Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-04
DAILY
POST MTELLIGENCER
RREn perGLAs, AnyICE.

Those we're brave words and true
vhict we're uttered by Frederick Doug
las in his speech "a the colored people
Of Baltimore the other evening. IL
needs not to be said that the speaker Ia
che most eloquent and powerful advo-
este of equal rights, AMONG his colored
brethren which this country has pro-
issed. Born . slave, he has felt in
vsrson and in soul the indignities and
tsrturs of the acoursed system. and it
SaS the efforts Of such men as he which
in anss-beIlum days were constant and
aggressive spur 70 the efforts of the
Abolition party and whip Of scorpions
80 the oppressors Of his race. Read
wkat he says: "Don't be discouraged By
che recent decision Of the Supreme
Court against the civil rights law. We
will enjoy the same privileges we did
before the law was pronounced uncon-
stituticnaI; and then We will have, ]
sseiiexe at an early day, Law enacted
guaranteeing the same rights, and it
wiu bs 80 constructed that no Supreme
Court Gan upset it. To do anything
politically you must act with one party
or the other. by their traits ye shall
know them applies here as elsewh here.
The Democratic party has been the
Lifelong, infexible and persistent enc
my Of every act Of justice proposed for
che ooiored people. The Republicans,
on the other hand, have been active
cad aggressive advocates Of every
measure which has thus far contributed
10 our freedom and progress. We
should all vote tho Republican ticket
fiiI we 1T something better"
Does not this grzy-haired represent
sakive of an emanSipated race speak
truly and wisely? The decision Of tho
Supreme Court takes from the colored
nsz not ono jot or title Of any legal
right he il entitled to in common with
white citizens II says, however, that
Congress shall not pass laws regulating
sSbs internal and domestic affairs of the
States Of this Union. IL further de-
olares that IL q State shall pass laws in
conflict with the Fourtesnth Amend
usnt. abridging the rights Of any
GLASS Of citizens. then Congress shall
sosreot the evil. Until such time it can
Ast interfere. This is the gis. Of the
d1ciaion-
n II net true that, TO accomplish leeis-
Jztion. party organizations u ust be ef-
sfScssd and party methods employed?
No Rseas change or reform in consti-
&utionai or statutory Law was sser en-
grated into our governmental system
nsvs BY the medium Of organized par
4ian action. And the converse is true.
no azsat wrong was ever perpetrated
asVs BY the active aid Of powerful
party.
What an the records Of the Repub-
iicsn end Democratic parties in relation
70 chs coiored racer Shall We glance
over thrm? The Democratic party dur
ing it, forty years Of power, never
.Dassed one oct in their favor or behalf.
sS.xvny was, dnring all that time, q
Demoeratic institution. The States
&h1rain il fourished were Democratic,
TIM lava Which perpesustsd il were en-
acted by legislators elected by
Shat party; thsir infamous, soul
degrading, body enslavina and
,marhood destroying laws, which denied
rsalf -ovrArshir, forbid marriage and dis
-xaRsrdsd even the rights of paternity
and maternity. which gave sanction to
6 erture and inoarnated oppression. were
~ Democratic. The Courts which up
aheid these laws were Democratic. 1t
vss Democratic Congress which re-
peaied the Missouri compromise, in the
vsin eudeavor to spread balefuI curse
avar the broad prairies Of Kansas and
KairaslkA. IL was q Democratic Chief
-Jsstice Of Democratic Supreme Court
vho declared for himself and his col
asa0aes that negroes we're chatteis--
Uroperty With no rights that q white
zHan was bound 70 respect. And the
ppsak wAr which followed In doe course
- Sime, which vas the resultant effect
~ tho daaands Of that eternal justice
vhoss dsessss are inexorable, was q
Democrats val, pssoipitatsd msdiy BY
Dams0afis politicians and wa0ed TO
Gza md disastsoos sotcoms By brsvo
1seriA vAo foe esnsrations had all
anris1 - tssshinas Of Dsmocratic
anneoamen.
~ fhsir fEsits - shail knov them =
Md Tndsxisk Doocias- Nearly 1900
ya@s - . uisss than hs hal
apsasa liksuiss- What we're he traits
- Dene9ssis sajs 70 ths co.orsd raes
Osxiax ~ log yssn h which that
paety hid ssysssns control In State and
11zesoa - ssassh h yin Tor single
- IN favor II ~ manhood or amslio-
anGiss - ~ as& That party cham
Uf3a dsssEy. Nothing more need b
A1Asd DurinR III ne tins Il hsld con-
eEsa At IL 0ovssnmsnS siassry vss en-
unanshed Il ~ si1adsI Of IL power. Il
4U = tAegs vhsn. In ls6o, its leaders
AUpealed = arms against nasiouai unity
- sEia1anoe. Thsse were its fruits.
IL Republican party found slavery.
h0 Z go out Of powsr-whieh, for
- eake a progress and security, Ne
&ars ~il yst b long dslayed-it viii
1enSe Instead freedom. Il found in
6sEdaes millions Of human beings
Nnoa God made FREQ and man en-
maased- Is reversed the edicts Of the
ms0oUatio party and restored this race
4niSeerty. Nay. more Il placed upon
fhe sscords ct the Constitution Of this
zsaki0n an edict-not Democratic. bat
Wnrubiican-that % long as the nation
Akves will b perpetuated and enforced.
HAT edict, that ukase. that recorded
~zH &c 1nalterable ~ the laws Of Medss
sd Persians, is found in the Thirteenth