The bee., 1883-02-17
OUR REVIEW.

1hG rhoAI-H0W r THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY WAS DEFEATED AND THE
NEGRO MISLED-RoBERT PURvIs IN
CONDEMNATION OF THE MARTYRED
ABRAHAM LINCoLN-ROBRT PURyIS
AND WILLIAM STILLS ENDORSE
MENT-THE CoLoRED PEOPLE IN.
DIGNANT AND THEIR WITHDRAWAL
FROM LIBERTY HALL-MR. r. C.
o. BENJAMIN SENT FOR TO THROW
CREAM ON THE. .TRoUBLD WATER
DR.: CHARLES B. PCRvI'S ENDORSE
MENT OF THE INDEPENDENT PARTY
AND HIS ARRANGEMENT OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARIY-HIS SPEECH
AT BETHEL HALL-THE INDEPEN-
DENT PARTY EXPosED--PURyIs AND
THE ROBSON CIRCULAR-MR. BEN
JAMTN's ExPosITIoN--DR. r. t.
TANNERS PREDICTION, &c, &c.
In another column of this issue of
the BEE there will be found a letter
from Il. c. 0. Benjamin, Esq, the late
editor of the PittSburg CoIored Citizen.
and one of the leaders in the Indepen-
dent movement in Pennsylvania and
an associate of Mr.. Robert Purvis, who
has brought suit against the BEE for
criminal libel for denouncing his po-
litical demagoguery, in misleading the
colored race, his alliance with the
Democratic party, and a pretended
Independent Colored Republican, his
infidelity to the Republican party and
his endorsement of Sweeney at Liberty
Hall for denouncing the immor-
tai Abraham Lincoln. Mr.. Ben
jamin in his letter states that
the whole movement, as we have said,
was inaugurated for no good. This
gentlemen who makes a true exposi-
tion of this political corruption is from
the Independent party and one of Mr..
Purvis'
FELLOW ASSOCIATES
in bringing about the defeat Of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania.
There is nothing in the annals of
history more black and damning than
this corrupt movement in Pennsylvania
to odefeat the supremacy of the Repub-
lican party to establish Democratic
ascendency. Mr.. Benjamin is poet,
journalist, orator, lawyer and politician
and personally well-known to Mr..
Robert Purvis. He has came to
THE FRONT
to expose Purvis political dema-
goguery and express his regrets for
having gone in the movement, and his
opposition to eX-Secretary Robeson.
which brought about his defeat in New
Jersey. Mr.. Benjamin said to a BEE
reporter that the object in issuing the
circular, which has been SO much
talked about in eX-Secretary Robeson's
district, was to mislead the ignorant
colored people. This is the most
diabolical crime in the history of
parties. This is the way colored people
were mislead 10y false leaders. Mr..
Benjamin saws in his letter that Robert
Purvis attended every democratic
caucus, devised methods to defeat the
supremacy of the Republican party,
which was his sole purpose and desire.
There was nothing done without Mr..
Robert PurviS' knowledge and consent,
he acquiesSed in everything that would
tend TO defeat the Republican party.
Every principal of manhood was dis
regarded. Every jot Of respect to the
memory Of Abraham Lincoln passed by
as the idle wind. What did he en-
dorse at Liberty Hall, according to Mr..
Benjamin's statement? which tends to
show it ingratitude to the Republican
party and those who established
equality before the law for the colored
man. Mr.. Sweeny said, while Lin
coins and Garfeld's pictures were sus-
pended over the stage, at Liberty Hall,
that "When / find negro reverence
ing the name OF Lincoln, for that
negro | have the utmost contempt, and
my respect, little as it is at best, grows
less for Lincoln. When [ hear of
colored men claiming that they are
Republicans because of what the party
has done for them, | say all such
negroes are unfit to be called men.
The negro is not now, nor ever has
been, under any obligation to the Re
publican party. If anything, we are
under more obligations to Jefferson
Davis for our freedom than to Abraham
Lincoln"
This speech as will be seen by re-
ference to Mr.. Benjamin's letter, was
endorsed by Robert PurviS and William
Still. We would like to know who is
responsible for the appointment of DR..
Charles B. Purvis, Surgeon in charge of
the Freedmen's Hospital and Robert
Purvis' son in the South and himself
as Commissioner of the Freedmen'S
Saving Bank. Jeff Davis is response
bic according to Mr.. Purvis philosophy.
II Jeff Davis is responsible, President
Arthur should make Jeff Davis keep
DR.. c. B. Purvis and the other son in
their positions. DR.. c. B. Purvis holds
his position by the suffrages of the
party and on the strength
of his being identified with the
colOred race. They are not ident-
flied with the colored race. They are
the sworn enemies of the negro and
the Republican party. DR.. c. b. Purvis
declared that there is no respectability
in the colored race, but when he wants
political recognition he is a colored
man and a white man for social recog-
milton. On his speech at Bethel Hall,
Tuesday evening, November 25, 1882,
he said, that,
THE DEFEAT OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY
in Pennsylvania and throughout the
country has had good effect upon the