The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-12-10
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF coL0RED
MEN.
WASHINGTON, December s.

tate0 JACKSON, Is
ITO the President of the Colored Men 5
Convention: Seventy thousand triumphau,
colored radicals send greeting"
This was greeted with lOng-continued sp-
plause-
A resolution was offered and referred ex-
pressing sympathy With the Cubans, and
pledsing the strength of the colored Ameri-
cans IN support of the GOvernment.-Ieie-
graph.
Now, i, is just as likely as not that
the - Constitutional Democrats who
followed OF Mr. Crupple's side show
aud fetched up in the cheap and I'M
Johnson swung round the circle will be
SIS much pleased with these statements
AZ she Radicals of Nevada are and will
be. But il is hardly possible that such
eau be the case When niggers vote in
Virginia; when they are put upon the
State ticket of the Democrats in Mis-
sissippi and are beaten by more honest
roters aad similarly "complected' can
didaies of their class; when, during
sill these circumstances, il is possible
that the manumitIet Slaves of Missis-
sippi use Morse's strengthening
such dispatches as the above-don't it
seem the nss'iest OF all nasty washings of
epi..oons of the Kluuck barrooms to az
tempt to fos, lie out upon the public,
the tenor and gist of which is such
iisgracefuI and wearisome falsehood as
lsed TO be the staple stock Of such ina
ireit retailers as Joe McCorkle, Frank
riiford ct I'd genus ouas I'VE can stand
the frothings Of the hypothecators of
this miserable counterfeit of bogus
currency, and tolerate the Clayrons.
with all tie dips and spurs and angles
which therefrom are apparently Next
Fall, when the Fifteenth Amendment
- part of the organic law of the
country; when the man who blacks my
boots is as good as be who carries my
bod; when the PARENT person who
hiled the South with the measure OF
IS wealth aud was declared BY the
oeue Gcisries thereof, (wiJh triumphant
and gleesome shoU,ings) to be not en-
stands up for his rights being sup
ported in such self assertion by the
fundamental character of American !
privi,eges) where there comes to be no |
excuse for striking a man, |
.hen there can no longer be such a
fnghtful mockery Of 'gal!antry" as
the tscitly legalized permission OF the
beating and branding of women who |
are large with child; when Waltham
watches begin to be manufactured al
the Forks of the Yaikin aud slaves are |
no longer reminded that Anthony |
Burns ever was restored to slavery |
oy Boston Judge when Fred |
Douglass Can ride in the car
with drunken Irishmsn and be
greeted with a show of respect by the |
gentry therein travelling, aud protected
rom any insults offered by such aper.
son, when the wide world does not
track open with g laugh at the ''his,
tory of Lee and JEFF Davis, and Bragg |
and JEFF Thompson, ETC., etc, etc.;-
men will the people who compose the
,ulk of this inglorious generation be
IS willing as they are traetabis in dis
;-raing the plainly stated right from
ne inperfectly disguised wrong. Even
he Democrats of New York gave
'nggers' the right to vote-for money;
10 did the Democrats of Ohio; and yet
he marvellous fact exists that there
re men calling themselves Republicans
no ..tnink they think" when they talk
i social equsiity" and who, if they
ave daughter, are liars enough TO
reteud that they are afraid she will
marry a black man. The good sense
I the world gets insulted by such
teas as this. Because Bonapsrte starved
oulssaut L Overture TO death; because
INA C. Calhoun "a recreant Whig) was
'iiling to sacrifice his country to as
,ean . device as William II. Stewards;
ecause Virginia "gentlemen' were
'illiog; yea and anxious for their {
ms to s'stand" as Norfolk does; be-
suse that these and barrels full of {