The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1889, Page 1

: 5 cents per copy. yoL. VIL. COMMISSIONER J AMES TANNER. SOLDIER AND A SIMON KNOWS BUT ONE PRINCI }REAT PURE REPUBLICAN. PLE—REPUBLICANISM. (From Home and Country.) To introduce to our readers a | diers’ and Sailors’ Home at Bath, A MAN WHO A DARK SUBJECT. The American colonization So- ciety and the immortal 300 at Bir- |mingham, Ala., are twins. One wishes to send the negro out of this country to die, the other wishes to read him out of the republican party because he wont die. The American colonization par- ty and colonization schemes gener- ally do not command onr confidence. We believe that their efforts to assist Divine Providence in the solution of the greatest problem with which American statesmen- ship has for the last ceniury had to contend, has not been solicited through divinely inspired agencies otierwise. These organizations are not as beneficial to the Negro as one would suppose. Some of us would like to know how Africa can be called the native land of any American Negro? We do not be- lieve that our good brother. Cop. pinger of the American coloniza- lion society in this city , caf estab lish the correctness of this mon- strous proposition. What does the Negro know about Africa? What does he care about it that he should be urged, persuaded, importuned by sentimental cranks, white and black, to leave the land of his birth, the land which the labor and blood of his ancestors has enriched |minated in the magnificent Sol-| 28 20 other country under heaven has been enriched? Why should he man whose name is a household | Grenben Co. In this, as in many | Row take up his bed and walk? word in the family of every veter- other works of fraternity, among The answer is given by Mr. Laird an iv the land, whose physical in- which may be mentioned the Con- who went to Liberia in 1832 to ob- juries in the war were greater even | inan those of bis predecessor in the high office to which he has been apppointed, is like crowding the mourners. And yet the task a pleasant one. The Nation | never has, it never can do too} wuch for men who suffered so much | in ber defense as did Gen. John C. | Black, the lately retired, and Jam- es Tanner, the present Commis- sioner of Pensions, James Tanner is Schoharie County, New York State, where he was born in 1844. In September, 1861, at the age of lj years, he enlisted as a private le Sith New York, which soon rwards went to the front, where were assigned to Kearny’s And who has not heard of dashing, fighting Phil. Kearny, ; who on the field im Mexico sacri | ficed an arm in the ranks of the| Awerican soldiery and subsequent- | y sealed his devotion to the Union mith his heart’s blood at Chantilly, Va., during the Civil War? It was under such a leader that the regi- meut in which Tanner served re- | its first baptism in fire. ul Bull Run, August, | James Tanner, then wearing | of a Corporal, hence his | subriquet and the] ihe is best known, a piece of shell, nec amputation of both Who sball be has since suffer- ated operations caused ines f ; He was discharged from the mil- | itary service and 1m 1864 was ap poluted by Charles A Danna, then | Assistant Secretary of War, now} Editor of the New York “Sun,’’ to lerkship in the War Depart- a native of | they Division. L sec ilar ove by wh below the knee, tf what mm 7¢ by these inj he course of which a Nation Was bathed in tears. — It privilege to take from the lips of lug martyr-President, Abra- Lincoln, in shorthand, ibe lacts concerning the work of the studied law, was admitted to | tise in 1869, bat before enter-| on the practice of his selected | ession Was appointed a clerk in the Customs Service at New York. He was promoted to Deputy Col ‘ector, Which office be resigned in | to accept an appointment as lector of Brooklyn. Here «leight years. Originally 4ppointed by Mayor Sebroeder, he Was Teappointed by Mayors Howell | and Low; the mutations of politics | Were not considered iu tis case. He was a taithful public official | aud during his occupation of the} ou, more than $60,000,000 of | ‘houey were collected and turned | "to the city treasury. INv6 he was a candidate for | ter and in 1877 a candidate lerift of King’s Co., N. Y., but defeated, though each time be Several thousauds abead of his Tax ( he ser pos 10r She Was r ‘i He joined the Grand Army of we Republic in 1867, has been ane elected Commander of the ‘partment of New York, and dar- ‘Us lis term as such was organized Phis service lasted a year, was his | federate Home at Richmond, Va., and the clearing of the mortgage from the home of the lae Gen. Jobn B. Murray at Seneca Falls, N. Y., he was a leading spirit. For years he has been one of the most active, though not always in our opinion the nearest right in his conclusions, of the National Com- mittee ot Pensions, G. A. R. Asa public speaker he has few peers and none superior in ability to reach the hearts of the people. Au excellent executive officer, in the prime of his manhood, competent because of his injaries and suffer- ings to properly sympathize with the wants of the veterans and one who knows their necessities, we bespeak for him the kind consider- ation of all comrads. We believe under his management that a high- ly satisfactory administration of the office of Commissioner of Pen- sions can be looked forward to. —< MRS. ELIZAH HALFORD. The lady whose portrait will be found above is the wife of the Pres- idents private Secretary and ac- cording, to all accounts ried nineteen years and has child. a daughter seventeen years certain prominence in society as personal contact with the President- ial family. All the world in the estimation of society and Washington. a a | list to the public view. continue. — e< the movement which has since cul- heir names to the Bex, a very agreeable lady. She has been mar- one old. The position, which her hus- band occupies also gives to her a she is of course brought into close knows | how well the Lamont family stood the Hslfords, or rather Mrs. Hal- ford, will no doubt also play a con- spicuous role in the social life of Delinquent subscribers are re- quested to pay up or the paper will be discontinued and their names placed on our dead head People who want the paper must pay for it, if it is not wanted pay and dis- Let every Baptist member min ater and all other citizens send in | Baltimore, Md., tain information about the free negro scheme which he soon pub- lished. He discovered that the colony was a mere device for ridd- ing American slave owners of troublesome negroes, free or slave. He discovered that the free Negroes had been made wretched by op- pression at home and were betrayed into this hungry wilderness by representations of its being a par. adice. The promoters of this scheme for climating the American negro represent to a very large extent the class of whites in this country who would rather not see us here. The Henry Clays, Wises, Peases, Stantons, Madisons, Porters, all good old southern folks. At a meeting of the society Mr. Stanton enquired why, having driven away the red man, the blacks should not be gotten rid of? Mr. Madison, who was president ef the society, sent no negroes to Africa but sold a good many. The society sent a glib-tongued white man, named Cresson, to England in 18382 to represent their great organization, every officer of which was at that time a slave holder. He proved to be not only a monumental liar but a thief and a scoundrel, tor he fleec- ed English working girls ot small sums of 71 10s; little children emptied their pennies in his bat to aid in. releasing the American slav- es. After gathering in a good, round sum Mr Cresson tovk to the woods, and well he might, for the tirst check given to this country was administered by the Anti-Slav- ery leaders. Wilberforce Buxton, the Crop- pers, Sir George Stepson and others who issued in 1833 their protest against any supportof the {scheme in England on the ground tof its being an obstruction to the abolition of slavery; an embodiment of the malignant hatred of the free blacks; a compulsory method of getting rid of those people; an en- couragement to persecution in America, and a snare by which the unwary would be separated from the true anti-slavery aim. We have the snare still with us, it having only slightly changed its location. Mr. Clarkson, in 1840, wrote and published that the objects of the colonization society were entirely impractible; that this was enough to justify his secession; that if slav- es were what their masters declared them to be they would corrupt in- stead of evangelizing Africa. In an open letter to Wm. Lloyd Garrison he declared that he had washed bis hands clean forever of the under- taking. Bruce Grit. —_- TESTIMONY OF THE AMER- ICAN MINISTER. American Repository. Legation of the United States, Monrovia, Liberia, December 13, 1888. Hon, J. 8. B. Latrobe, President |of American Colonization Society | Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of October 27, 1888. [I have during the five months of my stay here availed myself of every oppor- tunity to acquaint myself with the castoms of the people, learn some- thing of their different institutions‘ and thereby draw conclusions as to ie future prosperity of the Repub. ic. To thisendI have visited tho chggches and schools in Monrovia an@along the St. Paul river, and it affgrds me pleasure to bear _ testi- y to the earnestness and zeal which are being exerted by the leaders—the teachers, religious and others,—to instruct the masses properly in their several daties as citizens. __ L have taken occasion also to vis it some of the native towus and have spoken to the Aborigines, through interpreters, of Jesus the mighty to save. I find the Aborig- nes not only susceptible to light— the true light—but many of them anxious to receive the truth. I have visited the settlements of Brewerville, Caldwell, Virginia, Clay-Ashland and Louisiana, where I find the settlers engaged in agri- culture. They are, as a rule, indus- trious, prosperovs and happy. The citizens of this country are learning by degrees that Liberia is not the United States. I mean by this remarks alone that the people here are beginning to un-Ameri canize themselves, and are slowly bat surely adapting themselves to Liberia and the peculiar but natur- al surroundings and circumstances of the coutry. They have learned that in Liberia there comes no frost hence the apple and peach tree of the United States will not thrive here. They have learned that the whole year, from beginning to end, is one long summer day, as it were. Here nature does not clothe the sheep in a wollen coat, but gives them a dress of hair. These things, laws of nature, having to be learned by experience required long years before they could. be properly comprehened. Wheat will pot thrive in Liberia, therefore the emmigrant must learn to cultivate the indigenous tassada and eddo. Many persons emigrat- ing here are at first loud in their expressions of disappointment and dissatisfaction, and only because everything is so different here, in a tropical climate, from that which they have been accustomed to in a temperate one. So vastly different are the customs of the people, the manner of livelihood, the modes of preparing food, and even of eating it, that one himself must actually undergo a change— must be converted—ere he can rightly address himself to the new iife. His excellency, the President of the Republic, is at once a scholar and an affable gentlemen. His cabi- net is composed of men of ability and information, The national Leg- islature, constituted of eight mem- bers in the Seuate and thirteen in the House, is now in session. These legislators discuss the measures pertaining to the government of the Republic, statesmanlike, and impress a looker on that they ar iuterested in the weal of their coun try. Phe judges and officers of the dif- ferent conrts are competent men. The former are pious, church men. The work of this department of the government, like that of the other two branches, is dispatched with alacrity and equity. The weather is byno means so hot and irying as I supposed it was, nor is the “African fever” so terri- bleas I had been made to believe. Each member of my family has had the fever since we have been here, and realy we found it to be about the same as one experiences on the seacoast of any ot our Southern States. The people, I repeat, are beginning to understand and adapt themselves to the peculiar work required to be done here in order to acheive success. The resources of the country are, as you know, amazingly wonderful and the possibilities equally as grand. The progressive and aggres sive Citizene, teachers and leaders of the masses, with the permanent- ly established institutions, warrant the indulged hope for a great and glorious future for the loue star Re- | publie of Liberia. Praying Heaven’s choicest bles— sing upon the humanitarian Presi- dent and members of the American Colonization Society, I beg to sub- scribe myself, Yours with sentiment of high esteem, EZEKIEL E. SMITH, U. 8. Minister Resident place and number. CUT-PRICE' SALE IN FoOT-. WEAR. Infants’ Button, regular price 40c, ; now 23cts. 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