New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-02-27

words to the same toast. Miss Ernestine l.
Clark, the daughter of our host, fayore'
Us with some most excellent music durini
the evening. If she has a peer among US
either amateur or professional, as performe
on the piano, il has been my misfortune no
touch with accuracy of tune, varying it occa
sionally to suit the caprice of her fancy, sht
seemed to play upon our emotions as if eacl
/ was connected by cord TO the keys Of he
/ instrument. Her "Rocollcctions of Home
| filed the guests of that evening with mar
Vicious rapture, which induced forgetfulness
| Of why they had assembled or what they
were to do, until recalled to their duty tc
join in singing John Brown" before sepa.
rating for another twelve months.
This club is not society to enrich its
members by means Of charitable subscription
lists, but an organization of grateful men to
| see that the memory Of the 'great enamel
pator" is kept green in the hearts of the col
years it has kept to its work of bearing in
remembrance,
1.-THE heavy loss, this country i'll could bear
\ loss these evil DAYS can e'er repair.
When Justice, high viccgerent of her god,
Her doubtful balance eyes, and sways her
rod"
HON. JERRY HAROIS0N,
who became prominent in New Orleans dur
ing the Louisiana Convention of colored men,
has been making a sensation in the Alabama
Senate by proposing to abandon all further
efforts to induce emigration from Europe, and
announces his determination to vote against
all schemes which do not include Africa in
the list of countries from which to obtain sup
plies Of labor. Ofcourse he can have no hope
of success, but this straw shows the direction
of the wind Of the Georgia exodus.
We. are informed by kilograms of General
Grants intention, at an early day, to make
a tour of the South. think it would be well
for the New NATIONAL ERA to urge colored
men in the cities through which he will pass to
FORM DELEGATIONS AND CALL UPON HIM.
Let him understand the conditions, wants,
and needs of the black man as we'll as the
white one. You will remember that the
President once before made Southern tour
and returned to Washington under the i'm
preston that Everything was lovely" and
became accused of candy Johnsonizing."
Horace Greeley also made Southern trip in
which he saw only white delegations, and he,
too, came back convinced that only the white
men of the South needed anything. Let col
ored men talk for themselves and help form
a correct opinion in the mind of Gen. Grant
SOCIAL.
There have been so many balls, parties
| banquets, and receptions this winter, that il
has the appearance of a desperate design tc
inflict dyspepsia, disease, and death among
society goers, in order to make room for thu
| rising generation, and also to suppress tn,
| awful example presented to anxious parent
with manageable female membranes of
whole generation Of young men determined
to be bachelors. Cor be it remembered tina
a large majority of our entertainments ar
"stag" parties.)
"You may know how it is YOURSELF" whel
the undersigned, with the digestive apparatu
Of an ostrich, is compelled to cry "hold
enough" even though he be damned" 70
if DEpUCI