanitish
women (I Chronicles, 2d chapter, 3d and 4th verses),
we can say without fear of contradiction that the state¬
ment we make declaring that Jesus Christ had negro
blood in His veins is true, because the Canaanites were
black people, they being descendants of Canaan.
We now proceed to show that another black woman
married into this royal family of whom Christ came.
Rahab, who married Salmon, a chief man of the tribe of
Judah, was a black woman. They had a child whose
name was Boaz. He married Ruth. This Rahab was a
Canaanite, a descendant of Canaan, who was a son of Ham.
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She it was who hid the spies that were sent into the land
of Canaan by Joshua. Her life, with the lives of her
kindred, were saved when the city of Jericho was taken
and destroyed (Joshua, 2d chapter, 21st verse). Rahab
became a converted woman and married Salmon, a chief
man of the tribe of Judah, as we have stated, and thereby
became the ancestress of David and of Christ. We now
present the third woman of the Hamitic race who married
into the royal family of whom Christ came. Bathsheba,
whom David took for a wife, had formerly been the wife of
Uriah, a black soldier. She was the mother of Solomon.
We are taught that the name Bathsheba means a daughter
or woman of Sheba, and that means that she was a descend¬
ant of Cush, a son of Ham. The fourth black woman that
married into this royal family of whom Christ came, was
Solomon's lawful wife. She was an Egyptian woman, a
daughter of Pharaoh, King of Egypt (1st Kings, 3d chap¬
ter, 1st verse). Therefore, in the generation of Jesus
Christ we have the blood of four negro women. Now, from
the facts that have been stated above, we have clear proof
that Jesus Christ came nearer being a black man than a
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white man, or at least a very dark man, by reason of all the
above named Hamitic women marrying into the family of
which He came. And we challenge successful contradic¬
tion of this statement. Now, the thought that presents it¬
self to us is, what will the negro-hating white Christians do
when He comes to take charge of His church, and they find
that He is a black Savior? Will the white man worship a
black Savior? Yet, that is what they do every day in the
week, and must forever do or have no Savior at all, for
we have proven in this chapter that the incarnate Savior
was nearer a black than a white man, and if He was living in
the United States of America to-day He would be called a
negro.
Again we say, what will the negro-hating white man do
when He comes to judge the world, and he (the white
man) must receive his reward from Him, whether it be
good or evil, and lo, he finds Him deeply mixed with that
race against whom he has done everything that is mean
and wicked that could be thought of under heaven, and
is now his Judge and Rewarder ?
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KINGS.
Not only is this true. There was Hamitic blood in all of
the kings that came of the tribe of Judah, and history says
that there were nineteen successive kings in the line of
David. I have already shown you that David had Hamitic
blood in him by reason of the actions of Judah and Sal¬
mon, both of whom married Canaanitish women, who were
black people. Now, if David had negro blood in him, so
did his son Solomon, and so did all the rest that followed
the line of David.
You can see, then, that the descendants of Ham have
contributed no small quantity of blood to the veins of
all the kings of the tribe of Judah, even to the veins
of Jesus Christ, the greatest of all kings. Therefore,
the negro has been a factor in the powers that have
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ruled the earth. Consequently, he has ruled with the
white man upon the throne, having their blood mixed. So
when you saw David ruling upon the throne, you saw a
percentage of Ham ruling there also, and a pretty large
percentage at that, because four Hamitic women coming
into this royal family gives Ham a pretty large percentage
of the blood that ran through the veins of the rulers upon
the throne.
I speak not now of the negroes' own kings, whose blood
was not mixed, who ruled over their own people, for it is
known that they had many kings who ruled over people of
great wealth and culture in those days. In fact, Egypt led
the world in art and science in ancient times. But we par¬
ticularly call the attention of the reader to the fact that
David and all the kings that came of the tribe of Judah had
Hamitic blood in them; and in the veins of Jesus Christ,
the greatest of all kings, the blood of Ham was in abun¬
dance. Therefore, the black man who helped Christ to bear
the cross was helping his own kinsman. Of course, the
Scriptures have but little or nothing to say about the color
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of a man or woman, for in those days a man was spoken
of as a man of a certain country or as a child of a certain
man, and there was nothing said about his color at all. You
would only know his color by knowing who lived in that
country or by knowing a man's ancestors.
This colorphobia is more of modern times, and we have
more of it in America, perhaps, than in any other civilized
or uncivilized country in the world, and still we have at
least seven millions of people in this country who are
neither white nor black, and yet they are called negroes.
Who is responsible for this burning shame? Our white
brothers, who took charge of the black man against his
will and started to teach him civilization and religion when
they were heathens, and while teaching the black man re¬
ligion, they robbed him of his color, and this is the result—
look! look!
There were two black men who were teachers and
preachers with the apostles, but their color is not men¬
tioned; yet it is known, because of the country from
which they came, and theologians and commentators
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declare that they were black men. They preached to
white people, too; but there was no tumult over it,
because in those times a man was regarded as a man and
had his standing according to principle and character, and
was not rated according to or by his color. The names of
these two black men who preached and taught with the
apostles were Niger, who was sometimes called Simeon,
and Lucius (Acts, 13th chapter and 1st verse). The latter
the writer was named after.
I think that we have proved that Ham has been honored
with all there was to be honored with, he having occupied
the highest seat in the royal family, having become the an¬
cestor of Christ, because four Hamitic women married into
the royal family of which He came; and by proving that
black men were set apart and ordained by the apostles to
teach and preach with them. Lucius was probably a kins¬
man of Paul (Romans, 16th chapter and 21st verse).
These men went forth to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
They did not stop to look for a colored gathering to
preach to, for there was none; but instead of looking
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around for a colored race to preach to, they recog¬
nized the fact that there was only one race that Jesus
came to save, and that was the human race, and to
that race Niger, who was called Simeon, and Lucius,
preached.
I think, secondly, that we have proven that Jesus
Christ had negro blood in Him, because, as we have
said, Judah—the tribe of whom Christ was to come and
did come—had no other children excepting those he had
by Canaanitish women (I Chronicles, 2d chapter, 3d and
4th verses). It is accepted by every one wherever the
Christian religion is accepted that Christ came of that tribe,
and we re-state that the Canaanites were black people.
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PROPHETS.
Not only did David and Christ come of the tribe of
Judah, but many of the prophets came of that tribe.
Amos was of that tribe, and some of the leading
prophets were of this tribe. In fact, nearly all of the
prophets were with and under the kings of Judah; and
therefore they must have been of that tribe; and let the reader
bear in mind that every man or woman that sprang
from the tribe of Judah had Hamitic blood in his veins,
whether he was a king, a judge or a prophet, because,
as stated above, Judah had no children excepting those
he had by Canaanitish women, who were descendants
of Canaan, a black man.
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JUDICIARY.
The establishment of the system of our courts was
born in the brain of a black man. That is, the plan for
establishing the inferior, superior and supreme courts was
given to Moses by his father-in-law, Jethro, a black
man (Exodus, 18th chapter, 21st to 26th verses). This
is the first division of the courts that was ever planned
and adopted in the civilized world. As we have said,
the system of the judiciary referred to is the product o-f
a negro's brain. That system or a similar one is in
vogue at the present time all over the civilized world.
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CHAPTER II.
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WAS BUILT BY A NEGRO.
The greatest house that was ever built upon earth was
built by a negro. A house that was honored by the Divine
Creator as no other house has ever been honored. It was
built by Hiram of Tyre, the widow's son, and be it re¬
membered that the Tyrians were black people. Tyre was
the celebrated emporium of old Phoenicia.
History teaches that there were three of these Hirams of
Tyre. Two of them were kings; one succeeded the other
in office. The first one of these kings sent congratulations
to David on his accession to the throne, and aided in build¬
ing his palace. The second was also a friend of David; he
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furnished essential aid in the building of Solomon's temple;
he provided timber, stone and immense amount of gold.
The third one of these Hirams or Hurams, was a skillful
artificer, and his mother was a Jewess. His father was a
Tyrian, a man of the Hamitic race; because, as stated
above, the old Phoenicians were black people; they being
descendants of Ham. Hiram, the widow's son, was of this
people (II Chronicles, 2d chapter and 14th verse).
All of the interior decorations and utensils of Solomon's
temple were made under the direction of Hiram (I Kings,
7th chapter, 13th and 14th verses). We here mention just a
little of his work in the temple. He cast two pillars of
brass, eighteen cubits high, and set them up in the porch
of the temple; he called the right pillar Jachin, and the
left pillar Boaz. He made a molten sea, ten cubits from
one brim to the other, and it stood upon twelve oxen—
three looking toward the north, three looking toward the
west, three toward the south and three looking toward the
east. He made cherubim, lions and palm trees. This gives
some idea of the work done by this great and wonderful
man, who in this day would be called a negro.
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I have not mentioned one-third of the work that was
done by Hiram in the temple. We have mentioned him,
together with some of his great works, to show that the
Hamitic race has contributed to the church and state from
ancient times up to the present time. All of the real gran¬
deur and beauty of the greatest house ever built was
built by a negro.
It has been said by some historians that if the kings of
old Phoenicia, a land of black people, had not given the aid
that they did, it is doubted that the temple ever would have
been built. Certainly there never would have been such a
one built as was built, had it not been for the timber, stone
and the great amount of gold that was furnished Solomon
by Hiram, a black king of Tyre, and the work done by the
master workman in the person of Hiram, the widow's son,
whom we said was a negro, because he was a son of a black
man and a white woman, and all such at the present time
are called negroes.
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FREEMASONRY.
Freemasonry is said to have started at Solomon's temple
by Hiram of Tyre, the widow's son. If that be true, then
freemasonry was given to the world by a negro, and we
think this is true, because Hiram is referred to by masons
as no other man, and his works in the temple are also re¬
ferred to by masons more than the works of any other
man, especially his works such as making the great pillars
of brass and setting them up in the porch of Solomon's
temple, and giving to them such time-honored names. One
he called Jachin and the other he called Boaz. Freemasons
in every nation have honored these names, and have ever
honored the name of Hiram as well. But little did, or does
many of them who do such honor to the name and memory
of Hiram, know that he was the son of a black man.
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I have been told that the freemasons in America—the
white members of it—do not want to recognize the colored
men who are masons, not knowing or forgetting that a col¬
ored man was the founder of freemasonry. I think it
many of the American white men had known this, that
they never would have become members of that fraternity,
because of their great prejudice.
The Hamitic race will have to claim this wonderful man,
Hiram of Tyre, because it is the rule that children take
the name of their father and are classed on his side. It is
the rule in America to call such children negroes.
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PRIESTS.
The first priest that is recorded upon earth was aCanaan-
ite, a black man, in the person of Melchizedek. Of course
no one knows when he was born, nor when he died, be¬
cause there was no record kept of him; but that he was a
Canaanite is pretty certain. First, because he had a Ca-
naanitish name. Secondly, he lived in old Canaan, a land
of black people; and at that time there were no white peo¬
ple living in old Canaan, excepting Abraham and his family,
that history gives any account of. For further proof that
Melchizedek was a Canaanite, see the Bible handbook by
Joseph Angus, D.D., a member of the Royal Asiatic So¬
ciety, page 152. "Melchizedek was a king of Salem, also
priest of the most high God, in which capacity he blessed
Abraham" (Genesis, 14th chapter, 17-20th verses).
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He was a royal priest by the appointment of God. Thus,
he was a type of Jesus Christ, who is priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek, and not after the order of Aaron
(read Hebrews, 7th chapter). Melchizedek was a friend
of Abraham and of a rank elevated above him.
There had been men who offered sacrifices in their fami¬
lies, but there had been no divinely appointed priest before
Melchizedek, the Canaanite, that we can find on record
anywhere.
Here Ham was honored, not by men, but by the Lord
God Himself. The Lord God has taught that the Hamitic
race was fit for something higher than the drawing of water
and the hewing of wood, and some of them always did and
always will hold some better place than that, and no preju¬
dices or persecution will keep them from it, for some of
them are bound to get there.
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CHAPTER III.
I do not write this book from a spirit of_bigotry; but
it is a matter of history, which, I think, will be in¬
teresting to some people. I present it to the world of
mankind, and in sending it forth I challenge successful
contradiction. I have undertaken to champion the black
man's cause in a different way, perhaps, from any man that
has ever started out to write upon this ever-perplexing race
question.
Secondly, I send it forth to the world because the white
man of this country hates his black brother and punishes
him because God Almighty choose to make him black. The
only excuse they give for their inhuman treatment to the
black man is his color, and in their maltreatment of them
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because of their color, they have condemned God, who
made the color, and they punish the negro for having the
color; for they, the white people, have made it the cause
of their actions toward the negro upon all occasions, every¬
where and at all times.
I send it forth, thirdly, because there is a disposition'
in this country to undervalue all that the negro has done
—before the war and since. They undervalue all that
he has done to increase the wealth of the nation. It
all counts for nothing. He bore the white man's bur¬
den for 247 years, but it is not remembered. He
cleared the forest for him; drove out the great beasts;
built houses, barns, churches and schoolhouses for his
white brother. He made the bread and paid for the
college education of his white brother. All this has
merited nothing. But the worst name and the mean¬
est treatment that hell itself could devise has been poured
upon the negro, without being mixed with the least degree
of mercy.
The black man has fought in all the wars that the nation
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has had, and he did his part well. He has allowed his
blood to be poured out like water upon the ground in de¬
fense of this government, only to be denied the most com¬
mon rights of a man. This government for which they
fought, bled and died, now refuses absolutely to protect
them in the exercise of their rights. I do not believe that
there is another nation on earth that is so ungrateful. They
have appealed to the government again and again, but it
has absolutely refused to grant them any protection—either
to men, women, children or to their property; and thus
thousands upon thousands of these people have been mur¬
dered by the white men of this country because they were
powerless to help themselves, and because God Almighty
made them black people.
They don't want them to hold office for fear of misrule
and domination; and we say if their misrule can be ex¬
ceeded, God only knows where the pattern is to come
from. Yes, the negro is undefended by the government
under which they live; yes, undefended by the govern¬
ment that they have been loyal to in the times of peace and
in the times of war.
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They are robbed every day in the year, only because
they are powerless to help themselves. Their white brothers
take the advantage of their weakness and inability to help
themselves and make life hard for them at every point, and
cause the black man to work against individual and organ¬
ized opposition. Why do I say that these people are
robbed every day in the year? Well, his white brother,
for he is his brother, has taught his black brother relig¬
ion and lessons in the Golden Rule. He charges his black
brother from five to ten dollars more per month for a house
to live in than he charged a white man who just moved out
of it. Then he pays a black man ten dollars less than he
paid a white man to do the same work. This is the way
the Golden Rule works toward his brother in black.
The facts stated above would cause a man to lose from
fifteen to twenty dollars per month, or $240 per year, or
$2,400 in ten years. That much is unjustly taken from one
poof man.: Suppose they take that much from a hundred
thousand' then, that would be $2,400,000 that number of
men woulcl be robbed of in ten years, and they are not the
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one hundredth part of their workingmen. This kind of
business has been going on for nearly forty years. See the
millions that these people have been robbed of in just the
two methods mentioned above. And his white brother who
taught him religion calls such treatment as I have just de¬
scribed, just, right and fair.
Can any one make me believe that Spain ever treated
her subjects any worse? Never! Or any other nation this
side of Sheol.
How can we prove that the man of color has to work
against individual and organized opposition? Well, he
works against individual opposition because when his white
neighbor advertises for help in his place of business, and if
a negro applies for the place or position, he is refused. He
cannot get the position as clerk, bookkeeper or salesman.
Not one white man in a thousand would give him such a
position, no matter what the black man's ability might
be, or how good his character might be; yet the black man
spends all of his money with him, and does not take it
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away out of the country. That is the way the white mao's
Golden Rule works in this city.
White men laugh at the negroes' poor and wretched con¬
dition, and say the reason of their condition is that they are
worthless, when they themselves have closed the avenues
against them. Yes, they say that the negro has had fair
play and ought to have done better. Well, we say let the
Christian's God be the judge in the matter.
The half that the black man suffers in this country has
never been told. Even the pulpits are locked against say¬
ing anything in condemnation of the inhuman and most
damnable treatment which they are subjected to in this
country. There are not three preachers in a thousand that
would stand up and publicly condemn the hellish deeds
that are practised against a defenseless and most loyal citi¬
zen. They preach against Spain's treatment to the Cubans,
which was not as bad as the treatment that the negro re¬
ceives in the United States, and in some respects was not
half so bad.
They preach against every sin excepting the sins of the
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American white people against the black people. I do not
wish to misrepresent any one, nor the condition of. the
negro; neither would I try to make it appear that all
negroes are perfect saints. They have their tramps and
criminals just the same as other people, but no more than
other people. In many parts of this country when one of
them is accused of a crime, he is not allowed a chance to
prove whether he is guilty or not, but after a verdict of a
jury that was filled with prejudice from their birth, he is
hurried off to prison or they make a bonfire of him while
yet alive, without the least proof of his being guilty. Only
the murderers come back from the burning and say that
the negro confessed the crime.
They tell this while their hands are covered with human
blood and their garments smell of death, and the Ameri¬
can people take this statement as being satisfactory, and
that is the end of it. You may see an account of it in
the papers *he next day, but you seldom see a word
in that paper condemning the unjust, barbaric and in¬
human conduct. You look to the pulpit on Sunday,
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but not a word will you hear against it. They preach
against dancing—a thing that the commandments say
nothing against; they preach against going to the
theatre—a thing that the commandments say nothing
against; they preach against people going to the sea¬
side on Sunday to get a little fresh air—a thing that
God has not said a word against. But not one sermon
in ten thousand says anything against dragging a man
out of bed at night from his wife and little children,
and murdering him before their eyes, without law, without
judge and without jury. Not a word, not a word, is said
in the pulpit against it.
Therefore, we are compelled to say that the white man's
religion in the United States is wrong, because he has a
religion of race prejudice and race hatred, and such a re¬
ligion has never saved any one since the days of Jesus Christ
upon earth. All the almost countless thousands that have
died with that kind of religion are lost, if the Scriptures
are true. For it says (I John, 3d chapter and 15th verse)
that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And we
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know it says no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
That means whosoever loveth not his brother (same chap¬
ter, 14th verse). I wonder how many white Christians
that have ever died in this country, really loved their
black brothers, and that were free from race prejudice, and if
they died with race prejudice and race hatred, tell me
where they are now. Answer according to the teachings
of the Bible. All who are now living and hateth any one on
earth are murderers; and, therefore, unsaved now, and never
can be if they retain race prejudice and race hatred, and I
doubt that the American white man ever gives that up—
not even in death.
I 'repeat that the religion of the white American is wrong,
according to the Bible which he professes to go by (I John,
2d chapter, 9th verse; 3d chapter and 15th verse; 4th chap¬
ter and 20th verse). His conduct toward the darker races
proves that his religion is full of race prejudices and race
hatred. Such a religion has never saved any one nor never
will, if the Bible be true. Moreover, such a religion is nor
fit to take to the heathen. It would do him more harm
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than good; for if the heathen accepts of such a religion he
can never be saved, and without it he would stand a better
chance. For only the religion of love will save any one.
But the negro will not always play the fool; his day will
come, and I fully believe that in some perilous times this
nation will need his friendship, and the treatment that he
has received will be remembered. Jacob had a good time
once at Esau's expense, but there came a time when he
dreaded to meet his brother Esau.
The slave of this country met his master once where
the master never expected to meet him, and the meeting
was a dreadful one.
The white men of this country say that the negro is rapeful,
and that they have to murder them in these unlawful ways
in order that they may protect the virtue of their women.
Well, the writer has nothing to say against any man for
protecting his wife and daughter from outrage, and I
have no respect for any man who will not protect his family
against scoundrels, whether they be white or black.
But it has been proven beyond successful contradiction
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that there has been less than one to the million per annum
of the negro race who has even attempted to commit rape
from the end of the Civil War up to 1903; so, you see, that
the charges made against them is absolutely false. But, on
the other hand, it has been the negro women who have been
wronged by white men; and if they had murdered a
white man for every colored woman that they have wronged
or outraged, there would be a funeral long enough to reach
around the world and the marching would never cease. But
the negro has waited upon the law, which is dead so far as
his redress is concerned.
I believe in protecting the virtue of women where it
exists, but I believe in protecting the virtue of all
women, white and black alike. Anything short of this
is downright hypocrisy.
Now, the writer does not make these charges against all
white men. The negro has many friends in the North and
in the South, and they acknowledge their gratitude for
what these friends have done and they are thankful for what
they are doing for them; but as they have so many millions
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who are opposed to them having the rights and enjoy¬
ments of a man, and such rights and enjoyments as belong
to every man, till we feel bound to speak out and enter our
protest; for it does seem to us that ninety-eight white men
out of every hundred are prejudiced to color in some de¬
gree or other ; and any man who is prejudiced to another
will never willingly concede to that man all that is right¬
fully his. Any man who is prejudiced toward another man
ought never to sit as as a juror upon that man's case in court;
for he will decide against him just as sure as he takes his seat.
Every judge and every lawyer knows that this is true. A
prejudiced man will and does decide against you before the
case is heard. Yes, he is against you before he gets
his boots on in the morning. Thus, you.can see how little
the negro has to hope for when he is brought in court.
But justice will not sleep forever. This same Jesus
to whom Ham was related in the 'flesh will remember
the negro, and the Lord God is and will be found on the
side of right, and right will prevail just as certain as the
heavens stand to-day, and all that is wrong must and will
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go down. There is no such thing as the separating of
sin from punishment; for whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he also reap, said the Master, and whatsoever a
nation soweth is equally true.
I suppose that it was a long time before Spain could
be made to believe that statement of the Master, but I
suppose that she has learned her lesson well by this
time, and so will this nation learn hers. It is bound to come,
or God is dethroned and the devil is God. This nation
would do well to stop its unjust dealings before it, like
Spain, be made to stop by the irresistible God, who will
lead whoever he may appoint to bring about a change.
The negro now appeals to every humane individual in
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the civilized world to interest themselves in his behalf, by
saying or doing whatever is necessary to relieve a poor,
robbed, oppressed, defenseless and undefended people.
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CHAPTER IV.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
The question that confronts us now is, will the black
man survive or live through all the prejudice and persecu¬
tion that he has to face in this country at the present time?
We answer in the affirmative, because there is such a law
in nature as the survival of the fittest.
Persecution and prejudice will not annihilate any nation,
people or principle that God would have live or exist
upon the face of the earth. The Jews were persecuted
in Egypt for a great many years, and their persecu¬
tion was of the severest kind. Even their children
were ordered to be killed at birth, and yet the Hebrews
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survived under it all and muitiolied the more. They
outlived Pharaoh and his government, and are living
to-day and are a mighty power in the financial world.
This was because God judged them more fit to live than
their persecutors. No, persecution and prejudice will
not annihilate any nation, people or principle that is
fit to live or exist. That has been tried in all ages of
the world. A people may be caused to suffer and suffer
much, as the negro has suffered in this country and as
the Jews suffered in Egypt, but neither has been anni¬
hilated by the persecutor. And the negroes, like the Jews,
are multiplying as the sands of the seashore. They are
the only people that are increasing the American popu¬
lation to any considerable numbers through births. The
white population increases through immigration. The
negroes increase the population through births, notwith¬
standing the great sufferings and privations through
which they have had to come. Robbed and cheated,
and even murdered by the thousands, besides having
the lucrative doors of the industries closed against him.
All other nations, and even the scavengers of other
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nations, are invited to partake of the good things of
America; everybody and anybody excepting the black
man. He is refused a fair chance in life, and is shut
out, and yet he has lived—and not only lived, but he has
improved his tondition by improving his mind.
He was liberated and left, as it were, naked—without
a handful of seed-corn to plant, and not a piece of
land, as large as his hand to plant it in if he had the
corn. Not a horse, or a mule or a plough in all God's
world. He did not have a house in which to sleep, and
not a dollar in the wide world with which to pay rent.
He did not have a tree to stand under to protect him¬
self from the rain. He was also left in ignorance as
dark as the night, because before the war it was a crime
punishable by law for any one to teach him how to read
or write. But for all that, he has reduced his illiteracy
forty-five per cent, in one generation.
Our object was not to have much to say about the
treatment which the negro receives in this chapter, as
we have already spoken of it in the first part p* this
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book. Our object in speaking of it here is to show
that persecution and. prejudice will not annihilate him
He is here to stay. The abolitionists of this country
started out with a principle, and that principle was
opposed by those who were against freedom. The
principle that the abolitionist started out with was op¬
posed and fought in every conceivable way that could
be thought of. Men and women wrote and spoke
against it everywhere, and in all parts of the country
the abolitionists were persecuted in the most severe
manner. Some had their printing-presses destroyed;
some were dragged through the streets; John Brown
was murdered; Charles Sumner was struck down in
the United States Senate; Abraham Lincoln was mur¬
dered. The South spent nearly everything it had and
lost thousands of its choice sons fighting against a prin¬
ciple that was just and right, and lost the fight, and
the principle to which the abolitionist held triumphed
because it was the fittest, and therefore it survived the
principle held to by the South.
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Whatever principle that ought to live will live
and receive recognition of the best people, and all the
persecution and prejudice that can be poured upon it
cannot exterminate it. Its cause may suffer, but it will
never die. This is history, and it has been true in all
ages of the human family.
There was an effort made once by the majority of
mankind to drive the principles of the religion from the
face of the earth many thousands of years before Christ,
but the fittest survived; that is, the true religion sur¬
vived the principles held to by her persecutors. This
little handful who worshipped the true God was a small
minority. They started out against great opposition,
and met with prejudice and persecution almost every¬
where. The persecutors killed the prophets, and later
they murdered Jesus Christ—the greatest of all the
prophets. They, however, murdered John the Baptist
just before Him, and later murdered all the apostles ex¬
cepting one. And still Christianity continued to
spread. Men may die, but principles live on. The per-
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secutors may kill men, as they always have done and
are doing now, but they can never kill a principle that
is just and right and right according to God's rule of
right. In the persecution some Christians were thrown
to the wild beasts, and were torn to pieces. Many
women were torn to pieces while the milk was seen
streaming from the breast; some men were burned in
the fire; others were tied to two horses, and these
horses were driven in opposite directions and pulled
the man in two pieces; and others were decapitated.
Notwithstanding all this, Christianity continued to
grow and flourish. They thought, perhaps, when they
killed Jesus Christ that the doctrine of the true and
living God would be done with, but the fire grew larger
and Christianity spread all the more. Governors and
rulers rose up against the principles of the little hand¬
ful of Christians, and even united their forces against
them; but the principles held to by this little band of
Christians survived all the powers that opposed them
and conquered, and has raised her banner over or in
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every known nation in the world, and to-day Christ has
more than 450,000,000 Christians in the world. Thus
you see the survival of the fittest.
We think that we have proven our statement that
prejudice and persecution will not annihilate any peo¬
ple or principle that God wants to live, and I think it
is fair to say that if God had not wanted the dark-
skinned people to live, that he never would have made
them.
When we speak of the survival of the fittest, we
mean from the moral, religious, physical and intellect¬
ual view points. As to a man or a nation surviving will
depend much upon the moral condition of that man
or nation. Immorality has been the cause of the fall
of every man, nation or tribe that has fallen since God
made the first man. History furnishes us with the in¬
formation concerning the wrecks all along the road,
beginning with the antediluvian world, and coming up
to the present time.
The cause of the flood which destroyed mankind from
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the face of the earth, was immorality: and Noah and his
family survived the whole world of mankind because he
was more moral than they. The reader can see in
this case, also, that the fittest survived. He may also
notice in this case, as in all others, that a majority
amounts to nothing in the carrying out of this rule:
The survival of the fittest.
That is true of nations that have gone down. This
we make as a general statement without attempting to
enumerate them, and we think that all true history will
bear us out in the statement. The reader can see that
much, and very much depends upon the moral condition
of a people as to whether they will stand or fall.
"Well," says one, "do you mean to say that the negro
is more moral than the white man, and, therefore, will
survive him?" I do not say that, but I do say that
God has not judged the negro as being more immoral
than the white man, or he never would have helped him
and the negro never would have lived under the great
persecution and maltreatment that he has had to endure
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for the last 271 years. I say 271 years, because the
negro's persecution has never ceased. It has been con¬
tinuous; before the war and since, and he is by no
means annihilated and never will be. So those who
hope to see that day will die without the sight.
Moreover, in speaking of his morals. I am sure that
they are as high as the white man's. Go into the city
and count the houses of dissipation, and find out who
keeps them and who supports them. Take for an in¬
stance five hundred, and you will find that at least four
hundred and eighty of them are kept and supported by
white people. All the gambling-houses are kept and
supported by white men; and in New York it is now
stated that the houses of ill repute are protected by a
white police force.
Who ever knew a band of negroes to hold up a train
and rob it and the passengers? A thing that is fre¬
quently don* in America, but not by negroes. Who
ever knew a band of negroes to tear up the railroad
track, and cause the train to run off the track, and it
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full of passengers? How many negroes have been
known to set fire to people's dwellings in the middle
of the night and burn it down while the inmates slept?
That is frequently done in America—almost every week,
but not by negroes. Who ever knew a crowd of black
men to take a human being or a horse or a dog out
in the woods, and burn him up alive? This barbaric
act is often done in America or in the United States,
but the negro has not been found guilty of any of
these great crimes which I have mentioned.
We said that the survival of the fittest implies his
religious fitness, as well as his moral, physical and in¬
tellectual. Now, if a man's faith is wrong, that means
that his religion is wrong; for a man's religion consists
of what he believes, and his morals consists of what
he does, and if a man's faith is incorrect, his morals
will be bad. If, therefore, the negro's faith is correct,
the white American will never annihilate him, because his
system of faith, if correct, brings him in relationship with
God, and that means help for the negro, and whoever
God blesses no man or nation can curse.
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PHYSICAL.
The black man is evidently as strong physically as the
white man. What he has borne up under in the way
of hard usage, and being half fed and half cared for
generally, has proven that. Moreover, his physical
ability to endure as a soldier in the army is an addi¬
tional evidence that he is physically as strong as his
white brother.
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MENTALLY.
Mentally the negro has not attained to that develop¬
ment that the white man has attained to as a mass, and
no one could expect him in one generation to reach
the point of intellectual development that the white
man has been more than twenty generations in getting
to. But the black man of America has at least shown
the possibility of his race. He has shown that he is
susceptible of learning anything that any other race of
people can learn. The negro has shown that he has a
stronger nervous system than the white American has,
and the strength of the mind depends upon the
strength of the nervous system. Our proof is that
the everlasting cry of insanity—the shield and hiding
place of crime—is seldom found among negroes.
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Another thought is that the black man seldom com¬
mits suicide; and any people that commit suicide are
weak mentally. Now, the committing of suicide is as
common in the United States as the rising and setting
of the sun, and yet how seldom do we hear of a black
man resorting to such a great and unpardonable sin
in order that he may be released from trouble or to
hide his crime and shame. The black man's mind is
strong enough to bear his troubles of whatever kind,
and his troubles are great and always have been in
this country, because the American white people who
are in the majority have always made life hard for him.
It seems to be the important part of their religion.
That is to make life unpleasant for the black man in
every avenue of life, and yet he has borne it all without
resorting to suicide and without committing but very
few murders of his persecutors. White men would
have committed ten thousand suicides, and as many homi¬
cides, since the war, if they had been placed in his
stead.
Judging from the present conduct as regards suicides
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and homicides—for it is that so-called superior white
race that commits nearly all the murder that is com¬
mitted in this country, and the negro whom they have
published home and abroad as being so brutal seldom
commits either suicide or homicide. And no man can
refute this statement.
And what we have stated above is clear proof that the
black man has the strongest mind of the two races,
and that he bears his troubles and waits upon his God,
who will bring him out all right in the end, and he
leaves this suicide and homicide business to those whom
he would survive.
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