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A lecture was delivered at the A.M.E. church last night by the Rev. C.F. Cheelzzli , an Abyssinian, a recognized theological, historical, ethnological author, who the Boston Transcript claims is “a remarkable man,” and the London Times say is “a man whose command of th English vocabulary, original thought and educational prominence give him the place of the world’s greatest black philosopher.”
In part he said: “The critics who reject the equal psychological development and endowment of the blacks by God must be sympathized with as men incapable of grasping that homogenous essence that originally emanated from the anthropological domain and diversified by imparting into the evolved ethnological species and equal share of psychological forces. Can it be reasonable and established that there was a creative inferiority of the black race? This may be the doctrine of the political demagogue, catch-penny orator and braying asilnines of human idiocy; but those being endowed with higher reason, intellectual capacity and historical knowledge can, if the scales of ignorance and selfishness be dropped and destroyed, find that when a white philosopher, Plato, unravelled essential mysteries, a black Appo and Philo scattered fragmentary codes of metaphysical essences for man; when a white Hecklar had sounded a classical harp, a black Asiatic Homer had unfurled the harp of Illiadism; when a chite Xenophen had climbed historic mounts, a black Moses had surpassed historic mounts and became a geologist, an anthropologist, prophet and legislator; when fair Alexander laid hold of military laures, a black Homer made mounts to tremble degraded, arrogant soldiers and won the glory of angels.
“America has no race problem to be solved, should political agitators, intellectual imbeciles, and catch-penny orators be taught to know that it is a know fact that America is a white man’s country and the blacks will never control it, but will only be fitted here until their perfection be reached, when their destiny shall be extended.”
A large audience of white and colored people heard him. He will speak there again tonight.
