The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-07-05

The Appeal of the Colored Man
Refused.

The Reverend Henry Highland
Garrett is colored preacher of some
ability and of honorable repute
where he is best known in the
Eastern States. Mr.. Garrett was a
delegate to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton. While there he did not, like
Douglass, seize an opportunity to
work up sentimental party capital
by lecture on the so.called "shot-
gun policy" in the South. Garrett
gave the past the go-by, and ad
dressed himself to the necessities of
the present. Being we'll aware of
the condition of the men of bis race
who had invested their saving in the
Freedmen's bank, at Washington,
b g thus challenged consideration
and justice at the hands of the
Convention:
"There were men from whose
hands letters were stricken, who had
got together their little earnings,
and by the advice and direction of
their friends, had laid it away for a
rainy day. But by the mismanage-
ment Of the men who had deceived
them they have been deprived of
their little earnings, and to-day
there are aching hearts all over the
South because Of these losses. If
you can in your deliberations put in
a little plank in your platform that
will give security to every man in
the South, that the sut1erings he has
endured in consequence of the ras.
cality of the managers of the Freed.
mems Savings Bank shall cease, it
would be very satisfactory to them.
DON'T forget Mat. fyou can do it,
do it, and you will have the graft.
tude and the love and respect of
that much injured and abused
people"
How was this reasonable appeal
treated by the party managers9
1t was completely ignored, eliciting
no response whatever. Had Mr..
Garrett consulted with the trimmers
of the convention as to the expose
which he intended to make, It
would ncver have seen the
light. a
"That much injured and abused
people" for whose wrongs their
champion sought justice and relief,
we're the passive victims of Radical
avarice and scoundrelism. Not a
member Of the Seneca sandstone
and District of Columbia ring which
|plundered the Freedmen's Bank,
hut was capable Of framing a high.
sounding resolution against the
Democratic party, There was not
one Of them and the actual robbers
were we'll represented in the conveu-
tion-who was capable Of seconding
CARROTS appeal for Justice. Any
one of them could have concocted
"a southern outrage or have utilized
it for partisan purposes; not
one Of them proposed to investigate
this atrocious northern and Radical
outrage of plundering seventy thou
sand trustful negroes Of their hard
earned savings.
The ex.rebel General, Joe John
ston, was capable Of sending
remittance Of money to an ex-slsve
only a few months since, and very
probably an ex.slave whose bank
deposits had been stolen by tn
Republican ring at Washington
Mr.. Garrett had his labor for hi
pains. The resolves of Radica
conventions are 40 charged will
sentimentalism that they neve
reach the satisfactory and homes
groove Of practical justice. Genes
osity was not solicited in this case
-[Chicago Courier.
AN Iowa man consulted q
yelled prophecies and inspired secl
ess," for information where he coul
: find his affinity, what she would loo
like, and how he would know h,
q when be met her. She described