New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-06-25
From Wyoming Territory.

The recent attempt maze 10 suppress your
able and popular journal and stop its wide
and extensive circulation throughout the
nation, aud to- prevent its potent influence
among our people, was not only an act Of
Injustice to the Douglass Brothers, but an
act of the basest treachery to the colOred
people of this Republic, among whom it
aroused feeling of honest Indignation
against the perpetrators of the act, and who
have not been backward in expressing their
unqualified disapprObation of their unpatri-
otit course. AS TO the difficulties existing
between the Douglass Brothers and the
parties who took or subscribed to stock in
the New NATIONAL ERA, its numerous
readers know but little, and care less. We
only know that a bad and bold effort has
been made TO suppress one of the very best
and most able papers ever before published
in the interest of the colored people of this
country. The favorable and well-selected
locality of its publication, at the Capital of
the nation, where it commands the attention
OF the members Of Congress, and is read by
them, and even the President of the United
lis wcll-selected miscellaneous matter on all
subjects of interest, with host of able cor
respondents Of the sunny South, and from
every part of this broad land; and, above
all, the moral courage and lofty independence
displayed in its bold and fearless advocacy
of our rights, and its fine typographical exc
cution, all combine to make it one among
the best papers Of the land. The New Ma
TIoNAL ERA is the same to the colored
people as the New York Tribune, the Times,
or the Herald is TO the white people of this
Government. The New NATIONAL ERA
is not only creditable to the Douglass
Brothers, by whom it is SO ably edited and
published, but such journal, supported by
the masses of the colored people of this ma
ton, reflects honor and credit upon them,
and not them alone, but the Republican
party also, to which it has chung with I'M
flinchlng tenacity and unwavering fidelity.
The failure of the New NATIONAL ERA,
with its present national reputation, and
honorable record of its past services to the
colored race, and benefits to the Republican
party, would be a political calamity, a shame,
and disgrace to the co!ored people, and a
reproach TO the Repuslican party. 1t is an
undeniable fact that many Republican papers,
edited by white men, not so needy, and less
deserving not SO influential, not welding
half the political power, and not controlling
SO important vote to the Republican party
as the New NATIONAL ERA, have received
ii, tIa ri Ia
the earnest appeals for aid from the NEW
NATIONAL ERA have been UNDECIDED and
almost entirely ignored. The efficient SER
vices rendered by the New NATIONAL ERA
to the Republican party all over the country,
and especially in the Southern States in the
last Pres dental campaign, cannot be over
estimated, or too highly appreciated.
Leading and influential members Of the
Republican party should make note of this,
and act accordingly in the approaching fall
campaigns in the different States Of the
South.
1t should be the firm resolve of every read
ing, thinking, and intelligent colorcd man in
the United States, and in a very especial
manner, our leading public men to see to it
that the NEW NATIONAL ERA is well sus-
tanned and supported. We cannot afford to
let it die; the Republican party cannot
afford it. Let every true Republican, white
and colored, who desires TO see the complete
triumph of the principles of the Republican
party and the advancement and elevation Of
the colored race, put his shoulder to the
wheel and his hand in his pocket and give
the NEW NATIONAL ERA a lift. The enc
mics of the colored race, who are opposed to
their enlightenment and elevation, would
rejoice 10 see the downfall of such paper
Its bitter denunciation of the wrongs perpe'
trated against the colored race by negro
haters and prosecutors, and its bold advocacy
Of the passage Of the civil rights bill, have
excited the ire and animosity of all who still
think that black men have no rights which
white men are bound to respect. But it:
enemies are not confined to this class alone
some are in the Republican party, occupying
honorable official positions, placed there b,
colored voters whom they betray and stall
in the back like cowardly midnight assassin.
whenever and wherever they End an oppor
tunity to do so. Men, who stand up in The
Halls Of Congress and defy justice, ans
boldly oppose every bill and measure calcu
lated to benefit and elevate the co!Ored race
In addition to these white traitors and negro
hatcrs, we have not a few colored Judases
self-appointed leaders of our people, politica
demagogues, who have more brass thai
brains, more vain ambition than true patri
otism, whose aim is to rule or ruin. Thes
are the men who, when they find they can
not be leaders, retaliate against men OF thei
own race by cooperating with its enemies
and help to drag down and destroy, if pos
sible, men of their own race who are tn
recognized leaders Of their people. Man
prominent and leading colOred men vii
attest the truth of the above remarks, bot
from observation and experience.
The recent effort made to break down tn
Douglass Brothers, and to stop their paper
Is a conspicuous Illustration, which attracte
the attention and excited the indignation
the patrons and readers of their paper In a
parts Of the country.
The writer has no desire to heap upon th
Douglass Brothers extravagant and DISCUS
ing adulation he only wishes to accord
them what is truly and justly their res
merit. 1t is his deliberate Judgment an
candid opinion that the Douglass Brother