Excerpt from The Gilgal of the Colored Race: A Baccalaureate Discourse
Every friend of the colored race should, for the purpose now under consideration, bid God - speed to their efforts in the temperance cause. The colored people have a special danger, since emam ipation. In the direction of intemperance. Slaverv kept out liquor, by with holding monev and retaining the laborers upon plantations. Free dom brings wages and the opportunity to obtain strong drink. (ion sequently, sad reports reach me from some sections of the South, of the increase of drunkenness among the colored people. Two years ago, in a long temperance procession, which paraded the streets of I saw no colored men, though hundreds of them lined the sidewalks as spectators. If this was because the spirit of caste excluded them from the ranks, the fact. Was a disgrace to the white temperance reformers of vashington; but if it was because the col ored race has no interest in this reform, it speaks sadly for its future, and begets a fear that many of them will add a new reproach to its name, instead of rolling away the old ones.
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