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/ THE STAR UK ZION. REV. J. W. 8MITH, D. D., Editor. ElEV. G. L. BLACK WELL, A. M., D. D., Business Manager. Published every Thursday at Charlotte, N. CH JOtl 8. (oUtgt at. Err sred at the Post Ojlce at Charlotte as eeo bnd-ilass mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION BA TBS: SI.00 psr annum; Hr months, 60 cents: no three month's subscrip tion. TO CORRESPONDENTS: To insure publica tion write with enk and extra carefulness on on* side af the sheet only; do not abbreviate; avoid pci sodalities; deal with live questions and give us items of chuieh and race, news; condense, so as to occupy a column or a half column; do not, if rotslble, exceed tied words. When writing about re vivids, anniversaries, dedico'ions, donations, mar riages, receptions, death of'hurch members, Easter or Children’s Day, and the like, write on postal cards. If yon write long- winded articles, the Edi tor will “boil then, down." Send all articles for publication to the Editor; send all subscriptions; all changes and all business matter to the Manager. STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. Bishop 0. O. Pottey, Editor of Woman’s Oolvjiran. Eev. G.W. Offley, D. D., Bev. E. G. Biddle, B. D., Rev- J. H. Anderson, Rev J. E Mason D D., Rov. W, H. Marshall, '/s*. W. A Blackwell, Rev. G. 8. Adams. DD, Rev E. D. W. Jones, A. B., Rev F. H Hill, Prof B A Johnson, A. M., Rev J.iH. McMullen. Rev,T A. Weathlngton, fpiI.El. Thornton,A.M.,Key,J.H. Manley, D.D., Prof.D.W.Parker,A.B., Rev f A.D-Blnlce, A M., Prof. W.F.FonvHllle,A.B,Rev.n. W Winfield,D.D M.G,Weeden,Esq., Prof.W M.Provlnder,A.B Rev H. W. -mlth, BoV. D. O. Oo in. ton Thursday, November 11, 1897. EDITORIAL. Do you read the Bible? Bishops Grant and Turner of Bethel, will eail for Africa, January 20,1898. The A. M. E. Church Review for October is a gem. Editor KealiDg understands his business. Bishops Hood and G. W. Clinton associated Bishop Lomax in the West ern North Carolina Conference which has just closed in Salisbury, N. 0 Bishop Lomax, who is an excellent presiding officer, keeps his conferences roaring with laughter by his witty and homely sayings. He delivered a fiae and practical address last week, and when he called the name of J, C. Price the Conference for several minutes made the church ring with applause. We wish every minister and mem ber could see Livingstone College. It is grand and * destined to be the greatest Negro college in the world. It has been fourteen years since we visited it. We went through its buildings and walked its beautiful campus this week. We shall tell you more about it next week. Rev. J. C. Troy, of Jonesboro, N. C., who runs a cut and writes a remi niscence of the Editor in this issue, is one of the most eminent, and talented white divines of the Methodist Epis copal Church, South We played to gether as boya. He is a scholar, au thor and thoughtful writer and con ducts the Religious Department in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, the greatest daily paper in the State. Maryland, which planned to «ae Bassinaie Abraham Lincoln when he was on his wav to Washington to be inaugurated President, but failed in ^he attempt because Lincoln went an other way, bas at last gone Republi can and turned down Senator Gor man, the boss of that State. If tbe epubh'cans can keep Gorman down and also dethrone Senator Platt, in the future there will be political peace for awhile in this nation. their pastors time io raise the eeveral conference claims. The Living-Stone, the neat little four-page papnr of Livirt^tone Col lege, Salisbury, N. 0 lace, Managing jleek last week, fall of spi^^^^^k Sevebal pastors can raise all of their own salaries, get surprises near ly every mM th, suits of clothes at the end of the conference year, raise a'l the presiding elder’s salary, and can not raise half the general funds to support the Bi-hop, General Officers, general departments and euperannu ated preachers. It is a shame. The time has come when such selfish pas tors must be given to understand that if they can raise these collections they must, raise every cent of the general tax to support the general Church. Excuses are played out. We publish another communica tion this week from Rev S. M. Gaines, one of our most progressive city pas tors in Mobile, relating the suffer ing caused in that city by the yellow fever, and doubting, like the Stab, if it is wisdom to hold conference there before January Because of the fever, Rev. .T. F. Moreland has been out of Moh'le for nearly three months and Presiding Elder Strong of that district is quarantined in Mississippi. Brother Moreland is preaching around in North Carolina. The bishops of the great M. E. Chuich whose session adjourned last week in Baltimore, have postponed all of their confer ences until January, so as to give the si bs ription b^ing 10 cents per montli and 50 cents per year. Let each minister and member take a year’s "subscription at'once in order to encourage our college paper. If you cannot do it immediately, then put 10 cei ts in silver in a letter for a month's subscription, and send it off to-da] • to the Maning Editor, Mr. Thom ts Wallace. We must keep up with 1 he doings of our chief college. Mr. Wallace, a brilliant young man, has b( en working in our Publication Houss all the summer. Biseop G. W. Clinton’s earnest appea l to President J. B. Colbert and ti ea<h Varick Christian Endeavor Society to raise a handsome collection to tui Id the first Varick Memorial A. M. E. Zion church in Na-hville, Tenn., before the International C. E. Con vention meet8 there next July should be be< ded af once. If President Col b-rt a id the 10,000 V. C. E. members in Zioo desire to do something lasting and tilling for Christ and HisChurch let th >m se%d the money to Bishop Clinton in the next four months. Let each fooiety try and send not less than <j 5 and due credit will be given in the Star. The Bishop will soon go to Vashville to secure a lot in a good locality, and the societies will hear Irom him again through these colum is. HEART PURITY. The fifty-first Psalm which David penned after the prophet Nathan had visited him and rebuked him for the awful jrime he had committed shows the Psilmist to ha a great penitent. After naking a deep confession of his guilt, in Psalms 51: 7-13, he cries out from the depths of his soul: “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall hs clean.” Cleanse me. A hys sop bri nch was used by the priests in pronouncing the leper, or one who had touched a dead body, clean. “ W ish me, and I shall be whiter than siiown.” It intensifies. He felt tint sprinkling with hyssop was not enougt. David was confident of one thing—-God could cleanse him, make him “ whiter than snow,” absolutely pure. Sinner, have you this faith? “ Mtke me to hear joy and glad ness.” Thy pardoning voice will fill me wi;h joy and gladness. That nothin] 5~el8e will, is the idea. God, throug 1 His Son Jesus Christ, consoles and en< ourages us by saying“Him that cometh tome I will in no wise cast out!” “Thmij'h your sins be as scarlet,” etc. “ Pardon and peace to dying men," etc. Pardon, pardon. “ Tb it the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.” What the body would ie with crushed bones repre sented lhe broken, bruised condition of his soul under the load of guilt which ;ione but God could remove. David prayed for a complete work when he said, “ Blot out all mine in iquities; create in me a clean heart, 3 God. ’ To carry out this last re quest requires as much power as it loes to cieate a world. A clean heart should be a heart from which should sraanat 5 pure motives, holy desires, iffections lifting the life toward God. ‘ Blessed are the pure in heart: for hey sh ill see God.” “0 for a heart ;o praiss my God," etc. " Renew a right spirit within me.” David knew what it was. He once iad it. This is the prayer of a . vretchsd backslider, both in heart ] ind life That word “ spirit ” passing ^ >ver his lips seem to awaken a horrible ( 'ear; his soul loses its h41d and trem des mo nentarily on the very verge >f ruin, and he cries out in the next . rerse, “ Cast me not away from thy ( jresenc i.” Do not pass the same lentenco upon me that you did upon ] Dain. “ Tat e not thy Holy Spirit from me.” One might well be excused from sh jddering while contemplating such a sml struggle. H- seemed to gaze do vn into the horrible gulf over which his sins bad swuDg him. The fearful :'ate of King Saul stared him in the fuce from the yawning depths beneath him. Sin had made his grasp on God weak. The life-line seemed to slip from his nerveless hand; the blade of justice flashed before his eyqp and the soul groans. “ Take not ” etc. was wrtng from his anguished spirit. The c risis is past, the light of hope over his soul, and David prayed, “ Restore unto me the joy of fhy salvation.” Nothing but full restoration to God’s favor would sat isfy him* “ Then will I teach trans gressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” The first iesire o a saved bouI is to do some thing fo • its Savior by leading other >ouls to God. Afrer walking the road of dang< r, he could paint the and foil es of sin to others breaks SOME RUNNING NOTES. RACE TOPICS—EDITOR J. W. SMITH WHOM I HAVE KNOWN ALL MY LILE. BY REV. J. C. TBOY. The Editor of the Star has extend ed me such a cordial invitation to give him a contribution that I feel it a great pleasure to comply. He has sent me the two last issues of his pa per and I have read all that in them is with much interest: especially, may I so declare in reference to the edito rials; and my notes will tell why later on. I note in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer the following: There are no discontented Afro Americans, except a few who hav been too highly educated and who want offices they can’t get. The doc tor has that part of it wrong. As for those who now cry out against the Negro but will want him back aftei he is gone, we are free to say tha> many of those who now rail at him would want him back if he were away, But he isn’t going away, as the result of fake colonization schomes nor otherwise. He is here not by accident but in accordance with a dispensation of Providence, and here to stay. We need him auo he needs us, and whatever talk there there is of returning him to Africa is born of a scheme which has money at the bottom of it or else is the re sult of idle dreaming. The remarks in the foregoing para graph are suggested by a coloniza REV. JOHN W. SMITH, D.D., Editor of the Star of Zion. tion scheme for the good of the American Negro, and which is agi tated by one Dr. J. Albert Thorns. Of course the doctor will be success ful in making something out of it for himself; but it will ultimately be to the hurt of the Negro. Editor Caldwell’s remarks “that we need the Negro and he needs us,” are to the point; and the fact is, he never writes any other way. heart and head are both right; and the paper which he edits never fails to plead the cause of justice for all classes. The Negro is as much needed now in this and other Southern States as in days of slavery. In many re spects his abiding as a part of the body politic is more essential than ever. The bad Negro is a menace to good government and religion in the same ratio that the bad white man is; and the good Negro has as important work and obligaton rest ing on him aB the good white man. The Negro or the race problem, as it is called, has never appeared to me as being difficult of solution. Of course there are educated Negroes as wel as educated white men who are dangerous to the well being of thf-ir respective races, and they need to be met by cool, thoughtful, prudent men and their schemes for evil brought to naught. The Negro is not any Gj ascustus to me. He has my sym pathy in his struggle to rise from the pit of ignorance and degradation; and the leaders of the race have my pray ers, that the spirit of our heavenly Father msy ever guide them in the right channels. There is a future for the Negro, and many of them are going to work out the so-called problem; and are going to do it right where they have been born. The diefrauchisement scheme, suggested by certain breth ren, will prove a failure just as other of their schemes in repect to various matters, will be broken to pieces as they are met by the great stoned wall of patriotism, a virtue that still livep in the hearts of thousands of North Carolina children. The Rev. D. 0. Covington, in his nitial contribution to the Sunday Observer published at Charlotte,, had jomething concerning the Rev. J. W. Smith, Editor of the Stab. He re ferred to him as one, of the leaders if his race in the ^piorable position vhich he holds as ine head of the Donnectional orgaii of the greatest Negro denomination in America. Elis references to Ais particular man nademe think^of days gone by. rohn Smith was\h^name by which Jiini.Tt'will ever be Joiu? with — ing preachers,jf have kaown all my life. He le 30 W I am 40 years ol age. Ia a personal letter to me he writes these words: in my success. ;You know I had it rough in my hoyhood days. Little did I think,when I used to vork for your nc ble and kind parents in Fayetteville about 19 or 20 years ago that I would; ever make a stir in the public and ireligious world and finally become the Editor of the offi cial organ of one the greatest Negro denominations iu the world.” The old grand-mother of this boy was for years a trusted, faithful, hon ored servant in our family. He was Her joy/ and in vacation and on Sat urday John was with her at my home. He was u studious boy, and many times have I seen him, in ‘the shade of the tree* or on the steps to the porch, poring over some scrap ol paper which he bad picked up in the yard; and finally he became an edu cated man as boyn of every race may, it they follow with never ceasing perse verance such an example as. John Smith has set. ]; heard him preach his first sermon, 1 think, at the his toric Evans’ Chapel, Fayetteville. I remember his text: "Fight the good fight of faith.” .1 was proud of him then; I am proud of him now. He is an honor to his country, and if with bis intellectual antainments he com bines wisdom,, prudence, judgment as a leader of his :race there are honors still higher before him. When he was pastor in New Haven, Conn., and Baltimore end probably other points, his faithful grand-mother would bring his 1 afters for us to read. I have seen the dusky face of the now sainted old mother grow radiant as I would read to hei the words of the preacher, her graad-son, as he told her how the work of the Lord was prospering ia his hands* She is now gone, but har works follow; and be vy," as we used to call her, (all of my mother’s children, eight of us, were cared for by her) I pen these lines in affectionate remembrance of you. Kind, honest, faithful servant, you served your generation by the will of God; you f'erved it well. you rejoice ing dead she yetipeaketh. “AuntSil The position attained by the Edi tor of this paper only proves what is possible to the boy who has some* thing in his head; though his circum stances in early lile may not have been . propitious. Still these very kind of circumstances often result in bringing out the stuff of which a man is made. John was faithful, and though he generally took his time, he did properly what he was asked to do. He was respectful, obedient; and if ever I spoke an unkind word to John, or he to :ne, in all the years I knew him as a toy and young man, I have no recollection. My prayer is that when his work is over, and the hour comes for him to go the way of all the earth, that he tmay have the testimony for bis conscience and his God, that he L?d his people, as did Joshua, right; that is, in the way of the Lord. Thsse comments are not especially for him, but are writ ten for the benefit of his people that they may know the estimate put up on him by one of his many white friends; and one who does with all his heart rejoice in the honors that have been given this representative of the great Africt.n race. I am a believer in sayinp pleasant things, when deserving, in the sweet now; and not wait for "the sweet bye and bye." There are other colored men in Charlotte, Tom Lomax as his friends sail him, now a Biahop; Rev. Robert Simmons, Jno. S. Leary, Attorney at Law, concerning whom I may at some future time have something to iay. May the Stab shine on unto that more perfect day when there shall he so problems, and when all men and slasses shall have learned the royal law, and will do onto each other as ;hey would be dons by. Amen. Jonesboro, AT. C T® the Central N. C. Conference: Reduced rates hav«j been made on all •ail-roads to the An aual Conference at Elenderson, N. 0., on the 17th. The 8. k. L. R. R. will scl1. roipd-trip tickets it one and one-third rate from all points .etween Charlotte and Henderson from 5th to 20tb inclusive limited to Nov !5th. Following raves will afrply from mints named : Charlotte to Henderson ind return, $ 7.00; Hamlet $ G.35; San ord, $4.25; Raleigh and Durham $2.25. [■hose going via. 0. F. & Y. V. R. R. rom Fayetteville will take S. A. L.train it Sanford Tuesday nornlng. The Bish ip will preach at Sanford Monday night, rhose from Concord going via. Southern l R. will change a, OreeiUhoro, tarn, and Oxford, nents have been rotertain the hat all the each Henderson of arrival MAJORS AND MINORS. CREEDS AND SCBEEES, ELEGIES AND ' EULOGIES, CAE TOONS AND RHAPSO DIES. BY W. F. FONVIELLE. Time flies. People can’t; but they manage to keep i p pretty well. What are the College men going to do iD 1900? Just think of it: the freshmen of ’96 M ill be the class of ’00. If that "cannon ball” Rev. S. A. Chambers sends rolling after Rev. J' W. Thomas, explodes, what a time there will be ins.de the fort. The bishops won’t have time to "put on their robes; and Bro. Thomas—well wait until you hear the concussion. We are so apt to«caricature what we love, and distort what we hate. The first case of substitution on record was that made by the donkey when he stole the lion’s skin; but for tunately he was detected in tho ex periment. Gov. O’Ferrell, of Virginia, and Senator Daniell of the same State, tried to use up all the paper and ink in Virginia "a wr .tin agin each oth er,” ^but they have given it up as a hopeless task. Now Senator Gor man, of Maryland, and Editor Abell, of the Baltimore are trying to exhaust the Maryland supply; but from last accounts the mills were turning Out material. Let ’em stop and use their mouths. In. this way they will be'enabhd to get off more words than a typo writer on a type setting machine cjuld possibly hope to do. During these times of conventions, conferences, assemblies, resolutions) motions and seconds, amendments and substitutes, is there a man living who can look into his brother’s face and declare upon his honor that he has never been a delegate, a trustee, —has never belonged to a society, never been elected, nominated, mis understood or im posed upon in his life? If so, let hin. hold up his hand. The editor of tl e Star thinks I ought to see to it 1 hat the editor of the Age is properly served with, a bottle and oysters on ice, in order that T. Thomas miy properly refresh himself and go after his pestiferous critics. It’s nearly winter now. What’s the matter with pistols and coffee ? Besides in the matter under discussion betweer Editor Fortune of the Age and Editor Johnson of the Recorder, the latter is wrong. The New York paper tikes the right view of the matter. The Recorder should remember that Philadelphia is not the United States, nor does it con tain all the educated young men the race has. Beside!) Editor Johnson reads with his prejudices and not with his eyes. The Age is right; the Re corder, wrong. The contribution by Rev. E. Geo. Biddle on “The Present Industrial Battle” is a thoughtful and scholarly p^per, and shows that Mr. Biddle has given much tine and study to economic questions Such papers as this, put in pamplet form, would at tract great attention from persons in terested in questions of political econ omy. ihip of the Society is divided into hree separate divitions, one of which vas to declaim, one to compose and he other to debate. A young white South Carolina i3 nothing if not inconsistent. She stubbornly refuses to pass a Jim Crow law, yet rigidly enforces an unwritien.law, forbidding the races to come together in the waiting rooms of her depots. Her constitution disfranchises a portion of her citizens, yet the taxes are reg ularly collected from them. Eight Negroes were lynched at one time in Barnwell county because they were exceptionally bhcfe; but South Carolina is the only State in the Un ion that,employs Negro labor in her textile mills. The constitution for bids the intermarrying of the races, but puts a premium on vice by say ing (by its silence) that it is no crime for the races to unlawfully live to gether. The Pale Face Literary Society is the name of a new Caucasian organ ization in one of the lower Eastern counties of this State, which has for its object the uplifting of the white folks. Its motto is: "White Folks and White Money.” I attended one of its meetings a few nights ago. The preliminaries were gone through, after which the programme of the evening was read. The subject for discussion for th»i evening was: ‘Which is the greater Republican, TTi nlow aiI nUvula n 9 TKfl mamW. I voice, that he didn't “know he had to repose; the secretary told him a week ago he had to exclaim, bat not haying the time to remit a piece, he had prepared a rebate, which he hopped the Society would except.” At the conclusion of this little piece, darkness fell upon the assembly. Let the good work go on. , The chief reason why the lectures read by the newspapers to the Ne groes who spend all they make rid ing on excursions, have such little effect is, because those for whom we write never read a newspaper. The way to get at ’em isfor the churches to stop running excursions and go to preaching against them. You can’t judge the amount of money a man pays in Church by the noise he makes in the “Amen Corner." The man who had the biggest time at the picnics last summer, went on the greatest number of excursions, wore the longest duster, and treated to the largest amount of lemonade, will be the first individual to turn up at charity coal and wood yard this winter. The way to get along in this world is to move. The burglary business seems to be the most prosperous business just now. Goldsboro, N. C. WOMAN’S CONFERENCE. SOMETHING NEW IN RELIGIOUS DE NOMINATIONS—ZION AHEAD. BY REV. W. J. BENJAMIN. The Woman’s Conference, which is a new thing in Zion, begun by Mrs. M. A. Marable, wife of Presiding Elder M. V. Marable, Vice-President of the W. H. & F. M. Society of the W. N. C. Conference, met in Martin’s Chapel, Gastonia, N. C., Oct. 7,1897. We do not remember any instance in history where women conducted con ference in a denomination, composed of themselves. The work went on nicely—no blundering. Earnest, sin cere words for suffering humanity fell from their lips and touched all who heard them. Zion has her great men. She also has her great women. Sitting and looking at this conference of women, few in number, I thought of the little band of Zionites who organized Zion over a hundred years ago and who went forth to battle for the rights of a down-trodden race. This little band of women may be laughed at— so were the founders of Zion; but toiling onward and upward on the narrow way for Christ they may yet write their names so high that the en emy cannot erase it. It is a large and noble undertaking. The organization of a Woman’s Con ference in Zion, a woman to preside, women to act as secretaries, women to speak, sing, pray, legislate—history, you must add another page for these noble-hearted women are coming to add one more star to your crown. Or ganize to raise more missionary mon ey! Ye white winged keels of the ship, you must broaden your bases, for here comes an army of women to raise money to send missionaries to the other side. Ye heathens in your blindness, bowing down to wood and atone, your cry is heard by these worn- » en who have started out to free you. ( Zion will hail this event with great pride. It is new light springing.up in darkness. This movement will not 1 fail because women are behind it. * Several ministers were present and i made welcome. We wanted to take , part in the proceedings at times but | the women notified us that they were running that meeting; that they were f there for business and not for long ( speeches. The grandest feature of 1 the meeting was the hour of special , prayers for the mission cause at noon Every one present felt the presence of the Spirit and was convinced that c God was in the movement, and that S it would succeed. “The hand that f rocks the cradle moves the wofld.” <: This movement should be encouraged ^ by the bishops and ministers. A grand woman represents this c Woman’s Conference—Mrs. Marable, * refined, talented, full of love and zeal f for the Master's work. At the ap- e pointed time she organized the con- j ference with all the ease and grace of one who had been in the business be- I fore. She appeared all the time a no- t ble picture of health and beauty, full 1 of wit and pathos, sometimes having the conference laughing, and again weeping, as she told some apt inci- * dent. With boldness she said to'the minist&p, “I want your co-operation a for I am working for you and your r families.” ± Miss Anna Gardener, the secretary, is a noble yonng woman, and stands second to Mrs. Marable in this work. She is a ready writer. Rev. A. L. Newby, of Newton, preached an excellent Sermon in the avening on "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” Col lection $3 35. The night session was full of good works. Delegates re ported. Rev. D. 0. Covington, of Charlotte, preached a powerful ser mon the second night. Collection $3. rotal collection from all sources £28 70- According to the ruling of the presiding officer, each circuit in the Western N. 0. Conference is en titled to one or more missionary lady lelegates to the annual meeting of the Woman’s- Conference. The con ed to meet in Clinton Wednesday in June 1898 fit 10 o'clock A. M. If this the first Woman’s Confer ence even held by any denomination is encouraged we shall raise a lot of misnionary money. Florence Nightin gale immortalized her name on the battle-field binding up the wounds of bleeding soldiers. Molly Pit* wrote her name high by standing'be side the cannon when her husband had fallen. These women have taken the field, not to do these things, but to free the souls of the heathens from darkness, from sin and from the devil. Maj' God bless them to live long to wor's for Zion that they love so well. Cherryville, N. C. ARE THESE THINGS SO? DIFFICULTIES OF SPAIN—TREMEN DOUS PROBLEMS CONFRONT SEGASTA AND HIS CABINET. BY REV. S. S. WALES. The careful reader of the Philadel phia Press of October 23d must have been startled as he read the report from Madrid of the 20 th ult. We are informed that there is a diplo matic secrecy going on between this government and the Queen Regent and Sagasta, which, if true, makes the American Government a party to one of the most diabolical plots known in the world’s history, before which all of the black and bloody deeds perpetrated by Weyler fade away. The writer of the report says, “A high diplomatic personage who has special means of accurately judging Spain’s motives, assured me to-day that the Queen Regent and the Se gasta Government are sincere both in their wishes to obtain the sympathy of the American Government and to conciliate the majority of the Cubans, especially the whites, whom the new policy aims to detach from the insur rection. In this new policy, so termed, they desire the American Govern ment to take a part. This we under stand to be the last private instruc tions given the newly appointed Gov ernor-General of the Island. He is not to take the field, but he is to remain in Havana, from which point he will send out his emissaries and through them make his proffers to the white Cubans, and through this policy he proposes to detach them from those of African and IndiaD ori gin and by this weaken the opposing forces and secure the control of the Island. This they concede cannot be done without the co-operation of the American Government. As an in ducement, the new policy proposes to give to the American Government an advantage in trade and capital, in the Spanish West Indies. Ths report further says, “ views on these delicate matters are exchanged between the two Governments with great reserve, and the probabilities are that nothing of these interviews will ever be placed officially on rec ord.” It concludes by saying, “ the prevailing opinion inmourt and official circles in Madrid, is that the Ameri can Government shows a temporizing and friendly disposition.” We are not surprised at the new policy proposed by Spain, but we are surprised that the Spanish Govern ment would entertain a hope for a moment that a civilized and Chris tian government like ours would de generate so far as to endorsje or co operate in a policy that could only 5nd fivor with the barbarous and uncivilized. j , Th« inhuman policy of annihilation if all who opposed the government of Spain as adopted by Weyler having railed the new administration under 3egasta adopts another more wicked ban the first, and in this she makes ivertcres to the American Govern nent to become a silent partner. i£ay we not inform the Spanish Gov ernment that as long as the name of Benedict Arnold remains upon the mges of American history, she need lot look for this Government to fol ow his example. Neither the Queen Regent nor Se jasta can be strangers to the senti nent of the American Government s regards Cuba. Let not the neutral elaticns thus far sustained by the American Government be interpreted is an approval of the inhuman war ate that has so'long been carried od gains1; a people who have a right to >e free. Chambersburg, Pa. Mrs Bishop Hood, Prof. S. G. Ltkimi, Mrs. G. L. Blackwell, Mr. H. L Kelsey, J. S. Settle, Manager' Hackvell and Editor Smith attended he W, N. C. Conference. Bishop Hood and wife, Editor Rev. R. Alonzo Scott and Dr. Simmons were
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