The bee., 1883-01-06

Our young men-Mr. John w. EWING
Disunion-consequen weakness-Mr' ~ D.
Smith,
Mrs. Harriet Beecher stowe-Mr. P. H. Ship
pen.
Prohibition in politics-Dr. o. NJ. Atwood.
Charles Sumner-Mr. William Wormley.
Our young men for Aftrica-Mr. A. 4.
Brodie.
Musical talent--R. W. Tompkins.
The Freedmen's bank--Prof. Wiley Lane.
Delaney.
Voluntary toast-Dr. Blyden.
Below is extracts from speeches in
reply to the toasts "Colored Men In
the South :"
HON. JOHN II. LYNCH,
of Mississippi, spoke concerning "the
colored men in the South" He told of
the progress made by his people in the
South during the past twenty years and
predicted that before another twenty
years shall have rolled by the colured
men will have attained the statue of full
manhood. They were mere children
when the war was over, but they have
been growing in intellectual worth
and influence. They are acquiring
property and adapting themselves to
the requirements Of their improved
condition. They are taking increasing
pride in their advancement and are
paving more attention to the duties OF
intelligent citizenship than ever be-
fore. He saw much to give him sub
stantial ground for the hope and the
conviction that we are approaching
the dawn of O new and bright era
for the c0lored residents in the late
slave states.
"The Colored Man as Legislator"
by
HON. JOHN P. GREEN,
of the Ohio Lpgisture, said that to have
ones name associated with occasions of
this nature and magnitude, is indeed
an honor. The colored legislator in
the South during the early portion
of the last decade was an experiment
and when we consider the peculiar
circumstances attending it, the Won
der is that it did not result in complete
failure. In some sections of the South
a majority of the legislators were col
ored men, and it is to be regretted that
many of these were not not only ignor-
ant and illiterate, but absolutely dis
honest. He concluded by paying hand
some tribute to Hon. B. K. Bruce. The
"Colored Press" was responded to by
DIR. B. T. TANNER.
DR.. b. T. Tanner read six-minutes'
essay ON the Negro Press Five
minutes of the time was taken up in a
protest against the Use of the word
"colored," as the designation of class
of citizens of the republic. He claimed
that the appellation was rank injus-
tice to million and a quarter of
voters. The doctor witnessed with
undisguised pleasure the rapid growth
of negro journalism, and was con-
strained to think this one of the most
hopeful signs of the times.
DR.. Tanners address was full of
good, sound logic. At its conclusion
he was loudly applauded. The Negro
race in America was responded to by
the young colored historian, legislator
and scholar
of Ohio. author of the lately completed
History of the Negro Race in Amer
ica," a work which will be widely read,
sketchcd briefly the record of the
negro author and prophesied that
within the next quarter of century
the colored people would have recog
nized place in the literature of the
world. The concluding passage of his
speech was a brilliant piece of word
painting. the passionate outburst of an
enfranchised mind bursting through
shell of darkness into the full blaze of
magnificent possibilities. His glowing
words, so full OF hope and sentiment,
carried his audience by storm, and he
had scarcely taken his seat ere he was
surrounded by men eager to grasp him
by the hand and congratulate him.
MIR. T. T. FORTUNE,
of the New York Globe, was applauded
when called for, who responded to the
toast, THE Negro as Independent"
Mr.. Fortune spoke in his usual bold,
independent and ironical manner of
; both political parties and their failure
to do for the Negro. He said that the
Negro must assert his manhood and be
free American citizen.
! MIR. GEO. w. COOK
responded to the toast Howard Uni
versity.'
HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
P l,,,t ba Il IF hot 10
is now hushed; the nations convulsion
throes of internal strife have ceased.
Grim visaged war has smoOthed his
wrinkled 'front.'
One of the results of that war was
people distinct, yet part of the ma
tional aggregate, ignorant, degraded
and needing special care, and was but
natural that thinking men should seek
; to devise means for the amelioration
of such people. From this philan-
thropic thought, institutions of learn
ing of varied character and different
: denominations sprang into life, and
none more prominent than the subject
of our toast. Howard University.
1t is not of the conflicting theories
as to its origin, financially, that we
would speak, but it is of Howard Uni
versity as reality, as it is to-day.
/ Its grand ultimate purpose as personi-
fed in its most distinguished President,
General o. o. Howard, is what should
claim the attention of such an assem-
bly, as this. We have here men from
every section of the country, and pro-
baby of every faith, and as Howard
University is. national and undenomi-