Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-04
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ing or COIOred Voters at La Cygne.
The colored citizens Of Ia Cygne and vicinity
. held largely attended Isass meeting Wednesday
. evening IN that city 10 consider the Democratic
( nomination Of 81. ID. Kelley, colored, of Leayeu-
worth, for auditor of State. The meeting was
called 10 order by Calvin Porter, upon whose mo-
! ton Levi Arnold was chosen chairman Ham
Porter was elected secretary. After general dis
cuszion Of the nomination of SIR Kelley it was
decided, unanimously, by the colored people that
they would not support him. They also unani-
[ mously adopted an address, presenting vigorously
and plainly the democracy their reasons for re-
jectiug AIF. Kelley and the democratic party.
! The deliberations OF the meeting were listened
I TO by Captain r. F. Thorne and T. W William
son. who, after action had been taken by the col
ored people, addressed the assembly in a manner
| appropriate 10 the occasion, their remarks being
heard with much pleasure.
| The coIored people there would be gratided to
have their address published by the papers
! throughout the State. 1t is as follows:
The colored citizens Of La Cygne and vicinity
| having assembled 70 consider the action of the
democratic party of Kansas in placing upon their
ticket as nominee for auditor Of state one Of our
race, and 70 express our views thereon, do an
1 nounce that we remember these truths:
First-That the democratic party is the political
Organization which, when in power in the Nation,
forged new letters for our limbs, and pursued a
policy designed TO make the enslayement Of our
race perpetual.
seeond-Ihat it is the party which treated our
race as chattels, 10 be placed upon the auction
block and 10 be examined, sold and bought, and
I driven under the lash ike cattle
Third-That il is the party which enacted and
enforced with barbarous cruelty that most in
human Of all laws that has ever disgraced A1neri-
can legislation, the fugitive slave law.
Fourth-That IL is the party which hunted with
blOodhounds ike beasts Of prey, those of our race
who sought freedom through flight, and mangled
with many lazhes and MANNED with many wounds
those who were oyertaken in their race for free
dom.
Fifth-That it is the party which proclaimed
and maintained, as one Of its cardinal doctrines
that the black man had no rights which the white
man is bound to respect.
Sixth-That it is the party which by fraud and
murder and rapine ana cruelty, unparalleled in the
annals of civilized life, sought 10 convert the fer
tile plains Of Kansas into fields and farms of slay
cry where our race should wear out their lives in
unrequited toll and under the lash ofthe overseer
seventh-That is the party which held and pro
claimed and preached that the slavery OF our race
! was a divine institution, thus prosdtuting the
z holy ordinances Of religion to its base purposes.
Eighth-That it is the party which undertook TO
establish the Southern Confederacy, the chief
corner stone Of which was the continual enslaye-
ment Of oar people.
{ Ninth-That it is the party which furnished all
the sympathy for and sineWs of the rebellion, and
sacrificed hundreds Of thousands Of lives and bill
lions Of treasure only to bind the chains of slavery
? more securely upon our race.
p Tenth-That it is the party which resolved in
its national convention that the war for the
Union, which had become a war for the freedom
Of our race, failure.
s Eleventh-That it is the party which resolved
that this is a white mans government.
Twelfth-That il is the party which opposed and
tried to defeat the adoption of the thirteenth,
s fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the con
stitution Of the United States.
Tbhteenth-That it is the party which has op-
D posed in congress and elsewhere, all legislation
. looking to the elevation protection and citizen
D ship of our race.
/ Fourteenth-That it is the party which shoots
down our brethren in the south for daring to at
tempt to exercise the right most dear to every free
man, and dangerous to tyrants only, the right to
, free vote.
Fifteenth That it is the party which has estab
: Iished over our race in the south a despOtism Of
caste, almost as cruel as slavery, and maintains fl
by frauds almost as glaring, and by violence the
most criminal
Sixteeuth-That is the party which ever has and
, still continues TO deny to our children free and
. equal educational advantages.
- Seventeenth-That IL is the party wherever ii
\ has power, which denies to our race the equal pro
lection of the laws of the land yet exacts Of oul
people their full share Of the expense Of the gov
/ eminent.
Eighteenth-That it is the party, while profess
: ing loyalty to the constitution which is plotting
treason against IT, and while protesting 10 obey
> the law Of the land is almost baseIy violating it,
Nineteentn-Tha il is the party, while it AFRO
- gates to itself the greatest purity and stronges
fidelity, is guilty Of the greatest corruption AM
most perddious treachery.
- Twentieth-That it is the party, which, while i
charges hypocrisy and deceit against the republi
can party, is itself guilty Of greater hypocris.
,. and a more cunning deceit than that which i
70 charges its rival.
l. Tyenty-drst-That il is the party which ha
i violated every pledge it ever gave to freedom, AM
then justified its shameless treacheFy by the mos
brazen falsehoods and baseless caIumnies tina
c mendacious miscreants could invent.
sr Twenty it is the party which III
r dertook to establish in this government, and i
Is now struggling maintain aristoeracy Of caste
n the foundation of which was 70 be the slavery G
Of our people.
" Twenty -third-That it is the party which hs
1T been the enemy Of our race so long and so COZ
stantly, and has heaped upon US so many on
RACES, and committed against so many wrong
, and crimes, that we cannot regard it in any othC
- light than that of a relentless hereditary foe.
=; Twenty remembering all thes
40 facts and the thousands OF other acts like thes
u and the other nameless and shameless wrongs an
y outrages against the wives and daughters Of OF
~ race, the cruel shade Of which makes one blus
III for the inhumauity Of mankind, we view with di
.. gust and scorn the effort OF the democratic part
Of Kansas to catch our votes by placing on i
ticket one OF our race.
"a Twenty -hfth-And We announce to that part
le that our recoIections of the days Of slavery al
It. too fresh, and our remembrance Of the polite
IL action Of that party since those days is to vivid
To permit us to trust ourselves in the power Of Il
te democracy; that when the democratic party shl
~ have shown 'sworEs meet TO repentance and Civ,
IS satisfactory proof Of regeneration, we VIII co
at slider the question Of voting for one Of our "a
( who is nominee of that party, and not till the
h TWenty-sixth-We further announce that (
n. our brother W. D. Kelley, we have great pit
at and we sincerely hope that he may retrace b
step and correct mis- error before he sinks into Il
- hopeless degradation Of becoming a democrat
fact as he now seems in appearance.
,b Campaign Appointments.
be The Republican Congressional Committee n
an at Beloit last week and arranged for the fouoW
ce appointments: