Entered
Charlotte,
matter.
at the Post-Office at
N. 6., as second-class
NEGRO OFFICERS IN UNITED
STATES ARMY. >
m
Last Monday the United States
Government made military his
tory* und ushered in a new epoch,
when commissions were- given to
mMsk “J"J Tmng NefBToee as
United States An
et and second U
-— course it was not *u
wanted;, nor is it all*e shai
get* hut it is a great fe>;he
. -W7
fa have mere enthusiasm m
war. :/*
the Negro is a good soldier
““ ** *h woo have read our
In the Revolutionary War there
were a few Negroen and for their
numbers they did sp endid service.
the War of lBLJapd the Mexi
can War Negroes were employed
more as laborers than as soldiers,
though there were many su$h.
But up to 1861, when the cKrii
War began, tne Negroes hadjao
permanent status in the Untied
States Army,- except they -wire
known to be Useful as servants.
Hittujf ui uic oiaxeu, even in cnt
North, they were exempted from
bearing arms. But after the bat
tte oif Bull Run, when the Confed
seemed to be winning the
_^_
war the War Department decided
' b'W the experiment of the Ne
gro soldiers. Governor Andrews
if Massachusetts was authorised
to raise I^egro troops, and as a re
sult the 54th and 65th Massachu
setts Regiments were raised.
But these were not to be put on
“ty with the white soldiers.
Ifceeived less pay; they were
HP to commissions; and
[Sn as prisoners by the
they were summarily
t lie injustice of this treatment!
was keenly felt, and the tolored
population vigorously protested,
but they were not aMe to gam all
their points. The only commis
sions ihey KPt ^ere ^ chaplaincies.
hey gpt we. - -
Rev. (afterward Bishop) H.
Turner Was the first chaplain to
be appointed. President Lincoln
TPwuforif.k DoUfiflaSS
that
he agreed that the colored troops
should be put upon the same ba- j
sis as whites as to pay, treatment,
promotions, etc., but considering
the prejudice he declared that a
great advance had been made
even in getting soldiers to fight.
And Douglass philosophically took
the view that the task of that day
was to get the Negro into OieUn
ited States Army. So 187,000 of
them' were enlisted, and served
without hope of promotion to cap
taincies, etc. After the war, regi
ments of infantry and cavalry
were kept among the Negroes,
but the officers were whites.
While the Negroes had .made
splendid records, the prejudice
against them as officers seemed to
increase. Several Negroes were
appointed to the military school at
West Point, but most of them
never graduated. Henry 0. Flip
per, the brother of our Bishop
Flipper, Lieut. Alexander, and
Charles Young (now Colonel
Young), were the only Negroes to
graduate; and they had to under
go the worst of humiliation,
heaped upon them to force them
to quit.
i-L a Cnoniok. AlV>0P1<
JLUCU wamo —7- -
can War and in the emergency, <
Negroes were made officers of the 1
volunteers. N'6rth Carolina, llli~ 1
nois and Kansas had regiments i
with Negro^officers from colonel
down to second lieutenant; Ohio
had a batallion under Major
Young and colored officers, and
Virginia had a regiment with col
ored officers up to the rank of ma
jor. Other regiments had all
colored line officers. And these
Negroes as far as they had oppor
tunity acquitted themselves well.
In |the Regular Army,, regiments
several got promotions; But after
the war the Negro officer became
a rara avis again.
With this war our people de
manded the same chances as other
portions of our population. Had
this government been Republican
rather than Democratic we might
have gotten it. Had we had a
Some Views of Sunday
k ip Cape Fear Presbytery.
A District Meeting.
A Chapel.
Another Chapel.
volunteer-army instead of a con
scripted army we might still have
gotten what we want -But wbat
we have secured—Negro line offi
cers for Negro regiments—is ;%
great advan
dent which w
many years,
foundation fo
opening up of
army to Mac
done a hundre
cipation it will
ing. Thecond
dred young
ands under
distance* in So
from the
graduates of
tions, brough
lies. If the
groes are pu
government
nize their m
Let us, tk
ourselves u
t9 a prece
ollowed for
it lays the
t step—the -
ffices in the
If that is
after eman
rapid ris
esesixhun-*
4he thous
ur best fami
and the Ne
n, even the
ve to recog
congratulate!
half loaf we
hat. the other
half belongs
the Strengtl
the half wej
what is our
tian Record
/and that with
Opportunity of
-^e may obtain
!.- The Chris
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK OF
CAPE FEAR'PRESBYTERY
OUTLINE! OP 4 SPLENDID
GROWTH.
BY WM: H. JACKSON,
Sabbath-school Missionary.
It has been almost ten years
since we entered the Sabbath
school work of Cape Fear Presby
tery, and during these years the
work has been pushed forward by
leaps and bounds.* Our growth
has been substantial, in that the
schools organized for the most
part had land given and chapels
erected, thus giving permanence
to our work. We have lost only a
few of our new schools and only
in a few years have, we had need
to organize a point for the second
time.
The educational worK nas Deen
juried on through three District
Conventions, well organized, and
vith results pleasing to every
nemberof the Presbytery. Dur
ng the past year, committees have
seen appointed to award scholar
ships to schools having the largest
increase in new students. In Dis
trict No. 3 $15 will be given for a
part scholarship. Institute work,
workers’ conferences, teacher
training, and the organized class
es have received attention and
progress is being made. Each
school is urged to have a program.
The standard chart is the goal for
which our schools are working.
In District No. 2 we were able
to send $6.oo to Biddle University
last year, and $5.oo to the Sab
bath School Board, These are ad
vanced steps in District work, for
as a rule our conventions do little
aside from having a few papers
read, and some reports. Nine
V-5. -iej
years ago our schools sent fo'l
Sabbath School Board $54.8o as
offering- for Children’s Day. T3
years ago we reached the $2
mark. Last year #e * rSq
flol5.7o &>r all purposes, witH
schools reporting in the con
tions, having 262 officers’'
teachers with 2664pupils. D
the year 6o pupils joined
church. Ninety-five pi—“
actively engaged in Tes
mg classes, wj
fess made- in
ments. Thus at _
Wftrlt hfl« the! 1U
tip
o
iducational program tor saDuai
school work in the Synod of
awba, and thus far we are
■o report co-operation and pi
ress. The8 program for the
will be teacher training and
organized classes, with special'
phasis on Mission Study cla
for young people. Each scl
will be asked to report some spe
cial line of educational work done.
Let us help you into this larger
service. Tell us about your school;
perhaps your task should be that
of missions, with an organized de
partment such as will interest
young girls and boys. , Make your
school and your Young People s
work leading factors in your com
munity. 'If you have problems,
drop us a card, perhaps we can
help you. Get in the class ^ot
those who do things. Remember
the motto: “Better Sunday
Schools.”
Newbern, N. C.
THE SPIRIT OF THE WAR.
The uplifting thought is tha
we have proved ourselves men. Ir
our death we set a standard whiil
in ordinery life we conld ne\e
have followed. . , What Got
will say to us we cannot guess,hi
He can’t be too hard on men
did their duty. I think we all fee
that trivial iormer j.auu*co
washed out'by this final sacrifiie,
There’s a picture in the Bn
theon at Paris, I remember; Ibe
lieve it’s called “To Glory” .1.
The only glory that I have disov
ered in this war is in men’s hefts
Were one to paint the spiri o 1
this war he would depict a nuc
landscape, blasted trees, antron
sky; wading through the fish
and shell-holes would come hie
of bowed figures, more likeout
casts from the Embankmentpan
soldiers. They’re loaded bwn
like pack animals, their shopers
are rounded, they’re weard to
death, but they go .^n and 3 on.
There’s no “To Glory” abouWhat
we’re doing out here. Thep nc|
flash of swords or splendor | uni*
forms. There are only veritired
men determined to “carrion. J
The war will be won by tirt meij
who could never again pasjjn ini
surance test, a mob of token
' i
ler-jumpers, ragged ex
1 srs and quite unheroie per
We’re civilians in khaki,
ecause of the ideals fbr which
yht we’ve managed to acquire
prs’ hearts.
e thing which wears on one
and calls out his gravest
is the endless sequence of
discomfort. Not to .pe
to find mud on your
to
■dies and sweethearts, Ttad a
for life—they’re bankrupt of
m pleasures, except the supreme
Measure of knowing that they’re
■big the ordinary and finest
Big of which they are capable.
X . One can die only once; the
mki concern that matters is how
md not when you die. I don’t
sity the weary men who have at
oned eternal leisure in the cor
ruption of our shell-furrowed bat
;les; they “went We3t” in their
supreme moment The men I pity
ire those who could not hear the
:all-of duty and whose consciences
svill grow more flabby every day.
With the brutal roar of the first
Prussian gun the cry came to the
livilized world “Follow thou Me,”
just as truly as it did in Palestine.
Men went to their Calvary singing
ripperary. Men die scorched like
moths in a furnace, blown to at
3ms, gassed, tortured. And again
3ther men step forward to take
their places well knowing what
will be their fate. Bodies may
die, but the spirit of England
grows greater as each new soul
speeds upon its way.—From “Car
ry On” by Lieut Coningsby Daw
son of the British Army.
CHARACTER.
You cannot make character.
God cannot make character. For
instance, my character to-day is
for the most part simply resultant
of all the thoughts 1 ever had, all
the feelings I have ever cherished,
and all the deeds I have ever,per
formed. 'It is the entirety of my
previous years packed and crys
tallized into the present moment.
So that character is the quint
essence of biography; so that any
body who knows my character—
and there is no keeping character
under cover—knows what for for
ty years or more I have been doing
and thinking. 'Character is for
the most part simply habit become
fixed. You see at once, then, how
much that means. Take the in
stance of a man whom you know to
be thoroughly dishonest. Nothing
but dishonest practice could have
made him such. His dishonesty is
|the habit of crooked dealing be
come in him a fixed temper. Char
acter, therefore, is biographic. It
i
tells the stohy of what he has neen
doing in the years gone by. vv iwi
out knowing anything about where
he-lived, what his surroundings
have been, and his occupation, you
can look at his character, and in it
you can see the deeds he has done,
the tricks he has played and the
chicanery he has practiced, just as
■ looking at the piece of coal you can
reason back to the carboniferous
times whickproduced it, and stand
wUNKtttidst of the old ttopte
as confidently
ben&ath the
Noth
>r:—We are writing you
for publication to let
fknow that we are still
On September the
i one of our most faith
the death of Brother
lexander. Elder Alexander
was a true and tried pillar in the
building of which he was a part.
We shall certainly miss him.
For several weeks we had set the
fourth Sabbath in September for a
hundred dollar rally. There were
three captains appointed, Mes
dames Mary Irvin, Fannie Van
landingham, and Sarah Grier.
When the long looked-for day came,
•and the final count was taken, it
was found that Mrs. Vanlanding
ham had $34.25, Mrs. Irvin had
$48.13, Mrs. Grier had $72.87; Mrs.
Jewel brought in from persons who
are not members but well wishe’-s,
$11.75, and the general collection
was $3.00, making a grand total of
one hundred and seventy dollars
($170).
Also in the early Spring we ap
pointed nine young men and young
women to bring in at least two dol
lars each on the second Sabbath in
October, so last Sunday they re
ported as follows:
Miss Scotia Ingram $0.70
Miss Susie Neal 1.55
Mr. Uriel Grier 2.00
Mr. Murphy Grier 2.00
Mr. Henry Vanlandingham 2.00
Mr. Seth Vanlandingham 2.00
Miss Mattie Withers 2.00
Miss Delacy Clinton 2.64
Miss Minnie Beatty 2.67
Total, $11.56
Concerning the captains in the
rally and the young men and wo
men in their effort, and all others
concerned, we have words only of
the highest praise.
Our Christian Endeavor is also
taking on new life. The audience
to which we preach at night is com
posed almost exclusively of this or
ganization. We have a fine set of
young people. Pray for our suc
cess.
R. L. Moore, Pastor.
If it is a crime to make a count
erfeit dollar, it is ten thousand
times a worse crime to make a
counterfeit man. — Lincoln.
5ALWAY ISREAL IRISH TOWS
Here on Market Pey* »re MM > **
Qelwer k*»“ i
touch of reel ol4 I«leod eboht tt.
Here on market day* T00 ca^*TU\.~“i
fh. old courier
black cutaway
l
tbe purchase of * TSS
take half an hour. Sfc*» Mo’not *^
by,the do*en to CW^C* ^
All sorts of carious total#
.sale In Galway market,
“any miles away to
or carried on foot by sturdy old men
who think nothing of a tramp of a do«
ST miles. Calves are a staple
are wrapped up In gonnyJbags wj
nothing but the head projecting when
a shipment has to be made. Peat »
lor sale by the cartload, fowls and
vegetables. Most curious of alb p»^
haps is a peculiar ^aweed. wMch W
popular as a salad dish. To til®
Its taste is rather unpleasant, but, a*
cording to local tradition. It has the
marvelous property of bclng able to
clear the head of him who ha* hada
drop too much.” Galway might work
up a profitable export trade toiJthis
commodity, it has been «««*«*“
she understood the science of advertis
ing. " i
M
HoW House* Explode.
The most remarkable phenomenon ,
br«rleriisfh7frr
dwellings are carried high Into the air
and then explode. tt.ls “^Ttfiat
stood that this Is due to the fact that
the “funnel cloud” (revolving at a rate
I of at least 500 miles an hour) has a
vacuum Inside. Thus it sucks .up
everythlng%ln Its path, even emptying
wells/ It sucks all the air from around
a house over which it passes, and the
house (a vacuum being thus created
outside of It) promptly exploftesjm^
Asphyxiating Bomb and Incendiary
Shell Outgrowth of Missiles Em*
ployed Long Ago by Chinese.
Many of the “new” weapons pro*
dnced by the world war are really very
old. Thus the asphyxiating bomb Is
an outgrowth of a missile employed
long ago by the Chinese. Instead of
deadly chemicals, It contained some
substance that emitted a nauseous
odor, accompanied by stifling smoke.
Later this device appeared in Europe
and was known by the inelegant but
expressive name of “stlnk-pot.”
Another Chinese war method paved
the way for incendiary shells. They
Invented a rocket, later adopted and
widely used by the Snracene, which
fired a kind of ball having claws or
hooks that would catch hold to the
side of a building and set fire to it.
These balls were made of petroleum
and niter, which became famous In
the later ages as Greek fire.
The German device of throwing pe
trol upon an enemy by means of a
pump was used long ago, when an at
tacking ship often spouted flames at
the object of‘its assault This plan
was reserved for close quarters, and
frequently resulted in the destruction
of the vessel so attacked.
Rain Has Followed Qtinless Battles.
That rain follows great battles Is a
tradition that has persisted for cen
turies, and the fact—if fact it be—has
usually been attributed to the concus*
sion of the air caused by heavy artil-.
lery firing. But a correspondent Of;
Nature cites a passage from Plutarch
telling of a battle of Calus Marius
against the Teutons in 102 B. C. in
which that ancient historian wrote:
“It is well known that extraordinary
r'ains generally follow great battles, as
if the gods decided to wash and puri
fy the earth, or as If blood and corrup
tion, by ,tlie moisture and heavy va
pors they engendered, thickened the
air which is changed by the most tri
fling causes.”
Belief in Fate Makes Failure.
There is no worse belief than that
in fate and luck to make one a fail
ure. It puts one in a wholly wrong
attitude toward life. It deadens in
centive and power to employ one’s
wholesome aspirations. It paralyses
the energies and the resolves. It ren
ders organized and spirited effort im
possible.
We may hope for no luck that we
are not worthy of and are not doing
our own part to earn.—The Christian
. Herald. , i