The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 9, 1889, Page 2

—— Sama 6 A ERGY fer a: A Published every Saturday at 1109 I stree northwest, Washington, D. C. at the Post Office at Washington D.C., as Second Class mail matter. W, CALVIN CHASE, Editor, A WARNING. While we have the most abid- ing faith in the administration of President Harrison, the result of Tuesday’s elections, isa warning to it. Muahone’s defeat in Virgini is nomore than what we ex- pected, although, we should liked to wave had him elected. It,is evident that the adminis- tration must act at once in recog— nizing loyal party workers. The colored voters in Ohio were di- vided, (i e.,) some of them. In Virginia, it was the same thing, exept in Richmond, the colored voters were almost unanimous for Mahone, but they were not per- mitted to vote. In Jackson War4, Virginia, the black County of Richmond City, there were four precincts and each one has from 900 to 1000 voters, and from our personal knowlebge it took two hours. or more to vote five colored Republicans We believe President Harrison to be -incere, and we take {his op- portunity of telling bim to act at once towards the healing of party diftrences. It is trae that the Negroes are disatiefied and will not listen to those who are inclin~ ed to believe that the President) will deal justiy by them. Gov Foraker may be popular in the state of Obio, but no man can be trusted who proves false to his fellow man. While Senator Sherman was| true to Foraker and did ali in bis power to eleet him, the friends of | the Senator’s, bad not forgotten | how treacherously he (Foraker ) treated Senator Slermen at the late Chicago Convention. We predicted the election of Frank} linme, uot from a party stand- | point, bat from a personal one. | The colored men in the County and City of Alexandria voted for him without ceremony, while Mr. Hume is a Democrat and allied to that party which is inimical te our interests, he ([lume) is a good man. Colored men are beginning to think tor them-elves and are sup- porting men and not party. We hope that the administra- | tion may see the imp -rtance of immedia‘e action trom last Tues- day’s elections. REV. LEE BACKED DOWN. Cowards generally do their | bousting at long range, but a brave man wiil do what he in- tends to do and boast afterwards. | levery District except the 4th | District, which is Langston’s District went democratic. THE BAPTISTS’ DEMAND. [Continued from 1st Page.] demagogues who owe their posi- | tion to some of these outrages. Therefore iu the absence of local | public sentiment in our favor on | the part of the dominant class in the South, confident that the best conscience of our Nation 18 oppos- ed to the oppression of any clase of | our citizens, and believing that op- | pression and injustice are not con | ducive to the cultivation of a good and loyal citizenship, we would re- | spectfully make the following re- quest of the chief Executive of the Nation: that our grievances be laid before the Attorney General for the most thorough investigation; that the provisions ot the Constitution be impartially enforced, especially | Section II of Article XIV ; that the | President at his earliest opportan- |ity recommend the enactment of suitable laws in keeping with Ar ticle XLV, Sections I and V for the protection of that class of citizens who are betng deprived ‘‘of life, liberty and property, without due | process of law,” and who are denied“ the equal protection of the laws,” and that Congress be fur- ther recommended to enact appro priate legislation for the enforce~ ment of Article XV in keeping with Section II of said Article. And now Mr, President, asit is the glo- ry of American citizenship that it receives ample protection of the stars and stripes abroad, an hum ble loyal part of our citizens crave the same protection at home. Our only plea is simple justice, to the end that we may enjoy the inaliena- ble rights with which we have been endowed by our Creator among which‘! are life, liberty and the persuit of happiness.” Respectfully Submitted. Rey. H. J Europe, Ala.; Rev. C. H. Parish, Ky.; Rev J. A. Stewart, Kan.; Rev. B. Hillman, Ill; Rev. Ww. Gray, Ill; Rev. J. L. Cohron, Mo.; Rev. M. W. G.lbert, Tenn. ; Rey. C. H. Lyons, Ga.; Rev. W. H. Anderson, Ind. ; Rev. G. B. Howard Va. Rev. Jas. Smothers. Miss, , Rev. H. U. Bailey, Fla.; Rev. G. H. McDaniel, Mo,; Rev. John Marks, La.. Rev. E. H. McDonald, Mich. ; Rey. J. M. Meeks, Obio; Rev. J. A. Riddle, W. Va.; Rev. N. T. Dorson, Tex. Rev. W.B Johnsen, D.C.; Rev. Harvey Johnson, Md. The next Committee was headed by Dr. W. J. Simmons, of Louis- ville, Ky. This committee called on Friday and presented the follow | ing address: To the Hon. Benj. Harrison, Pres- ideut of the United States: Sir: At the American National Baptist meetings held in Indianap olis September [5 to 17 the tollow- ing resolutions , having been read and referred to the committee on resolutions, were reported back to the house and, after amendment adopted. “And whereas our political lead- ers are few, and even those we have cannot reach the people, therefore it becomes our duty to speak out upon all questions that affect oar people, socially aud econ omically as well as religiously ; and whereas God bas always, in all ages Rev. Geo. W. Lee is one of those | boasting preachers and as we said | Jast week he had more gall than | any thing else. In his letter to a ocal paper he attempts to be fun-} ny and in such an attempt he prover himself to be just what we said he was. In a sermon preach- ed a few Sundays ago, be decla’ed from his pulpit that “two-thirds ot the members of Gongress were sinners and the other third drunk- ards. He repeated the same words in a Sermons again at night. We called the gentieman to a halt and asked whether a man could be so foolish to make such utterances. When he read our critism he de- clared to some of our friend8 what he intended to do: “yes I said it” suid he. In a local paper of last . week he backeddown bysaying that he didnot mean ibis Congress and concludes his letter in the follow= ing remarkable vernacular, which isan evidence that his brain is influence: d by his gall: “The Be tes me to her columns to re. voke my et. I believe she is sincere this. iso when she cailsa hate she will be beard witt app ause. is practi ally experienced in 1 its resclts, not only an n his veracity should heed onium couid afford t9 hear moral North but a United ith every section equal xd government and pro- s. The outhern people nners than the Northero seems tothink. lam “everywhere’’ “hence, aide Ol Tet GBORGE W, LE PASTOR h Baptist Church, MAHONE SEN( FOR LANG- STON. Hon. Wm. Mahone sent for Hon. J. M. Langston on Wednes- day evening aud informed him that he would support him for his seat. Langs'on is the biggist man in the State of Virginia. We regret Muhone’s defeat. All the instructed and ruled the people threugh his own chosen and called men ;therefore, be 1t resolved that this convention believes that the truest interest of our people in their accepting the Horace Greely doc_ trine of “Young men, go west,’ where they may obtain a recogni. tion and grow up whith the country, resolved that the poor and oppress. ed people have always migrated westward, where they could get lands in new countries, and thus grow up with them: and become the great men of these new com. munities, resolved that we ask the President of the United States to recommend to the United States Congress an appropriation of $50,000,000 to aid the colored peo. ple to leave the South.” Mr President: we, the undersign- ed, were appointed a committee to lay these resolutions before you. Therefore, your petitioners beg leave to recite the wrongs their brethern undergo asa just cause, in the opinion of honorable , in- dusirious and fair minded men, why we appear before you. We feel that a righteous statement of our case Should be made to our great Executive head and to the law making power of this vast Re pablic. Our wrongs date from 1620, A. D. to 1889, A. D. From the time we landed few in number, but still weak in the meansof self protection. We pass over the long siege uf American Slavery, because it is familiar to the citizens of the world. We pass over our record in the war, as it has become a matter of fame how as soldierg and slaves | we attracted the admiration of the | world. And we come to our con- dition since the war and beg leave to tell the sufferings of our people in the South. » Tuough outraged aud slain in any quarters. we have borne the shghtest insults and the most | blagdy murder with equal fortitude Langston men votod for Mahone, We have appealed to our President and to the Congress of the United States before and we cannot see that we are pfotected from any source. Our friends seem power- less and high crime is still rampant Occasionally there is an investiga- tion or a long debate, but our lives and property are still insecure and outrageous laws are still being made against us. We do not appeal to you nor to Congress as partisans, yet, as the long, life-time allies of the senti- ment your party expresses and by which you hold power to-day, we do bereby request that our wrongs be righted. We make the follow. ing indictment against many sec- tions of the lower South. Let it be remembered that we do not speak of every section of the South, for — sections are quiet and peaca- ble. The Indictment. We charge: 1. That we are murdered without cause, 2. ‘hat we are not given justice before the law. 3. That we are driven from our homes and onr property destroyed by fire. 4. That we are denied the right to vote, or if al- lowed to vote, our vote is destroy~ ed by fraud. 5. That when elecx ted we are ejected from office by revolutionary proceedings. 6. That we are kept in constant dread by the parade of arms and denunciatory threats through eve- rycampaign. 7. That our church~ es are burned and our meetings disbanded. 8. That the opposing press can say what it pleases while our press is muzzled. 9. That our -progress is checked in every way, living under such unhappy and miserable circumstances Now, since these things are so, we have come to ask you to lay before Congress these resolutions and this memorial, praying that $50,000,000 more or less, be ap- propriated to aid those who are thus situated to leave the South and settle on western !ands = It is no fault of ours that we are out raged and murdered. We would gladly have our people stay in the land where we were born, for we all love the South, Indeed, we love its people and would gladly live in peace with them. We are not anarchists, commun- ists vor socialists, but trae Amer- icans who love their country. If the pilgrim fathers could come across the waters for peace and safety, why should we not go west among a friendly people? It is useless to hope for a change of sentiment in these sections of the South. “Hope deterred maketh the heart sick.” Nearly a generation has passed since the war and this state ot af- fairs still continues. Ifit be ar- gued that the United States can do nothing for us it would seem that we are not citizens of the Cuited States, but citizens of the states in which we live. If this be so it is apparant that we have no redress within the state, und the only remedy then would be to leave unfriendly states and go to friendly ones The colored people are poor, made so and arekept so. Some may dispute the propriety of this ap-~ peal, but the best vindication of our effurt herein will be to give these people a chance to leave these sections. The exodus of the Isrealites from Egypt will be a smal! sized excursion compared to the move there will be in the South. The Committee representing 1,362,273 communicants who are your pe- titionere, do not bear any malice nor ill-will to the people of the South, nor do our constituents. We are sure the news papers will daily corroborate our indictment in sume form or other. Trusting we may have your good will in this matter and no desire to be unfair to the quiet and peaceful sections of the South, but only to speak of sections known to cover the descriptions mentioned. We are respectfully yours, Wm. J, Simmons, C.H. Pash, W. By Johnson, J. A, Taylor, HU. W. Bouey. HOLLAND’S APPOINTMENT. The only paper in this country that is kicking against the ap- pointment of Col. M M. Holland, is the Cleveland, Obio Gazette. Among the many hundred pa- pers edited by colored men that favor his appointment the Chicago Conservaior, one of the most ably edited papers in the countiy speaks of the appointment in the highest terms, We desire to inform our friend Smith that Col. Holland is a citizen and Voter of Ohio, and a better appointment could not have been made by Secretary Windom made, the colored voters ot country will’ be satisfied. are creditably informed that . President intends to do a gre. deal more, A NATIONAL LEAGUE. Our esteemed contemporary the editor the New York Age, T. Thomas Fortune, has issued a call for a national convention to meet at Nashville, Tenn. There isno reason why the call shou!d not be responded to by our repre- sentatives. This is the time for the colored people to organize, not for any political purpose but for theit own good and benefit. We would suggest to editor Foriune to extend invitations to such of our representatives who favor the call and those who don’t favor it had better remain at home. We want to see good and honest men attend this conveu— tion and not men who have al- ways got some axe to grind. We shall say more next week. ; THE PRESS ON PURVIS. The colored editors throughout the country are uanimous in their support of Dr, C. B. Purvis of the Freedmans Hospital. The Washington correspondent of the Ind anopolis World paid a hand- some compliment to Dr. C. B, Purvis lust week. ‘This Hospital gives the colored students great er advantages than avy institution in the country. If colored doe- tors must have an office, we would suggest that they apply for the insane asylum, or the Health of- fice. OUR TRIP TO RICHMOND. For the first time in the his- tory of our existance, we left this city Tuesday morning, on the 4:30 train over the Baltimore and Po- tomac road for Richmond, Va. We arrived there in time to find Editor John Mitchell out of his office and at the polls in Jacksou Ward, to which place we were di- rected to go to find that eminent lawyer for whom we were looking, James Hl. Hayes. We did not have to go at the time we started, but we saw our man coming a- crogs tbe street on his way to his office, and to our surprise he in tormed us that things, politicalry, in Jackson Ward, were in a fear~ ful condition, this is all he would say uulil we went there ourself to see. We have often heard of Dem- ocratic tactics in the South and how badly colored men were treated at the polls which we did not hisitate to believe. We aaw for ourself by a visit to Jackson Ward, the stronghold of the colored Republicans, We first visited the third Pre- cinct where we found over 900 colored men in line. We took upon ourself to ask whether they all were Republicans and intend to vote for Mahone, to which we got an affirmative response. We witnessed the tactics of the Democratic Judges of election in voting colored Republicans, which were indeed di:gusting and diabol- ical. We lett and went to the 4th. Precinct and found things worse. There were over 600 vo- ters in line,some of whom had been at the polls all night and had not voted. We took our stand opposite the polls and watched the mvoements ot lawyer Hayes, who wanted to vote. He stole up to the head of the line and took charge of a tal- ly book which was left in his care by a Mahone supporter, by that means he got in his vote. The Democratic Police officers tried their uttermost to create a roit; about five or six of them would rush into a crowd of col- ored voters at the window, preten= tending to put them back and rash a crowd of white Democrats up to vote. Occasionally a colored Republi- can would be called on to vote, aud the questions asked were cer- tainly rediculous and frudulent, which Congress should remedy immediately it convenes. A sample of the questions we shall herewith give. There were over 600 men in line, as we said before, and about a dozen or more at the window, a Democratic registrar takes the colored vote in hand: Where do you live? On such and such astreet. Have you been convicted for stealing? No sir; well, we believe that you have been convicted for stealing, Mr. Holland is honest, aggressive and patriofic and if several more appoihtments like Hoilland’s were | VOIGE CULTURE SIGHT READING & HARMONY, Democratic _uve that Bill Smith had been convicted for stealing. In tle mean time Smith is asked wheth- er he knows the Election Laws? Yes sir, says Smith. [don’t be- lieve you do, says the registrar | andI shall read them to you. He read two long pages of print-| ed matter to Smith on how to vote. After having kept the man at the window 25 or 30 minutes, Tom Jones returns and challeng- ed the vote of Smith. He was hus- tled out of the line and if he at- tempted to give impudence he would be arrested. Such were the methods of the Democrats at the polls in Virgin- ia, in Jackson Ward. We left to get our dinner, and bade good-bye to our friends Hayes, Mitchal and Geo. W. Lewis, who is practicing law and is doing well. in Richmond has convinced us that the Negro bas no show in his political rights, unless the preseni system is changed. «THE DEMOCRATIC CHIEF CLEKK OF THE INTERIOR,” A few days ago a laborer was appointed in the Genl., land office presumably to do laboring work, but not so, after he bad taken the oath of office, he was immediately assinged toa deskin the Regis- tery division. Being a white man we suppose and believe that Chief Clerk Dawson did’at care to kumilate him by assigning to the work of a laborer. “The de- mocratic chief clerk of the Iate- rior is dead set against white and colored republicans, and more es— pecially colored republicans who have ambition and Rudolph Scheitlin an effcient_and competent employee of the Land office bas been over looked for the last two or three years by this discriminatingand viudictive recipient of republican favor and patrouage. The Secretary of the Interior will do the country and the party a service by removing this “Democratic chief clerk” and putting in his place a republican with a back bone. Mr. Dawson has held on to this place with a death like grip since 1868 Decen-~ Challauger | ov look for Tom Jones to! Our stay | manhood. | cy should compel him either to die politically or resign. ENTLEMAN WILL DO WELL TO CALL ON J. W. TAYLOR, The Stylish Hair Cutter. Perfect order observed, also finest brands of cigars and tobacco. s@=Next door to the Bre Office. J. W. Tayior. sepl4—lyr. J TT. Layton, Teacher of Chorister of Metropolitan A, M. E. Church, M Street, bet. 14th and 15ch Sts. Music Class every Monday evening at 7, in parlor of church. Residence, 1008 19th St,, wash. D. C. 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