Huntsville gazette., 1891-09-05

'AicAC Wouiu De SCdDD TO death Dy the
dagger of unfaithfulness, md that, too,
IN his hand. Yet such was true
George Williams had wife beloved
by every one, as true little woman as
ever plighted a vow with man. She
clung to him with a devotion, with a
love and a sacrifice that was excep-
tionaL
He abandoned this true wife and her
and his child. For what?
To follow the bend of q depraved
mind.
During his term as member of the
Legislature, he studied law, and was
admitted to practice, but never follow
ed his profession.
At the completion of his term of Of
flee, he commenced his history of the
Negro, a work that stands preeminent
among the works of history. 1t is a
remarkable work emanating from re-
markable brain. George Williams was
rapid liver, and saved nothing.
When he began his history, he bor-
rowed $4,000 from Hon Charles Foster,
then governor of Ohio. now secretary
of the treasury hence the reason why
that history was dedicated to Hon.
Charles Foster
That debt was never paid save in the
dedication of book to his (Foster)
name. While this money held out, he
lived like king. He employed two
amanuenses both white, one gentle
man, the other a most prepossessing
young woman. He took his meals at
the ultra fashionable cafe in Column
bus, O., and not infrequently he and
the lady amanuensis dined and supped
together, while his wife at home lived
humbly, conscious of his unfaithful-
ness, yet hoping and trusting that he
would some day be to her as in the hal
cyon days that had passed. Alas that
hope was never realized.
Just before the close of Arthur S
term, he nominated Williams to be
minister to Hayti, but a democratic
senate did not confirm.
He has gained considerable notoriety,
while in the Congo Free State by his
letters attacking Stanley. He has been
in the Congo State for the past two
years, in the service of the Belgium
government. His wife is living in Chi
cago with her son and mother. True
to the last, and in spite of all she had
always refused to grant him divorce
Future generations will know him by
his history of the race without doubt
the richest legacy ever bequeathed to
the race by one of it's members, beyond
that he will sleep in forgotten grave.
His death, dying thousands of miles
from home and country, in the dark
continent, without friend near
to administer the smallest COM
fort, or to hear the last words his
lips uttered, seems a striking reward.
Thus ended the life of man, talented
and unscrupulous, brilliant and un-
faithful A man of fame but tarnished.
A man that challenged both admiration
and disgust A paradox, man, and yet
aot man To get the best view of Geo.
Williams, we must look at him through
that magnificent work, his history, and
veil all else from view.
NOMINATED FOR THE LEGIsLAT URE
It was once said of Grover Cleveland,
our ex-president, 1--WE love him for the
enemies he has made. F" This sentence
will go down the corridor of time as
significant and as commercially appli-
cable to some men. 1t is applicable to
George II. Jackson, who was recently
nominated by the republicans of Ham
ilton county for member of the legisla-
ture. Mr. Jackson, during the past
winter, was prominent and conspicu-
Gus opposer of the effort, in Ohio, to
divide the fund voted by congress to be
applied to the agricultural colleges in
the several states, between the Ohio
State university and Wilberforce uni
vcrsity, a colored theological institution
operated and maintained by the A. NJ.
E. Church. In anticipation of this
money, the trustees of this institution
tackled ION paper an agricultural de-
partment to their university. The Ohio
State university, with its great advan-
tages, its superb equipments and its
superiority in every department, has
always thrown open It's doors to wei
come the Negro along with the whites.
Wilberforce university is sectarian
school for Negroes, or Afro Americans.
Mr. jackson opposed division of the
funds, believing that it would be against
the best interests of his race. He was
honest and sincere, and in his opposi-
ton he was sustained by nine
tenths of the colored population OF
Ohio-if might makes right, an evidence
that he was right. Now that Mr.
Jackson has been nominated for an i'm
portant Office, he is threatened with
the opposition of two Methodist
churches in Cincinnati, and with the in
fiuence of a bishop of the a. NJ. E.
church against him to assist in his de-
feat.
This all because he dared to exercise
the prerogatives of a free American
citizen. Such course pursued on the
part Of the A. M. E. church organiza-
ton would be nothing short of tyranny
and relic of the dark ages, and for
that reason, and for the rea-
son that the great A. NJ. E.
church has ever been classed
as an organization with the best inter-