Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-10
SPECIAL NOTICES.
kwHY WE SHOULD CELEBRATE EMAN.
49, CIPATlON DAY.

am not Of those who oppose the proper observ-
ance of day. which is to the which belong
what the Fourth Of July is to the American people,
Emancipation day is the day Of all days which the
roes should celebrate in their churches with parades
and in such other manner to them seems most ap-
propria.e and fitting.
Thenegroes who would blot it out of remembrance who
would forget that their fathers and mothers and friends
were parted and scattered. Inundated and op-
pressed. denied the rights enjoyed by
other men and women during the long night of sav
cry IN which they groaned in their dreams of the day
to come under burdens grevous to be borne. lost
TO all the feelings of common gratitude and
worthy Of the name they bear.
In our calamity and trouble the good men and true
who fought our battles who labored to redeem from
an accused bondage and to turn the current of public
sentiment on the side Of oppressed humanity suffered
contumely and rdicue and social ostracis and poti
cal opposition in their efforts tomake this nation great
not only in the conception and execution of justice to
humanity, but great In its opposition to principle
which was fast destroying its mighty name and char
scter rs the forost nation of the world. human sav
cry. President Harrison, Attorney General Miller Sec
retares iiusk and Noble Superintendent of Census R.
Porter Wendell Phillips, Loveioy. Frederick Doug
lass. Garrison, Thad. Stevens, Chas. Sumner, O. p
Morton and the mighty array of the nobie-hearted
champions Of freedom who stood for in those dark
est days Of our existence in this country certainly
not ashamed of the work they did in freedoms
which eliminated in the edict of emancipation which
Lincoln signed and the nation as with one voice ap-
proved.
Certainly the rank and file of the coored race in this
District, the children and the grandchildren Of the
toiling slaves, whose labor enriched the southland
the expense OF the honor and the good of the
ton are not ashamed afraid to give outward show
Of their approval Of this most important result of the
late
The emancipation proclamation Of President Lincoln
Immediately affected all negroes who enslaved,
while at the time emancipated the free negroes
who had no more rights than the slaves in law And
the white men who were the slaves of false and dan
gerous polcy-false because it unjust, unreason
able and inconsistent with the spirit of the American
system OF government, dangerous because no nation
has ever propered grown strong by ensaving those
who are entitled to freedom and protection. In my
Judgment the proper way for to observe emancipa-
ton day is the way we have always observed 1t in this
District. The coored aristocracy which holds itself
aloof from the common people have . perfect
right to celebrate the day in the manner
best suited to them. 1 speak only for q class
Of negroes who were formerly in bondage or
whose Immediate connections were in bondage and
these. my constituents and friends, are neither
ashamed nor afraid to give evidence of their gratitude
to Cod to Abraham Lincoln and the republican party
for the blessings Of freedom and citizenship which
have come to through these agencies We feel that
1t Is our duty, 1t is privilege, ito sound the
loud ti1nbrel Ger Egypts dark sea-" to make merry
and to show the friends Of freedom all this land
that we appreciate our citizenship that honor the
memory OF that great man. Abraham Lincoln who
with a single stroke Of his pen broke the shackles
from four and half millions Of bondmen and set the
captive free. The same feeling, the enthusiasm,
the same desire to rejoice and make merry is
shown by patriotic American who remembers the
struggles Of the fathers the revolution to become
free and independent nation. We shall celebrate the
anniversary of our freedom with a monster street
parade such as has not been witnessed in this city for
many years. At night the Hon. John NJ. Langston
near l.th st. nv The Hon. John H. sInythe, ex-
minister TO LIBERIA will deliver Grafton at the
Fifth Baptist Church, Vermont ave. Rev MIR. Lee,
pastor Hon J. NJ. Townsend will deliver an Grafton
at the First Baptist Church ", and Rev. Prof W. Is.
Johnson an grafton at Ebenezer Church. 4th and
ID SITS. Sc. will preside at the meeting to he held
at the First Baptist Church in South Washington We
are going to have success with celebration because
the people are with us and the people rule.
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