The bee., 1883-04-14

man employed outside of the regular
departments. Mr.. McMichaerS motto
is the Negro must CO." and he has
been sending him too, from the City
Hall, and putting a fine lot of Demo-
Gratis in their places.
The call for National Convention;
TO meet in this city In September, is
already attracting respectful attention
from the press.
The Peoples Defense. Augusta, Gal
says TIE D1feisSe vote "aye" for a
National Convention of colored men to
be held at Washington, D. c., during
the first week in September, 1888.
Such men as the Hon. Fred. Douglass,
Profs. Gregory and Greener, and edi-
tors Cromwell and Chase ought to
make it success that is, benefit to
the country.
Thank you kindly fof the references
to the gentleman who have invited the
| people to assemble in this city in Sep
tember. Let our friends in the South,
as well as the whole country, see to it,
that representative men, and none
other are sent as delegates. We want
a convention of colored men that cain
speak for the people; Who know their
constituency their disease, wants,
necessities, and condition, and what is
best to be done by National Conven-
tion for the whole country, including
our own race.
The colored press of this country
seem te be making d general kick
against the Republican party. The
majority of them will be hurrahing for
the same party in 'S4. We are in the
habit of kicking a little in Off-years,
but are simple enough to fall into line
without murmur; %heh Our political
besses Begin to stir around.-Cairo, Ill,
Gazette.
Send from the great State of Illinois,
a good square set of delegates to the
National Convention, and it may be
that before 1884, we shall be able
to get what belongs to lis inside tie
party, but now withheld: We are not
mitch alariHed about political bosses.
What we want to get is united front
from our own people before the cleo
tion in 1884. What says the Gazettea ?
The administration has taken steps
TO harmonic the two factions of the
Republican party in the State. BY the
/! appointment of Col. Koch. What's
going to be done towards harmonizing
the colored factions? They are not
fully united. Will any dropping" fall
on them Wilson IHdepent.
North Carolina has come to ronls
plain: We hope to hear that Justice is
done her noble patriotic colored Re
publicans in the State very soon.
However, we are going to assume that
it will be tardy. We offer a remedy.
Send proper set of men from the State
to the National Convention, and when
they shall meet with others ffom all
the States they will be fully able to pre-
sent something that can get us justice
in the party or show us the road that
leads to Rome.
Fighting against the managers of a
party is one thing, fighting the funda-
mental principles Of party creed is
another. Our love for the great prin-
| ciples of true and unadultefated Re
publicarism is as firm and fixed to-lay
as when we first embraced the faith.
But we are not at all in love with the
way the managers act now, and we
don't propose to bite our tongue in
open meeting. Feeling is deep and
still, and the word that floats on the
surface is as the tossing buoy that
betrays where the anchor is hidden"
Young men step to the front, come
right along, you are needed, we want
more brains. more capacity, SO come
right straight forward, you will find
room on the front seats.
There is only one or two more bores
left at the Bethel Literary. Ws trust
the audience will continue to fire them
out, whenever they attempt to impose
upon the meetings.
DECORATION DAY.-With the ex-
ception of possibly three places in the
South, where the unknown" Union
dead and Federal soldiers are buried,
there is no notice taken of these graves
on recurring memorial days save by
the loyal and union loving colored
people. We are acquainted with this
matter fully. 1t speaks out well for
our people. Notwithstanding, how
they as race and class have been neg
lected, forgotten, yes, even frowned
upon by the powers that be. Still their
innate love for the memory of the
union soldier is so firm and devoted
that even at a sacrifice our people will
see to it on decoration day that violets,
pansies, lilies and the choice flowers
of the south land are spread over the
graves of the dead who died for the
Union.
From the Potomac to the Rio Grande
on decoration our loyal union-loving
colored people through the South will
visit on decoration day the cemeteries
of the union dead and garland each
grave with the flowers Of Spring. If
they did not do this the unknown"
and nearly all the union dead that lie
in the cold valley and shadow of the
South land, would be untouched, un-
noticed.
The same respect and devotion with
affection nigh unto the tie, yea, even
so of blood that the freedman of the
South exhibited to starving union
escaped prisoners during the war
wherein oftimes the slave has offered
his life to save his union soldier guest