. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. s busy themselves sink al-most to insignificance, there mast he a healthy senti-ment,
. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. s busy themselves sink al-most to insignificance, there mast he a healthy senti-ment, the people of that divinely favored land mustbe brought to realize and confess that between thewhites and the blacks there is no marked difference,save ss described by one of our foremost champions ofthe Negro cause, Archbishop Ireland, who says thedifference is but the merest accident of color. There i< one great advantage to be gained inmixedschools by colored ehildren, and that is superiorequipment. The child thu3 brought up ,besides re-ceiving a more refined training, comes out better prerpared to mark out his path and find for himself aplace in life. He learns to take his own against hiswhite brother in youth, and holds that when a man; 155 hebecomes accustomed to him and loses timidity thatij only prevalent among us. He feels himself anequal m every way and spurns with disdain the vervthougt of inferiority, that from the very environmentfinds its way into the mind and only too often the be -. (REV .) lief of the child of the caste school. He quicklylearns his rights and is not slow to demand «*„Brother countrymen, I appeal to you; upon [allthat you hold dear, upon the duty that you owe to your race, your country and your child. Away withthe evil of caste school-. See to it that your child andyour neighbors child early take their place in schoolas Americans along with Americans; it is your right;dfmand. it with dignity and manliness and have cannot
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