Ex~3laV0 Stories
District #5
VandarbU1~h County
Lauafla Croel	A Slave, Amba33ador and City Doctor.


polltl-Cal craft, without rea1izirx~ who h.tc.I befriended t~iern in need%.“ “The no~ro youth3 are e8pecially 8ubject to propo~anda of the

four-‘flU3her.fOr their home influence 13,to say the least, nagative. Their opportunities limited, t~ie1r education neglected and they are

~	easily aroused by the meddling influence of the tote—getter and the

~	traitor. I would to God that their eyes might be opened tothe 1i~ht.“

~	Dr. Buckner‘s influence is mostly exhibited in the sick room, where

~	his presence is introduced in the effort to relieve pain.

~	The graduai rise from ~31avery to promInence, the many trials encount-.

~	ered along the road ha8 ripened the always 3ympathetic nature of Dr. Buck~

~	ner Into a respon8ive 8uSfer axnori~ a 3u.ffor1fl~ people. 11e ha~ hope that proper influenco3 and sympathetic advice will mould the plastic character of the Afro~American youths of the United States into proper citizens and that their ir~irnortal souls Inherit the promised reward o±~ the redeeorn~ ed through grace.

“Receivers of ernancit~at1on from slavery and enjoyers of emanci-‘

~	pation from sin through ~he sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ; ‘~ihy should not the negroes be exalted and happy?“ are the words of Dr. Buclcner.

	Note:	G. W. Buckner was born December Ist, 1852. The negroes in Kentucky expressed lt ‚“In fox huntin‘ tinie“ One brother was ‘born in ~ time“, one in USweet tater time,“ and another in flplantinl time.“

~ ~Negro lore