Persecution of Colored People

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1879

Persecution of Colored People.

THE New York Baptist Examiner publishes the statement of Rev. Mr. Ensley, who says he has been for years a teacher and preacher among the negroes in the Southern States, and notwithstanding the declaration of Senator Hill that the stories of the coercion and persecution of the negroes are all lies, he can testify from personal observation that they are terribly true.

"I cannot count," he says, "the number of times I have seen nice, intelligent colored men and woman dragged and driven from cars as if they were criminals. I have known white men to tell the negroes that if they voted so and so they should lose their homes or their lives immediately. Yes, and I have known their lives to be taken after they had voted."