Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-16
ALEXANDRIA VA MONDAY EVENING AUGUST lG, 1886

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get on better without it; that we are under
as many obligations to the Government as
the Government is TO US; that the world
has no use for and no time to bother with q
man with grievance; that the mountain
will not come to hlahouIet; that impracti.
cable egotists have no place in land of &C.
tive, busy, plucky men, who can scarcely
find time in which to die that selfreliance
is the FIRST element in manhood; that the col.
ored man or woman in the South who has not
one white man or white woman whom he
would trust as far as any mortal on earth, is
in jail that liberty of conscience is the free.
mans heritage; that to prescribe man on
account of politics is to play checkers with
the devil that a church for bald headed
men and a corner in heaven for fools is as
rational SIS church for colored republicans.
[ wontd tell them thaC to mourn grievance
past and gone is the next way to draw new
mischiefs on That the granite possibilities
towers about them, but the mallet of the
will and the chisel Of industry they alone
can use. That all the nations wait to honor
the first negro philosopher, scientist or
scholar; that all the world will sound
r:cans 10 that dcsccndent OF the occident
who shall sweep the universe with Milton g
pen and Dante's dic!iou, as it already does
to Douglass, that majestic tonguer of won
drous deeds.
Il 60 further anG say We cannot hate an i
reach heaven; that wind is not wisdom,
nor are bellows brains that Il dirt-covered
diamond is a diamond still that God new er
made lovelier ladies' than the white ladies'
of magnolia laud, and that q more generous
soul does not beat nCr u truer heart does
not throb than the one locked in
the bosom of q son Of q revolutionary sire
cavalier, confederate or citizen though we
call him. The time will come when Grant,
who led the armies of the victorious North,
will be companioned with Tilden, whose nod
would have plunged the nation in blood.
Caucasian is the soul Of our civilization
ard the present pilot of human destiny. All
our race arc not saints, nor all other races
sinners. Washington aud Jefferson will be
honored by the next generation of colored
men. In the homes OF majestic Blaine and
heroic Logan have been treated as man,
and in the home of the mighty Randall and
the hotel of the magnificent Carlisle rs n
citizen. ! demand 10 more from my own
race than have received from the great
leaders of the other race. TIE spirit Of the
great man ialters not in honest fight, but,
falcon like, sweeps amid the aggregated
grandeur Of q thousand generations, and
when from earth it is at last set free it will
revisit old haunts with summers dews, kiss
the velvet lips Of the blushing rose, cast
amorous slances into the midnight seas, fly
with the beams f1cm the stars to cheer the
lone traveller Ger the wide worlds way and
lead budding genius to the fields of rariiied
achievement. You cannot bride the soul.
You cannot conquer The will. You cannot
make me hate = man, for mans my brother
s!ill.'"
Chambers has taken part in democratic
campaigns in the West. The result of the
trial wa9 in complete victory for
Chambers, who was favored by Bishop Tur.
ner. The latter had appointed him. Bis
hop Turner said that Chambers V: ldication
was triumphant and that he commends his
work. The Bishop himself, up to q few
years ago, was an enthusiastic politician in
the republican ranks. He says that
when the civil rights bill passed he
ceased 10 be IL republican politician for
thenceforward he was of tho opinion that
the negro must Stand alone and carve out
his own destiny. The clergymcn who were
attempting to make head against Chambers
are discomtitrd.