The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-01-12
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WAsBINGroN, Jan,i,--EX.congressman
HARRISON, colored, OF Alabama, is pre-
pairing a lengthy letter to be submitted
to the president, setting forth the fact
that certain statements have been pub
lished derogRtory TO his people, and asks
Ing that a commission be appointed TO
investigate the matter, Mr.. HARRISON
will recite the charges that have been
made against the colored people Of his
state, that they ara in state Of general
degradation; that they reject religion,
are very superstitiOus, and practice all
sorts Of confirmation. He asks on behalf
of his people that these allegations be
investigated, and says that if upon an
official inquiry It is found they are true
M WILL RECOMMEND DIsFRANCHIsE.
MENT.
Mr.. HARRISON called the presidents al
tention to this subject several months
ago, and requested then that commits
tee be appointed to investigate it for the
presidents own Information, but Tor
some reason the matter has been neg
lectcd, and he has again found it neces>
sary TO renew the subject, which he will
DO in more formal way by addressing
the president a Communication stating
the full facts and repeating his request
for an investigation. The document will
be ready in eight or ten days, when 1t
viii at once be submitted,
Speaking OF President Hayes and the
way in which the colored people of the
South regard his southern policy, Mr..
HARRISON said: "Some OF the colored
people feel, sir, that
Mr.. HAYES HAS BAD ADVISERS
around him, ami that he does not know
the real condition of affairs in The south,
while others are firmly Of the opinion
that Mr.. Hayes has gone back on his
party, and has literally dlsfrancmsed the
colored people, They all feel, however,
that their last hope is gone Of receiving
moral support from the national admin
istration, for the administration has sur.
rendered them up TO their old masters by
granting to the people Of the south in
time OF peace what they fought tor in
war" lle.ssys that the colored men are
seldom heard to say much
REGARDING THEIR SITUATION,
because living as as they do among
southern people, and being torsakeu by
he national government, they have got
to DO the best they can aud make terms
with their old masters. He has been in,
tending to call upon the president,
but fears to do so lest the colOred people
OF his state will be made to suffer there
by, as in case tue facts become known
that he was complaining here to the
president the cOlered people Of Alabama
would be made to suffer in a thousand
little, quiet, yet effective ways. lie
thinks tina. the colOred people are no
longer an element, but serve only to the
advantage Of the southern Democrat,
tor they now haYe tull sway With
! INCREASED REPRESENTATIONS IN con,
/ GEESS,
| based upon the votes OF the negro pOpu,
lation which cannot be counted for any,
thing, by the next election he says
there viii not be more than one or two
Republicans from the whole south. He
has the evidence in his case ready, and
is going to renew the fight for the seat
now occupied by Shelley as soon as con.
gress meets again,