Daily Republican., 1881-03-30
lMDIsSAsr COLORED PEOPLE.
They Express sheir opinion Of tne
Late 0raad Jary.

lADIsNANr COLORED PEOPLE.
They Express sheir opinion Of the
Late Grand Jary.
The colored people held mass meet
ing In the City Hall last evening. Sew
eral hunired people we're present, in
cluded among which we're 3 number Of
white people. Rev. B. T. Moore pre-
sided aud S. V. B. Carly Was Secretary.
The following resolution we're adoe.
ted.
WHEREAS, The Grand Jury Of New
Castle county, in the State OF Della
ware, under cover OF the court, saw fit
TO publicly slSnder the regro oonmup
ty resident therein, by referring spe.
cially TO them IS disregarding all the
obligations Of marriage as defined by
law and custom.
WBEREAs, Such unqualified asser,
tion as contained in their. report, is
gross litel upon the respectable por.
tion Of the negro community, void Ci
the sembance Of truth, as upon an un-
biased examination Is evident TO ary
one who desires to properly represent
existing facts; and
WaRRRAs, The means resorted to by
said grand jury to arrive at said up.
2rincipled conclusion, are except onaliy
had as follows: % By taking the
worst element of negro society as a
standard by which gag to the masses.
| I(2) By selecting from among the N
munity at large the negroes as speci.
men thereby shielding themselves, the
white element in morality, and by in.
judiciously asserting it to exist solely
10 a much create extent among the
negroes than among themselves, net.
outstanding that numerous lewd
houses exists, in whose portals no he
gro treAds, an allusiou to which the
hrand jury, much 10 their shane, ID
our opinion, did not refer, although t.
them known to exist in open violation OF
the law, both judicial ana moral. There.
lore De it.
Resolved, That We, the negro citizens
of the city OF Wilmington, do hereby
denounce, 10 unmesSurrd terms, the
effort OF the SAID grand Jury to under
rate our moral standing hy such un-
manly. unCIrlstisu, uuuuthiul spd
slsnderous ASSERTIONS, believing, as We
do, that tney Premeditately attempted
to MAKE us the subject Of riaicule IL
the community in which VI reside.
Retolved, That inasmuch as q body
OF gentlemen, styled the grand Jury,
have seen htto use the name aud imita =
the inteliigeucs Of the lsmented Clay
ton, that Ee heartily sympsth,z, with
the public because minds, in some re
lspects similar, we're moi selected To-
pass upon q matter Of sGch importance
as they attempted, and wesugsest that
before they, the grand jury, can earn
favorable comparison with his Ciav.
tons acts, they mast lvSru to divest
their deliberations OF that strictly pat
tzan spirit so apparent i'll their report,
known by mauy as the grand jury's
great effort, az 10 max them appear be
fore this community as subjects Of ridl-
cule, rather than the negroes To whom
they directly roter.
Resolved, That the mlngllpg Of So
cial and political matters in present
ment accompanied by appeals to the
animal passions Of msn, is unbecom
ing grand inquest, having for it's Oh
iecs the moral improvement of man.
lsigned y. b. ANDERSEN,
JAMES Ann RspN,
A. K. bESRY,
j. Il. Moore,
b. b. HAMuroN,
NJ WINSTON,
q. r. HENDERSON.
Addresses were made by Peter s
Blake, A. .R Henry, L. 7. 4. Henry
James "A. Anderson aud others.
The YOrkt0wn CeIebratiOu Poem
John q. Whittier has declined to
write the poem FOR the yorktown cen
tsnnial celebration, and Paul H. Hsyne
Of North Carolius, has been chosen by
the association having the matter IL
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