Resolutions Adopted By The Colored People

We, the colored people of Ann Arbor ana vicinity, after due deliberation, have resolved that: Whereas, The statements made in the daily paper of the city referring to the recent affair on the Boulevard and attempting to implícate some colored person or persons in the disfrace attaching to the same, were made, not only in the face of the most contUeting testimony, but in terms expressive rather of race hatred than crirae hatred. And Whereas, These unrsfuted statements, accepted by the public in a community more than fifteen-sixlef.nths white, cannot fail to affect to a greater or less degree, the whole of this smaller number. Therefore we have Resolved, That while we stand always ready to be the last to shield, the flrst to denounce the guilty person öf whatever race, we do deeply deplore the lack of honesty and justiee tbat could prompt such an arraignment, utterly unfair and unaccompanied by later retraction and do condemn the spirit of malevolence exhibited in the use of terms intended to express contempt and race hatred. And we ask of a Christian community on 1his and future occasions the withholding of hasty judgment and censure born of prejudice. till at least sufficient evidenoe has been obtained to warrant It.