Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-04
News and Sentiment
From Colored Exchanges.

From ColOred Exchanges.
The Stalwart Republicans of Louis
lana have crowded the wires with tel
egrams of congratulations to Govern
or Pinchback. ck.-Ihe Louisianlan.
Hon. Jere Haralason, ex-member of
Congress from Selma, Alabama, re-
sides in Washington at present, but
expeets to return home and be can
didate for Congress. The Sentinel.
We saw this week U. S. Treasury
note, signed by Register Bruce-it
being one Of the first signed by him
as Register. He sent it to Capt. w.
A. Pledger as a souviner.- Weekly
Defiance.
Two of the Edgefsld immigrants
have left and few others are talking
about it, out Of ], 500 that arrived from
South Carolina. The exodus has
been very much exaggerated-15OO
is the extreme number that has ar
rived in this State from South Caro-
Iina.-Arkdnsas Mansion.
"Man's inhumanity to man" never
devised more cruel and abhorrent
system than the convict labor system,
of which this is part. 1t is cruel to
hire to any corporation or individual
convicts for whose labor no abatement
is made for sickness and only for
death. The convict is literally ''hired
to death, land death is more mercful
than the cruel task master. Mobile
Gazette.
When we are told that New York
is the "Most cursedly prejudIced city
in the land, we would refer to the treat
ment of the Jubilee Singers, of world
wide fame, in being refused admission
to every respectable hotel in the city
of Washington, the Capital of the
..land of the free and the home Of the
brave" and we take courage and
come to the conclusion that our city is
s'good enough for u.s. Its scan
dal and a reproach that these singers,
who have good social standing, are
acknowledged Christians, and respect.
BILE in appearance and BEHAVIOR
should have their feelings outraged
and injured by every hotel keeper who
chooses to act the part of mule
The ~ T. Globe.
A colored man named Isaiah Jones,
is a candidate for clerk OF the Chris
tian County Court. We do not know
what his chances for election are, but
he must remember that he is in Ken
lucky where negroes elect, but are
not elected, and if by any chance they
are elected, are not allowed to take
their Offices. A coloIed man was elect
ed councilman at Winchester, short
time ago, but after he was elected il
was discovered that he was not eligi
BILE. as he did not possess a certain a
mount of real estate. His place was
filed by the Council with the man
he had defeated -LouisvilIe Bulletin.
The Jubilee Singers have come.
sung and gone, and who shall gainsay
their power in doing for the Negro
on much larger scale, under the new
regime, what the Hutchinson family
did for the antislavery sentiment in
days before the war? They have not
only sung beautiful academic halls in
to existence, but stirred the hearts Of
hundreds of thousands to a more init
mate knowledge with the heart Of the
Negro attuned to song. They have
elevated songs which once only excit-
ed mirth and ridicule to plane with
those of Bliss and Sankey, and given
them an expression and power to
reach the human soul far beyond the
latter. "Steal away to Jesus and
"Bright Sparkles in the Church Yard
may be equaled, but not excelled.-
People's Aduocate.