St. Paul daily globe., 1889-04-25

reputation, both as writer and speaker,
upon matters affecting the colOred citi-
zens of the United States. He is a
pleasing orator, and of large, command
ing presence. Judge Tourgee does not
mince words. He speaks with incision,
and hvens up his matter with racy
anecdotes, with here and there touch
of rich irony. Some of the main points
OF his address are reproduced: No
white laborer will ever go South and
work for $3.50 per month, and wait as
long for his money as the colored man.
There is no white laborer who will go
.South and live in the house of the col
sored man, that is house by
the grace of God and courtesy only.
There is no white man who
;can go and attempt to live-consent to
illve-under any of the conditions which
the colored men labor-and grow and
increase So per cent every ten years.
1t is case of the survival of the fittest
the flttest not in scientific sense,
and never meaning the best, but al
ways meaning the toughest: and the
colOred man is tougher in his condition
than any white man to-day. The col
ored race of America to-day is Ameri-
can by training, American by impulse,
and is also American in blood. When
Russia emancipated her serfs-tWenty-
three millions out of bondage, which
J was nothing in its terror to
Ammerican slavery-the car had the
wisdom, the justice to decree that ten
acres should be given to every one of
these men, i'll order that they might not
be reduced to poverty. What did this.
nation do with the negro slave? We
turned him loose, naked, weak, ignorant; /;
not one in thousand able to read,
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pocket, without second coat, and fire.
quently without one; not worth dol
lars worth; without a hoe and plow or
an axe or any earthly possession. We
turned them loose-5,U 700, 900 of them-in
Christian America, and said we
had put them on a level with
ourselves. We say to-day he is on
level with ourselves, and yet in Mil
waukee, Minneapolis, ay, and in st.
Paul-anywhere ill our land-there is
not to be found a person that does not
know that the best-equipped colored
man i'll the United States does not stand
on an equal footing, even in obtaining
employment, with his hands, with white
man. "A nigger was just good enough
to be a porter, was the just complaint
OF the colored race. Colored people are
strong supporters of their church {; in fact
AAN'S SiHNS VIZ piiiiS Nh1 CS-
capped from the catacombs has there
been people given to the support of
the gospel. according to their means, as
the members Of the cOlored church of
America. There is no great specific
to cure this color question. You cannot
cure it by statute; you cannot cure it
by party. L am strong partisan-I
have no use for the man that is not
but if tonight l knew that every col
ored man i'll the South would vote the
Democratic ticket | would say: "Let
him vote it. The most essential thing
is that he should be permitted to know
that his right to exercise the power
of citizenship is being recognized.
The Democratic party have it in
their power to safely and easily ac-
complish the problem OF the colored
question. Ii they will only let the
colored man go into their caucuses and
conventions and have fair show the
question of the negro in American
politics would be settled in all hour.
Judge Tourgee stated that within the
past two years. during a visit among
the colOred men of the South, he
noticed there was feeling of sullen-
ness and desperation growing I'D
amongst them, so much so that the
question was being canyassed by their
most intelligent men as TO how long
this matter could last9