The weekly Louisianian., 1872-11-30
DELAWARE CsleRgDilll1, EPulllll Call&l'

carefully consider the educat1cna
political, Industrial and social cor
dition of the colored people, an
= devise means to remedy il"
Professor Day was elected Prcsi
dent, and after Organization a l. an.
election of a Committee on Reso]u
q tions, with d. II. ;Gustus, for chair
man,vthe following resolutions, de
scriptive of the condition Of thing,
in Delsware, and the aspdration'
; and resolutions a. the colored PEG
{ pie of the State, were adopted:
. WHEREAS, The power which wat
, overthrow still lives in this, State, in
its opposition to, civil rights, in its OPP
position to the Fifteenth Amendment
Ut the United States constitution, in
opposition to: the Educational, bill
which wa4 intended, to do us Justice,
in its opposition to tie repeal of the
Black Laws of our State, in the at
tempts, sometimes by violence, to, keep
us from voting, and in opposition to
our enrolment in the assessment lists
of the cot1nties in which we reside:
Resolved, That we reaf6rm our de-
mand heretofore made for the recaogni-
ton by law over ali the country of the
entire equality Of al American citizens
in all civil, and political rights, regard.
less Of color.
Resolved, That the colored people
have q legal right to the same free and
full education, fol-. their children as
their white fellow citizens, and duly
approaching the fact that On such an
education depends in a very great de-
fgree their future standing and useful
ness as citizens, and having long and
patiently waited and appealed in vain
for q recognition Of those rights, we
think the time hns now come for us tn
take some stepstoward obtaining them,
and well knowing the worth Of the an
cient proverb that .+'TLe Gods help
those. alone who help ~themselves,''
that We slull no1 cease being sup
piiunts, and demand through tic
courts those rights Of Which We have
been 40 long deprived.
Resolved, That we hail with joy the
late conversion Of the Democratic party
to the Republican faith, and sincerity |
hope. that. they will be instrumental in !
repeating all, of those black laws which
to-dhy stand US n living disgrace OH the
statutes Of Delaware. |
Resolved, That all candid minds
must admit that the nation's advance
since the days Of active Rebellion has
been constant and satisfactory, and
now having escaped the shouts and
quicksands of treason and secession
and near the port, if there are any on
board who would consIire against the
commanding officer of the ship OF State,
God forbid that any Of said ,mutiueers
should be colored American citizens.
Resolved, That we rally to the sup
port of Grant and Wilson with that
resistless spirit with which We fought
for u liberty, with that desp since1i-
ty in which we mourned the foul death :,
Of our lberator, Lincoln and with the
exalted hope Of making General Grant g
with our first vote in Noyem- .
Der next. ..' =
In Delaware there are %, 1914 ,
'olored people. and. according to d
he Christian Recorder, only 3,34S =
this number belong to churches.
of these, the NJ. T.. Church
claims 1,549; the A. NJ. E. Church +
1893, and Union Churches 500; =
md, Gays the Recorder: |.
"'This is not the whole truth. To a
lightly appreciate the s;tuatiou this :
'ther fact must be taken into account =
~; that oil the other religious dcno1ni-
|atlons decline to operate among the
olored people here, and that no pro-
whatever is made for Their cdu- =
alton by the State. r.. I
True there is a feeble society called a
The Delaware Association, for the i'm O
OF the colored people, that ;,
oes . little for. the education nnd NOR VI
| improvements of the people, and Q;
ut q little. It runs a few schools but r;
people. are obliged to pay a goodly ,.
hare in their expense and ono must q
auperise himself and pay in order to
lare their benefit. This, then, is &
bout a fair summing up Of The agen- h,
les, and their success" 81
Now, under all the circumstances, IS $
. hail, as the most hopeful indica- 81
ons OF improvement, the resolu. ad
on to "help themselves" This
isposition - forcing itself 10 pow Is
fully and universally on the p
'lored people of the Unitcd States, 81
at it cannot be long ere they will th
stain all their legal and Constitu- vi
onal rights everywhere. it b
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