The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-08-30
speech by a Negro ut the Missouri Stat,
toI-aation.

CoI-aation.
"Mr. Chairman ard Gentlemen of
this Conventicn-Permit me to saw
that this is the hap lest moment of
my life. Immense applause To
be invited to address such q grand
array of men as | See here present in
this House of Retroentl tives; to be
called upon to address voters who
support the party that was claimed
if they managed to ascend into pow
er would place the negro back .lto
slavery. If this Is tho evidence of
the slavery that you mean to give
the negro, then | say 90. sod send
down the rest Of it' tA.ppI"use. I
am Surprised, fellow lemocrats
,laughter&, when gentlemen belong
ing to your race claiming t., De intel
llgent, claiming to be progressive.
go up and down the country asking
that 100000 voters shall go like a
lot OF sheep, n behind the other,
and vote
God the Father and Christ the Son
And the Republican party. nll in one,
Great laughter and a~priause.1 !
want to say to You, gentlemen, and I
am responsible for it, that the me-
groes OF this country have begun to
think, and no longer do they intend
to be used as catspaws to pull the
chestnuts out of the fire for the Re-
publican party. daughter and ap-
plause. attended a gathering in
indianapolis. A number of negroes
we're there, soti1e from way down in
Louisiana, Alabama and Florida,
taxing their means in their church
meetings and In their sewing circles
sufficiently to false tnoE'ey 90 90 to
indianapolis to assert their rfanhood,
l went to that convention, and you,
gentlentenl who read The papers, re-
member that when we adjourned we
adjourned with plenty of Democratic
harmony. ILaughter.l Some peo-
pie said that that convention might
declafe itself to be Independent; that
it would be on tie fence for tile pur-
pose of being enlightened, ana that
they would be enlightened III propor-
ton to The amount Of bG5dle that
would be forthcoming, Laughter.
| left my home in Kansas City and
that | didn't ihtekd to have any
good God-go6dedetil policy ptaiffsGued;
that there would be no wishf-washy
business, and that If they mean. i,
leave the Republican party they
should Say so by Saying that they in.
to vote for the whole Demo-
Ticket, from Presiteft down to
township constable: ! did not want
it said that a number Of negroes had
met and passed resolutions that
be read two differtht ways;
that they tohld ts approathea ind
that money s5Hld infueHtt them.
I wanted them to declare how they
stood SO that might everywhefe TIL
defstat'd 1t. fhe National toi1mit.
tee has received Applications from
1913 negro speakers DIP to The 10th Of
this month who not only ask, Bit
who beg that they may. go but and
help to Kill the Republican party oh
account of its sins. tApplause.1 They
talk about Democrats villainy,
being constitutionally bpG
pissed to the elevation " the negro;
and just after election, aftef they
have used the negro as a tool to place
them into power, they take The same
Democrat that they told US was ID
b~arbarous, SO mean and such d dis
gnstins object to look on, and 20 arm
in arm with him to the table and
feast, and If the negro Is there he IL
there as a funky. Huge laughter