New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-09-04
4 Mares Vest.

The Naional Repubiicaa IL nothing il not
sensational. During the. past week 1t has
been alive with excitements its corps OF
reporters, pleasant fellows enough in their
way, have been besieging the NEW Ma
TroSAB ERA AND CITIzyS building at all
hours of the night to CLEAN some item with
regard to The secret organizations" the
Black Mans, Party, the Colored Know
Nothiugs." Be it known TO all concerned that
about this time there is n dearth OF news IN
Washington. Correspondents Of the different
newspapers snatch. in this dry season, at any
| item, aud, therefore, this startling announce
ment was flashed east and west. north and
south, over the wires. This was done at the
| time the two principal editors Of the paper
were away on n vacation. The Republican
/ followed up its expose BY an editorial which
we answered last week, and a series OF inter-
views, in which it manufactures converse
! tons to order, and quite in keeping with its
original sensation. With its usual flourish Of
trumpets, it describes the meetings of the
Equal RIGHTS LEAGUE. It's reporter is
so infinitely accurate as to give the names OF
! the individuals who were there. Mr.. Greener,
/ who thought he was in Philadelphia on Tues
day evening, finds, much to his surprise, that
he wa. there! Mr. Lewis II. Douglass, who
/ foolishly supposed he was in Syracuse, and
who still labors under the delusion that he
( is there, was also present in Washington at
| the meetings of these dark lantern" tel!ows,
these wretches who are determined to put
black men into office, This is the way the
little Republican dog sometimes barks up the
wrong tree. The fact is, the National Re-
/ publican has been badly sold byits ''cullered"
correspondent and the eN-professOr, and
| through the Republican the various cores
( pondents at tie seat Of war have been badly
/ taken in also. Seriously, no sane man in
/ the District believed the nonsense but peo-
pie outside Of the District have given Gre
dence to it.
/ Mr. Douglass denied, through the press,
his completely with any such organization
having any such purpose, and Mr.. Greener's
reply to the New York Times we print else
where.
! In Irginia, the effect of this silly canard,
!
Tered" correspondent of the Republican, has
had the effect Of starting anew the cry of
"white men for Virginia" negroes wish to
| rule" and such choice expressions of the
Democratic vocabulary. Now, the Republican
has been doing good service, like ourselves,
/ for the cause in Virginia, with the exception
that it gets well paid for its services las for all
| it does,) and we don't get anything. Con-
sequently, this wholesale fabrication in hay
/ ing a damaging effect in Virginia ''returns
to plague the inventor" and our versatile,
but slightly Enthusiastically. contemporary, is
somewhat at fault.
! Our paper and its editors need no yindica-
ton from the charge of conspiracy. Their
| loyalty to the Republican party and its prin-
ciples has been tested in other places and
! sterner fields. 1t is because we stand fear
| lessly by the negroes rights in this District
and throughout the country, and intend so
to stand, that the petty journals of the Re-
publican stripe, without conscience, with
much pliability, and love of filthy lucre, and
an entire absence Of principle, single us out
! for their malicious attacks. The trouble is,
the Republican is doing more by its misrep-
reservations Of all decent colored men, who
do not worship its ideal of colored worth and
responsibility, to bring together and consol-
idate the colored people of the District into
party determined to demand their rights
as American citizens, than all the Bowens,
Johnsons, Grceners, Douglasses, and Lang
stons combined