The bee., 1883-04-21

H. 81. d. Generals, Hon r. B. E. Elliot and
Hon Robert Small. The self-sacriiciDg
warrior for human rights, Col. u. n. Cason.
The African explOratOr of undeveloped re-
sources. Major NJ. X. Delauy, NJ. ID. and the
Inatchlessness man for race defence and
human rights. Our city organ editor, Will
liam CALVIN Chase. This paper, the BEE,
and the Washington Press of the colored
race of the District of Columbia, so declared
by the Emancipation Representative Con
vention for 1888 of 263 delegates, has resus-
citated our every interest and so continue
them to be- If we contiue to support it "a
we have said by votes. You call the coloTed
press negro paper which can never live,
and neither would the Republican, the Post,
the Tdr or the Critic, If they did not get all
of the white patronage and One-haf OF the
colored 1t will not only warn you when
danger is coming but defend you in danger
as in the case of the Hirth murder trial and
numerous other things. But acts which
made race of men, good and chattel, anu
| then made them citizens OF the great Amerl-
! can nation, are living TecollectIons which
must be commemorated throughout life ex-
| istenee by every man, woman and child OF
| the race, including those who are identified
with US by marriages from the other two
races. Isay this because this principle OF
amalgamation of the races was among the
first trouble the early settlers OF the
European race, had with the European
| daughters and African sons and with
European sons and African daughters.
! And now tney are trying to keep separate
what has been mixed for $50 years.
| These have been the repeated enactments
from 1620-1So3, beginning with Virginia
and Massachusetts where slavery existed, Tin
/ Massachusetts, for one hundred and forty
seven years, and completed its sanction with
! Nevada, from the lips of Senator j. z. Jones,
whose baneful expressions force me to the
| conclusion that resistance in some cases is
| better than obedience.
J Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New
| York against Delaware, Missouri and Texas.
/ In this great and unreasonable opposition to
social equality, Rhode Island. Pennsylvania
| and New York stands shoulder to shoulder
with Delaware, Missouri and Texas.
PARTY LIBERTY.
| lam not here to discuss the issues of poll
: tlcal parties, because it is my aim to make
| different impression upon your mind.
! For party liberty, implies the colored man
| permission, and what one party grants
another may refuse.
! But am here to speak of constitutional
! which is nations highest right. And the
constitutional liberty of the American
nation, is the highest, best and most lndls-
| criminate that the world ever witnessed.
| The three last articles of our constitution
fully sustained the assertion just made.
/ The thirteenth abolishes for every slavery
and oppression, the fourteenth declares all
| citizens, and the fifteenth guarantees indiS-
| criminate rights, the ballot without reference
| to race, color or previous conditions.
This instrument of constitutional liberty
| is the most indisputable. unimJ each
able and grandest charter that was ever
transmitted to mankind.
1t secures the rights of individuals as citi-
zen of States as members of this Union and
of the United States, as great nation com
prising all of its citizens as one common
whole.
We have but one form of government al
ways, but some times have as many as FIVE
political parties to one election a year, and
! that party that succeeds is always the party
| of power and becomes the exponents of the
| laws.
(The power of the general government.
Therefore, shall not discuss these duties
as party obligations, but as the obligations
| of the general government, be that govern
ment State OF the National Government.
For when touching the rights of citizenship
with its equality of privileges and immuni-
ties, the constitution of the United States
places these rights beyond the control of a
! State, dIscresIOn and makes them too sacred
for State, to discriminate against when it
declares In article fourth, section 2nd, clause
| first, that the citizens of each State, shall be
| entitled to all the privileges and immunities
of citizens in the several States. In article
fourteenth, section first, it is declared that
all persons born or naturaliZed in the United
States, and subject to the Jurisdiction there
| of, are citizens of the United States and of
the State wherein they reside.
| No State shall make or enforce any law
| which shall abrldge the privilege or lmmuni-
ties of the citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty or property without due process of
| law; nor deny to any person within it's Juris-
| diction the equal protection of the land.
! / find that Louisiana adheres to as much
| to these laws from obedience as Massachu-
sets does from necessity, and South Caro-
! lima as much for Its love as Nevada does for
| its principles.
So you can see that after all the rights
which we are short of, the general govern
ment is responsible and not the local govern
ment of the several States.
| For when the government said so, all were
freed. when the government said so, all
fought in the war when the government said
so, all commenced voting; when the govern
ment so, all enjoyed equal privileges of the
city street cars of the local corporation, and
when the government said so, all continued
| voting except the $1,000 citizens of the Dis
trict of Columbia, whose rights are con-
! trolled by three citizens, subject at a. times
to a majority vote of two, very often they
are in part, men not identified with the com
mon interest of the District of people.
APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF THE SEVERAL
STATES.
But this adjustment and redress will be
! settled by an appeal TO the citizens of the
several States, whose descendants we are;
we shall tell them of our grievances, and ask
! them for no man for Congress, who will not
consent to protect the rights of the eolored
citizen here by restoring TO them their rights
| of sutferings.
DISSEMINATION.
To us, politics have been only the means
| of ruin so far.
They have filled the capital city full of our
best society. young men and women from
| their homes, following Congressman here
upon their mere promise of governmental
employment: they have destroyed we'll
formed plans at home for hattering promises
| of great things at Washington, by which
some of our best families have been scattered
from the different states, and made paupers
here in the streets of Washington and drag
ged off to reform school, work house, Jail or
the Denitentiary, with not a single word of
| sympathy or cent of assistance, from the
misconduct of these men, we are to suffer
these disgraces through years of manhood
| from youths neglect and misfortune or per
form two persons labor for one person, s
wages. This has to be done in many cases,
in semile way by the persons employed for
those through whose influence they were ap-
pointed, in addition to the duties of govern
mental employers in order TO save their
places of employment and house servants
wages In the pockets of their employers.
We have been impoverished TO the end,
that many of our young men and women
have fallen into ruins from the unfaithful-
ness of the whites by making our yonng
men the aggressors of their great evil in The