Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-11-19
BISHOP JNO. M, BROWN,
Mentioned, Not as Politician, But as
One Who Has Suffered for the
Sake of His People, and
Man Perfectly Capable
Of Giving Advice.

MdH IeIIcCti1 Cdpdulo
of Giving Advice.
"When man makes mistakes, we hear it ever;
But when he does good, we hear it never
The above doesn't mean by any means
that Bishop Jno. NJ. Brown has made a
mistake by influencing thousands of
negroes to vote for Grover Cleveland,
which vote undoubtedly defeated the
Republican party ; for WE are not ego
tistic enough to think that WE are capa-
BILE of chastising gentleman who is so
far our superior. But it does look so
strange, that man from the time man
hood begins) can start good works,
help build up the world morally, as
well as intellectually, suffer what the
younger generation never did or could
suffer, and keep such grand and noble
J work up for nearly century, and all
| that has been done, all the benefit that
has been derived, must be trampled
under foot, and banished from the eyes
of the people, and the person pro-
nounced as traitor and coward, simply
because some conceited ignoramus
differs with him in opinion. Bishop
Jno. M. Brown was years and years
| before some of these "swell-head edi-
tors were born-being strung up in the
| states of Louisiana, Tennessee and
Kentucky by white tiends and lashed
till blood ran out of him, not by mas
| ter in slavery, not because he las an in
| dividuaD wanted honors either politi-
| cally or from the standpoint of repu-
tation, not because he was compelled
to, but because he preached the word
| of God to his people, because he tried
to make the enslaved understand, that
there was a higher Being than that
wretchea slave holder to obey and
love, and some of these very
| parents who learned this through
the teachings of this grand old man,
have followed out his instructions, died
and gone on to glory, simply to sit on
high nd'watch their egotistic, unjust,
uigratefnl children, slur through the
columne of some 81 our leading jour
Ilals. At an aged ard hpnored gentle
man. who has gone through What
they could never endure. II Risaas
Brown was like our othes syrssg ns,asl
who have sucked in all they individ-
ually could get from a political party,
on the pretense of helping to protect
his fallen brother" one might well
accuse him (as our honOred sailor ex
| Congressman and Isaac Wears have
done, together with one or two LESSER
politicians (?) and leaders CD of recip-
rocating to the party that helped him
or his, but he, over fifty years ago, en-
| barked in the ministerial work for the
sake of uplifting and elevating his
down -trodden people, and never before
| has he advised those, his followers, to
| vote either one way or the other; but
now his career is almost over, his work
has been well performed, and just pre-
viOus to his departure, like Christi he
is leaving behind him such words as
HE THINKS, hopes and prays will benefit
those for whom he has struggled and
| suffered so long. The knowledge we
have of this old gentleman gives us a
perfect right to state, that this is no
| freak or jumped-at conclusion, but
this, as in, everything he does, Bishop
Brown has studied, and thought, and
prayed over for years. And having
| travelled the country over so often,
| and observed our condition so closely, is
| perfectly cognizant of the fact, as we
| all should be, that the Republican
party has never done it's duty to the
Negro. The good Bishop, however, has
never taken exceptions to what has
been said, for he no doubt realizes that
since his judgment, foresight and COM
mon sense are just little in advance of
those who (TRY TO) slur him, it isn't
| expected that they should see and think
as he does, but when they have attained
| that pinnacle where he stands to-day,
| say and do as he does, but God forbid
| that they be treated by interiors as the
Bishop is being treated to-day by them.
| That Bishop Brown could get political
honors from the Democratic party,
for whom he so strongly fought, is
| fact, but that amounts to nothing when
a man is being burlesqued by the very
people for whom he has fought so hard
and long. We would advise those,
people who have differed with Bishop
Brown and connected themselves with
the party, who has been unfortunate,
| to take their medicine, as we take ours,
bow to the inevitable, step aside, and
instead of sluring at your superiors
strike out into some other channel and
be as Bishop Brown has been FIRST an
honest upright working negro and then
| a polititian and not visa versa
| Mrs. GUMsHUN calls her children
| stars" because they don't know how
| 10 act Boston Transcript.