The Van Buren press., 1876-06-27
Dark Dlsappointments.

Fred Douglass is laboring under Sc
we're attack of disgust. He tried to get
himself admitted to the Cincinnati con
vention as delegate from the Dlstrlct
of Columbia, and was told to step down
and ont, which he very reluctantly pro
eeeded to do. Then he wanted genef
al confscation and plunder plank insert
ed in the platform, for the benefit OF my
people," snd the further stirring up oil
their " infuriated masters" This the'|
convention declined to do, and Southern
Ethiopia will stretch forth its hands in
vain after the acres, the wagons, the
mules, and the yellow dogs. The only
thing Douglass accomplished was the
firing off of his carefully loaded speech,
which made prodigious noise, hit moth
ing, and kicked its owner over lie can
now pack his carpet.bag, and tall back
in good order and bad odor, to his home
in Rochester. n Y, where his bust, done
in black marble, adorns conspicuous
niche in the city hall
Rrother Garnett (Rev Henry High
| land is troubled with the same com:
plant as his colleague. He represented
the impecunious depositors in the Freed
mems Savings bank, and begged piteous.
" for some expression of opinion IN re-
gard to the conduct of the managers OF
that rotten cash-box. The convention
was as dumb as an oyster concerning THIS
characteristic illustration of Republican
roguery, and would not take so much as
a splinter of the little plank" which
Brother Garnett presented with fearful
eyes and trembling tongue. He can now
Join his colleague, Douglass, in facing
:" the sky, the storm and the whirlwind'
of Republican ingrattude; and whatever
he gets out of the Freedmcn's Savings
bank he can put in his optic with impu.
nifty.
The sorrows of Hon Henry M. Tur.
ner, colored brother from Georgia. are
of milder type, and yet calculated to
sharply irritate his mental cuticlc. Ills
impromptu speech was intended to ere
ate profound sensation, and it did-bn
in slightly different way from what its
author anticipated or desired. 1t allu
, ded to George William Curtis as tht
: - great poet of New York. and to Rich
ard H. Dana, rs our minister to Eng
lar d'-two trilng errors which brough
down the house in style that seriously
disconnected the orator. He rallied
$ however, sufficiently to declare that b,
believed in the United States Of Amer
n ica,' and was then carried off and lock
: ed up to avoid the wrath of the editor o
= Harper's w eeklv aud the rejected appll
cant for the English mission.
n Altogether it cannot be said that Afrl
e ca was success at Cincinnati and W
1 are strongly inclined to think it wonl
;, have been better for " the nation
= wards if Douglass, Garnctt and TuI
y ner had either STAYED at home or bel
d their tongues st Loms Republican.
s "Where now are Africs children
/ Where now are Afric's children? The
l. went up in a Rad convention, wher
/ they couldn't command any attention
IS illed with direst apprehension, there al
b now poor Afrc s children" The poe
p negro, after this rebuff, will pray to |
d delivered from his radical friends W
think our colored friends, after such
a palpabe ignoring, will see through Il
s. motives which made the republicans bo
$, fection" for l6em. W6ic that party i1 Ii
at need Of them, they were petted and s.
S gar rplnmed; now, that they are Gun
'r brances, they are ignored completely