The bee., 1883-04-21

or did the thirteenth and fourteenth articles
to the constitution free them.
IF so, it certainly could not be aceredlfeu
to the North as freedom to the slave as they
claim, because that act was on the same
of injustice in buying and telling
as that with which they charged the south.
Well, suppose that that is the reason
they claim the right to take away our suffer-
age at the suggestion and consent of the
whites because the one sold us and claimed
the money and the other bought US and
promised to pay it.
And 1t was to the experience of this historic
fact that the great Western statesman,
Senator j. p. Jones, addressed himself when
he descended far below his senatorial dig
nifty to make his vicious assault upon the
great colored American race for which his
God will never forgive him nor this race will
ever forget.
This sin has gone to record and will follow
him to the chambers of internal regions
below where he will wear it on the exhibition
of the enyeloped flames of effigy.
In that assault he used these words which
will verify the truth of equal justice.
"Look said he, sat the dearth in our patent
Office of names from the Southern states.
Why was it? Because a servile race was
performing the labor of those states, making
it dishonorable there, and because few
or none of the laborers of that
region belonged to this great creative race,
who alone could have given the stimulus to
this material development of the southern
states which they have given to that of the
northern states.
The colored race in this country is like the
white and yellow races; is mere faction of
the unnumbered millions of Africa, and
brought here mysteriously by the invisible
power of God, just like the other two for
purposes yet undeveloped.
IMMIGRATION.
For we have no foreign immigration: for
our only immigration comes from the mix
ture of the races by amalgamation.
For we have such mixture of the races
now, that they are like the armies of war,
have gone so far into each others ranks, that
they will have to submit In order to conquer
Indeed, the only immigration we have ever
had, were the issues of white women and
men In alliance with the colored, against the
will of the white race, and to the disgrace of
the colored.
And this, too, the Senator saw when he
said: cit is no fault of ours that they are
here; it is no fault of theirs; it is the fault OF
pass generation"
a pass that was In infinite existence when the
world was spoken into being.
FREEDOMS DAWN.
The men of the north claim credit, which
the women alone of the white race, north
and south are entitled to if human beings al
all must be sharers of the glory of our free
dom.
For the first free colored persons who ever
stepped on the western continent were issues
of white women and colored men by amalpa.
nation, who were enslaved by white men tc
prevent the affinity of the races, or the ex.
istance of colored freedom: and as it has al.
ready been said, that this state of things was
sustained for period of from fifty to seventy.
five years.
IT CONTINUED
until they found that the best half and the
best stock of white women would have to be
enslayed, if they enslayed all who wouIc
amalgamate with colored men, until the,
found that the next best thing would be tc
leave them to remain free and to enslavt
their children for thirty years.
That thing did not work well, because il
made no stoppage; so they finally concluded
to give them endur;lble freedom from in.
fancy to the grave by statue of limitation.
Here, we get our first freedom of part OF
the race, until in the midst of slavery it out
grew it, until it has grown with the freedom
of the whole.
INCREASED By IMMIGRATION.
say this but do not mean to indicate an
insinuatiOn as to any low morals of the col.
ored race, which would render them conye.
nient to the use of the whites, but, on the
contrary, [ refer to the brutality of the
whites, which has been carried on by that
race, i'll order that they might render the
morals of the colored race inferior to those
Of their own.
a,,l r,,l
is through the alliances and issues of the two
races by amalgamation, that the two can live
SO much better together than the whites and
Mongolians.
FOR 1T WAS
this kind of mother and fatherhood which
have so completely mixed colored and white
races, that many of the one may marry many
of the other before they know that they are
light colored or dark white lovers.
Therefore if through the freedom of some
colored children by white women prevent the
further enslayement of their mothers, that
all the colored to-day are free.
TRUE FREEDOM
True Freedom is the freedom OF the nation
For the freedom of one class of the coIoret
race brought freedom to the other: and the
freedom of the whole of the colOred race
brought freedom to- nations.
In that, that freedom of the bodies of one
race, was freedom to the conscience of the
other.
AGITATION.
Yet, we have men and women too. within
the race who will say, that they have no in,
tecest In the celebration of the freedom ot
the race because they were born free; other.
say that the war did not free them they were
free before the war; yet another saws, that
we are all free, let the whole thing die out
and the white say, yes, it is only agitation
let it die.
But | stand here in the presence of The
Almighty God, before whom we ali must an.
pear, and in your presence. on behalf of the
freedom and liberty of the oOlored American
citizenship of the United States, whose great
cause l have the honor in part to represent
III the Twenty-First Anniversary Celebration
of their Emancipation from Oppression
And make this declaration, that there wa:
not single free cOlored man in America be
fore the war.
For freedom of citizenship is matt onal anG
indiscriminate liberty of privileges and i'm.
munitieT, with their equality of uses and
benefits which are inseparable for which we
mustpay these annual eulosries, that are
dedicated to the memory of its birth.
The assertion that there was not free
colored man in America must be sustained
by reference to legal customs.
For all had to receive pass, and none
could go without it: one from the court OF
white men and the other from individual
white men; the one called free papers, the
other pass or permission. And with thi:
lawfully regulated licenses. both could 90
like bear, to the length of his chain; and
without these both alike were captured, i'm
prisoned, advertised and sold.
None could vote, none could testify, bu
all could be whipped; for ''the colored mar
had no rights which the white man was bound
to respect"
Now all can 60, none need a paper Of
pass; all can testify. all can VOTE, and none
are whipped except in common with the
whites.
We ara hare to-day tn leave IN record by