Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-17


| queen" In the South Washington division OF the
procession. entered the hall amid applause and soon
afterward the officers OF the meeting with MT.
Frederick Douglass, filed to the platform. The
Officers were: Mr.. ChaS Marshall, president; Mr..
W. n. Jordan secretary; Mr.. Henry johnson,
chairman OF financial committee; Mr.. ]. w. Bran
son, chairman OF executive committee; Rev. X. ii.
dent ]. +. Cook, collector OF taxes and others
also sat on the platform
THE TWO QUEENS.
Miss Williams, the "queen" OF South washing
ton, was given a seat the left OF the platform,
and Miss Emma Holmes, VINO appeared as the
queen" OF the Sth district was assigned a place
on the right OF the platform. The exercises were
opened by the choir singing the Coronation hymn,
followed by prayer by Rev. S. g. Lamkins- The
blessing of God was invoked on him who was now
lowering between life and death, and who had
been so true 10 those who we're celebrating the
day-Roscoe Conkling. Mr.. Henry johnson made
the Introductory remarks, In which he said that
they had observed the day according to custom
Letters OF regret were read from Senator Ii. w.
Blair, senator John sherman, the Commissioners
OF the District Hon. J.W Ross, Belva A. Lockwood
Prof. Gregory, and Others. Mr.. Jordan read the
emancipation edict. Senator Blair in his letter,
urged the Importance OF the general education OF
the masses. senator sherman referred TO unfair
elections, and said that the people should be
taught that each citizen has the right TO cast
one vote.
Mr.. DOUGLASS ADDRESS.
Mr.. johnson introduced Mr.. Douglass, who said
he knew OF no occasion of an anniversary when he
felt more sOlicitude for his race than now. He
had been recently in two OF the Southern states,
South Carolina and Georgia, and the outlook for
his race in those states was not cheering, IL had
been wisely said that one may lose liberty In a
day and not know IL for half a century, and as
wisely said that eternal vigilence is the price OF
liberty. IL he told what he wished he would tell
them that they were receiving recognition, &C,
but II would be telling a ue IL had been said
that one slave-owner was equal to three northern
men, and though 1t had not so turned out in the
hat hsat-a
Idea He then spoke OF the solid South menacing
Congress and asserting their determination not TO
nation may forget, but the colOred people are
bound TO remember the past, ana when the rights
OF every man were respected there would be time
10 forget what had been done. They were met
with the assertions In the papers that the negro is
falling into a state OF barbarlsIn lie was CON-
PEELED 70 admit that the negro is In some respects
worse on than when he WAS slave. Though
nominally Tree he is tonight a slave. Not from
his fault, but because OF mis- accusers. We were
not emancipated. Abraham Lincoln meant well,
out the nation ID one OF hypOcracy. The negro
NEVER WILL BE FREE
unless he goes TO the polls untrammelled The
colored men are now being cheated through the
trucking system out or their wages and the high
est paid in the South is s. per month. They should
LIT their united voice against this Internal fraud.
They charge the colored man what they please
and give what they please, and they can't go else
where The only protection ne had was the con-
science OF the StoreKeeper-a conscience which
sold men TO build churches women to support
missionaries, and babies TO buy Bibles. Laughter
and applause.l The scrip has no value In the ru-
Jure. How can II be otherwise than that the race
Is retrograd1ng. The Northern people do not be-
lieve 1t, and when we tell them they Will cry
'ooOdy shirt" He hoped some young men would
go out Ike the early abolitionsts and tell It TO the
people. Another feature was that IL led to crime.
Every Northern man visiting the old shareholders
IS told that they would not have slavery back.
Why? When they owned slaves they had the re-
Sponsibillty OF them, but cow they have the labor
without Tie responsibility. He called on the press
these Sf1rPmPnTl ~ no Ehp nj h,rf
he would expose It. In England, where much
IS said as 10 the workingmen, 1t Is crime to pay
paid AT Weldon, where the cars stopped for
meals, and he
COULD NOT GET A MEAL
he had made an address to the colored people
at the depot urging them to vote for no man in
favor OF scrip. He then read from the landlord
and tenant acts OF Mississippi and other states.
and said they were disgrace to civilization; the
tenant being entirely at the mercy OF the land
owner The condition OF tue Irish tenant is Just
IN comparison with the American negro. He sum-
MARRIED that the full grown man received s. and
this was reduced by the truck system; that he
never handles dollar; he cannot leave for his
Snip don't pass on the railroads, and he has to
work for his old master, chained to his locality
In view OF all this how can he rise higher shame
on those who point TO the negro in his rags, when
they are the cause OF his condition He Is the
only one at work, the landowner being at the
crossroads whiting, astride OF a rum barrel The
government which should protect the weak,
Jacitly protects the strong. II Grover Cleveland
was 10 insist that the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments should be enforced the constitu-
uOnal right could be found. III they had the right
10 make tine negro citizen they had the right &c
project him. He was republican, but cOiOred
man f1rst.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
must not only be up TO the times but make the
times, and ii 1t could not guarantee protection it
fails In Its duty. II ii fails will leave It, The
question Will soon be decided at Chicago, and If It
chose. candidate with back bone and clean hands
IL would win. He named some possible candidates
Tue name OF Blaine evoked no applause but that
OF Sherman was received with shouts. There was
one not mentioned VINO, Mr.. Douglass said. he
would love to In the White House Justice
Harlan, OF the supreme Court, VINO alone stood by
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and
could be depended upon. II Roscoe Conkling was
IN the presdental chair he said the red shirt and
rifle gentry would be checked
Addresses were made also by W. II. II. Hart
Rev. {. ii. Phillips, w. b. Jonnson and Prof. Cook
The Asbury Church Meeting.
ASbury Church last evening was the scene OF an
emancipation celebration conducted by the Chase
or anti procession wing. Among the audience
were many white persons, attracted by the an
nouncement that Mr.. John N. Langston was the
orator OF the evening. On the platform were
seated Mr.. Langston, Gen. Green B. Raum, o. s. B.
WALL the president OF the meeting; w. Calvin
Oh sc, the secretary; Rev. Mr. Phillips, and DIR.
Mary walker. the secretary read letters from
senators Chace, Blair and Sherman, and the Dis
trlct commissioners regrettng their inability TO
attend. lie then read a series OF resolutions pro-
| testing against the present form OF government
OF the District, against the school system pro-
claiming john Sherman 10 be the choice or the
colored citizens or the District for President and
The Hon. John NJ. Langston, the "coiored Glad
stone OF America, their choice Representative
In congress from the sixth Virginia district and
endorsing the Blair educational bill and the Dis
trlct suffrage BILL Mr.. Wall introduced the orator
VINO announced the subject or his address 10 bf
the single Basis OF American CITIZENSHIP" He
spoke VI The Cleveland troubles, before the war
aiiudlng 10 Mr.. Walls Imprisonment, saying: al
do not understand how. In so short q time since
those troubles, the Lord has done much for this
country lie referred TO Lincoln as alhar nm
known man OF the West.
THE MOSES OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
who heard the command or the Lord and who did
not die until Lee had surrendered his sword IN
Grant and liberty was spread over the length and
, breadth or The country. The time has now come
he SAID, 'when the negro shall speak for nt,n,piI
instead OF standing aside for white champlOns
After twenty-siX years Of freedom where i, the
coOred man who Is TO speak for you: Where ia
he? say that he Is coming, and that his voice
Will one day be heard In your halls OF Congress.
al and IN the Senate chamber In such eloujIence
that the bltterest OF your haterS will acknowledge
the truth at Last"
WHITE AND COLORED.
IL Is perfectly natural he said that the colored
citizen should regard the white man as the citizen
par excellence. He discussed the position or those
who claimed that the Constitution originally con-
tanned distinction Of color and he asserted that
the word white never did aud never could appear
In that document. They call Us many nice
names, he said. "rhey cal US coiOred citizens
men OF color. gentlemen OF color, colored fellow
citizens, negroes, and negro citizens; but n they
are In a hurry and do not want 10 be President
they call us nlggers I'd like To see Grover Cleye-
Land speak OF US as 'niggers.' It would be proof