The Washington bee., 1888-12-22
DOUGLASS ATTACKS.
LANGSTON.

In The Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, and reproduced in local
paper in this city, of which Mr..
Fred. Douglass, jr., is the associate
editor, among ether things Mr..
Douglass. sr., makes the following
cowaraly attack on Prof. Lang
ston:
What do / think of Langston? Why ]
look upoh him as q political trlcksier, and
depreciRte his running here because IL raised
the color questionable color line. His ap-
peals for election were not that he was
great statesman not that he believed in the
Tariff, not that he f0vored tariff re-
form or believed i'm anything else tut color.
He simply said, Here q majority OF our peo.
pie are colored; they ought to have color.
many converted TO that idea, beca Sc tf ey
thought as they were in the majority that
they ought TO have colored Representative
in Congress The colored men OF Inc SouIl,
Mr.. Douglass continued, ''are republic ans
believe in Republican princiDles-by all lies.
rs far as their knowledge goes. hey are for
the Republican party aud for Republtcanism
DO apprehend any change in that feeling?
Well, / think we will soon begin TO see q
break As soon as we break the Solid South
there Will be leaders springing Up all over
Mississippi, come out and say: You have
the right 10 vote, and il you vote for me We
will see that you are protected IL is great
thing 10 have the right, TO have the trend
ofgovernment an the right side" "Do yon
think" Mr., Douglass Was asked, that the
colored voters of the Sou were deprived OF
their right of franchise at the last election?''
IL Think Mr.. Douglass answered. THAT
the colored men took IL for grante d that they
would not be allowed TO vote, and SO they
remained away from the polls. The South
4 lxs u
not 60 where they could be reached with
shotguns. The old Mississippi plan is aban
doned now. Killing negroes isn't good
scheme now. Ii does IT and hasn't worked
well. The way nowis 10 cheat them-couni
them out.''
Why is it that Mr.. Douglass
continues his attack on Prof. j.
M. Langston? What good does
it do him to 20 in ecstacy over
the fraudulent count out of bis
peoplei Will the republican
party reward Mr.. Douglass fol
what he has written and said
against Mr.. Langston? We are
SURPRISED at Mr.. Robinson, to
know that be would allow euch a
personal attack to be published in
his paper against a man OF his
race who has never harmed any
one. How does the record of both
men .compa,e, Langston and
Douglass! Let US review Inc neIO
for a few moments and see who
is more distastetul to the colored
people.
Langston was at one time act
ing president of Howard Univer-
sity, and subsequently one of the
Health officers or member
of the Board of Health in
this city. Both positions he he'd
with dignity and honor to b 6
people, and he committed Bo
ofense that would tend to disgrace
him with his people.
Mr.. Douglass was at one time
United States Marshal and allow
ed the duties of his office to be
taken from him without making
a protest, that lie, he was not
allowed to exercise the functions
Of his office at the White House.
His appointment was cnmpro-
mise for the surrender of certain
eouthern states. Did he protest?
No. When the hot headed rebels
of the South were butchering in
nocent negroes, and when Alonzo
Perry, Capt. Wall, M. M. Holland
and others urged an exodus of
negroes from the South, MIR.
Douglass opposed it, in letter aud
power of speech. What did
Langston do TO save his people?
He urged the exodus of the
Southern negro. Mr.. Douglass
figured very prominently in
the Sando Mingo Mission, and
allowed himself to be insulted,
Did be resent it? No. But allowed
the great defender of human
rights, Charles Sumner, who vol
unteered to come to his defense, to
be snubbed.
Mr., Douglass was elected presi-
dent of the Freedmens Bank
after it had been gutted, and went
down under his administration:
did Mr.. Langston charge Mr..
Douglass with impure motives?
No. We could numerate dozens
of instances where MIR. Douglass
has proven himself incapable 10
manage, and his inslncerity to his
people. Has Prof. Langston ever
charged bis people an enormous
sum TO deliver a lecture aud re-
fused because they did not or
were unable to pay the amount
chargeds Negro leadership has
been curse TO the race aud the
sooner we put an end to it the
sooner will our people prosper.