Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — THE RACE QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

THE RACE QUESTION.

Colonel Keating, of Memphis, Talks to the Missionary Society. Tfye negro question was the principal theme for discussion in the meetirg of the American Missionary Association which adjourred at Chicago Thursday. Several paper? were read, the moat interesting of which was one by Col. J. M. Keating, tho well-known Journalist of Memphis. Colonel Keating said that disfranchisement was impossible; that suffrage is necessary to the protection of the negro. Deportation, he says, is utterly impossible, for, if tho colored people emigrated it would be gveatly against the interests of the South. The thing to be done is to let tho negro slone, give him his rights, his education and christianzation. A vote of thanks was tendered Colonel Keating by the Association, and the committee on Printing was instructed to have the paper distributed throughout the South. The public debt wis reduced 19,104,853 during October.