New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-04-09
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Another Sian,ier Refuted.


Another SANDER Refuted.
In last week issue of the New NATIONAL
ERA, we recorded Waterloo victory for Mr..
Sella Martin, against his desperate and rcck-
less assailant, G. T. Downing, who charged
him with being drunk with whiskey in the
Fifteenth Street Church meeting; whereas,
Mr.. Martins successful leadership of the
people against the slar-chamber Association,
had made Downing drunk with rage and
this week we have to record circumstance
in perfect accord with the tactics of Downing,
the bounty-broker, who, after Waterloo, has
met his Sedan.
At meeting held at Union League Hall,
in this city, last Wednesday, the Chronicle
made Mr.. Gurden Snowden say: sin refer
ence to Sela Martin, remember when the
Lincoln monument project was started, he
(Martn) pocketed most of the funds
Now, as it was notorious thatSella Martin
was in England when the Lincoln Monument
Association was formed, and that he re-
manned there, the honored agent of the
American Missionary Association, for two
years and half, helping to stimulate and d-
rect the benevolence of the anti-slavery peo-
pie of that country, towards the establish
ment OF schools in the southern States and
as it was also known that Mr.. Martin was
instrumental in having sent to this country
more than a hundred thousand dollars, FOR
this laudable purpose, people here were
shocked beyond expression at the bold and
outrageous SANDER against man who, what
ever other faults he may have, is known to
be honest, brave, and truthful.
Mr.. Martin at once wrote the following
Card to the Washington ChrOnicle::
"Card from s.iia Marin.
WASHINGTON, April 3, 1874.
To the Editor IF the Fdshinyton Chronicle.
SIR In your report of last nights meet
ing of the so-called Sumner Monument Asso-
citation, Mr.. G.. Snowden is reported as
induging in certain slanderous remarks con-
corning me. The statement he makes is en-
tjrely false. Mr.. Snowden, unlike Downing,
his brother slanderer, owns property here,
and has some character to lose and unless
he makes full and complete retracti0n of
this notorious falsehood, he will be over
whelmed as a slanderer in a court Of Justice.
Yours, respectfully,
j. SEILA MARTINI
1t seems that Mr. s. owden is a good
meaning old gentleman, bit, like poor Tray,
is caught in bad company.
Upon hearing what5Ir Martin was going to
do, Mfr. Snowden hasssned to the Chronicle
Office and asked the ssiftcr to, set him right
Here is the retract0nt~
From the Washington Chronicle, April 8, 1874.
"Ccrfeetion.
Through inadverteLce our report of the
Sumner Monument Association meeting on
Thursday night placed Mr.. Guerden Snowden
in false light before the public, by unin-
tentionally incorporating his remarks on
that occasion. He desires lis to state that he
said nothing at all about MIR. Martin having
pocketed the funds of the Lincoln Monument
Association, because he knew such was not
the case.'
Zone by one the roses fall" SO one by
one these slanderers are buried beneath their
own infamy. If Mr.. Snowden did not say
what is attributed to him, it seems strange to
find ii so reported in as reputable journal as
the Washington Chronieie. But at any rate.
this second Islander, no matter who is respOn-
sible for its publication, like the first, was
subjected to an unconditional defeat, and its
refutation has turned the popular feeling COM
pletely in Mr.. Martins favor, who is now re-
garded as man whose character has been
attacked by slanderers, because they did not
have the brains to cope with him in an argu-
ment before the people, and because he
snatched their intended victims from their
grasp.
Downing has, by his own malicious dispo-
sition and his biIinsgate tongue, put the fin
ishins stroke upon the little political tolera-
ton the people Of the District granted him.
1t is well he has, for his impudence and inn
pertinence in setting himself up as a leader
of the colored people OF the nation has al
ways been cause of embarrassment to his
own color and laughing-stock to the white
people. Notwithstanding his cons tant illus
tration of the old adage, that "fools give din
ners and wise men eat them," he has failed to
see, up to this time, that since he was made
restaurant keeper of the House of Represent
atives, colored men fitted for leadership, like
Elliott, Rapier, Cain, Ransier, and Rainey,
Lynch, and Walls have become the peers of
the white men, to whom Downing talks back
stairs diplomacy while waiting Oh them.