The Pacific appeal., 1875-04-24

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Rome. She was the birth place OF
'eloquence, the fountain of refinement
the emporium of commerce; she
6chained Kingdoms to her empire
and dragged monarchs at her chariot
wheels. Corruption and oppression
sealed her fate; decay and ruin are
the only monuments pointing to her
former glory and grandeur. | be-
lleve, fellow citizens, when the sun,
moon and stars have grown dim
with age, when time and eternity
shall shake glad hands, then justice,
throught and freedom will be
Heavens brightest and most glo-
rious attributes. | Irejoice with you
to day to know this is the land Of
the free, tits the home of the brave.
Not cringing slave treads the soil
Of this our native land. The proud
eagle plumes its strong wings, scars
aloft into the immensity of space,
breathcs Heavens pure air untaint.
cd with the foul air Of oppression,
gazes down upon this favored land,
and claims it as his own-his own
native land. Is there o soul here so
dead who has not said this is my own
native land, made sacred to US by the
graves Of our forefathers. Be true
20 your country, to freedoms cause,
and grateful to your friends. The
emancipation was the first act of
Justice to a patient and long-suffer-
ing people. Amid the din of war,
amid the shock of battle, stood calm
the author of a declaration of
freedom unequaled in tie world
hefimmortal Lincoln. Long may
the old starry banner fpat over
Ese land of the free and the home
bf the brave"
4 The following are the Declarations
~ Sentiment as submitted by Mr..
peter Anderson
4 WHEREAS. the colored citizens of
51D Francisco have invited the
ffends of Freedom and Progress
throughout the State of California
tdassemble on this OCCASION to cele-
bate the fifth anniversary Of the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
ment of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, giving to colored citizens
tlE right Of suffrage as exercised By
th} free colored citizens in the early
stages of the Government in the
STATES of sPennsvls ania, Virginia,
Nofth Darolina, Tennessee, and other
States, until the pro-slavery power
in those States by Constitutional
Conventions inserted the word
" white" in their respective State
CT 81 si51tirnu. thereby depriXipg the
coy ed freemen of heir inalIelaO OIe
sSn the Government for q long
period of time; and, whereas, the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fif-.
teenth Amendments to the Consti.
tuition have given to all the colored
race in the United States freedom,
citizenship and the elective fran
chise; and the Congress of .the ma
ton having enacted a Civil Rights
Bill in addition thereto, and it being
deemed proper to the two latter
measures at this time chat we do by
these declarations of sentiment de-
clare 9''u Tel' baG 'l2GFHd G.at
Fsrst-That while we again ac
knowledge with thankful gratitude
the efforts of the friends of freedom
and progress everywhere in render
ing their aid, influence and votes,
which resulted in the final enfran.
,hisement of the colored race, we
,we a greater gratitude to Almighty
dod for. its ultimate accomplish
nent. .}}
ond--That since the ratifca-
ion of the Fifteenth Amendment,
ind the exercise Of the elective
franchise by .colotcd citizens, they
lave used the ballot with as much
liscreetness in the interests of the
Government as other native.born or
latnralized citizens who possess no
greater degree Of culture, or who
ire limited in the samc degree for
means Of Information; and that we
'ejoice that all friends of freedom
md progress have no cause to re-
sret that the ballot in our hands has
)een bestowed. .'' 5-
'1hird-That although the Civil
Rights bill is the law Of The land,
he apparent opposition which has
'een manifested against its enforce |
nent in some localities, and the d.
Tersity of opinion expressed by
ONE Republicans before its passage,
nd the utter abandonment of the
ust bill emanating from the late
Charles Sumner, has left the colored |
itizens but little cause to rejoice
yer the enactment of the present
effective Civil Rights bill with the
chool clause stricken out; and that
&c regard the bill as passed by an
Vel whelming Republican Congress,
s being enacted more in a spirit of
Gar Of losing the adhesion Of the
early one million of colored voters
the party, than a desire to con-
EIDE full civil rights to colored citi.
ems as enunclated both in the Ma
onal Republican and the Greeley
liberal Republican Democratic
latforms of 1872. That while we
,gard the Republican members in