The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-12-24

cratic party sought to prevent the Ne
gro from securing and exercising the
privileges the Republican party attempt
ed and did confer regardless of Mr..
Langston. What were the methods
adopted by the Democratic party? Let
the graves of thousands of colored men
and numbers of white Republicans an
swer. The Camilla massacre, close to
where Mr.. Langston made one of his
speeches Democratic in tone answers
the question and .sthis fact so far from
being damaging one is the very best
testimony that Mr.. Langston is among
the foremost men of us who would ad-
vance the race" advance" the race
to death! Prevent them from obtain
ing their inalienable> and God given
rights. Mr.. Langston is commended
by our worthy contemporary for be-
traying the cause in which the rights of
the race to which he professedly belongs
sine E the war and the abrogation of the
Obi o law defining a colored man of so
much Caucasian blood to be white, and
to which Mr.. Langston was so much
welded, that he refused to make the
motion toadmit Judge Wright to the
bar, because he was black man, were
involved. Can man be independent
as the term goes, without committing a
crime when such want of fidelity to
principle not only retards the elevation
of a race, but infuses life into the MUIR
derpus assassins who made the South
Golgotha of blood during the recon
struction period Mr.. Langston's
speeches like those of others Demo
cratic in tone" brought into life the Ku-
Klux-Klan and banditti of the South
and the country knows what followed
the r direful orgies.
Why blame Mr.. Bruce for not dig
cling up the CHASTITY corpses that were
slain through the agency and influence
of speeches Democratic in tone ?" Is
the man who is silent after the funeral
to be condemned while the one that was
responsible for the death is praised !?
This is "logic" with vengeance. 1t is
a part of the political history of the
country that all reference to Southern
outrages were characterized as waving
the bloody shirt" and many of the ablest
Republicans considered illusions to them
as damaging to the Republican party
and if Mr.. Bruce was silent upon the SUBJ
ject, Mr.. Langston fawned and praised
the man that trampled Southern Repub-
licans under the heel, and elevated to
power men whose hands were stained
with their blood. We ask in the lang
uage of our classic friend, "Why pro-
woke comparisons ?" 1t may be true
that the speeches made by Mr.. Bruce
will not bear transcription to the pages
of history and it is fortunate for him in
some respects that they will not, espec-
tally if they should carry with them the
odor of the speeches of Mr.. Langston
for whom the Globe entertains such a
profound respect. Mr.. Bruce is moi
alone in respect to not having made
speeches in the Senate, we can name
several eminent men who were not ad.
dicted to speech-making. Gen Wash.
ington to whom the Globe refers, was
not speaker, nor was Thomas Jeffer
son. There is one thing however that
will adorn the pages of history and thai
is a man without the opportunities of 6
liberal education working his way ur
from an humble origin to seat in the
U. S. Senate from state that had such
able colored men as James and John r.
Lynch and Ex-senator Revels, and fol
six years in that body commanded and
held the respect of the most eminent o.
his associates and thereafter honored
with position next in dignity to place
in the Cabinet. The editor of the Globe
is man of too much intelligence to per
vert our language and misconstrue oul
reference to the Republic of Hayti. We
did not sneer at the black Republic, and
We are proud that we have country en-
rolled among the independent sovereign
ties of the Earth, and has upon its roll
of honor such illustrious
names as L'Ouverture and others of
the bright galaxy of heroes and statesmen
collated by the ''Globe," Mr.. Langston
had been urged by his friends for a
place in the Cabinet of Mr.. Hayes,
and not receiving that, should have de.
clined any other than a first, or at least
a second class mission abroad, and not
have accepted of the position held by a
colOred man who had educated more
colored men than dozen Langstons,
and the mission to Hayti is one that an
administration like that of Mr.. Hayes
would naturally confer upon colored
man because Hayti is a Negro Republic,
while ex-Confederates like Henry w.
Hilliard were appointed to positions of
more dignity. Will the "Globe" con-
tend that the position was a proper one
for Mr.. Langston to accept under the cir
cumstances? Or that the position is of
equal dignity with the missions to Bra
I'll or Mexico not to mention most of the
European countries?
Mr.. Bruce devoted his energies and
talent as Chairman of the Committee ON
the Freedman's Bank to the securing for
the outraged and defrauded colored peo-
pie .fthe country, part of the money
stolen from them while Mr.. Langston
knowing, as he privately expressed him.
self, that the concern was rotten with
drew his money and never raised war;
ming voice to the innocent dupes sacri-
feed to the cupidity and avarice of the
"long haired" saints who "preyed' for
and upon the colored people so earnest
ly, and We do not assert it as fact but
if our memory serves us well, We think