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The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
VALIANT Hills, O.

Lane Theological Seminary has an intelli-
gent colored student in the person of Mr..
w. H. Franklin, 9 graduate of Maryville,
Tenn, College.
Miss Ida Broadie has returned from her
visit to Lexington. and will enter the Gaines
High School.
Mrs. Alice McLane, of Lebanon, O., is
visiting the city, and is the guest of Miss
Mamie Z. Frye, of Spring street.
Miss Leda and Miss Anna Pryor have
gone on visit to Lexington to be absent
about two weeks.
Miss Minnie Armstrong will return this
week from q visit to Lockland.
A revival is in progress at the Second
Baptist Church, Avondale.
The first quarterly meeting of the A. NJ.
Z. Church will take place on the first Sun.
day in November.
Bishop Shorter and Rev. B. f. Watson
were in the city last week.
The Juvenile Society" is doing well
under the direction of Mrs. Julia Broadie,
at whose residence, on Wilton street, it meets
every alternate Friday.
On next Wednesday night Rev. w. H.
Franklin, of Lane Theological Seminary,
will lecture at the A. M. E. Church.
The Christian Recorder of last week con-
tains an interesting essay from the pen of
Miss M. Z. Frye, Secretary of Browns
Chapel Missionary Society.
Mrs. Sarah G. Jones promises to con-
tribute to the columns of the Leader. She
is woman Of excellent literary abilities, q
fine writer and your readers may expect
something interesting.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

Logansport, Ind, Sept. l9, 1850.
To the Editor of the Leader:
Will you spare me small space in your
paper. As was reading my Lead
er 1 found piece headed 1.-THE New Strug.
gle for::Equality."
The way we can get equality: First, we
must prepare ourselves for this step that we
are about to take, and be sure we are
right and then go ahead. If we want to be-
come mechanics we must 90 and learn trades
and study for that capacity, and we all know
if two thirds of our people would learn suffi-
cent to go ahead and conduct business in the
machine shops and different branches of man.
ufacture we could put ourselves on equality
with those of the white race and then we can
come and cry, we want equality; then we
are competent of holding such positions
We think too much of learning the barber
trade, and our next resort is waiting on table
and cooking and last OF all working in liy.
cry stables. When we do away with this
kind of labor we will be looked on as men.
Parents study about putting your sons to
learn trade don't, because he will say, IL
don't like that" let him choose for himself
and after he has made his choice then put
him at it. We also spend great sum in
buggy riding in place of paying our money
for buggies. Let us take what surplus
money we have and get up building associa-
tions. Now let US see further; What have
we paid out for excursions and picnics this
year? We will say, take the State of Indi-
ana, and say between twenty-five and fifty
thousand dollars. Now twenty thousand
dollars would start q manufacturing house
of some kind and would employ so or 100
or 200 colored men. Then VIC could have
started joint stock company with the
other thirty thousand and start Common
House in the city of Indianapolis. Then
our white class will look on us as they do on
the political question. s. NJ. RAMEs
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
SENATOR BRUCE.

1t has been decided to give Senator
B. X Bruce, of Mississippi, who is
now in the State doing valiant service
for the ticket, grand reception on
Monday night, at Bethel A. NJ. E.
Church.
The details have not yet been fully
arranged, but it is probable that a
great outdoor meeting will be held
at the Yellow Bridge. which Senator
Bruce will address, and that after the
speaking the people will repair to
Bethel A. NJ. E. Church, where the
Senator will hold a reception and be
introduced to and shake hands with
the people. The plans will be ma
tured to-day and fully announced in
the daily papers and by posters.
Senator Bruce occupies peculiar
position in this canvass and great
weight should attach to what he says.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
wilberrOrce 20 } News.

Since the opening. school has been NOV
ing on with steady march. Prospects of a
successful years work are very flattering.
The enrolling is in the neighborhood of q
hundred. with several present who have
not enrolled. This is good beginning,
since the majority of our students live by
individual effort and generally remain out
as long as possible in the pursuit of means.
Up to this date. there are twenty zone States
represented. Ohio has thirty-six represen-
tatives This is the greatest number from
any one State. A good portion of the en-
- IL inent is new students. OF these, quiet q
Amber have been able to enter the Aca-
iemic Department; some have been able to
enter directly upon their course.
This tells us two things; first, that there
is a steady advance in education; second,
| that Wherefore is growing in favor
throughout the country. Students come
| here now 10 finish, as we'll as to begin their
| education. The college classes are larger
than ever before. The senior class is CON-
posed of persons from the following States
Ohio. Michigan and Kentucky. In this
Ohio stands head, having four sons and one
| daughter.
The faculty is in the best of spirits and
| laboring vigorously. There is q little un-
essiness felt by some, for, if students COD
| tinue to come in at the present rate, we shall
| run short of Accommodations.
This will reflect discredit, first, upon our
great connection which numbers more than
| a quarter of million.
The question now is will q connection
upon which God has smiled SO graciously,
neglect the duty of educating her people2
1t seems that God has placed great work
in the hands of the A. N. E. Church, and if
this work is neglected, "Woe to him by
| whom the offence cometh"
Then. "Let lions watchmen all awake,
and take the alarm they give" Second, it
will reflect discredit upon the whole race,
because, Wilberforce is the only institution
| in the land, owned aud governed by our
| own people. The question in this case,
is will race, which up to this time, has
made such progress as no other race ever
made under the same circumstances and in
the same time. 60 on in the strength Of its
manhood, or will it family recline upon
another race and cry, Behold, we jie, We
perish, we all perish.
The assistant teachers, so far, are Misses
Jones, Dugget, Freeman, Sexton, and
Messrs. Ashby and Anderson, all of whom,
except one, belong to the Practice School.
The Sodalian Society held its annual
meeting of this year, on the 10Th. The fol-
towing is the programme of the evening:
Essay, h. c. Clay; Critic, B. E. Croker;
| Defamation, J. r. Scott; Discussion, 1. NJ.
Burgan, Affirmative, w. w. Jones, Neg.
alive. Question-Resolved, that the gen.
eral government should fix the rate of inter-
est not TO exceed six per cent. The deci.
sion was in favor of the affirmative.
The congregation of the Holy Trinity wa'
| we'll entertained on Sabbath. Pres. See
preached in the morning and Rev. G. NJ.
Crosby at night.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
Henri Aeinekem.

He was born at Lubbock, in 1871, When
ne was ten months OF age, he could speak
perfectly. When twelve months, be could
repeat the five books of Moses. At fourteen
months, he had read both the Old and the
New Testament. At two wears Of age, he
had read many of the best and most learned
writers of the day. Ancient history and
geography he was particularly fond Of, and
few adults even surpassed him in these
branches. He spoke Latin, and was also ac-
quainted with some of the modern languages.
He died in the fourth year of his age.
Nature now and then produces prodigy,
and here, certainly, was one. do not know
of one quite the equal of this. Pascal was q
genius at ten years of age, but this boy, al
as many months. johannes Secundus wrote
Latin verses at fifteen years of age, but
Henri Heinekem, before he was four con-
versed in Latin.
1t is far better. however, to have a we'll
balanced mind than mind developed all
on one side. The average boy, of the aver
age mind, if he cultivates It, is far more
likely 70 be useful, and happier, toe.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

On Thursday. at l O'Clock, George w.
Julian and Mr.. Hord were here for the
Democrats. Mr. Hord, in speaking of the
Maine election. said "the sky looked more
serene and the leaves greener after the Dem
ocratic victory" But to the Honorable
gentleman's chagrin in short time u tele-
gram was received that Davis was elected
and then the sky became o'ercast with clouds
and the leaves had changed into the "seer
and yellow leaf"
The Democrats are sick; the BARRIERS are
seriously thinking about charging them
double price for shaving them, their faces
are so long. "Pity them2 So 1 do; pity
the dumb victims at the alter; but does the
robed priest for his pity falter?"
thought was pretty good on the kick,
but can't hold a light for ..Riepzi" to kick
by, yet I don't blame him; he's all right
Kick some more, Rienzi," We must be
treated as people or we may break out in
an eruption that will be contagious.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

"Pauper Negro James" is catching
among all of the whisky-guzzling
Democratic editors of Indianapolis
and the State. We have long known
that brains was not so much requi-
site in the editorial management of a
Democratic newspaper as plenty of
cheap whisky; but for the general
reputation of the State, we are thor
oughIy tired of hearing the idiotic
braying of a gang of drunken jack
asses, who never did the State or
country a dollars worth of good
throughout the whole course of their
disreputable, drunken lives. One
North Carolina or kentucky "pauper
Negro" who goes to work and raises
a bushel of corn, is worth a car load
of these red-nosed, whisky picked,
crossroads scribblers, who turn of
their regular daily or weekly grists
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
Wbv sbould not colored clerks b

Why should not colored clerks be
employed in stores, offices. and else
where, like other classes of people !?
Does anybody know of any good
reason to the contrary This
is a question which claims the serious
attention of thinking people of all
classes. Our colored youth are being
educated just the same as the white
youth of the land, and their natural
bent is to seek about the same occu-
patton as do the latter, but they are
met at the threshold of the business
world with the stern command,
"Enter not herein, except as servants. :"
Teaching is about the only employ
ment, except manual labor or mental
service, in which an educated colored
man can engage This is not as it
should be, and we must find some
means to remedy it. Cooperative
patronage of those business men who
will employ colored clerks, is one
way in which we can lessen the evil.
Why should this not be done? Let
business men know that we stand
ready to throw our patronage, solid,
to those men who will employ our
young men and young women when
they come out of school, and we will
not be long without recognition in
business service.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
The Senator is one of the ablest and

The Senator is one of the ablest and
best informed ofSouthern Republicans
and is the sole Representative of the
Negro race in the Congress of the
United States. By an able, honora-
BILE and faithful performance of his
duties during his Senatorial career he
has won golden opinions from friend
and foe; he has been on the right
side of every question; he under
stands thoroughly the character and
purposes of Southern Democrats and
states them clearly and forcibly. The
Senator deserves the gratitude of the
race for the good he has done
by the dignifed position and
honorable distinction he has won
and maintained among the most dis
tinguished men of the nation. We
predict that the meeting on
Monday night will be one
ofthe grandest outpourings of the
colored people ever witnessed in Ind
annapolis The ladies are especially
requested to come out. Every Col
ored voter is expected to be present.
The uniformed companies are all re-
quested to turn out promptly and
rendezvous at a place to be hereafter
announ eed. Let every body take the
matter in hand and see to it, that
the Senator is given a welcome that
will make his heart glad.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
STANll BY YOUR FAIEND.


The Den ocl ats are raising great
hue and cry about Harry Adams
They are trying to make it appear
that there is great disaffection
among the Republicans and especial
" among tie colored people toward
M. Adams. We have taken the
pains to look this matter up, and we
know whereof we affirm when we
say that the Democratic charge that
there is material disaffection among
Republicans is simply Democratic
campaign lie, started for the purpose
of influencing class of voters who
are supposed to have no convic-
victions, and whose only ambition is
to be on the winning side. Why
should any Republican vote against
Harry Adams? When the Nation
life was imperiled the brave boy,
Harry Adams, shouldered his mus
kot. marched to the front and fought
bravely through the war for freedom
and Union. Not even the Demo-
Gratis have had the temerity to assail
Harry Adams character for honesty
No one has ever doubted his COM
potency. Not a single valid objec-
ton has ever been urged against his
election. There are not enough
Democrats in Marion County to elect
Dan Lemon Sheriff. He only hopes
to win by the aid of Republican votes,
and colored Republicans at that.
But in this he will meet with sore dis
appointment. The colored man who
would vote against such true and
tried friend of the race as Harry
Adams md for man whose whole
political life has been identified with
the party that laid the lash upon the
Negroes back, robbed him of the
fruits Of his labor, degraded debased
and outraged him in every possible
manner, the colored man who would
thus, without cause, turn his back on
the friend of his race and give aid
and comfort to our enemies is un-
worthy of the right to vote. But
there need be no fears on this score.
The colored voters of Marion Coun-
ty will to man stand solidly
Harry Adams, and the entire Repub-
lican ticket.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

Sgnor Agostine finds, says Nature, that
if through drop of mercury, lying on
surface not wet by it. a current of electricity
be sent in vertical direction, it rotates under
the influence of the esrth's magnetism, as
may be sent if a few particles of lycopodium
powder be strewn on it. Similarly a mer-
curry drop rotates when placed on the surface
of steel magnet, and e. G. the magnet con
nected with the positive pole of very weak
element. while the electrode penetrating the
drop from above is connected with the mega.
tive. From the strength and direction of
rotation Of a number of such drops one NAV
in general make visible the distribution of
the magnetism, the neutral points, etc.. both
in the magnetic bars themselves, as when an
iron bar is brought coaxially near to one
end or into contact; also in the latter Tho
results of previous experimental measure
ments are thus confirmed.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

Democrats delight to taunt colored
men with the charge tn It we are the
slaves of the Republican party. Well,
if it is so, isn't it a delightful sort of
servitude q? and are there not thou
sands and thousands of poor, manned,
wretched black men throughout our
land who would give their existence
to recall their slave life under the
Democratic party and spend it in
the service of the Republican party !?
Let us contrast these two masters.
Our Democratic masters loaded our
limbs with chains and shackles, scourg-
ed our backs with the lash, denied us
the right to education, outraged and
debased our women, separated fami-
lies, tore the babe from the broken
hearted mothers breasts and forced
her to turn her back forever on the
child she held dearer than life,
freighted the air with sorrow
and sadness and groans, en-
forced ignorance, and fostered
crime and prostitution and filled the
land with MANNED, wretched, home
less, hopeless men and women who
through weary life will never cease
to realize that mans inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands
mourn" This is but faint picture
of the Infamous record of our demo-
cratic masters.
On the contrary what have our so
called republican masters done
Well, they struck the shackles from
our limbs and babe us stand erect,
and breathe the air of freedom, they
built schoolhouses and churches, they
fostered virtue, industry and the
home, they gave us the ballot, made
US equal citizens before the law and
taught us to entertain the ambitions
and hopes that inspire other men to
noble needs. Under Republican
masters we have had Colored
county and state officers,
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress and foreign ministers. We en-
JOY the fruits Of our labor, are ac-
curing property and becoming pros
porous and happy. The clank of the
chain is heard in the land no more
forever, family ties are respected and
loved ones are no longer torn asun-
der by the avaricious hand of the
beastly Grader" Equal rights and
equal laws shed their beneficient in
fuence over ell in every part of the
land, except that part which is con
trolled by our late Democratic mas
ters Is it slavery to be identified
with such party and are we still
slaves, who enjoy such glorious priv
ileges? then speed the day when such
slavery shall shed its holy influence
over every man throughoutthe length
and breadth Of our great country i.
Never can We cease to revere the
record Of the grand old Republican
party and the noble men who have
shaped its polio p.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
CoRREsPONDENC1.
Bloomington Chat.

The Republican boom is huge.
Elder Clay has pulled of his coat and gone
to work to pay of our church debt.
We are to have Hon. p. B. s. Pinchback
ere long.
We have had quite political feast.
BILLY" Williams, Indiana's favorite, was
here last Thursday night and held an i'm
mense crowd speil-bound for two hours,
with his matchless eloquence. On Saturday
Hon. w. P. Fiero, of New York, delivered
one of the ablest arguments in favor of the
grand old Republican party ever listened
70.
A grand rally was had at Hindustan, this
county, on Friday, addressed by Hon. w.
r. Gardiner, of Washington, an able and
eloquent speaker.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
Marion County Ticket.


Sherif-HENRY G. ADAMS.
Clerk-MosEs @. McCLAIN.
Treasurer-JoHN l.. MOTHERsHEAD.
Recorder-JACoB L. BEILER.
Judge of the Criminal Court-JAMEs E.
HELLER.
Prosecuting Attorney-WM. I. BRowN.
Judges of the Superior Court-BYRoN K. Ell.
LOTT, J.. G. WALKER.
County Commissioners-JoHN II. SMITH.
GEO. F. MCGINNIs, ARCHIBALD GLENN
Surveyor-H. b. FAToUT.
Coroner-ALLIsoN MAXWELL, NJ. ID.
State Senators-GEoRGE III. CHAPMAN,
FLAvIUs VAN VoRHIs.
REPRESENTATIVES. THOMAS MCSHEEHY,
J. S. HINTON, JOHN w. FURNAs,
VINsoN CARTER, l. n. CoTToN.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25


pecially colored Republicans, who
hold the balance of power in several
close Northern States, should remem-
Der that this is moment Of supreme
peril in the Nations history. 1t is q
public exigency of such momentous
import as 10 demand the serious at
tention of every citizen who is pa
triotic enough to love his country,
and desire to sec her honor stand un-
furnished and unsullied among the
formost nations of the earth.
But fifteen years have passed away
since the downfall of most infamous,
damnable plot, concocted BY set of
wolfish cunspirators in human shape,
for the purpose of perpetually rob-
bing race OF people of the dearest.
most sacred, God given rights-that
of personal and individual liberty
yet some ofthese conspirators, backed
by solid South, with unblanched
cheek, impudently demand that the
Government of the nation they sought
to destroy be turned over to them.
Never did the INSCRIPTIONS
and ever ready buccaneer,
or the bloody handed highwayman,
display moro boldness and assurance
in their thievish demands, than do
these ex-rebel cormorants, in their
demand that the reins of govern
ment be placed in their hands Aid
ed and abetted by the Democrats of
the North, they are making last
desperate effort to win by assassina-
ton, outlawry, ledgerdemain and
murder, that which they could not
gain upon the open field of battle.
1t now becomes the duty of pa
triots, black and white, to once more
close up the ranks of the grand old
party Of freedom and the Union, and
present to the ex-rebel Democracy
front rs solid, as impenetrable, and
resistless, as the ancient Roman
phalanx. This year marks an epoch
that is to be ever memorable in our
national history. 1t closes the second
decade since the expulsion from
power of the corrupt and reasonable
Democracy; and it is also the year in
which the final struggle for the pres
ervation of the fruits of the war for
liberty and the Union is to take
place. There must be no dallying,
no tagging. Every man must do his
duty. When the integrity of the
Union was in danger; when red hand
ed treason ran rampant in the South;
and when bloody, treacherous, and
foesworn traitors, stood ready to stab
the national compact to the heart,
the great North rose up in the
majesty of her strength, and taught
the Southern slave pirates that this
Union "must and shall be preserved"
This she must do once more. South.
ern Democracy no more marching to
the battlefield as an armed host, is
seeking to accomplish its aim by
stealth. Every patriotic Northern
man must fly to his post, and do his
duty as he did twenty years ago.
Let the watchword be passed all
along the line, and let it be: "VOte
as you shot"
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

"vampiretcher" is the name of a
new illustrated journal after the
fashion of Puck" published at Chi
cago, in the interest of the National
Greenback party. Its cartoons, ex-
ecuted in good style, are up to the
standard, and no doubt please the
Greenback heart as well as Mast and
"Puck" tickle the other corners of
the political triangle.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
PAY UP.

We hope that all of our subscribers who
are in arrears for their subscription will send
us the money at once. Weneed it to defray
the necessary expense of our paper, and we
trust that our friends will recognize this fact,
and forward at once the money due US. Our
city subscribers, and those in neighboring
cities throughoutthe country will please take
notice and govern themselves accordingly.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

about the "par2er Negro" He does
something to build up the State, while
they are seeI<ir = to tear down by in
citing the d .ng rous elements to muir
der and riot. He'll will have its own
when these al. ohol preserved chaps
get to the end of their rope, and pass
in their checks for final settlement.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

1--WE have received the Normal Re-
porter, an ably conducted educational
journal, published at Marion, Ala
bama; w. B. Patterson, editor and
proprietor.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25

Old Scion Chase, of Maine, is sim
cere Greenbacker. He does not
wish to see the Democracy succeed
through the assistance of Greenback
votes, hence he bolted the Fusion
electoral convention, which put in
nomination a Deno-National ticket.
BuIlv for Scion.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-25
Subscribe for the Leader.

Let every colored man who favors the
elevation of his race subscribe for the Lead
er; and let every white man who believes
that slavery was a CRIME against humanity
and that it is the duty of the ruling race to
aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social
and intellectual elevation do likewise.