The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 2, 1886, Page 2

the headway made by the direc-| be given such latitude 9s the tors of the Washington Colored | nature of the subject and the de- Fair it bids fair to a success. | mands for such information as he No stone should be left unturned | cau contribute and reasovably bes ws to make this first effort a _credita-|stow. Tle presiding officer we ble affair in every way. The press|ehould exercise his judgment in pe __*_________jof the couutry speaks words of| these matters, potpets by aS ; at 1109 I street | encouragement for the enterprise.| own convictions Tegarding the northwest, Washington, D.G: Every anamhe attempt to 28% subject aud with the view is _ onstrate the worth of the race as|iting the greatest amount of infor- Sectond-cass mall matter. a factor in the civilization o1 the | mation ss and con. Let us have world and as contributing to the| proper government and a fair s2.00 | greatness of the American people { chance to get the greatest amount ~ "Yoo | Will hasten the full and complete | of knowledge attainable. Let us - .%|recognition to which the race is| remove all shoddy and petty preju- */entitled. Besides urging every | dices and let the people-be enter- $1 09 | 00€ to contribute articies for exhi-| tuiued in the proper manner, ~ “s00| bition which the management of 7 60| the fair desire, we would also say € =) second-class mai! matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ne copy, per year - - Six months. - Three months = = - City subscribers, monthly - - ADVERTISING RATE One inch, one month - Quarter column “ “? - . Half column a a. - - SECRETARY LAMAR.” One column * + + 15) in the language of the managers nadiace ae, -_ * > 2M] of the N.C, Ludvstrial Association: Halfcolt *“.- » -», ~ %01*Go to the fair with big hearts, : ee fig tet it ee big hands, and big purposes. Go The Washington Bee says that “Secretary Lamar is favorab!v dis- posed towards the despised N»- gro.” Let’s see. Secretary Ls- MAR is irom Mississippi. 8 peci a) notices 50 cents each. Ten lines cun prepared to see the Negro stand- rama ing umid the splendor of his brain We disclaim ny responsibility for estate| #nd muscle with arm outstretched ments expressed by our correspondent} and index finger pointing to the velther do we orgy andes (i nee grand possibilities which the near sake kee pinbaien saat eb baciek. future holds out to our advancing Communications for publication must | fortunes. *e aceompanied with the writer’s name Not necessarily tor publication, but guarantee of good faith. W. CALVIN CHASE, Eprror. LETTS OY AE SORES state that has stringent law again® riots, lynching, murder o.her outrageous crimes. *> Senator Lamar was a lawyer ux unusually extensive influence in his state. Let’ssee. Did we ever hear of h’s fiery eloquence, his le- The new one dollar silver certi-| gal ability and his 1 olitical influ~ The President has not yet ap-| ficate authorized by an uct of Con- | ence being used against the mar- pointed a minister to L beria to} gress is now being printed at the | derer of MatTHEws or against the succeed the late Rev. Moses Hop- | Bur.au of Engraving ind Printing. | lawless rioters aud cut throats of kive It has been nearly two| The artistic work «n this note is}the Yaz.odistrie? Did his tren- months since the position has been | very fine and has been well exe | chant pen urge upon the judic'al made vacant and the common in-| cuted by skillful wo kmen. On the|a:id executive officisls in hie state quiry throughout the country ix} back a majority of the work has that it was their duty to ferret “who has been appointed minister} been done on the geom-trical | out and properly punish the per- to Liberia.” The vice cousul at| lathe machine. On each end of] petiators of the Carrollton massa- Monrovia, who, we learn is not an | it is cut a large figure 1, while in} cre? It seems to us a man ‘ f.vo- American citizen may be attend |the center are engraved letters] rably disposed toward the desp'sed ing to the diplomatic work which | forming the words United States Negro” would have done these devolves upon the minister all] Silver Certificate and also quoting | things. Did Lamar of Mississippi right. But it eurely is not the]a portion of tne act. Tre whole do 80? Or is a“‘favorable di-po policy of this government to bave| combination of lettering in the}s.tion” simply to be manifested by the country represented abioad| center forma an cblong shape. a retention in office of a few Afro- by foreigners. Among so many|The boidering and some other] American officials? — Detroit available candidates tor appoint-| portions «f the wo k on the back | | laindealer. nent to the Liberian mission it is] is done by hand. — { Our ditticult to account for the delay in| Ou the face of this note is to be| takes us io task because we com- muking a selectiin, With bated |seen a hand-omely engraved por-} plime sted Secretary Lamar for his breath, we await the opportunity ; trait of Martha Wasnington ov | fairness toward the Negro. We to chronicle the President’s cho ce. | the left end. On tie right end of|atill aver that Mr. Lamar has Who shall it be? the note is a fine piece of ‘lathe|shown a triendly disposition to- work in the center of which is cut] wards the Negroes in his cepart- atigure 1. Inthe center of the| ment, more so than many repab= note is another elegant pi ce ot|licans, who are holding positions lathe work in the ceuter of which} under Mr, Clevelanu’s adm‘nis- are the words “Une Silver Dollar.” | tration. “To the victor belong Just above this is to be seen the} the spoils” is a well estab'ished ONE DOLLAR CERTIFICATE. H. C. Smith, the putative edito: of the Cleveland Gaz-tte, who en~ deavored to seil a personul lette: of Mr. Douglass to the Republ'can State committee strikes at Mr. Pu- dies in_a, cowardly manners. We sertion of a blackguurd und black- mailer. The editor of the Brx lives alfove auspic:on, so far as hie alhance with any purty is voncernu- ed, or an attempt to cella personal letter to him by an honorable man. Mr. Pulies isa gentleman i mbmeweebed——ndind ~hpg graved by hand except a small] this principle, portion of lathe work on the lefi end. The back is printediu green ink, the face iv biack, the numbers in bfue and seal of the U. 8 Treasury in red. When finished | to and redy for issue it will be us| se Negroes in his state, it isa fuct n massacre. Agiin he hus made veral promotions in his office of Misse,; sippi is a good old Democratyy. ay iS word “United States” engraved] principle, not only under demo- = x v 1 While Mr. Lamar is vot so loud in his condemnation of crimes perpetrated against the that he did condemn the Carroll- er and excellence! The o'd world, much as it hates the fledgling A~ merica dares not jerk the veriest tuil feather of the American eagle, albeit it can boast cf its bears and lions and the like. O no! Ger- many would rather Jay an embar- n its limbergher cheese and | aint like they was iu old time. aes 3 Russia | is cheaper to sell the cotton sour ctout and garlic; t would rather crown its worst ni- hilists and England would rather break off the uvicorn’s only horn and draw the lion’s eye-tooth and let Ireland have Home Rule, than to treat one of America’s proud bank robber, a dynamite manipu- ar aud with surdonic smile and diefiant gesticulation shake his finger in the very faces of foreign- eqs. O yes,an American citizen 0] in step high when he is ab:oad. matters not whether he is white » black, if he wears under his bi ewer he goes. i Ajmerican citizen his colored com- peer can bask iv the sunlight of sl vement. ick: ess and becoms so narrow whl any fool see throagh it eplored America citizen asks for anything, on the grounds that he is un American citizen he is langh- cil at and is told that he is ouly countrymen and fellow citiz ns, is bold that he does not belong here and can expect buat little aid in righting his wrongs. If he is mur- dered or, lynched tor avother’s zen is helped across styx with a told that in some states, he much. ~Athertean” cftizeitaiy 40 the colored man at homeis a sick ening contradiction aud so it will continue to be unless the colored people look to themselves and more upon the wo ks of the entire oppositi-n with manliness, unity ee ¢ Hi : d discretion. The matter of of ability, honor aud integrity handsome as any note ever issued competent colored men aud has} 2” z which is more than we or ped by the government. noi allowed them to be imposed Bere wane Cen erauiary ty ie Scribe. ————————_—_—_———— OUR LYCEUMS. ple of Ohio can cay about the blackguurd of the Cleveland Gu- zette. Cuan the editor of the Ga sette inform us, who the man was that outraged a schvol teacher in his state not long since und en- deavored to in this city? upon by the so-called republican friends of the Negro. This is not the only reason that Mr. Lamar has been complimented by us, but because he has demonstrat«d the It will not be a great while be-|fact that democrats, under our put it on a gentleman | fore the many li erary societies] ew dispensation, will treat the will open for the winter season | Negro tairly if he is dispos:d to sens hint concerning them may mad promi cel disposition to. ‘ =. uot be amiss. ‘hat such institu.|Wads those in the democratic CAPITAL CITY GUARD. tious are d signed to elevate the| patty who offer any inducements The Capital City Guard, will] cvaracter and tone of s ciety and, | for the welfare of the colored race. meet Monday evening und ekct a] When placcd under pioper man-| Our contemporary says “Did we Col. to succe.d Col. T.8. K: lly. | agement do elevate the sume, can | eVer hear of his (L:mar’s). fiery The general impression is that | bardly be doubted. But sume of'| eloquence, his legal ability and his Mr. F.C. Revells will be elected, | these societies m’ss the mark by |_Political influence being used We don’t see why Capt, J. A |aiming too high while others tail| against the murder of Matthews Perry cannot be eketed to suc- ceed Col. Kelly. Cupt, Perry} management. Most of thcse s ci 18 @ young men, who hus work.d] ties a e Cemocratic and in their hard for the success of the Guards | nature often permit themselves to hence no man_ is more deserving | be imposed upon by iguorgnt per- for the position than Perry, while] 80u8 Whose only object is to be| Make political eapitai? Can. the we have no obicc'ion to Mr, Rey | veard, without regard to the pro-|Southero people be blamed for be ells, Capt. Perry is our first choice | Ptieties of debate or the subject | ing liberated from carpetboggism? and thould be elected. under discussion. As a conse~| Were not the so-called northern pices E quence many valuable moments | C@rpet baggers ‘responsible for the PRINTING OFFICE pJIs-]#Té lost and disgust and ridicule | iI treatment of the southern Ne- CHARGES. often brought upon the society, }groes? Give Mr. Lamar a chance, trict?” Negro, only when ne wants to Public Printer Benedict, has| Seem io think that their duty is to[ Press give it to him. Let us do been compelled to reduce the force | Show what little respect can be|#Way with party fealty and support in his office on account of shoriage | Shown to those who voiuuteer li:- | men- in the appropriation. It was as| etary contributions or particip. - much to the regret of Mr. Rene.| tion iu the «x -rcises of tie society, in their object on account of b.d|Or the cut threats of Yazoo dis-} signed that position a few da then too, mea are plac d at tne} 4nd it ke is worthy of a compli- | made onward, and we cannot put a head of these organizations, who} ment from the pen of the Negro fair estimate upon the progress of disp sition to do justice and wherever we find the disp sition let us make good use of it and of- fer fair returns for the same. —_—_—_———__ AMERICUS MOOR. MR. EDWARD W. WILLIAMS GIVES A GRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE FREED- MEN IN THE SOUTH EMIGRATION. HIS REMEDY. HE RESIGNS HIS POSITIUN AND BUYS A FARM, Mr. Edward W. Williams, who was forsome time employed in the Government Printing uffice, re- j has written a pamphlet entitled | ‘Americas Moor or the Life among | the American Freedmen.* It con- | tains 59 pages which relates the condition of the Freedmen in the | south in a graphic style. Mr. Wil- | liams says: In the south, especial- 4 ly, the white man was seconded by | the black man in every step he | the one without calculating the ad- vantages he derived trom the oth- er. To extend the time for import- ing Negroes was the grant that. served to make the American un- ion, and refused to extend the: -| ter went to Villa, and on entering subjects in any manner short. of) ars store the latter said : Well Pecksniffian obsequiousness. A Paster, you have cotton today? shirt, that precious charmof Amer-|in th oan iGucraties he is protected by ps sy koe ra ors pare a i i yected where | colored peop! 7 lk ea ba apr eras trial Justice office, and reasoned on dict to make these di-charges as it was for those who were dis- .charged. Mr. Benedict is un- like many recent appointees, who had contro! of the official axe. He has certsinly endeavered tu be fa r and discharge those who could best stand it. As we have s‘ated the colored employes will be treat- ed fairly, although there are but a few in the office, not more than a dozen have been discharged so fur. It is hoped that when the Public Printer increases his force, he will not forget bis brother in black. We wish him success. THE INDUSTRIAL FAIR. From what we have learned of! instruction of the audience, They or some of them are uncouth and even supercilious and deteat the object fur which the society has ben organized and lessen the } th. general respct for such institu, ship. And to speak truly, there sions. In the first plece these} is something high-sounding in the societi. 8 should te properly officer-] name. There is euphony in the ed. Tue presiding officer should} combination. It rolls Mhajestical - be polite and judicious, having ly on the tongue. Besides this, it ever in view the ds:emination ot | looks big in print and when view- useful information and the i entertuinnent of all concerned. eyciopean Hence woen be finds ignorance | sessor of t! presuming upvn the nglt e dignity of American citizen- shape. When the d.m cratic character of the organ-| wrath and ization, such ignorance should be} whole nation restrained in a polite and dcter- miued manner. So, also, aspraker who contributes to the useful indignation of the » even to the point of bloody war or costly dignified di- plomatic controversy aud coup d etat. American citizenship ! should ' Whyt a paragon of majestic pow- A great deal is said about the|S@ved the union. Americas Moor- proper} ed by a foreigner, it looms up in | man of fifty years, the busvand of pos- | # good wile, and the father of ten bat high sounding term | Cbildren, of whom the youngest to | happens to be abroad, he may use alone survives. Twenty years ago sprak, as an cutgiowth of the|i-s talismanic power to stir the he was taken out of slavery and territory by their subjection would. have destroyed, but freeing them. is afull blooded Negro, tall and: stout. Labor has set all othis phy sical powers into healthy exercise ;; but of bis exterior from, we'll say’ no more, let the world ridicule: it on to its delight; our objeet is to represent that spirit which moves him from within. He is a thrown upon the world without a dollar in bis pocket or the least experience of business. On one of the last mornings of November 1883, Moor began to lead his two horse wagon with seed, cotton to carry to the gia The harvest time was near its end, and farmers. were all preparing the remnant of their cotton crop for the market. When ail the cotton was put in the wagon, Faony, his wile _asked, “Please letch back some lint cot- ton so | kin spin some tread. Moor answered: ‘Things poe en buy ad.” * * ie “The reader is asked to_hold Vil- lain his mind as one of the coua- try towns of the south and Urban as one of the seaport or large com- mercial cities. The next day Pas- -‘No, sir,” said Paster. “I came lator or even a New York Alder-| to see you.” ‘Not to borrow mon- ‘njan, if he be an American citizen | ey, I hope,” said Arb. Paster ze- can put a ring in the nose of the| plied ; No, sir, I came to save mon- ritish lion and face the Russian | ey for yon. Moor been at Mr. Partigin yes- terday braggiug ‘bout he got he own land and dot him sabe ‘‘nuff cotton dis year to buy up all he want next year.” * * Moor rents land for them and ‘e is respected at home, when he himself, too, for bis tract is insufli- abroad. And when he is abroad | .jent for his farm. off about the middle of December |The Moor and Arb case came } i Tue the trial Justice Coart. the prospects of the case. There was Tiase an old friend and neigh- bbr of Moor’s who believed ’e aint royaliy «nd flutter in the movn) ii, use for ber Moor to bodder wid {ite of Freuch republicanism—} qj.r case. Dese wite people aint alll the same—just so he is abroad. giaine back on one nudder for we, But American citizenship seems to apd dese go. ke atomble when in its native} 4 ‘ Tt loses its breadth and i who said; “Lord, we haf- fer work There was Micer, trae friend and neighbor oi in all kins er wedder to i i valk over it| okeak the crop ond dese wite peo- Be ees tie Tf a! ple do nutten but talk ‘em away. Want of space will not allow a lengthy review of this valaable pamphlet. It is a recital of the con- dition of the southern Negro which should be read by all lovers of lib- permitted to exist in the coun rv] erty, Mr. Williams is a young man where he was born, through the] of avility who is an ornament to sufferance of his white brother.] the rising young men of the south. Ile is robbed of his labor in many] The pamplet can eseemed contemposary parts of this country and when he} israntannos and Bros., cor. 11th appeals to his white brothers as} Penn. Ave. n. w. be bought at ‘THE TRUSTEES WILL REME- DY IF: erime, this colored American citi- | pqitor of the BEE: Why caunot the colored High plea-ant “glad he is gene.” He! school boys be formed into a wili- asks that his citizenship be Tecog-| tary company and uniformed as nized at the ballot box and he is} Cadets? If there is to be two High Schools j is 1t that_the pow- oS RREIRY, why is tb that the pow: modern appliances for the colored }high school. Whose fault is it \that such an inequality exists be- | tween the whiteanu colored schools? What steps should be taken to arouse the citizens , interested to do their duty in the premises? | Who is responsible for the favor- | itism, nepotism so flagrautly dis- played and fostered in tho colored schools of this city, where merit is put one side, as of no avail, and ‘family pets” and relations put forward without any reference to their qualifications over meritori- ous teachers who are not backed by favors of family or relations on the school board. I find that your paper is read regularly by the Com- missioners of the District, as well as by representative people. Will you not go on in the good and com- mendable fight you are making, for justice, square and fair dealing, for those teachers who have noth- ing but their merit and qualitica- tion as teachers to depend upon. Your effort in behalf of lot hold- : i ys || ers of Harmonial Cemetery and by We dcsire to ask whether | 4go and bought himself a farm in | which that ‘neglected spot” is now any rcptblican has ever ased his} the south, where he will shortly go} tiery eloquence in behalf of the aud pitch his tent. Mr. Williams on the docket of the Equity Court, to be settled by law, is appreciat- ed ; continue your bold, manly and courageous war against familyisin, \{ Vepotism and favortism in our pub } lic schools and you will continue to deserve the good will of your fel- | low citizens. Fiat Justice. HOTCHKIN CARRIAGE WORKS, OUR No. 14 BUGCY. We manufacture Open and Top Bug- gies, consisting of the Side Spring, End pring, Brewster, Timken and Edward Storm Spring. Also various styles of Two-Seated Car riages, Wagons, Cutters and Sleighs. OUR No. 5 WACON. ‘Liberal discount to the trade. - ying. HOTCHKIN CARRIAGE WORKS, _ SYRACUSE, N. ¥, BOYS! THE BOYS Boys will be veys until time shall be no more. 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