The bee., 1883-03-24
OUR REVIEW.

lSS4THE NEGROS AROCSED-HON
FRED. DOUGLASS TO THB FRONT
, SIX MILLION OF NEGROES AT HIS
BACK--NO FARCE BUT A CONvEN-
TFuN-MAHoNE AND vIRGINIA-w
ALtfs5N swEENY HEARD fRoN--
HE PROVES HIMSELF A CowLRD-
MARSHAL MCMICHEL AND THE Ne
GRo--HE DISCHARGES ALL THE
C0LoRED BAILIFF'S AND REDUCES
THE coLoRhD MESSENGERS TO CON-
MON LABORs AND APPOINTS WHITE
MESSENGERS il THEIR STEAD, &c.
At last the colored Americans have
decided to take a stand in the body
polite. They have concluded that
there is but one course to persue and
several positions to occupy. The
coming convention of representative
colored men is what has been greatly
needed.
TIE DUTY
of the coming convention should he a
united stand. With Hon. Fred. Doug
lass at the head with six million be-
hind him will cause new opening in
the body-politic in 1854. Perhaps a
few suggestive remarks for the diges-
tion of the convention will not be out
of place as to
ITS PLATFORM
should he at this time considered. In
the first place the convention should
decide on line of policy.
For the services rendered the country
irrespective of party entities the
colored race to cabinet portfolio and
such other substantial recognition as
in the opinion of the convention should
be necessary for us to demand. The
two hundred and fifty OF more years
of servitude in slavery, in war and in
politics in support of the Republican
party, are important measures to be
considered. The convention should be
composed of men of nerve. The dem
ogogtte who attempts to Whitewnsh
this convention shall be characterized
william and Il coward. The colored
people may now look for something Of
Importance to he accomplished at this
convention. Our advice is to get your
thoughts and ammunition together, and
upon this charge cry liberty, freedom
and recognition In every bratith of the
government, from the presidential
chair to the spittOOn washer. We are
washing too many spittoons now. We
must go up. The coming election
IN VIRGINIA
is looked for with a great deal of in
terest. The colored people in the State
of Virginia never were in such pros
porous condition. They have their own
destiny in their own hands, and it is
left with them whether they will dig
their own graves. The Virginia colored
man to-day is enjoying all the rights
that are enjoyed 10y any other class Of
citizens and with Hon. Vim. Malone
still as the standard bearer of Amcri-
can freedom, fair vote and an honest
count, the rolufed people in the State
of Virginia, within the next twenty
years, will be raised to higher stand
ard in morals, education and wealth.
And now
W. ALLISON SWEENEY,
of Liberty Hall fame, has come to t
front. He was compelled to leave
Wheeling, West Virginia, after his
abuse of Lincoln and the Republican
party in PENNSYLVANIA. We clip the
following from the National People, of
which Mr.. Sweeney is editor, in reply
to an article in the BEE against that
gentleman. Mr.. Sweeney says:
For an Individual the business of
whose life can be found in the expires
sion, "much ado about nothing" com
mendS us to the Quixotic editor of the
Bee. Like the immortal hero of Ger
vanteS' great satire his chivaleric arm
and gray goose quill is i'll at ease unless
engaged in the brunt and heat of COM
bat and battle, even though his foes
have their only existence In the vision
AIRY creations Of his water-logged, or it
may be his whiskey-befogged brain.
For months the excuse of a newspaper
controlled 10y his puny mind, has been
engaged in the noble work of mud
Singing and Shiny abuse of men his
superiors in every respect, the white
ness of whose souls and grandeur Of
whose life work will be pointed to with
pride and veneration long after the
carcass of this pocket edition of Don
Quiotte has become food for worms
and insects"
This Independent coward has got the
wrong idea of us. We don't drink
whiskey; we prefer beer. He says for
months an excuse of a newspaper has
been Singing mud and a Shiny abuse
of men our superior. The cowardly
independents have no superiors. You
are right there brother Sweeney. We
agree with every word you say. Men
of brain and courage don't flee like
slaves from party like the Independ-
ent party of Pennsylvania.
Again this coward says:
We are charged with making a
speech in Liberty Hall, Philadelphia,
and also of editing republican news
paper in Detroit, Michigan. We did
address meeting, by request of the
colored people of Philadelphia, and we
are editing newspaper and it is called
the Nation People, not the colored or
the white people. No particular party
has influence enough to own us, no man
money enough to buy us. We con-
slider ourselves an American citizen,
knowing nothing about colored citi-
zens, or white citizens, and as an
American citizen we shall at all times