The bee., 1883-05-05
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OUR REVIEW.

MIR. WILLIAMS BLUNDERS IN HIS HIS
TORY OF CoLoRED RACE-THE
BEE MAKES A REVIEW OF THE
SECOND vOLUME-A FRAUDULENT
HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION
WILLIAMS AND GARRISON FALSE
HISTORIANS AND UNWIsE PHILoSo-
PHERS-THE PRESERVATION AND
NOT THE DISSOLUTION OF THE IN
ION FEED THE NEGRo-MR. DOUG
LASS AND SUMNER RIGHT-THE Ex-
oDUs OF THE NEGRO FROM THE
SOUTH A FARCE--THE SOCIAL
SCIENCE CONVENTION DISCUSSION A
HISTORICAL FRAUD--NO SUCH DIS
USsIoNBETwEENMR. DOUGLASS AND
PROF. II. T. GREENER TOOK PLACE
THE "BEE" SUSTAINED ON ITS CRIT
ICISMS--SoMETHISG FOR THE BOS-
TON LEADER TO Do-MR. WILLIAMS
HAD BETTER TAKE MR.. DOUGLASS
ADVICE AND REVISE HIS SECOND
VOLUME AND NOT DEPEND ON THE
TRI-wEEKLY THE BOSTON LEADER.
Some time ago we made some very
severe criticisms on the history of the
col red race written by Hon. Geo. w.
Williams, which has caused that gen.
tleInaa TO say that we were inspired,
and the colored press to cry out in de-
Tense of the frauds which we have
discovered in his second volume. We
don't propose to make any unfit crit
cisms nor have we been prompted by
prejudice nor have been inspired
by any party or faction for selfaggran-
d,zement. 1t seems that we cannot
write any thing but what the cry is
that we have been inspired. The only
inspirstor which prowpted us to do
things, is our sense of duty. The col
ored press, throughout the country to a
great extent have endorsed the book,
but the reason of that is, because the
majority of them have no knowl-
edge of the fraudulent historical
representations made by Mr..
Williams in his history of the
colored race He has not only
proved himself living historian. but
prejudiced one. In his own State of
OhiO. there are prominent men whom
he has failed to make historical men,
tion of and there are men insignificant
in every particular, he makes monu-
mentS of them to he handed down to
po tesity, when the should have been
forgotten; while somn portions of the
history should be commended. We
are constrained to call it a mutual ac-
miration book. We refer particularly
to the second volume. We, Mr.. Will
liams give
AUTHORITY,
he is all right, but as soon as he
branches off and attempts to charac-
terize uneilucated men rs educators,
whom we know to be ignorant, he falls
short of being a historian. In his
second volumn he calls certain men
who were at one time trustees of our
city public school educators. Those
men whom he says are educators can
not write three sentences in the English |!
language correctly. We decline to
call their names, those who will take |
the trouble TO read the second volumn |
can readily call them to mind. The !
admirers of Mr. Williams may say that |
all are prejudice, but before we shall
nave finished, the minds Of our readers
will be clear on this subject and be
convinced that we have made fair and |
lust criticisms.
Rev. George Williams history of
he negro race in America, is in error
N this: Before the Social Science,
Congress at Saratoga, New York. Mr..
Douglass met Richard I. Greener, a
-oung colored man, in discussion of
he exodus. But Mr.. Greener, a son
If Harvard College, with keen and
nerciless logic, cut right through the
ophistries of Mr. Douglass, and al
hough the latter gentleman threw
,oquets at the audience and INDUCED
n the most exquisite word-painting,
le was compelled to leave the field a
'anquished disputant." No such dis
ussiOn ever took place, and Mr.. Dou-
lass and r. L. Greener, never met be-
ore the Social Science Congress as
llpged. The whole story is as absurd
S it would be to charge that Richard
theodore Greener himself wrote the
bove portion of the Rev. George Will
ams history.
The best evidence of the wisdom of
fr. Douglass views on this wholesale
xodus which was advised few years
60, is this: the freemen have continu- I,
d to remain in the South, and the ad-
o.o@a. ,f axoJ,,e to fha North ora en-