Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-06-04
THE CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION AT GOLDsBORO,
JUNE 10TH.
President Cleveland's Church-Fred-
crick Douglass and his White Wife
Cabinet Changes.


crick Douglass and HIS White Wife
Cabinet Changes.
Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, June IA word to
tho budding manhood and woman
hood" perusing The SENTINEL, espe-
cially in North Carolina, may be well
coined. At any time, and under any
circumstences, our editer-in-chief would
willingly open the columns Of fHr
SENTINEL in their interest. True, he
may be surprised to see that We have
forgotten our mission, but we arc en-
ployed, not for what we do know, but
for what we do not know. Especially
can ga word" be appreciated regard
ing the Civil Service Examination, to
be held
AT GoLDsBORO, JUNE 10TH.
Into that sea of perplcxity and uncer-
tainty, number of the sons and
daughters of the Old North State
have determined to enter. AS lover
of humanity, we say to all patriotical-
ly inclined do not swim in! If, how
ever, you will 60 there. swim out We
do not doubt your ability to pass. If
your education has not been neglected,
if YOU can "read, write, and cipher,
practically and intclligently, you will
undoubtedly gain the required per-
centage, if not more. Several Of Jou
may become confused, nervous, or for
getful, and fail to demonstrate that
degree of intelligence. That may not
be unfortunate, but it will be disas-
trous. 1t can not be unfortunate for
any young man or woman to fail to
obtain employment under the United
States government. We have not
space to describe all of the evils of
such employment. Even had we, no
young man or woman would realize
the evils until after several years
service or experience. If you are
smart enough to pass, rather had you
stay in North Carolina, and give your
native State the benefit of your smart
ness, than go to Washington, or any
where, under the government, to lose
your energy and individuality. spend
your time, above all, your brain, OH
the Old North State. She needs you
more than Uncle Sam. You may be-
como indispensable in North Carolina.
In Washington, or elsewhere, Uncle
Sam can dispense with yuur services
any day in the year, and fill the vn-
cancy without the slightest inconven-
ience. There never has been, and
never will be, an indispensable en-
ployee, high or low, under the United
| Hty
man flaw in the contract between en-
ployer and employee is warning te
brains, energy, and industry. If you
are learning trade or profession, il
you are clerking, if you are working
| in North Carolina, stay there. Your
gifts, will be appreciated, and your
faults will be forgiven, quicker, sooner
there than elsewhere North Carolina
like every Southern State, needs her
budding manhood and womanhood );
the smarter the more.
"PREsIDENT CLEyELAND's CHURCH,
as the multitude has already profane-
ly dubbed the Presbyterian Church OF
which DR.. Sunderland is pastor, is a
few steps from THE SENrINEL's Wash.
ington Office, near the City Hall, and
opposite Judiciary Square. During
the Presidents first Sundays mt DIR
Sunder1and's much vul gar curiosity
was manifested in fact, every corner
! from which a view of the Church car
be had was fully occupied, and thu
broad, white, historic steps Of the City
Hall, from which a commanding view
can be had, were covered with young
rowdies and urchins. AS species o
vulgarity, which perhaps surround!
all of the churches in Washington
this curiosity became painful, both t.
President Cleveland and DIR. Sunder
land. President Cleveland, who i
the essence of regularity, was forced
to resort to the strategy of irregular
attendance. just as the vulgarity hat
commenced to cease, The SEsTIsEl
representative was going to his own
little church, block opposite, waei
he noticed
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND WIFE,
accompanied by the latter's nothe
and sister. entering DR.. Sunderland
Church. The daily press found foo.
for considerable matter in this unex
pccted event, bringing beth Douglas
and his white relatives, as we'll as DIR
Sunderland, into heathenish notoricty
President Cleveland being absent,
was said that Douglass, white wife AM
all, occupied the Presidents pew
Fred. Douglass is an able, intelligent
and above all, shrewd negro. The ne
gro race has never had better repre-
sentative. although, perhaps, his great
est enemies are men of his own color
It would be doubling his recognizes
intelligence, then, to infer that he wa
totally unaware of the effect his visi
would produce. We saw him repea
the visit last Sunday. Upon wha
: ground she feels justified, it matters Ii,
. tie. Fred Douglass doubtless kne,
that climax, highly dramatic. woul
arise. No representative of the negr
race has ever been so dramatic a
Fred Douglass That he sought thi
climax, there can be no doubt. Leay
ing his rural home, driving throug
the street of Washington, passing a
hundred other churches, hating IN
der the shadow of the Lincoln nenu
ment, and marching to Dr. Sunde,
lands, with his white wife at his sidt
and her relatives following. containe
!, features pei laps as vulgar as dramafi,
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