New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-10-30
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senator Elect Pine back, OF Louis.
isns, raIk. 10 ~ Chicago An.
dience.

Hon. L. Il. = Piuchback. one Of the claim
r ants t1 scat in the United States ~enat,
from louisiana, and now on hi way to Wash
lngton. Is stopping in the city. aud on las
evening. at the solicitation of Hon. John
Jones and others, addressed his coIored fell
l"w-citizens on the status Of the einancipatet
10 the South, at the Uiyet Baptist church
The commotioGs ediiice was crowded.
Pinchback is generally called cookbook.
! ing person of middle age, brnad-shouldered
muscular, alert, aud why a. panther, and
it is only by close scrutiny that the Ethiopian
reveals itself in his appearance. His hair is
straight, his forehead i high and broad. aud
/ indicates strength. tenIcity, and pusnacity.
His eve is keen, his Nose squiline and il is
only in his lips aud closely crnpyed whiskers
that his quadroou blood makes itself manifest
lie Is GOOD talker, enuncIIte, with rapiiity,
/ and his Voice is clear and strong, and not
uumusical. There is not even a >ugge- ton
. oi the negro twanG He is evidently fair
( icbater, aud it he ans the Senate will not
take a back seat.
/ lie said he had been invited t. deliver an
address on the status OF the colored people
/ -. the South. In order to do this it was ne
/ ce>sary TO 60 back little. He would not
( bring up the horrors Of slavery. For more
/ than two centuries they were in bondage
/ At the close Of the war nearly four millions
/ ot colored people, ignorant and poor, were
| thrown upon the charities ui the world were
/ literally turned loose. Their enemies said
they were lndolent. Did the facts now patent
bear out this stigma? He believednnt He
had drawn the picture of the past in a few
strokes. He would now speak Of the present,
~ contrast. In louisiana, ut the close ot
The var, lJt,OJU growing youths were in the
state, OF whom not p, 900 attended schools.
I These were white; of colored children il was
needless to speak. They did not attend at
all, but were whipped when seen with book
III their hands. Now they had 100 schools
III The state, and over loo, 900 scholars, al
which more than one half were colored. All
the change had been accomplished under
Republican auspices. So much tor education.
How was it in the matter of health? Most
oi The cOlored people came into freedom with
out any clothes on their backs. In Louisiana
1t was little different. lie represented IA
class of quadroOns, who had white fathers and
colnrcd mothers, who inherited the wealth of
their fathers. The property of these quad
room children was about Sl2 200 600. Now
the cOlOred people owned $50, 200 900 out of
the taxable property of the State amounting
H. S22j 900 200. Though the colnred people
owned ii little less than fourth Of the prop
crty, they paid more than fourth of the
"
owners were taX-resistcrs,
Tut when il was said that they owned
nearly Il fourth of the State all was not said
The col"red men were the producers the
blacks alone titled the soil; they were the
only ones who could till it. The productions
"f the State amounted yearly to $40, 000, 900,
aua o.. thu, amount SIS ,0O0, 900 was not only
produced by the colored people, but was
owned by them. They were their own pro-
pictdrs. These two elements, education and
wealth, made the State. 1t was no dspar-
agcnent for them To be ignorant. But they
were moi remaining ignorant, and the progress
they had made in enlightenment was probably
without Il parallel. In the face Of the facts,
it was an outrage to claim that the colored
people were making no progress. IL was
commended, after the war, that the free negro |
would breed pestilrnce and riot, and when |
1t was found that such things were not COM
ing to pass, they tried to make it true by Or
ganizing kukluN Klans. 1t was also said |
that the colored people were dying out. |
Neither was this true. They had increased |
10 per cent. since the war. 1t was also said |
they would migrate. If they did they would .
move south But he did not believe they
would move much. There were too many
halfway places. There were too many like
himself Prejudices stood still in the way,
but it was vanishing. When he went to |
school in Cincinnati in 1916 he did not dare
look decent on the street, for fear Of being
All this was changed. For
merly a darkey did not dare pass the front
door OF a hotel. Now they accommodated .
him the same as white man. This was il
glorious contamination. 1t was proof, be-
yond cavl, that the old pref JUDGE was weak
cning.
He sometimes felt like thanking the South.
10 tl,,i, p,,tt q. IL.
folly to leap into rebellion, slavery might have
existed Il century more.
But they owed nearly all they were to the
Republican party, and they were but paying
a debt to stand BY it. SO long as the Repub-
lican party was the party of equal rights they
could belong to no other. There was now
some fear that another party would get ahead
of the Republican party and pass Summers
vlrights bill.
\ great many people who had no objection
to a colorcd man voting, had decided nbjec-
tons to voting for colored man. But it
in Louisiana that the colored peO-
pie had about $1,000 majority, aud had ii
great many white people supporting them.
Under those circum- llnccs it was plain that
the Republican ticket won at the last cleo
ton. In the face Of such facts they won
Tered how Republican Congress could
gnOre the Kellogg government, upon whose
success depended the welfare of 90, 900 cleo
tors. The President had acted nobly, and
the colored people could never thank him
enough for what he had done, and the evil
lence now accommodating would Justify his
conduct.
He would conclude his address with a little
ldvice. lie hoped they would not regard it
Is impairment. He felt he belonged To- them
n a measure. He hoped and he believed he
you'd occupy Il seat i'll the United States
senate the coming winter Hence he felt he
represented them in measure as no other
nan did officially. lie then paid d high com
)liment to Hon. John Jones, as a coloreh
nan, citizen, an American citizen. He
wanted them to take an example from him.
he hoped they would all become John
Ioneses. He was afraid they were not all
Walking in lhs path. He wanted them to
make more progress. He wanted them 10 Le
hrifty. They should save their dimes and
,uy property. They had better chances than
my one. If they bought property some white
men next door would pay them double it,
Ialue to get rid Of them. laughter After
he war they went on grand national spree.
They did not know what to do with them
elves for long time. But il was time they
we're getting down to hard pan" 1t was
lot enough that they had freedom; they
hould prove themselves worthy Of it.
He then cited himself az an example Ia
3GS he concluded he would work for IA home
lie hpUan dFnppinp nff his tnlI,- and c;.,.r. /