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The bee., 1883-05-26
THE LEADERS CHALLENGE
ACCEPTED.

Editor VIM. c. Chase of the Wash
ington BEE, evidently misunderstood
the tenor of our challenge to discuss
the merits of Williams History of the
Negro. Mr.. Chase in a two column
article, three-fourths of which is the
text and the other fourth the sermon,
cites that part of the history and bases
his charges of fraud on that citation,
that relates to the Dougloss-Greener
alleged discussion and the Garrison
Williams theory as to the cause of the
negroes liberation. While we acknowl-
edge that Mr.. Douglass and Prof.
Greener are quite prominent negroes,
we think that when Col. Williams
compiled his work, he must have
known that there were more colored
men in this country than the above
and consequently intended his work to
be more universal. Our challenge to
the BEE was to review the tCork, not
any one chapter and when it is ready
to do this, let it commence. If Bro.
Chase, by reason of inability, disincli-
nalion or editorial negligence, is un-
able to come to the front, we will an
swer in full the review he has male.
1t would be better, however, for Mr..
Chase's professional reputation to re-
view the whole history, as he says the
whole work is fraud.-Boston Leader.
The BEE accepts your challenge
Bro. Smith. Let the ball roll. Any
way all.
The bee., 1883-05-26
ToTHECoLORED HIsToRIAN.(?)

Mr.. Williams, the historian, through
his organ, the "N6oc York Globe, seems
to be very anxious to discuss Mr..
Douglass paper read before the Social
Science Congress some years ago; by
SO doing he thinks it will aid him in
coming up to the lie he uttered in his
History of the Negro Race in Ameri-
Ca" he will not be able to throw sand
in the eyes of anybody by the use he
has made Of the columns Of his organ,
by undertaking to ridicule Mr.. Doug
lass position on the exodus; for that
question is as dead to-day as Mr.. ID.
predicted from the start. But what
has the exodus got to do with your try
ing to make falsehood appear true, and
your refusal to connect that which you
know TO be untrue? Mr.. Williams
saws in his history, that Prof. Greerer
and Mr.. Douglass discussed the Exodus
before Tue ooClol ECIOnOS ehG osA AohOO6"s
New York, and Greener, a young
colored man, a son of Harvard College,
with a keen and merciless logic, cut
right through the sophistries of Mr.
Douglass; and although the latter gen.
tleman thr ew bouquets at the audience
and indulged in the most exquisite
word paintings. he was compelled to
leave the field avanquished disputant." ;"
Us this true? Did a discussion take
place as alleged? Was Mr.. Douglass
before the Social Science Congress, or
did he simply send his paper there to
10 be read2 Did Mr.. Douglass ever
The bee., 1883-05-26
LODGES VS.. INSURANCE.

Mr.. Editor we do not wish to be
misunderstood on this question, we
wish TO discuss the possibilities on gen
eral principals. independence fnanci-
ally is generally reached only after the
hoardings of several generations.
When we consider those who are bound
to us by the dearest ties of life. Is it
not right that we should do all we can
for them while living and leave them
as well off as possible when we die.
Our children should have education
and trades to make them good and use
full members of society, but they need
money as well. And if we can leave
them money without any serious in
convenience to ukselves why not do
it? We are sincere admirers of secret
or benefcient societies next to Chris
tianity, they are the great safe guards
of our social fabric. We find in them
that, which delights otRr honor, tickles
our vanity, heightcns our prosperity,
assauges our grief and bhrries us when
We die. Yet if we leave loving wives
and helpless babies, wil6 that satisfy
us? The Home Benefit Insurance
Co. is doing a good work. although it
has not the captivating surroundings
and near socialities of other institrl-
tions. 1t takes 80 and !, sometimes
more dollars besides monthly dues to
become member of someS organiza-
tions. Now six of those ten dollars
would buy policy for 81 ,O@0 and the
four dollars would pay our monthly
dues for share on each 81. 900. We get
S. per week for 26 weeks when we are
sick and our kinered OF others as We
wish get the 81 900 when wa are gone.
Of course each one will acA to suit
himself, but for poor and richi it is a
subject worthy of consideration.
ALERT.
Mr.. EDITOR; Would it not be more
ereditable to some of our wPuld be
leaders (Greener and others }if they
would stop sowing the seed OF discord
and strife and trying to rob otIh men
of fame which they are justly due.
During their leisure they might do
something worthy of higher calling
and nobler ambition. They might at
least be practical and do others good
as well as themselves, leadefs ought
not to be too selfish. They might look
after the poor, the unfortuns d and the
helpless of our race in Ain Houses,
Hospitals, Jails and AsyluL and see
if they are well treated or if bore yet
might not be done for their comfort
We are as much in need of h}lanthro
pists as leaders. AhERT.
The bee., 1883-05-26
THE CELEBRATION OF THE
EMANCIPATION PR0CLMA'
ZION IN WASHINGTON, D. C..

The reeent celebration of the Eman-
eipation Proclamation, by the colored
people of the District OF Columbia,
was one of the grandest efforts ever
made in that direction.
Mf. VIC. Chase, editor and proprle-
tor of the Washington Bee, read the
Emancipation Edict. which was ably
composed and pointed. 1tshowed that
the editor means what he advocates in
his paper. the most interesting of our
many exchanges, on account OF It's
caustic but brilliant editorials. lie
was f, flowed by Col. NJ. N. Holland in
an able speech, in which he said in re-
ferring to freedom and its anniversa-
ries: "Teach your children its inn
portance, and hold it in high and
sacred remembrance. Prize it as your
dearest legacy from man. and cherish
it as the richest gift of God. He
was followed by Hon. Frederick Doug
lass,,"the greatest hero and philoso-
pher of the age" Heis known where
ever the English language is spoken,
and his name will go down to posterity
as the greatest abolitionist, philoso-
pher, and the wisest counsellor OF his
race. We regret that on account OF
it's length we cannot publish his speech
in full, however, it was in this speech
that he found the key to that great
problem, which has cOnfOunded the
greatest men of the white race. He
stands without peer. He has given
the negro the key and rule to work by;
it now remains for the negro to solve.
Heiwas followed by the Rev.S. Laws,
D. d., who delivered historical speech,
tracing freedom through the early colo
nial times and the intermarriages be-
tween the two races and for what pur-
pose until they were prohibited by
law, imprisoned and sold into slavery.
He also proved that our brethren OF
the North who delight in saying, eve
were born free, emancipation prOcla-
nation didn't free us" are mistaken
for they could not travel through a
single southern state without having
free papers, etc. Now all can travel
alike, Weare forced to say that it was
the most complete celebration of any
event we have ever read of-Long live
Fred. Douglass, "the greatest hero OF
the age ."-Literary Germ.
The bee., 1883-05-26

PROF. GREENER delivered a lecture
in Washington City the other night, in
which he denied that the colored people
of this country were the descendants
of those African people who have re-
corded their names and fame upon the
pages of history. The lecture created
profound sensation, and things were
squally for awhile. Our old friend,
Milt. Holland, called the Professor a
liar, and wanted to lick him right then
and there. Milt is bad man to fool
with when his dander is up, and he
comes from bad section of these great
United States. way down South. in the
southwest corner of Texas, where the
fashion is for feller to die with his
boots on. Milt. had the Professor
badly scared, but he couldn't get at
him, so the Professor still lives. He
won't deliver that lecture again soon,
though.-The Louisville Bulletin.
Yes, the Col, is a red hot man, but
where the joke comes in, is when
Greener wrote letter and gave the
Col, twenty-four hours to retreat. A
libel suit was to have followed, but
Dick changed his mind, and concluded
that it would not pay. His next step
was to ask the administration to re-
move from Office such Republicans
who did not favor him.
The bee., 1883-05-26
FREDERICK DOUGLAS.

If there is any man, woman or child,
of the black race who does not look
with affection, as we'll as admiration
and respect, upon the good, gray head
of the illhstfioils man whose name is
written above, it is because of want Of
information as TO his history, or because
of bias on some passing question which
obscures the Observers view of his
character. Mr.. Douglass has come
down to us from former generation.
Hewas a co.wOrker, as he was the peer,
of Garrison, Phillips, Parker, Garrett,
and the rest, who for the twenty years
preceding the civil war cried out like
the prophets of old against the great
wrong of the age. But for the'agita-
ton of the slavery question maintained
by them there would have been no re-
publican party, no check upon slavery,
no emancipation, and no enfranchlse-
ment of the blacks. The flaming zeal
and burning eloquenee of these pioneers
aroused what little conscience was left
in the north, and little by little the
cause of Human Rights pressed for
ward until property in man became
odious to millions who had not the
moral courage to say so. Men lmpa-
tient of difference of oppinion, OF
mis- apprehending the turn of asentence,
may chafe at the temerity of Mr.. Doug
lass in joining in recommendation for
a colored convention, but it is not be-
coming in young men for whose free,
dom he plead at considerable peril
before they were born to accuse him OF
lack of fidelity to what he deems the
best interests of his race He is not
infallible, but he.is honest. He is as
stauneh a republican, in these days
when negroes are pursued for their
votes by some who have no other IN
terest in them, as he was an abolition
lists when negroes were pursued to be
returned to the slavery from which
they had fled.
Frederick Douglass is the most emf
nent American in whose veins courses
African blood. He is clear of head
and sound of heart. The welfare OF
the colored race is the dearest object OF
his life. 1t is not necessary that any
who disagree with him as to holding a
convention should accuse him of sim
lister motives. In any convention OF
colored people which may meet he will
naturally be a conspicuous figure. No
Judgment cooler and no tongue more
eloquent than his can be found to
warn the Republican party of the con-
sequences of falling under the control
of men who shout for the negro in
every campaign. and conspire with
his worst foes when in office. The
Republican party will be sure to have
the support of Mr.. Douglass, and of
the eolOred race generally, if it de.
serves it. But if in the future, as it
has sometimes done in the past, it
should fall under the control of men
who fear bourbon censure more than
they desire the approval Of the black
race and its friends, the law of self
preservation will teach the cOlOred
voters whether it is better to trust the
southern bourbon himself, or his pros
tTate lackey who apologies to him for
seeming to be Republican.-National
Republican.
The bee., 1883-05-26
THE CoLoRED CONVENTION.

TO BE HELD IN LOUISVILLE, KY,
SEPT. 24TH.
The committee which some tirhe ago
issued a call for national colorSd con-
yention to be held here, met herSe yes
terday afternoon at 4 o'clock, aid re-
solved to issue the following as Stkuple-
ment to the call: Z
WASHINGTON, d. G., May 28. In
obedience to the demand of the ccSlored
people of the country, and in compli-
ance with resolution of the corbven-
ton which created it, and yesterday
granted it the power to change the
place of holding the proposed national
convention of eolored men, the COM
mittee met to-day and decided to
change the place of the. convention
from Washington, D. c., to L.oul kille,
KY, on the same day, Sept. IA, IL
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Chair
ARTHUR A. SMITH, Cor. Slecra q
The bee., 1883-05-26
TO THE ACCUSERS.

Once for all, let it be understood that
L alone am responsible for every word
that is said in the Editorial columns of
the BEE. / make this statement be-
cause / see it lyingly asserted by Dick
Greener and by George w illiams, that
the articles published in this paper are
suggested and inspired by Hon. Fred
The bee., 1883-05-26
AN ORGAN OF THE COLORED
RACE.

The prospectus of the Baltimore
Vindicdtor to be published exclusively
in the interest of the colored people,
has been circulated. 1t is to be under
the control of the Vtndicator Publish
ing Company. They promise that it
shall contend for non-partisan State
and municipal government for the
abolition of what they call the black
law of Maryland for colored teachers
in public schools, and that it will be an
independent non-partisan journal in its
advocacy of peoples rights--BaIttn'oTe
Sun, Nay 70.
The bee., 1883-05-26

etick Douglass. While I have the
highest respect for Mr.. Douglass,
neither consult him as to what shall
say in the BEE, nor for what Say else
whsre. I IamEne. mans echo, and stand
upon no mans legs but my own. and
any man who saysI echo Mr., Douglass
or any other man Wss. - --.s.s...
The bee., 1883-05-26

We are preparing the military His
tory of the Colored Historian, ( ?)which
will appear in our second Review on
the History of the Colored Race in
America. Mr.. Williams says we could
not reach the level of his contempt
that would cause him to reply to us, but
yet in his organ the Globe he devoted
over two columns to us.
The bee., 1883-05-26

The COMMITTEES may or may not
change the place of holding the Con-
vention, it depends on circumstances.
If the Convention is changed it will
only be to satisfy the colored press
who are anxious to see that
the convention is made success. Of
course, the press represents the people.
We don't mean soreheads, exiles and
tramps.
The bee., 1883-05-26
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The bee., 1883-05-26

Fred. Douglass and B. K. Bruce are
the recognized leaders of the colored
race. Douglass for his eloqnence and
fidelity to the colored race and Repub-
li.~-. P1,rty, anu DIUVu Tor MS great
common sense, logic and honor 0ab-
land Times
The bee., 1883-05-26

The Demogogues all said that the
Republican was with them, but on
Tuesday morning morning star made
its appearance in the form of an editor
ial endorsing Mr. Douglass.
The bee., 1883-05-26

Hon. B. K. Bruce, registrar Of the
United States Treasury, was solicited
10 allow his name to be used in connec-
tion with the candidacy for vice-presi-
dent on a national temperance ticket.
He wisely declined to allow his name
to be used.-The arkansas Herald.
The bee., 1883-05-26

Somebody endeavored to reply to Mr.
Douglass the other morning in the Re
publican. After having read the notice
we saw that Greener was informing
his friends that he was dying hard"