The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1888, Page 1

) Terms. $2.00 Per year in Advance. VOL. VIL. ,FRICA AND T!'E AFRI- | exists in Africa, being aggravated CANS: us INSTITUTIONS RAIL- ND TELEGRAPHIC [oN INLAND AND FOREIGN THE VARIOUS TRIBES HEIR ASSIMILATION WITH MORE INTELLIGENT BRETH THE NATURAL CHARACTER~ THE NEGRO AND HIS MENT TO STRANGERS, ETC PAY No. 6. epefore, since we have passed ye same ordeal as other and they being by the ad- we of time the leading people, i ty of reason with the Johns, me where they are we | : theories to the contra- ily ignore, being incon- { with the law and principles x the progress of human- ips the Vigilant reader notic- were careful in our utterane lh so as not to present Afri- na ‘benighted continent.” e country appears to the s and even to some Euro- | but | sa place of obscurity, . however, doesn’t make it so, unlearned, Europe is a be- sited place, or, according to 1 way of reasoning, has no ex ce. It would be amusing, by illustrating our proposition, an incident which occurr- ig the conversation of two ushed gentlemen. An As- « monarch once denied the as- uot the ambassador of the ands, that water congealed i last mentioned kingdom, ng for his reason that it did alin his country. And ) people go on measuring the ex- tence or non-existence of things y their own narrow minds, Let sconclude then, it is the lack of nowledge on the part of the pe. e which has caused Africa to bear name the “dark continent.” Africa, like Europe and America, has some benighted ts, we claim a part is less than ie Whole. » much as to facts. Now, why ouldu’t the Negro’s bosom swell pride to know that far o’er sea Where their sires tread, the el of progress makes i's annual jution and leads each succes- ear their people on to victory ? | s collect and review the points vder of their succession. ¢ first material fact we shall d to be is, that their are millions inhabiting the Africa who have not ed with a foreign . Secondly, we ta great many of Africa are purely in- rdly, we see the ivica, especially where ave opened up, settled into agricul- is salubrious and development of cally and mental- g the healthy state, y and intellec:ually of sand Mandingoes, to say of Liberia a perfectly \ climate; as, in the history e country, no epidemics of any port have been noticed. Nine- teen years’ stay in Liberia and tvo residence in the United beings entitle me to the production | above facet respecting the . Fourthly, credit is given urepe for opening up such ts of the country as they have ten by treaty stipulations with ious chiefs, Fifthly, that i improvements may be seen | eas are elsewhere. Sixthly, | learn that the fundamental viples of Christianity are not inthe African, citing the ‘s conduct to a white man giving his reasons therefor. thiy, we see all over the con- are dispersed goveraments lied by men who see that the property and happiness of ubjects are secure; and in u the subjects doth allegience asmay be seen in otber governments. Eighthly, (that Islam exerts a power ence over the minds of the t 1nd that the Mohamme- Joya! to their faith. That ustitution is an intelligent «and like a mighty tidal wave merging Fetiehism, but pow- * lo drown Christianity. Ninth- © perceive that it is not the so much of him to whom Suanity is said to be sent as 'ewho is reported to carry it. thly, we find that slavery _ still COMMU- 5 cents per copy. ~ WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1888. NO. 29 to a certain extent by. the Arabs; | and bave expressed our hope that | with the development of popular Christian sentiment, as it was in | England in the days of feudalism— jand that, perhaps, is the only means by which it can be extin- guisbed—the institution will for- ever be obliterated. From Liberia, on North, and we | believe in some places South, the |air to be too pure for a slave to | breathe in. Eleventh and last, we | see that Christianity is well ground- ed in Liberia, and we may add it is the basis upon which the Repub- lic operates; so let us understand at once and forever she raiscs her arm against Islam and lays waste Fetichism. A closer study of African history, which we cau only get there, will place the inquirer ina better position with Africa jand the Africans. Having gone | over the ground intended to cover, | our ebject has been accomplished, leaving you, however, to inquire | into the spirit of the phrase RE- SPICE FINEM. DR. LAWS ON THE MORAL SLATUS OF OUR NATION. |THE PRESS, RELIGION AND EDUCA- TION ARE THE ATTRIBUTES OF | PROTECTI\N AGAINST ¢ »MPULSO- | RY AMALGAMATION, THROUGH THE | IMMORALITY oF THE WHITES. | | Wasbingion, D. C., Dec. 11th, ’s8. | To the Editor of the Washington | Ber: | Dear Sir:—Iu the last issue of | our paper I discussed suffrage as well as the week before; now, let us discuss its defense, which 1s the | pewspaper with its necessary real | worth and ultimate good results. | Let us show, without any feeling, | Some of the reasons why the white | prvos, waive ucouvys ud, 1S praiocu | and the colored, which sustains us. is downed. Admit the facts that | when references, illustrations and |comparisons of the conditien of | things in this city will have been | made, that general facts will have been so sufficiently established | tbat there will be applicable to a |like condition of things every- | where; “because things that are | eqnal to the same thing are equal | to each other,” or to themselves. | In things of importance let us dis- cuss them with prudeuce though with great care and consider them as matter which alone relate to our highest interests. In this country the census of 1890, properly and correctly report- ed, will show a colored population of not less than 10,000,000, with something less than 200 newspa- pers to represent their interests ; and from the wicked misrepresen tation of the whites and the weak- ness of the colored race, through these misrepresentations, we have had about two thirds of our own race to oppose us all the way along, which gave the whites a great op- portunity to unify themselves, but to scatter us. And this rapidly increased race population, as above referred to, (and so woefully {and unmercifully alluded to by the ‘United States Senator, the Hon. John Ingalls, in bis unusuaily strange way of endorsing Repre- sentative Oates of the South, as the evening Posr, of Wasbington, in its issue of Dec. 34 shows, by his interview with a eorrespondent ofthe Atlanta Constitution) are all legitimate sons and daughters jot America, and to our con- stitution. They are not foreign tramps and vile criminals of Enu- | rope brought bere by our govern. |mentto our own regret, sorrow jand disgrace, nor sent here by | friends there in order to rid them | of a just recompense of European | - | laws; no, but as before said, we are | | vative born Americans with indis- | putable rights, and an irresistable | increase of population, in the face ot all Senatorial frights by Hon. Jobn Ingalls or Representative | Oates. The one a Northener the) one a Union) | other a Southener ; man, the other a rebel; one a re- publican, the other # democrat; bat both are white. Senator Jobn Ingalls said in that interview that fearlessly in the truth; read them | two distinct races not homoge- neous, thatis, whica can not as- similate by intermarriage and the | mingling of blood, to exist upon terms of practical political equality under the same government.” That is quite a differently express- ed idea to that of President Cleve- land’s, and is at varience with the declaration of God, and with com- mon sense, But, since he has dealt with history which is only capable of misleading or teaching him falsely, let me inform him that the races which he says cannot miscegenate, amalgamate and as- similate on account of non-homoge- neous nature, that they do misce- genate, and have amalgamated since 1620, (for the whites outrag- ed their virtues as soon as they came, and the early laws of Mary- land show it) and do assimilate, because a reflection of their re- semblance shades the pavements ofevery street, court and lane. This condition of things seems to be comprehensive facts embrac- ed in the late executive message of President Cleveland to the Con- gress of the United States, on Monday, Dec. 3d, 1888, when he uttered words which were divine history in themselves, to wit : “The equal and exact justice of which we boast as the underlying princi- ple of our institutions, should not be confined to the relation of our citizens to each other. The gov- ernment, itself, is under bond to the American people, that, in the exercise of its functions and powers, it will deal with the body of onr citizens iu awauner scrupu- lously honest and fair and absolute- ly just. It has agreed that Amerie can citizenship shall be the only credential necessary to justify the claims of equality before the law, and that no condition of life shall | give rise to discrimination in the | treatment of the people by their | government..” These declarations included the | Fanthern peenle,of Voth Fane ay every nationality. Because if ac- cording to the Senator’s version, the Southern rebels, who destroy- ed this government, are entitled to this countrys privileges and pro- tection certainly the colored race, | who furnished 250,000 soldiers to save it, are entitled to more. The |Senator’s idea of miscegenation, }amalgamation and assimmilation \of the two distinct races is the last production of some man’s mind of 350 years back, which is neither truthful nor applicable to | this generation, Here you have | the ignorant prejudice of a South- ern rebel, the duplicity of a North- ern republican and the good com- mon sense exposition of the Ameri- can Constitution by President | Cleveland. Upon his exposition, for which the intelligent colored Awericans will ever be grateful to | him, we base our claim to Ameri- can liberty, American equality be- fore the law and American protec- tion of the Jaws by an order from heaven. The Senatoi also discovers that | the colored American raceis grow- ing to a rapid increase in excess of the whites, and at the same time we are growing blacker, said he. He seems to forget that besides the | wedlock children of the race, that | all illegitimate colored children by white women and all white child- dren by colored women, are count- ed into the colored race, which must logically account for the alarming and rapid increase. Bat since the spread and growth of education among the colered peo- ple, and the colored press begins to assert itself, the Senator now finds out that the race is growing blacker and does not assimilate. How can they assimulate when | they are repidly ceasing to amalga- |mate? For the rapid advances of christian civilization brought ‘on by the grand march ot christianity, |education and the press, through the agency ofour own great men | and women, in developing the real | worth of our race status and driv- jing out the immorality of the | whites, which will virtually in- crease the chastitity of the colored race, we will soon have to depend alone upon home made and not im- | ported children for our rapid in- | crease; and colored women, who | now boast of their immorality with | white men, that “I would not have “the change from slavery to freed-| child by a negro,” will very soon, om, from subordination to legal|ag we pray, have learned more | equality, has implicated instead of) about virtue and better expressions simplified the situation.” He says | for the good of mankind and the that “the black race in our politics | race. Heretofore, we have lived will be the leading topic of national | cae | controversy for the next genera- | "pon religion made to order by ae e | tion at least. Unless history is a|American white people of | false teacher, it is not possible for! South, sanctioned by many in the North, with such morality as the whites would permit us to keep; but now by the religion of the con- science through the revealed word of God and the religion and gener- al education, and heretofore we have had to remain such helpless and silent criminals as the white press desired to make us, but now we have the chureb, the press and the school directly from God, which embraces ministers, doctors, lawyers, professors and sculptors who can, at least, give us the real negative of ourselves. Yours, truly, R.S. Laws Washingten, D. C. IN SPITE OF THEM ALL. The day is advancing And soon we shall see Among us the banner Of equality. Though dark shades of prejudice Upon us fall, Still we are progressing In spite of them all! Behold, we have talents In both science and art ; In state celebrations We take equal part: Slow shades of prejadice Away from us crawl, For we are progressing In spite of them all. Our sons and our daughters Are fighting for tame: Each year our attentions if new star doth claim, Weill triumph oer prejudice, We'll burl down each wall! For we are progressing In spite of them all! Robert E. Ford. —- A DAILY PAPER, WHAT WAS SAID AT THE CITIZENS MEETING. South Washington 1% was the unan:mous opinion of those present that a daily news- paper among the colored people was a necessity. Below will be read with interest the remarks of those who favored the establish ment ofa colored daily: The question ofa daily news- paper was hrought before the meeting by Prof. J. D. Baltimore, who spoke of its immediate neces- sity. President Howard said that the thing that is needed is a suf- ficient number of subscribers. Editor W. C, Chase said tbat 7,000 subscribers would give us a good start; and every preparation is being made to that end, ‘Dr. Laws said that the Bez experienc es the same trouble with the public that a minister has with his congregation. The minister seesaman in his congregation with a full outfit of sin, and, as duty di mands, “goes for him,” of course, and the man tells the community “that the minister has stopped preaching the gospel and is after me.” This, said the Doctor, bas been our experience for six years. Not that we have done the people a wrong, but that the people wrongfully misrepre~ sented us. That we have made some mistakes, is too human to de- ny, but to wrong any One we have never tried. There are some men who came to this city leaving their wives and daughters at home for safe keeping of their virtues, but came immediately here to destroy the virtues of ours; and we suid hands off. We know, said the speaker, that Washington could easily be made a Corinth, aud that there were men who came to this city to make it so, but the Bzz, through many dangers, toils and snares and said no; and still says no Rev. W. J. Howard, the president, said: I have b ew taking the BEE ever since its first issue; and would continueto take it, and woud never rest until it reached all the families of his church. Mr. Wm. H, Thomas, a machinest and Dis- trict engineer, and a member of Dr. Law’s church, said: [ have learned facts about the Bez to night, from what our pastor said, tbat will bring the Bse back to my house to stay. Cheap Job Printing done at this office. Call and inspect our new facilities. VASES GIVEN AWAY AT S.W. AUG ENSTEIN,. 817, 819 and 821 7th st. n. w-. THIS MONTH TO EVERY PURCHASER OF $100 OR MORE.- READ FOLLOWING LIST OF BARGAINS: Decorated Cuspadors, 12 cts. Brass Hanging Lamps, $1.94 4 dozen Decorated China Cups and Saucers, 47 cts. 4 doxen Goblets, 20 cts. Childrens Rocking Chairs, 39 cts. worth $1.00. $5.00 Rattan Doll Carriages only $2 48. Decorated China Tea Setts, 56 pieces, $3,39 cts, Decorated Dinner Setts, 130 pieces, $11.68. Decorated Chamber Setts, $2.39. Every description of toys at the lowest prices. Special prices for Church fairs, Festivals and Sunday School teachers, Rememoer the place, 8, W. AUGENSTEIN, 817, 819 and 821 7th Street n. w- Please mention this paper. house Keepers Attention! laa BACHSCHMID AND MYERS . New Emporium of House Furnishings FURNITURE, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, STOVES, RANGES BEDDING, &e. Goods sold on the Credit System. as" 1007 7th Street and 657 N. Y. Ave., n. w. A CYCLONE IN PRICES OF CLOTHING, Goods] must be sacrificed, Clothing converted into cash at all bazards’ at this GIGANTIC BANKRUPT SALE, 912 F st. Men’s $3) doll +r Overcoats at $13; Men's $20 Overcoats at $9; Childrens $6 Overcoats at $2:75 Childrens 4 dollar overcoats at one dollar and sixty-two cents; Children’s four dollar Suitaat one dollarand sixty-two cent-; Bov’s fine Chinchilla Overcoats, three dollars and seventy- five cents; Men’s Fine Chinchilla ten dollar Overcoats at five dollars; Men's Fing Dress Overcoats at six dollars and twenty-five c-nts; Men’s Fine Corkscrew Qvercoats, Black aud Blue, «t five dollars and seventy cents; Fine Prince Albert Suits at thirteen dollars ind twenty tive cents formerly thirty dollars; Men’s Black Broadcleth Vest. one dollar po not take our word butcome, «nd that will tell the tute. sold, no matter what the loss may be. Bankrupt Cloth’ng sale, 912 F' st. n-w., SIX DOORS FROM NINTH STREET. 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