The Washington bee., 1889-07-06

we would declare in despair as did
tne Plebeians of Rome, s'of what
conse qnence is it to ua, whether
our chains are forged by our ene-
mics or our fellow-c citizens, let the
partricians, since they are reward
ed for victories, encounter the
danger of the wars"
There are our
BLACK ALLIES
in the north, while they are al
lowed to vote, they are deprived
of certain industrial advantages
which are given to our more for
tunate fellow citizens. Knowing
as we do, our political strength in
the six great states, where our
votes are counted, our love for
the perpetuatlon of the Republican
party and its principles compels
US, still to play the coward. We
find that the total colored popula-
ton in the northern states ia
about 100000.
Total colored republican votes
175,000. While we are growing
strong numerically, We are getting
wealth, and as our education in
creases, so will our wealth in
crease, and when both are combin-
ed we shall be able to cast our
votes where they will be to our
best interest, but not with that
historic enemy of ours who had
slavery for it's paramour.
Our numerical strength de-
mands fair and just treatment and
our voting strength in the last
election entities US to recognition,
which we believe the President
will give US.
The colored vote by States which
are republican by virtue OF the
Negro vote; except Illinois, which
becomes doubtful without the Me-
gro; New Jersey, whesa it con.
trolls Congressional elections, ana
Connecticut, doubtful to the Dem
ocrats without the colored vote,
are:
% 7ss .ss Rep. maj campaign 49, l$ 3, rs 1s
Conn, 3 g66, Dem. 1886.
Ohio, ss5 @ Rep. maj campaign IS, j. l. 5gs 50,
NJ, Is 49, 49, Dem. l4s.
Total 9S l67.
In conclusion, sir, permit me on
behalf of your fellow-citizens to
tender their congratulations and
welcome you to the Nations Cap
itol, and Notwithstanding our nu-
merical strength and accumuIat-
ing wealth,
Still groans, the helpless millions in their
Chains,
Still is the arm of the oppressor strong,
Still doth liberty bleed at all her vains
And few are they that side with wrong
Consider your work just begun, until
The last decisive Act be dOue.
Then Mr.. J. E. Bruce presented
an engrossed copy of resolutions
which read as follows:
WHEREAS, elections at the
South while, seeming to partake o
the elements of justice aud equity,
are in reality a travesty upon jus
tice and a libel upon both, as com
pretended by all fair minded men
Resort is had to methods By South
ern Democrats, by which the will
of the majority is overidden in many
portions of the South, upon the
flimsy pretext that the respectabt,
white people of the South "Feal
Negro Supremacy'-and therefore
social equality. The great bulk o.
the Republican Party at the South
is composed of black men who
helped to save the Union, while
those who conspire to rob them o.
a voice in local seIf.government
did all they could to destroy the
Union, and are doing all they cal
to Systematically deprive the Ne
groes of the South of the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution
the Supreme law of the land anc
WHEREAS, it appears from
recent events which have transpir
ed at the South within the pas
few years, that the political status
of the Negro is still in an unsettled
condition, and that the Fedora
government has not seen fit tx
throw around our people at the
South the aegis of its protection
against the inhuman and barba