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pairing view 6t1f the condition of the
republican party, and confidence of
democratic ascendency taken together
afford some grounds for the reports
that he looks very complacently upon
the prospect of Democratic victory
next year Possibly he thinks that
general and disastrous defeat of the
republicans will teach them to value
more highly some Of their rejected
Leaders, Washington Star, May 7,
1883.
We do not, by any means, fail to APP
,, preciate the meaning and significance
of the warning that Mr.. Conkling gives
the country. Say what you will, the
fact remains that he is to day the most
potential figure in the party, and what
he says is worth thinking over Mr..
Conkling is aware that those who
manage the party to-day, have turned
their backs not only upon the princi-
pies Of real republicanism, but upon
their faithful allies, the loyal and truly
devoted black republicans of the
country, and he throws out the warn
ing to these managers that but echoes
the sentiments and purposes of the
colored voters of the couaty, "out
damned spot
More people are patronizingthe ladies
fancy dress and trimming store on 18th
Street, now than at any time since it
was opened. Well, that's COED, you can
buy goods there just the same as you
can on the Avenue, or on 9TH Street,
| just as good and Just as cheap, and
what you cannot find on hand, the
obliging ladies will take ever SO much
pleasure in making an order for you.
We have been and inspected the store
and the goods, all we need to say is
that it is indeed a marvel of outfit from
top to bottom. May success crown our
first colored lady business enterprise.
MRS. STOWE AND "UNCLE TOM
To THE EDITOR OF THE Post i: Please
! inform us to what extent Mrs. Stoves
lacerated svmpathies in behalf of
"Uncle Tom and the negro race have
induced her to offer them pecuniary as
sistance out of the proceeds OF her
book or remunerative orange groves?
We would like to know if. she will
head subscription for the family of
the deceased Rev. Josiah Henson Cher
Uncle Tony If SO, we will add our
name. If she will now endOW home
for the many friendless and penniless
negroes, perhaps some people may
begin to believe in the sincerity of her
motives for writing the tissues OF
SANDER and falsehoods by which she
acquired an ample fortune-not one dol
lar of which has ever been expended
in charities of any nature, whatever,
far less for the benefit of the colored
people. She employs them to labor on
her orange groves-nothing more.
WASHINGTON, May Z. FACT.
| What do we want with Mrs. Stoves
private purse, what she has earned is
hers. Indeed, the freedmen of the
South would have just as much right
to look to their former owners for d
recompense.' The thing don't hang on
string of hopeful anticipations with
our people. All we want is what we
labor for and earn, and chance, an
equal one, in the race for life. This
stuff above is hardly an Improvement
on forty acres and a mule. If any
person thinks that the poor freedman
is wanting for anybody to hit him a
lick of sympathetic charity. let them
read this
Among the most prosperous colored
men in Richmond the following may
be instanced: The Rev. James Holmes,
said to be worth $4,000 Joseph +.
Farrer, master builder, $4,000 Abner
Cooley, master builder, $4,000 /; the
Rev. Richard Wells, $4,000 the Rev.
William Troy, $4,000 the Rev. J.
Jasper. $4,000; C. Wilson, $4,000; J.
Turner & Sons, $4,000: Mr.. Hill,
$1,000: William Wilkeson, $4,000 ;
BENJAMIN Smith, $500; Willis Wines,
$4,000; Earnest East, $500; WIN.
b. Lyons, barber. $4,000; II. c. Hob
son. barber. $4,000. Most of this
money is invested III real estate. In
Jackson ward there are more than one
hundred colorer' people who own prop
erty varying in value from $1,000 to
$4,000, and about twenty in Manches-
ter, a suburb of Richmond. One OF
the finest residences in the city is
owned by DR.. Ferguson, assistant SUI
perintendent of the Central lunatic
asylum. Many gentlemen conduct
successful businesses, grocery, dye. etc
There are some thirty colored teachers
in and around Richmond. Richmond
supports fourteen colored churches,
mostly Of the Baptist denomination
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