The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1888, Page 2

BEE, a Published every saturday at 1109 I street northwest, Washington, D.C. ntered at the Postoffice at Washington . ag second-class mai! matter. RE Ee TT EMANCIPATION DAY. The Bre can feel congratulat- ed on knowing that it has accom- plished two necessiry things which have tended to disgiace and humiliate the colored people in this community. I will be remembered that every year or prior to every Emancipation Cel- ebration, the public depariments, bisivess aad private houses have been invaded by disbonest col- lectors, or men claiming to collect for the Emancipation Celebration. We don’t make this charge aguinst ail who were entrustd with books, but we do ray that a majority of the book holders made no returns, thus throwing the responsibility of the Celebra~ tion on a few who had itin ebarge. ‘ihe Brg succecded in putting toan end thise dishon- est collectors, who went from door to door and every department asking for money to celebrate their frecdom, when they knew perfectly well that it wes not treedum that they wished to celebrate but some bar-ruom If any processiun takes place it will be, beyoud all doubt a farce. Every military organiza- tion in the city aecilned Mr. Mar- shall’s invitation to parade next Monday, and where the prices sion is to come from can be easily stated. The 8th district, in which the Rev. Jonnso. lives, and who has beeu made Cuiet of Steff has failed up to this time to secure sufficient funds to build a charriot. A collection was taken up in hischarge and only five dollars was collected, whicu isan evidence thateven Bro her Johnsvn’s Congregation opposes Street parades. The second district in wuich Mr. Ralp Wormley resides and who isright aid, had not secured sufficient funds for a cbarriot. South Washington, the home of the Chief Marsuall, Mr. Branson, aud Mr. Marshall, the President, has about sixteen Social Clubs. Nothing of any importance has been wecomplished asyet. Ata meting held last week, the book hold«rs reported poor progress. Although a parade is published to take place, the iutelligent colored people are opposed to it, and Monday will deide it, notwich standing the No. 12 Editor of a “weakly” jouinal. WAIT AND SEE. One of our “weakly” contempo-~ rarics asserted last week that the parade Monday will be the larges’ ever had in this city; that Mr. Douglass will be listened tu by a larger audience than Hon. J. M. Langston; as the BEE iukes exc -p- tions, the parade wili be the smallest that ever took plac ; that it will not be a gocd farce; that the American people in this city would rather pay filty cents to bear Prof. Langston thun listen to Mr. Douglars free of charge. M+. Dovgiass has never been able to fiil a house on the occasion of these auniversaries, under the most favorable circumstances and it is not likely that be will be able to do sv after the insult he ailow- ed his white wife to offer to our highly respectable and intelligent colored women in this coun~ try, and especially when he has published his cird declining to spevk. The difference between Mr. Douglass and Prof. Langs'on is, the former will represent thi se whose ideas are of the past age, of which he is a pupil, while the latter represents the new and progressive dispensation. One will represent a cluss who will muke monkeys of themselves on the occasion of street parades, the other represents an intell gent and progrersive element ot the colored people. Next Monday will con- vince our “weakly” ¢ ntemporary whether the BEE’s oppvsilion to street parades is endorsed. We do not oppose indoor meetings, we helieve that street parades should be dispensed with avd the money be used fora more bene- ficial purpose. No one but Mr. Douglass hes asserted that there is asplit in the celebration. There is no split, the fact is Mr. Doug- lass represents those who are in favor of a street parade, while the BEE reprisents those who are op= posed to it. 5 THE WARING-McKINNEY TESTIMONIAL The concert tv be given for the benefit of Mesdames Waring and McKin: ey, a notice of which will be found in another ¢ lumn of this paper, promises to be an event of more than ordinary intereat. When such reputable ard public spirited gentiemen a3 Cu.lector Cock, Recorder Trotter, Hon Robt. Smulls, Messrs W. H. A, Wormly, L C. Bailey. Isiac Lan dic and others unite in any «ff vt. it means that the otjeet fur which they are banded together is one worthy of support. That the eon cert will be sucessful irom a musical standpoint there can be no doubt. Several of our mos! popuiar veealists have kindly ten dered their se.vices ad are working with a zeal and determ- ination that is sure to bring suc- cess. Notably umong th:se may be mentioned Mrs. Martina Irving the popular soprano and the Jack- son brothers, ihe one the leading tenor aud the other the leading basso of the famous St. Augustine choir, the scene of Mrs. McKin- ney’s early triumpth. Represeu- tatives of other church choirs, amoug whom are Miss Smith and others of Asbury, Miss Nich Is ot Israel, Miss Hamer of Zo. Wes ley, Mrs Ball of Berean, Mess s, Nalle and Irving of the Presby terian, Miss Young of St. Lukes, Messrs Cole Miller aud brovie of St. Mary’s and others, have volan- teered their services to assist in making this testimonial an event well worthy of rememb ance. The letter tendering the benetit is somewWiat in the nature of an ova- tion. The dovors seem for the Once to have laid aside all differ. ences and regardless of church creeds and dencminations, of sex and conditon, have united to do houor to thise two estimable Jad-~ ies, This is as it shou'd be; foriu all such efforts we should be gov erned wholly by christian charity and fellowsuip. Who knows but that the cmb nation of ail these elements ip a cause appealing so strongly to the better impulses of the Leart, may be the means ol more firraly uniting our people upon questions affecting their moral, inteileciural aid material progress? *“’Tis a cousumation most devou ly to be wished for.” SHERMAN JUSTLY AVAIABLE WITH COLORED VUTERs. Mr. SHERMAN IS THE LEADING AND M@ST POPULAR CANDIDATE IN THIS, THAT Hi CAN CARRY MORE VOTES OF COLORED CITI- ZENS THAN ANY OTHER. This is shown by the support given him by colored delegates in the National Conveution of 1880, by the strong current of opinion in newspapers published by colored Citizens; and is a- result of ‘ihe logic of events,”which proves that he has dove as much if not more good, effective service thau any living American statesman in be- half of human freedom, the protec- tiou of the ciuzens of the civil and political rights of colored citizeus, and their intellectual and moral progress. Tue history of bis devotion to the rights of the colored race is that of his manhood life, and antedates the organization of the Republican party. Tue Missouri Compromise of 1820 solemnly declared that slavery should never be extended north of thiriy-six degrees and thi- ty minutes north latituue. Tie repeal of this by the Kansas-Ne- braska act ot 1854 was designed to carry slavery into Kausas, and the **Dred-Scott decisiou”’ of 1857 em- phasized the purpose avowed in Calboun’s resolutions of Febuary 19, 1847, tocarry slavery into every Territory of the United States. Prior to 1855 the two great polit- ical parties had been the Whig, with which Mr, Sherman was allied, and the Democratic. Tue Freesoil party had made some progress as a separate party. Tbe repeal by the Democrats in Congress in 1854 of the Missouri Compromise led_ to a reorganization of parties. The Whig and Freesoil parties were abandoned; the great body of the Whigs, Freesoiler , and the apte- slavery Democrats “‘iused” in 1854, in Obio, under the name of the Anti-Nebraska party. This fusion nominated Mr. Sherman, then only thirty-one years of age, as a candi- date for Representative in Con- gress in the strong Democratic Richland district, in which he re sided, aud he was triumphantly elected. Following this election the Republican party was organiz ed. Its first State Convention, of which Mr. Sherman was President, was held in Ohio July 13, 1855. i SS It adopted an anti-slavery plat- form, and nominated Salmon P. Chase for Governor, and other cauidates fur other offices. Mr. Sherman’s speech on that occasion put him in the front rank in oppo- sition to slavery extension. On July 16th, at a ratification meeting at Mansfield, he offered resolutions, which were adopted, indorsing the platform and candidates and made a speech which rang through the nation, as terse, as far reaching in purpose, and more grand and eloquent even than Lord Mans- fielu’s immortal decision in the Somerset case, whose terms iD prose have been translated into the fervid exclamation of Cowper: ‘Slaves can uot breathe in Enzland; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free: Tuey touch ows couatry, and their shack- les fill. and bespeaks a Nation proud.’” Then followed the contest in Congrss, whether slavery should secure the frnits of repeal. Mr. Sherman first took bis seat in the House of Representatives at the opening of its session in Dee. 1855, when there was a fierce aud protracted struggle attending the election ofspeaker. Ou the ninety- ninth ballot be gave his reason for voting tor General Bauks, as fol- lows: «I care not whether heis a mem- ber of the American party or not, [have been iaformed that he is, aud I believe that heis; but I re- peat, I care not to what party he belongs. I understand him to take this position, that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was au act of great dishonor, and that, under no circumstances whatever, wiil he, if he have the power, aliow the institution of buman slavery to derive any benefit from that repeal. Tha’ is my position. Ihave been a Whig, but I will yeaid all party preferences, and will act in con- cert with men of all parties and opinions who will steadily aid-in pres-‘rving our Western territories for tree labor; and I say now that [never will vote for a man for Speaker of this House uuless he convinces me by his conduct and by his views that be never will, if he has the power to prevent it, allow the institution of slavery to derive any advantage from repeal ing the compromise of 1820. A variety of resolutions were introduced, as the balloting for Speaker was continued, propound- ing interrogatories as to the politi- cal opivions of the several candida tes. Mr. Sherman finally introduced ove which read thus: “Resolved, That the only tests of the opinions of any candidate for public office are his votes and acts; and that uo man ought to occupy the high position of Speaker of this House whose opinions upon important political questious are so unknown that it is uecessary to examine him as a witness.” Kansas had meanwhile become a baitle-ground between the advocat- | es of slavery from the Sonth and the opponents of it from the free States, each faction hoping to se-| cure the ascendancy. A state of violence, amounting to actual civil | war, ensued, and numbers were killed in guerrilla contests. Rival State Governments were establish- ed, each with its Constitution, | Governor, and Legislature, while acts horrible atrocity were com-! mitted by organized bands of “Bor | der Ruffians,” who roamed about the country plundering and often murdering peacable and unoffend- ing settlers, The matter became! so serious that the House of Rep-| resentatives passed a resolution, | on the 19th of March, authorizing | the appointment of « committee of three by the Speaker to enquire into and collect evidence in regard | to the troubles in Kansas generally, and particularly in regard to any fraud or force attempted or prac: ticed in relation to auy of the elec- tious which bad taken place in that Territory, Mr. Sherman, in his first term in Congress, was placed on the committee, and though he was not chairman, yet he wrote the elabor- ate, exhaustive, and able report which was submitted to the House July 1, 1856. This, the first great document on the subject ever sub- mitted to Congress by any states- mau of the Republican _ party, secured in its varied results free- dom to Kansas, and gave such impetus to the Republican cause as to iusure its ascendancy to the control ot the National Government with the election of Mr. Lincolu in 1860. That's noble! THAT LETTER. (Peoples Choice.) aise Hon. Frev Dove.ass is in hot water, because, while on a lecture tour in the South, his wife wrote a letter animadverting upon the intelligence of Negro women in this country in connection with! the Woman’: rights meziing in Washington last week. Subecribe to the Bee it will pay merchants to advertise. SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT Inporsine SENATOR Buarr’s BILL CONFERRING POLITICAL RIGHTS. At the meeting of the National Republican Club, held at their rooms, No. 1010 F street n w., Mon- day night, Hou. A. M. Clapp, pres- ident, in the chair, the following, after discussivn, was unanimously adopted : Whereas, Hon. Henry W. Blair, senator from New Hampshire, has introduced in the Senate an amend- ment to the constitution of the Unite States confering represen- tation in Congress and the elec- torial college upon the people of the District of Columbia, thereby inaugurating a measure which, if approved by Congress and the states, will give to said people their political rights and remove the reproach which the denial of said rights has so long cast upon repub- lican institutions ; therefore, Resolved, That the National Republican Club of the District of Columbia heartily indorses the proposed amendment, and cordially tenders its thanks to Senator Henry W. Blair for his action in this matter. Tue fellowing was also adopted : Resolved, That a committee of five members be appoiuted by the president of the club, of which committee the president sball be chairman, to urge upon Congress the adoption of the proposed amendment to the constitution confering political rights upon the people of the District of Columbia and the submisston of said amend- ment to the several states for their approval and adoption. The following committee was ap- pointed: A. M. Clapp, chairman ; Appleton P. Clark, Frank Al ‘rich, A.C. Richards and F. G. Buarva- does. The club also authorized the appointment of a committee, to consist of at least one member in each of the twenty two legeslative divisions of the District, to make a thorough canvass in the interest of the proposed amendment. INHUMAN BUTCHERY, FOUR COLORED MEN LYNCHED. (Ri hmond Planet.) And still the inhuman work goeson. On the 18th inst., Jeff Curry a colored miner employed at Blue Cre-k mines near Bbir- mingham, Ala., had a dispute with a white miner ramed Pow- ell. The latier had him arrested upon the charge of carrying a pistol. The officers arrested Cur- ry, and while on the way to town a mob of disguised men took him from the Cfficers aud riddled his body with bullets. In Wharton county, Texas, on the 29 hinst., two colored men we e murdered in cold blood. It was vear the ecene of the lynch. ing of nine persons February 28th. Another colored man was threatened with ‘the same fate and hud to leave. At Huyneville, Ala, on the 29.b ult., Thesdore Calloway a colored man, charzed with the murder of a white man was taken from jail, aud banged toa tree in froat of the court house aud his body riddlid with bu lets. Let any right thinking man regardless of race or color read tie aceve and se if he will not decde with us that lynch-law must go! This lawlessness is a blot upon our civilization, and a shame upon the goverumeut al lowing it, The lynchers of Jeff Curry have been arrested. As to What will be the outcome of the trial almost any schcol-boy can tell, For showing a spark of man- hood be is hanged to a tree while the law sleeps. De-pite all this let all colored meu respect them- seives, stand up for their rights, and when they die, meet death hke heroes of old. Cowardice is to be despised, Lynch-law must go! Any man or body of men who would take a defenseless man avd hang him without al- lowing him a chance for bis life, are too foul for hell itself. May the American people awaken for lynch-law must go! VICES. DR. C.B. PURVIS RECEIVES A GIFT. Prof. T, B. Hood, Dean of the Med eal Pnarmaceutical and Den- tal Departments of Howard University, gave a reception to his colleagues on the evening of the fifth. The occasion was a very enjoyable one. Towards the clcse of the evening, the Dean, {ia & neat speech surprised the Secretary of the Faculty— Prof. ©. B. Purvis—by presenting him in behalf of his fellow professors, a full set of Appleton’s English Encyelopedia. Dr. Purvis deserves this excel- lent present at the hands of Dr. Hood for his invaluble services to the Hospital and Howard University m-diesl school. THEY SAY No man can depend on himself, Men are mide great by the aid of others. They are fooled sometimes by their own folly. _ A baby thinks sometimes that it can walk, but when an attempt is made it gets fooled. So itis with some men who have others to aid them. After using them they think they are strong enough to go it alone. Always be sure you are right and then go ahead. Jerry Robinson wanted to be Chief Marshal but when he re- fused to pay $25.00 he was let alone. He would have paid, so he said, but Geo. demanded it cash. Fat Jerry couldn’t see the point. He can’t attend to h's business because he has a grievance. He will die some day on account of bis defeat. Poor Jerry, alas his ambition was frusirated. Whenever you meet him he has something to say about the Eman- cipation. The Editor of the ‘‘Weakly Pat- tent Back” who bada colum* on the Euitor of the BEE in the PEo- PLE’S ADVOCATE would do better by using his feet ina dye house. Those No. 12’s spoiled the Poto- mac water some time ago. The farmers need such things at present for beets, potatoes, Cabbage, we. i They will make the ground richer. The next case he has in court he will send his client to the pen- itentiary. He was the cause of the Missis- sippi legislature passing a law for separate cars for coloured people. The judge complimented him for such an able arguement. If the parade is tobea great one why worry about the Editor of the Beg. People who are no good are passed unnoticed. It is the troublesome person who is abused. Trotter is a failure as Recorder of Deeds. The President will be forced to remove him before his administra- tion expires. Will Matthews be cared for be- fore the expiration of the preSent administration ? Sherman Clubs will not entitle officers aod members to free passes. A novel way to get passes. Major Cox is the most stylish military officer in town. The Butler Zouaves have been disbanded. Treachery must give way to Sincerity. Major Fisher proved himself to be an honest man. Never throw old friends aside for ambitious upstarts. Those officials who preferred charges against Major Fisher were themselves found to be incompe- tent, and their Commissions taken away and the organization dis- banded. Some people will accuse others of a wrong of which they are guil- ty. A talkative woman finds many} faults in those who are virtuous. When you hear a woman, who has been intimate with a female friend, say that she didn’t like the way things went befure they fell out, ascertain first who she is and where she came from. Search her record and you will be convinced that she is a Balti- more demi-monde. A jealous woman will injare the innocent. _ Au houest woman will not con- tinuously praiso her own virtues. She is honest. Come and hear day night. Langston at the Monday night. Mrs. Sallie Waring will g great piece Monday nigh; The Concert of the Lys, 9 will be one of the great city. Go to the Metropolitan Ch Wednesday evening Aprils in the eyes, of other Langston, h Asbury Chang Catest ing COMPETITIVE LITERARY AN sy —ENTERTAIN ExT Under The Anszices vf 1 ISRAEL Cc. M. E Y SUNDAY SCHON) The Sunday School of Israel C. M. E., Chureh, willy; a grand Literary and Mig, entertainm ‘nt, assisted by gon of the best loeil talent in the gi on ; TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15,88 In the main auditorium fh above named church, Cor., Jvy B streets 3. w. It is the interne of the Management to pr gene , entertainment, both instructiyg and amusing Inasmueh a8 som features will then be presented unlike any other entertainmey ever attempted in this city. [ti inten ed to have repres:ntatival from d fferent Sun ay Shino snd Public Schools, comnete fy the prize of exceilence both Oratory and Masic. Medals be given in each grade aud both classes. Represen'atives f each grade in the 7h and ij Divisious of the city schools wi compete. Each lady ad gent man selling 400 of the tickets, will be awarded, $25) in gold by the Committe Arrangements. ‘Those se! ling i} tvkets will receive $10.00 i and those selling 100 tickets receive $5.00 in gold — Tica can be had of any member of | Committee. ‘The fri: nds of the School an tlie poh lic in general are respeetiully invitel 9 attend, and enter their names 4s tilt sellers and strive for the several prin to -e awarded to those selling ¢ ber of tickets herein named. cevds are for the purpose of bi books for the School Libary. COMMITTEE OF ARRANG\ Hamilton Rucker, - - - Chai Miss Ellen Wayne, Mr. L. A. Cornish, Superinten: Sunday School. Dr. C. H. Phillips Pa-tor of t Chareb. ADMISSION Adults 25 eenl Cbildren (under [2 years) 10 Doors open at 7 p. m. Exercise begin at 8 p. m. I.L. BLOUT Fashionable Millinery: #10 SEVENTH STREET ¥. © Washington p.¢ THE GRMANIA ScHEU1zE PARK (GALES WOODS Will ne open for parties ing to give Picnics from A Apply to HENRY KOCH 1818 7t! eee MAL, ASTHMA ‘Gyiip 2s = = Sas a ¥ t FREE