The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1889, Page 1

Terms. $2.00 Per year in Advance, you. VIL. 4 YOICE FROM THE EAST, MAHONE AND THE NEGRO. eof man, nothing makes The siZ ; If to the right be only takes; — Xot flesh and bone should we prize, : nals may beat men in ze. so not the puysic ever small , “Who Virginians proudly call neral, all in one, thing big he never could fita man mived to do or die, o wiv on the sly. So tricky. under his ban ve him true, yad to ever do. Many 1 Deluded be Aud for thelr £ put as every dog will have his day, ut 2 and every murder will out, they say, Though ime may dim memories p By days, weeks or years of age. Not u days of now I write, Did this little pollywog alight too, is this little man, | as = : |mously pardoned by the govern. | ment they tried to destroy, upon | their oath to obey the constitution and laws, had violated their oath. | and were now engaged in bringing | disrepute upon the nation, in deny- jing and abridging the rights of | loyal citizens by fraud and murder. | These practices were no less a fraud /and wrong upon the lawfa' major- | ity of the south than upon the mass- | es north, east and west. This con- | dition of affairs could not exist mueh longer. Good government | could not be established and_per- )petuated. The untrammeled ex- | pression of the will of the people or conscience aVvOW, | was the greatest security for the | permanency of a republican form of | government. The nation was driit- | ing toa crises which might prove a |ecatastrophe and could only be averted by an unflinching determi- | nation to enforce the constitution jand the laws in every section of | the country. There could be but j one interpretation and a uniform | application of the laws to all classes of citizens, When that principle | exigencies of the situation were imperitive that the travesty upon justice, upon the suffrages of the | failed, the government failed. The | ashington Bee... WASHINGTON, D, ©. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1889. | 1 | drew near, these regulators said | that if these men came to trial they | would be killed, You must remember that these | men have not been allowed to go | home since the 12th day of July, | you must also remember that the | Majority of these exiles have been in Memphis since that date. The | Sheriff of Crittenden County Arc, | has] seen them every week and wou d talk with them, bat would | tell them if they stay away from Crittenden Co. they would not be arrested, butif they came back they | would be put in jail. The exiles in- sisted that they wanted to go to | court. Although these men had em- | ployed their lawyers, they were jafraid to go to Crittenden County | to stand their trials; except Dr. N. | J. Stith, who said “‘if it be the last act of my life, I will go to trial,” so he with Rev. Ragsdale were the on- ly ones of the exiles at court on the first day. You will remember that the Dr. returned to Marion Ark. ten days aiter they were sent away and | was put in jail, and kept there a week, by that Crittenden County | mob. | However a great number of the Jy Carolina, to all known as the people, the stifling of the “vox South, popali” must cease. Therein was And then did he epen his month. | the great danger to Republican in- 5 | stitutions, and not in negro su- flis nature true in years up pent, | In social harmony with freedom went ; And glorious this little hero Did speak bis mind of the negro. The American negro, he said, Wanted to rest in a cabinet bed; Or in high offices in Washington, Asithe had anything worthy done. The negro’s place is that, he said, js the farm and cotton machin- ery, Tbe plough and the grubbing hoe, Brethren, is the Negroes, you kuow. Of whom I speak can you not see, Not of Sherman or Blaine or such men, But of Senator Mahone, The Virginian, Alone, s+ THE COLORED MAN IN THE! SOUTH. MR.L.W.PULIES READS AN ABLE] PAPER. The regular meeting of the Beth- el Historical and Literary Society of the Metropolitan Church Tues ¥ an. 24, Wasa success 1D every ect. ‘Tere was a large atten- dauce of friends and members of the organization, and the audience wecluded the culture and wealth of the colored citizens of this District. An able paper was read by Mr. L.W. Pulies. The essayist said substantially that for upward of one hundoed years the negro in ths conutry had been made the bone of coutention. By false reas- ouing, based upon tie sentiment of negro inferiority as a clase, he had been forced into the attitude of an unwelcome stranger in a fam- ily, bringing discord and feud to its memt The negro was, bow- ever, dualterably a fixed member of the body politic. At no distant day the whites and Side, upon terms of political equal ‘ty. Ethnology proved ab initio a dead level, a common equality, and theretore the existing superiority, weutal and moral, of the Anglo- Saxon as a race was due to educa- “Ou and environment, and not the Tesult of endowed quality. The Samitic stock was the first on the tath of progress aud ruled in the “atler history of the world. There mas little progress in any direction shock ot races, a clash of | ivities, and au infusion | er and q Place, gamation of blood took The characteristics of the mie and Japhetic stock were | ber similar than dissimilar. The Meth: a Wes is by which the negro race | & Deen reduced to its present ab- | Uormal | status in the human family on know D. Careful avalysis “re “ claration of Independance | ‘Chat if itis worth anything, are wel exiles have returned to be tried by premacy, which was disingenuous. | the same mob, that drove them The negro was made the scapegoat | away. Up to this writting Messrs, but fortunately, the principles in-| York Byas, grocery keeper; Danl. volved overshadowed him individ-| Ferguson, Couuty clerk; D. W. ually and as a class, and becawe of | Lewis, Coanty Judge; F. T. Moore, | national importance. It was the| Justice of the Peace; Heury Biby, | awakeuing of the government to a/ Assistant Asssesor; George Smith, sense of the danger and of its duty, | laborer; Lewis Ragsdale, Minister ; dawning upon the south, which|S.S, Odom, member ot the Legisla- causes its present frantic cries. | ture; J. R. Rooks, Asssesor; Wash | The glaring hypocrisy of the pre-| Dev er, Marshal of town; Ed. Flem- | of a past generation. this condition the blacks: would live harmoniously, side by j | tended fear of social equality was | apparenteverywhere. There were |no incongruous elements. The south, instead of being prosperous aud happy, was grov-| elling in the darkness of ignorance | and floundering in the quagmires | the fallacies, heresies and dogmas | So long as | lasts stagnation | must cling to it. | But the change has commenced, | ideas are broadening. Northern | capital has gone south. migra | tion of a people reared in the atmosphere of purer influences will follow, and the cantract will be salutary. As the south ops educationally, materially, old animovsities will | become extinct. In the course of a few years, the old Leads which | are noW.keeping the embers of | hatred alive will have passed | away, and with them, class dis.) tinction and that social condition | growing out of the relations of master and slave. The rising | geuerations will grasp the inepir— | atious of the hour, and thus, with | these forces at work, and the| heating influences of time, there | will be no so cailed southern | problem, no north, no south, but | a compact union of states, a nation | welded together by mutual inter- ests and fraternal feeling, march~ ing forward to the grand destiny which awaits it. \ devel- | mo SOUTHERN OUTRAGES. INOCENT COLORED MEN COMPELLED morally and | it is hard for a set of men to be kept | ming, cook ; Tierce Nelm, laborer ; \J.L. Flemming, Deputy Clerk; Both | Mack Green, blacksmith; H. M. |races had one religion, one lan-) Bungard, laborer; and Dr. N. J. guage; their methods of thought | Stith, have returned. and habits of life were similar , they | assimilated easily and Those who bave not returned are perfectly, | J. W. Ramsy, school teacher ; C. H. and nogood or justifiable reason | Fletcher, school teacher; W- O. existed why they should not live) Michem, Lawyer; J.D. Lawrence, | side by side in harmony and upon | preacher; Lewis Brown, Alone. | terms of political equality. | music teacher ; Wilson, music teacher. All of tnose that have re- turned Own property except two or three, those who have not re- turned do not own any property in of poverty, chained and bound by | the County. These regulators are trying every way they know to beat these men | oat of their property. The cases against Dr. N. J. Stith, S.S. Odom, J. R. Rooks, Ed. Flem- }ming, Wash Dever, Lewis Rags- dale, are the ouly cases that have come up 1n this Court thus far, and they Lave been nobly prossed. They will not dare let one of these cases | go to trial, for fear that. there in- dictments fur conspiricy will turn out to be a political trick. I think away from their families and homes for six or eight mouths for nothing more than a democratic job. They are trying all they know to put the Clerk and Judge in state prison. K. J. AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. To the Editor of the Bre: The recent dip- lomatic controversy between the diminutive Haytien Republic and the goverument of the United States, and the settlement thereof, is in striking contrast with the modus operandi of our government in the complication with the re- doubtable Bismark. The one is a weak and impotent Republic torn by internal dissentions which they seem powerless to suppress, the ‘other probably the military ‘aato- |erat of the world. The palpable | difference in the mode of procedure TO LEAVE HOME. REPUBLICAN OFFICE HOLDERS, SCHOOL TEACH-— ERS ARE PUTIN JAIL. WILL THE of the State Department in settling these disputes are enough to ex- | cite the diplumatic division .of the | myiéf Samoa, in which England, trial; although they were told that|Germany and the Uuited States | they would be killed, put in jail &c.| were the high contracting parties. if they returned. Subsequently Germany, imbued Jan. 14th was the begining of] with tue spirit of conquest, decid- | world. In the one case they pur- |sue a buildozing, -intimidating Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 28, 1889. | policy, born of tue knowledge of Editor of the Washington Ber: | Superior strength, in the other a Dear Sir: | weak, vaccillating, cowardly No doubt youand your readers | course. would like to hear something about | Now, as to the nature of the of the trials of some of the Crittenden | fense- The government of Hayti County exiles. | (or at least the faction that seemed LOYAL NORTH TOLERATE THIS, "ad sets forth the doctrine of | behiaas ‘elite, and the negro was | af thebeee included as a branch bition pd species. The consti- | ce laws fully provided tor e on in the eujoyment of | and privileges of citizen- | aly and \ fe ‘morally bound to enforce | the gs fa A rebellious minority | we ep 40d rebellic nN 7 elts to cizeuship, but magnani- / 1, who had by treason | whom they had driven out. m forfeited their own } You remember on the 12th day | uppermost in the affairs‘of the _Is- of July, 1888 a number of white|land at that time) proclaimed a regulators with their winchesters| blockade of their ports, and a drove out twenty or more of the! steamer (the Haytien Republic) leading colored men of Crittenden | attempted to run the blockade 1s County, Ark. ‘captured and detained in. Haytien A few days after these men were | waters, and a prize court ivquiry the government was leg- | driven out the very same regulators | decides that the seizare Is periectly constituted a Grand Jury, that! legal. Oar government, however, found iddietments against these | thought differestly and in an in- hour. And I venture to say that those threats would have been car- ried out to the very letter had not the Haytien authorities realized that resistance was useless. Well, Hayti gave up as was pre- supposed. The injunctions of Ad- miral Luce were obeyed to the simplest “detail; whi:e winged peace again reigued supreme. And why not? “Now mark how plain a tale, ete.” There seems to have been a triple agreement or treaty deck of his ship if the steamer was not surrendered to him at 2 certain stipulation to preserve the autono- es to assume a protecturate in spite of the tacit agreement with the other parties, and proceeds arbi- trarily to carry out their designs, and meeting with a righteous re- sistance which results iv the loss of some of their men they for the once carry things with a high band They maltreated in various ways, American citizens, burned their property, imprisoned them , and at last but not least, tore down, shot at, and burned the American flag. History tells us of a time wien Germany would either have to make the amend honorable in double time or fight. But now how vastly, how absvlutely different. The first report of the outrageous actious of the Germans seemed to paralyze those same gentlemen who were so active iu crushing the insignificant little Hayti. In faci ithas created such cousternation in ministerial circles that it is ex- pected some of them will resign. Ob! if it was ouly Hayti; how com- paritively easy it would be to re- duce her to a proper state of sub mission ; and, again in the face of these indignities, this undisguised insult to our American flag, they still remain passive; comparitive- ly nothing done in the premises. We are floundering about upon the sea of consternation. We trem- ble in our boots—Ob! democrats why were you-ever made, Yours, for equal justice, Jay-Kay. —-—- pe« SPECJAL CORRESPONDENT, LOUISVILLE, KY. About two years ago, when the Reverend Giles Cook, came to this city, he found in tbe Episcopal Orphanage a blue eyed bright boy who had lived there from infancy, do one supposed him to bave colored blood in his veins and his appearance does not now so indicate. However Rev. Cooke and others must have thonght so, for the former tried te get some colored family to adopt the boy or take him out on any condition, this failed. It was generally uuder- stood that there being no proof of the rumors concerning the boy’s color and because of the Catholic spirit of the Bishop of Ky., that the Bishop desired the boy to re- main undisturbed that he might grow up a blessing to the Church, Bat not long ago the flaxen haired of eight or nine years of age was bundled up and carried from his church home to the Colored Or- phan Home. The tears and piteous looks were enough to melt hearts of stone. A worthy family colored (Methodist) took the boy when it is hoped the curse of caste will not follow. O! Holy Catholic Church, driye from thy alters all those priests and from thy pens all those communicants whose hearts are so filled with prejudice against the descendants of that poor man who bore thy Redeemers’ Cross, that in tueir hearts is no sooner for chari- ty the perfect Lord of peace; and whose persecutions are bringing @ reproach against the name and cause! The Holy Catholic Church should be a respecter of persons even if they are innocent babes. eens Delinquent subscribers are re- quested to pay up or the paper will be discontinued and their names placed on our dead head list to the publie view. People who Want the piper must pay for it, if it is not wanted pay and die- continue. ——2 Mr. L Gorham Fletcher Jr,, is our authorized coilector for Easr and South Washington. The | credible short space of time had a Jan. 1889 was the time set for the | full-fledged Rear-Adwifal threaten. trial of these men. As the time’ ing direful.consequencesfrom the subscribers in those sections of ITO®R CROMWELL’S AD- DREss. There was a large crowd present at the opening of the 2d Bap‘ist Chureh Lyceum last Suuday after- noon. The speaker of the day was Mr. J. W. Cromwell, editor ot the ‘People’s Advocate, on the subjeet: ‘*What are you going to do about it? or crime awong the colored people-” The lecturer opened by referring to the city of New York, its great business, busy marts, extended commercial affairs, immense popu- lation, opportanities for work and crime, the scandals growing out of the Tweed regime, and the reply to all charges of misdeeds, ‘What are you goiug todo about it?” This city, he said, received its prestigs on account ofits relations to the federal government, and grew with the nation, and whatever had a tendency in a social or moral sense to mar the beauty of the national capital invited its own speedy dis- truction, As had noticed in the report of the chiet of police a few days since a statement that there were more criminals among the colored than the white people of the District. It had been commented upou by the daily papers, and a judge referred to it in open court. He thought it could not be true that nine-tenths of the crimes committed here was done by people of his race, but that was what Judge Montgomery had said in regard to the colored peo- ple. Mr. Crodmwell said that such CRIME IN THE DISTRICT. ED-| 20 Wy 5 cents per copy. "No. 37 announcement humiliated him, and he asked his audience as he should ask others all over the District : «Wiat are you going to do about it?” Was it true that they were the criminal classes of the comma- nity? He preferred to let the ree- ords speak. According to. the po- lice ceusus there are about 72,000 colored and 150,000 whites in the District. During the fiseal year ending June 30, 1888, there were 20,530 arrests, 10,042 were held for trial and the remainder were dis- missed. Of these there were 382 whites ander the age of 16 against 1,171 colored of the same age; whites between 16 and 21, 1,22’; colored, 2,515; whites, over 21, 8,950, colored, 6,279; From this it would seem, on the proportion of population, that there were twice as many colored arrests to the thousand as whites. In the case of drunkeness, however, there were nearly twice as many white drunk- ards according to the population as there were colored. The record where there was trial by jury and where every accused prisuner has an opportanity to be defended by counsel spoke for itself. He wish- ed that he could blot it out. Dur- ing the year ending June 30, 1888, nineteen white men were sent to jail and 121 colored, and four whites and sixty-three colored were seut to the penitentiary. pe Sis PEE AS Th If you want first class wedding invitation printed come tothe Bas office. Entire stock must be so!d before Jan, ist,’S9. 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