The national leader., 1889-02-23
Dr.. PurVis Should now Step Down and
Ont.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 1e. '89.
MR.. EDITOR: l see by your last is
sue, you have word of commentator
for DR.. Purvis of the Freedmen's Hos.
pital. How this came about is won
der in the face of the we'll known anti
negro sentiments of the Doctor. DR..
PurvIs has been fed and clothed ever
since he left college through the public
treasury, on the ground of his being Of
negro origin. All that he has claimed
,, by way Of recognition has been on the
ground that he was a negro. The fact
of his being an applicant for, and in
charge of the Freedman's Hospital, is
because of his being negro. His
position in the Howard University is
because of his being negro. Would
he for moment presume upon his being
anything else than negro, and apply
for a position at the Garfield
Hospital, Providence Hospital. George.
town University, Columbian College or
any other white institution? No one
believes him so far gone as to be foos
enough to do that. Yet he sayI
he is not a negro and If he thought he
had negro blood in his veins he would
utterances among his clan. Of course
he dare not publish such things. For
one am sorry he Is negro. for he is
of class Of negroes that bring re-
proach upon the coIored people.
White people look upon them with
contempt for their pretentions, aud
colored people have no faith in them.
This DR.. would starve if he was thrown
upon what practice the colored people
of this District would give him,
and you know the white people
would not touch him with a ten
foot pole, with perhaps an excep-
tIon of one or two Of the lower clas.
SeS.
Now, as DIR. Purvis Is pointed out to
US as holding position representing
the colored people, just as Recorder
Trotter and others among us have been,
we decidedly object, now that he
attempts to deny his origin, to his
further holding on to position con-
ceded In the order Of things as they
actually exist to be colored mans
due. There should be new deal out
there all around. Clean the s'niggers'
out and put, an honest and upright
corps of colored physicians In their
place. Two white men, father and
son, hold positions out there that should
be given to some Of the colored gradu-
ates of the Medical Department of
Howard University. If they can't
get employment in cOlored Hos
pital, where, In Gods name can
they go. The Hospital Is used to
keep up the medical branch of Howard
University, but the young colored men
who graduate there can't be employed
even IN subordinate position. DR..
Glennan has been there quite long
enough. He has had son born who
has grown to manhood and now draws
a salary out there of S720 a year as
clerk. all since his father came to that
| Hospital, over twenty two years ago.
Drs. Purvis and Shadd can't find
colored young man competent in their
eyes for these positions held by the
Glennans.
We are opposed to Mugwump ne
groes and Irishmen on political
grounds. Give the positions in this
Hospital to good colored Republicans
those who subscribed to the Republican
Campaign fund, and not to the Demo-
cratic, or to both. We want no strad-
dlers. The Bee IS out for Purvis, when
only a little while ago the Purvis
were suing the Bee for SANDER, and
seeking to get the editor out of Office
where he was getting his bread and
butter. Purvis is certainly getting
desperate when he has to employ such
backing. 1t is like dog eating his
own vomit. NJ. u.