Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-21
EMANCIPATION DAY
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR
TIE CELEBRATION OF TN EVENT.
List Of the Committees in Charge Of the Affair.
Details Of the Grand PlradNPair
Grounds AMsmblaga

preparations being made, the Emahci.
patton Day celebration on September
22d will be a notable affair. An en-,
thusiastic meeting was held last night
at the A. M. E. Church, on Market
street. and considerable business of a
most important nature was transa cted.
The frst.business disposed Of was the
appointment of the various committees
as follows:
Arrangements-Jam Stranger, Jas.
Hunt, George Washington, Geo. How
ard. Chas, Johnson, and j. j. Jones,
chairman.
Invitation-Thos. Lewis, G. Jeffer-
son, Geo. Brunswick, Henry Aliens
worth, and Prof. j. McHenry Jones,
chairman.
Reception-Dr. w. D. Clinton, Robt.
Strange, Frank Wright, Jerry Craw-
ford. Geo. McMechen, Thos. Lewis,
and j. McHenry Jones.
Chas. Lee was chosen as Chief Marsh
al OF the parade, and was instructed to
appoint his aides. Thos. Lewis, of Lewis
& Clemens, was empowered to receive
money to aid in defraying the expenses
OF the affair. The route of march will
be mapped out at future meeting. The
parade will be headed by the best brass
band that can be secured. Following
will come the Lincoln Memorial Club,
which is being formed, to consist OF up
ward of one hundred and fifty men.
Then will come handsomely decorated
wagon, drawn by four white horse, with
postililons. Upon it will be seated forty
two girls, appropriately cOstumed, rep
resenting the States OF the Union, and
grouped as the States are on the map.
Above them will be square platform,
on which the Queen of the Day, and the
Goddess of Liberty will occupy seats.
Forty-two boys, from twelve to fifteen
years Of age, will walk beside
the wngon, as guard.
Carriages occupied by the distinguished
guests will come next, and then the var
ioUs colored societies OF the three States.
1t is expected that quite number will
turn out, and the parade will be an i'm
posing one.
Letters of regret were received from
President Harrison, Gov. Campbell and
ex-Gov, J. B. Foraker, Of Ohio; Gen.
N. B. Golf, Jr., John R. Lynch, j. s.
Clarkson, and others. Hon. B. X. Bruce,
the colored ex-senator from Mississippi,
will be the orator OF the occasion. The
admission to the Fair Grounds has been
fixed at % cents, and grand stand 10
cents. A banquet will be served in the
evening, either at Turner Hall or Arion
Hall. The ladies and children will hold
a meeting this afternoon at 4
o'clock After the meeting Capt.
B. b: Dovener was introduced
and made brief address, which aroused
considerable enthusiasm. The 22nd OF
September, he said, marked the ami
versary of the entrance into manhood
OF the colored race, and as the Fourth
of July marked the anniversary Of the
independence of the American people
and was appropriately observed
throughout the country every year. II
was fitting that the anniversary OF the
emancipation of negro slaves should be
celebrated each year. The institution
Of slavery being wrong. could not
always exist. For two hundred years
their ancestors were held in bondage,
and at last the light dawned through
the darkness and this cloud, which
darkened the fair fame of America, was
dispeled. 1t was indeed strange that
John Brown, with fourteen men, start
ed the uprising which resulted in the
overthrow of slavery. Although he was
pronounced felon, history made hero
of him. Within one year after he met
his death on the scaffold, 100000 men
marched to battle singing John
Browns body lies Wondering in the
grave" A few years later Abraham
Lincoln signed the emancipation procla-
nation, and Immediately every negro
became man. Though the tide OF bat
tie wavered at times, after that memoir
able event, victory perched upon the
banners OF the Union Army.
The speakers then eulogized the
negroes for their loyalty to their mas
tiers, and referred to the marvellous
progress of the race in the last twenty
five years.