Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-03-26
Colored Meeting.

Colored Meeting.
The colored voters of this place
held meeting at their Chapel, near
the corner of Twelfth street and
Third avenue, on Monday evening
The object of the meeting was to
take into consideration their position
in the election for municipal officers,
which occurs next week. As nearly
as our means of ascertaining the num-
Der present would allow, we estima-
ted there we're about fifty on the floor.
After the ceremony of electing
a President, DR.. 0. G.. Chase
appeared upon the floor and stated
that he desired to make speech
The Doctors position in the past week
has been somewhat peculiar and re-
sembles the variations of a weather.
cock upon a steeple. At the repub-
lican meeting last week he proposed
TO teach the convention what should
be done and what platform should be
adopted, but he was taken aside and
quietly informed that his sphere of
usefulness had become circumscribed
and that they would put him on spe-
cial duty-in other words, that they
had some unclean work to do outside
that he must attend to. This snub
was more than he could bear, so he
turned upon his heel to leave. As
he reached the stairway he cast a
reproving glance toward the men who
had supplanted him as leader, and
quoted from the great Shakespeare;
"These old fellows have
Their ingrltitude IN them hereditary:
Their blood IS caK'd, us cold, IL seldom 1ows;
It's lack OF kindly warmth, they are MT Kind
However, on the next day he was
let into the programme of tn. cam
paign and ordered to be present at
meeting of the coiored voters, on
Monday, and to open the exercises
with a speech, which should serve as
a rule tor them TO act by. He assem-
ted and here we are with him on the
rostrum. By actual measurement
fve-eighths Of the speech proved to
be modification Of Chaplain Whit
more's address to the negroes in Geor,
gia, in 1865, melting them to deeds
Of violence; two eighths were descrip-
tions Of the raw-head and bloody
bones, taken from The book by Chas.
Ball, escaped slave, but in reality,
written by a Massachusetts, yankee,
and the remaining part was original
with the speaker He commenced
by saying that the colored man had
been ignored by the democrats in not
inviting them to their meeting. That
the democratic party had been their
enemyin the past and if they listen
ed to the hypocrisy of their p.omisesS
the negro would again be put in jeop.
ardy He recounted the wrongs which
had been perpotrlted upon the race
Of the shackles and tettcls Of the
past; of the tearing asundel of huS-
band and wife. and so on-the same
stale political gabblo that has been
hashed and re-hashed ever since the
war. He then passed to the discus
sion of the colored man in West Nir
ginia, and made one or two good
points, but put his foot in it by the
question: "Who built YOU this liCtle !
chapel and school-house, last year"
and answered it himself by saying, |
'West Virginia" lie forgot that
the state has been democratic for
four years.
He then took the democratic Of
fccrs of justice to task and ass srteI /
that 4 colore1 man had been knock .
ed down with brick by white man. |
The next topic was about temperance. |
He said no one need fear that the /
sale of whisky wolld stop no matter
which one cf the tickets was elected, /
but that if he could have his way his
colored fellow citizens nor any one
else should have 1 drop lie asked
the meeting to appoint a committee
to confer with a like one from the
republicans that they might arrange
a plan to bring out their full force
on election day. He left the plat
form amid applause. The doctor
vas followed by Rev. Mr.. Whitley of
Ohio, who madea logical and chunky
political speech which was well re-
ce.ycd by the audience. 1t was by
far the best effort Of the evening.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Long,
Brvson, Carter and Others. \ mo-
ton was made to invite a democrat
to address the meeting, but the
Chairman declined to put the motion
to vote, stating that the meeting
was emphatically a republican one
and that ii they wanted 10 hear
democrat he would appoint another
night.