The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1888, Page 1

% Terms. $2.00 Per year in Advance. = SEE VoL. VIL. WASHINGTON, D, C., SATURDAY, DE EMBER 8, 1888. rer ASONG FOR DECEMBER. December with its iey wings Comes o’er the earth a rumbling, | And whilst the rich man merrily sings, ; The poor man sits a grumbling. The wind is heard to bowl and} shout And whistle around the corner Oh! And every poor man turns about: Oblidged to be a Turner, Ob! The ice is seen at morning soon Upon the water shiniung,—ha! On ten-cent plates of soup at noon Poor men are found a dining,— ha! soon be on the The snow shall ground, t And girls will go a slaying, Ob Bot what poor dandy can be found The expense to be paying ?—oh. And soon bright Christmas will be here Hailed both by lads and lasses, | ho! And scarce a soul shall then keep clear— In sipping from the glasses, ho! Roser E. Forp, 2. HOW TO TEST A FRIEND Study what your dog thinks of him. See if he offers to lend more than youn ask- Take bim with you when you! call on your best girl if he happens to to be handsomer than you. Note how long he remembers what be bas done for you. Give bim an opportunity to bet- ter himself at your expense. See it be breaks an appointment to go elsewhere, When you have accomplished any thing together note bow much credit be takes to himselt. Inconvenience him and see if he mentions it to bis friends. Offer him the chance to escort the pretty girl you meet at your cousin’s Jadge him by what he does ratb- | er than by what he says. Always be short when he asks | for a loan. 3 Give him an opportunity to anti- cipate the favor you are about to ask. — JUDGE, | mortal Ashmun, will inspire every | Liberian youth to noble manhood, ,and to revere with gratitude the |mames of the departed veterans. |mun, whom we have just named was a white man, one of the early he loved himself, therefore, to | whom honor is due bonor will be | rendered.) In 1847, after a success- | ful colonial administration, the people in council assembled drew up a Declaration of Independence and with Joseph Jenkins Roberts at the head of affairs, the little bark of state launched out into the seas | of national life. Many have been her struggles, clouds have over- shadowed the bark, storms have burst in upon ber; but manned by men ofiron nerve with the ever living fire of patriotism aglow in their breast along with her sacred | constitution, the chart by which she steers, bas surmounted all obsta- cles. By impartial administration | her laws promote the life, property and happiness of her subjects. Un- der the stripes of the lone star, foreigners of all races, without dis- tinction, find protection. We see | through the vista of the future that | she will be to Africa what Rome was to Europe. | There, at the capital of the nation |} on the Sabbath day, a holy quiet reigns around. By a law of the mu- nicipality no craft or boat of any | kind is allowed to ply her rivers for | business purposes or to be seen asail jin her harbor. Foreign sbips ar- | riving into port on Sundays,no mat- |ter what may be their haste to land their cargoes, they must await Monday more. The same rule ap- | plies to vessels in the home trade. | On that day, the greatest of all no | base ball, no lawn tennis are play- | ed ; no cigar or other store is open, | but the sound of the church bells | are heard coming on the breeze till | one exclaims in the words of Will j iam Hewitt: | “What spell has o’er the populous | city passed ? The wonted current of its life is | stayed ; | Its sports, its gainful schemes are earthward cast, As though their vileness were at once displayed; The roar of trade has ceased, -and on the air Come holy songs, and sounds of prayer. She sends her missionaries to the solemn a | heathen, opens up institutions of AFRICA AND THE AFRI- | CANS: RAIL- COMMU- \D AND FOREIGN | RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. BROAD AND TELEGRAPHIC NICATION, INL TRADE AND THEIR ASSIMILATION WITH THEIR MORE INTELLIGENT BRETH- REN. Th ‘TURAL CHARACTER~ ISTICS OF THE NEGRO AND BIS | TREATMENT £0 STRANGERS, ETC. | By T. A. Jobns, No. 5. in the following we assign our reasous for the existence of differ- | ent nipotent intended mankind to work out the same result on one | wholly basis, why did be go to the trouble | of making all of one blood, but| distinct? Keeping in mind ou proposition the legitimate concla- sion will be, we all are to work out the one result, the elevation of mau, owing to the oneness of blood, but on the basis of our ewn idio- Synerasies owing to our distinct- Ness. Oue of the strongest forces in Alwerica towards the elevation of man, is the American Colonization Society. While they were demon- trating in 1817 the feasibility of founding an African republic ot American Negroes, they were mock- | *lat by many; men counted their theory wild and chemerical. Ameri- | Cais, who weré opposed to the Scheme, said they were dreaming. | ‘some dreams are true, we admit thei supposed fancies. Now, we CMe to talk a little about the “Country which Negro phobes affect {0 consider a failare, Tue men who settled Liberia are ‘ell termed the pioneers of the East they laid on the West coast the ioundation for the Christianiza- Hon of the whole covtivent. Many “ere their hardsaips, bat. bravely ‘bey withstood all. In the annals Ps eur country w Il shine forth with “esplendent brightness, the beroic ‘ot the colonists, The defense, 'y-eight men against eight hun- ‘ ahoriginees, made by the ime Uber learning in their midst, allays and adjusts all tribal differences and by treaties territory is gradually being ceded to ber, giving us a vast interior, Thus stands the Republic of Liberia in relation with Africa. In our discussion we have at- THE VARIOUS TRIBES | tempted in a cursory manner to make known the enviable traits which are by nature a part of that great body of people who inhabit nearly every quarter of the globe. by our observation of the man at home we claim such traits as we have herein noted to be his birth- right. Haviug confined ourselves strickly to our idiosyncrasies we claim in view. thereof, that the cir and distinct races. If he Om- | cumstances and environments with which we come in contact here are incompatible with our growth and development asa dis- retained in these United States a few of the traits of the unsophisti cated African, there is a deplorable number, who if they remain under the pressure of “‘leyaliy to race” with the circumstances which at tend it, will never know the true dignity or sublimity of human na- ture. Methinks however, the soon- er weawake to our responsibility as intelligent beings the better it will be, cise posterity will ask Jus- tice to pour cut his wrath upon us. | Bach succeeding generation, we |may well understand, becomes | more and more enlightened, bence will be in a posi’ iou to understand : | It is that brutes no progress make, lid dream for Liberia, a Negro | But man a lofty place wust take. ‘public stands the realization of | We are to shape the destiny of the rising geueratiou ot Negroes, aud it devulves upon us to adopt | the best meaus to procure a glo rious end. Again, we had better | not brood over our former condi- | tion, for facts have been produced | to show that the whole world have | been developed by the same meaus, |or slavery uuder which we weut iv the Western hemisphere. The pro- | ducers of said meaus we had better | note were the Portugese aud the Spaniards , Sir John Hawkins, who kidnapped tne Negroes of Africa, and the Romish Priest, Bartolome | de la Casas, who, it is said, choosed | between two existing evils to re- jlieve the greater by substituting the lesser. (It will be observed, Jehudi Asb.- | colonists who loved the Negro as | | what wight have been. tinct race. While there are some, : who by reason of blood-royal have j (Lo be continued) ————-pe<.—__ THE OTHER SIDE OF IT. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, ’88. To the editor of the Bex: On reading the | New York World of the 30th of November, I was somewhat sstart- led to see what purported to be an interview with a Congressman named Oates. My surprise is uot confined to the fact of the inter. view itself, but rather to the utter- ances of that aspiring statesman on thatoccasion, Mr. Oates may | claim originality in bis suggestion. We may safely claim that he alone, of all his colleagues representing the South in Congress, there were nos one, (no matter how bit- ter their prejudice, bow venemous their hatred of the negro) who had the effrontery, the hardibood, to shy his lance upon the bulwarks of the Coustitution of the United States, andI think that we may assume that here, at least, is a leader without a single follower. Iu speaking of the Solid South, Mr. Oates condesends to iuform the correspondent of the WorLD that the only way to break the solid South is to completely ‘“elim- Inate the negro from __ politics.’’ And ta-tbiek, Mr. Hultor, that a man who entertains such an opinion as that was identified with a party, who, for the last four years, held the reins of the government and the political destiny of this great country in their bands. Startling thought! If we may be allowed to suppose that a majority of his col- leagues were victims of the same fallacy, we would have probably been silent, terrified spectators of a determined aod anrelenting at- tack upon the tangible result of the “late unpleasantness” in which we were by no means unimportant factors. Of course this isan extravagant hypothesis, but of all sad thoughts of tongue and pen, the saddest is If the con- stituency, which Mr. Oates repre- sents in the lower House of Con- gress, were at all fair-minded, loyal or brave, they would relegate him to that obscurity which he so fit- tingly deserves, and in which he would bave for a companion in misery, that far-famed introducer of innovations, Grover Cleveland. Mr. Oates would have us believe thatthere are in the South num- bers of-white men who are not in love with the democratic party or its pri:.ciples, but, whenever their inclination leads them to the grand old party, they are confronted by the hideous spectre of negro rule, supremacy, and they shudder with horror at such a picture and return to the sanguinary arms of the Southern democrat. Why, because the white man who would do such a thing would be socially ostracised by his neighbors and freinds, and his life would forthwith become a burden. Now suppose that it would happen (which, however, is impossible as long as gratitude sways the human breast) that the negro vote was transferred to the democratic party in its entirety, what would happen then? Would the democrats desert their’ old moorings on account of the negroes hated presence, or would they es- tablish a new party for the reason that they could not affiliate with the negro as a friend or an enemy? That is exactly what they would have to do in order to be consistent. My impression is that the average Soutberu democrat does not know the principles of his party when it comes to the great econimic ques: tion that sometimes agitates the public mind. He does know, how- ever, that his party is the unalter- able opponent of the negroes ad- vancement, and in that, at least, he is in perfect aceord with bis party. And he goes on bis marder- ous way secure in the approval of} the court and jurys in his section. I think Mr. Oates must be of this class, for he is certatuly too narrow- minded to legislate for a great country ‘ike this. Very truely yours, JAyY-KAY. Motbers should remember that the use of laudanum for scothing their babies is always dangerous. Why not ase Dr. Bull’s Baby Syr- ap, a perfectly harmless but very efficient remedy for children’s ail- ments, suth as colic fiatulence, Xe. STEADY COMPA The Gate City Press. The Indianapolis Freeman calls atiention to the degeneration of the “calling” art. We make fewer even- ing and Sunday calls than formerly and our conversation is of too com- monplace @ nature to reflect much credit upon us as a literary people. A potent factor in this degenera- tion isthe absurd restrictions im- posed by “steady company.” The rule has become so rigid that when a young man accompanies a young lady out about three times, he is assigned to her by general consent, aud it is a piece of presumption for any one else to think of soliciting her company or dare to make an evening call. This would be regard- ed as an attempt to ‘put the rollers under the other fellow. Some of our girls have been sensible enough to see tha fallacy of such a system, and bave preferred to risk baving uo Company at all rather than sac- rifice their self respect by subscri- bing to a folly which they know to be pernicious in its effects. They are deserving of the highest praise and are the kind of girls the young men will seek when they want a wife. THE REPUBLICAN RALLY. ENTHUSIASTIC BUY GkoOoR-¥ wea. ONSTRATION LAST NIGHT. Tuestiay Nov. 27,the Republican rally and jollification meeting was a perfectly orderly and respectable affair. There was the boom of can- non and the flare of torches, but no boistereus.or unbecoming conduct. The parade was creditable to the colored people, ann not a single un- favorable comment from a _ white man bas been heard about the cele- bration. If was a republican rally by the colgred pvople, which was all properenough, and the Evea- ing News @ovgratulated them on the respeetful and reputable nature of the préesediegs., It was a tribute to the intelligence of the Southern colored people which the President elect aud bis party should appre- ciate. There were fully 2500 or more in line and about 5000 to view the procession aud proceedings, Capt. R, G. Cummings presided, and ad dresses were made by Prof. R. R. Wright and Capt. C. C. Wimbish, electors at large in the late cam- paign. Both are well known, intel ligent and prominent members of thoir party, aud their speeches were in harmony with the Republican principles, with distasteful — refer- ences to their opponents omitted. They championed the Republican party as the friend of the colored man was loyal and true to his party Thx progress of the race was dwelt on and also the colored man’s friendship for his white neighbors and altogether, the meeting was harmonious and enthusiastic and entirely creditable to all concerned. —AUGUSTA EVENING NEws. WesSr Brook, Nort CaRolina. Sept. 6th, 1886. Dr. A. 'T. SHALLENBERGER, Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir-The two boxes of pills you sent me did everything you said they would. 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