The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-05
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rison Club of Indianapolis, colored
organization, called, and insresponse to
aneddress from the chairman, General
Hars ia said:
Mr.. Bagby, and Gentlemen OF the
Harrison Club.-I assure you that
have a sincere respect for and very
deep interest in the colored population
of the United states. was born upon
airy between the free state of Ohio
and the slave state of Kentucky.
Some of my earliest recoIlections re-
late to the stirring and dramatic inter-
est which was now and then excited
by the pursuit of an escaping slave or
the hope of an offered reward. re-
member as boy one wandering
through my grandfather's orchard at
North Bend. and in passing through
an alder thieket that grew on its mar
gin, saw Sitting in its midst cOlOred
man with frightened look of a fugi-
tive in his eye and attempting to salts
fy his hunger with some Walnuts he had
gathered. He noticed my APP
pearance with a fierce, startled
look to see whether l was
likely to betray him. / was
myself and left him in some
bat l kept his secret.
Cries of Good, Good.''I haze seen
the progress which has been made i'm
the legislation relating to your race
and the progress that the race itself
has made since that day. When !
came to Indiana to reside the unfr1end-
ly black code was in force. MymemoFy
goes back to the time when colOred
witnesses were first allowed to appear
in court in this state to testify in cases
where white men were parties. Prior
to that time, as you know, you had
been excluded from the right to tell in
court under oath your side of the story
in any legal controversies with white
men. ECries of II know it'll The
laws permitted your coming here. In
every way you were at a disadvantage
even in the free states. / have lived
to see this unfriendly legislation re-
moved from our statute books, and the
sections of our state con-
stitution repealed. / have not only
lived to see that, but to see the race
and slavery extinct.
Cries of Amen to that.''1 Nothing
gives me more pleasure among the
great results of the war than this. His
story of this great war, to the fact that
it resulted in making all men free, and
gave to you equal civil rights.
The imagination and art of the poet,
the tongue of the orator, the skill of the
artist will be brought under contribu-
ton to tell this story of the emancipa-
zion of the souls of men. Applause,
and cries of ''Amen!''1 Nothing gives
me so much qualification as republic
can as TO feel that in all the steps that
led to this great result, the republican
party sympathized with you, pioneered
for you in legislation and was the
architect of those great measures of
relief which have so much ameliorated
your condition. Applause.
l know no where in this country of
that behold with so much
interest that touches SO deeply my
heart as that monument at Washing
ION representing the proclamation of
by President Lincoln.
The kneeling black man at the feet of
Jhe martyred president with the
;hackles falling from his limbs.
/ remember your faithfulneSs during
jhe time of the war. 1 remember your
faithful service to the army as we were
through an unknown coun-
Try. We could always depend upon
she faithfulness of the black man.
Cries of Fright you are."1 He might
be mistaken, but he was never false.
Many time in the darkness of night
nave those faithful men crept to our
1HOS anu given us 1IllOIIudbIOh u blIo
approach of the enemy. shall never
forget scene that 1 saw. Sherman's
army marched through portion of
between Raleigh and Rich
mond, where our troops had never
before then. The colored peo-
pie had not seen our flag since the
banner of treason had been set up In
it's stead. AS we were passing through
a village the colored people marched
out once more to see the starry BAN
ner, the emblem of promise and secur-
ity of their emancipation. l remem-
Der an aged woman over whom nearly
a century of time must have passed,
pressed forward to see this welcome
banner that told her that her soul
would go over into the presence of her
God. I remember her eXaltatiOn of
spirit as she danced in the dusty road
before our moving column, and, like
Miriam of old. called upon her soul to
rejoice in the deliverance which God
had wrought by the coming of those
who stood for. and made secure, the
of emancipation. Zap
plause.
1 rejoice in all that you have accom-
pliShed since you have been free. /
recall no scene more pathetic than that
which l have often seen about our
camp fires. An aged man, fugitive
from slavery, had found freedom in
our camp. After a day of hard work,
when taps had sounded and the lights
in the tents were out, / have seen
him, with the spelling book that the
chaplain had given him, lying prone
upon the ground, taxing his old eyes
and pointing with his hardened finger
to the letters of the alphabet as he en-
deaVored to open to his clouded mind
the avenues of information and light.
am glad to know that that same de-
sire to increase and enlarge your in
formation possesses the race to-day.
It is the open way for the race to that
perfect emancipation which will re-
move remaining prejudices and secure
to you in ali parts of the land an equal
and Just participation in the govern
ment of this county. 1t cannot much
longer be withholden from you.
Again, | thank you for your presence
here tonight, and will be glad to take
by the hand any of you who may de-
sire to see me. [Great applause].
Washington Hotes.
WASHINGTON. July 2.-The senate
committee on the judiciary had decid.
ed to report the nomination OF Mel.
vile w. Fuller to be chief justice
without any Recommendation
Information having been received
at the treasury department of the ex
istance of a contagious disease among
meat cattle in the neighborhoOd OF
Tara, Grey county, Ontario, Assist
ant Secretary Maryland has instructed
| the collectors of customs at Buffalo
| and suspension bridge to refuse entry