The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-24
A Cali for n State Mass Meeting and Cell
ebratiOn OF the 18th Amendment.

The State Central Committee of COL
ored men, for the State of Kansas, again
issue n call to the colored citizens of
Kansas, and their Republican friends,
earnestly urging them 10 attend a mass
convention which will convene at Leav-
enworth City, Kansas, on Monday, the
first day of August, 1870, at ten o'clock
a. m. Tho great question of equal and
political rights Ito all men) before the
law, that for many years has been agi-
tated by the true lovers of freedom, is
now settled, which makes the approach
ing convention one of more importance
than any we have ever held. The great
Republican party is triumphant. The
Fifteenth Amendment is ratified by the
requisite number of States, and the
President has declared to the nation that
il is to all intents and purposes part of
the Constitution of the United States,
and colored men to-day are voters, and
entitled to be voted for. Therefore, at
the coming convention the most vital
issues must be met and fully discussed;
the gravest subjects must be presented
subjects involving our present peace,
political and social condition, as well as
our security for the future. Our desti-
ny, by the will of God, appears to be in
dissolubly bound to that of our native
country. With it we must rise or fall.
The unfolding of the broad platform of
equal political rights, with equal politi-
cal privileges, opens to us all the re-
sponsibilities and duties of citizens
which tyrants have long denied us, and
to-day we constitute part of the great
governing power of the republic. Then
we are called to meet this important
crisis which unparalleled events, rend-
ing in twain of the cord of caste, the
overturning of oppression and the judg-
ment of God have forced upon the ma
ton. You are called upon to calmly
consider, and resolutely adopt, some
feasible, practicable plan by which we
may control the vote of our people, up
hold and sustain intact the Republican
party, and those noble men-represent-
atives of that courage and heroism
which have saved the nation-men who,
in Congress and the State Legislatures,
unfiinchingly met the question raised
by the life long enemies of the country
as to the right of the colored men
throughout the nation to vote and to eX-
ercise all other rights enjoyed by virtue
OF citizenship. Then come from your
workshops, from your fields of labor,
from the factory, the school house, and
the farm-come from your homes and
families for this occasion. Let our min
listers leave their pulpits, our working
men their vocations, and our profession.
al men their Duties.
Let our thoughtful, active, Vigilani
men come together, and so completely
organize and combine that not vote
shall be lost, but that they may be poll.
ed TO crush the enemies oflaw and union
and liberty. To the great principles
which animate the Republican party We
stand pledged by every tie of honor an6
gratitude to God, liberty and country
Over the broken chains and crushed
manaeles that bound the limbs of mil
lions, we have written our deathless adj
heronce.
All societies and organization
throughout the State are Invited to conn
and Join with us In this movement.
BY order of the State Central Com
mittee. WIN. ID. MATHEWS, Chn.
f. L. BRADLEY, Sec'y.