The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-12-22

hundred thousand Negro soldiers play
ed an important part, by the stroke OF
a pen the lamented and martyred Lin
coin declared him a freeman. Then
emerging from the hsrrible condition OF
the most heartless bondage ever record
ed in the annals of history, he found him
self among his enemies without money
or home; his morals shattered; family
ties totally destroyed; in ignorance and
superstition. He gathered up the shat
tered fragments of humanity left within
him and began in the face of terrible OPP
position to establish homes, acquire
property, raise and educate his children,
and adjust himself to the new order of
things by making himself An acceptable
citizen.
This new condition has gone on for
thirty years, and where are we to- lay?
Why. we inhabit every state in the Un-
ion. Intellectually we have reached the
degree of doctors, lawyers and profess
ors. We are publishers of papers, mag
azines and books. We have men who
have graduated with high honors from
the best institutions of learning in the
land. We have hundreds of thousands
of boys and girls, young men and young
women IN the public schools, acade-
mics and colleges. We have men skilled
ia the sciences and fine arts. and as to
our financial condition it suffices to say
that we pay taxes to-day upon half
billion dollars worth of property. We
have among us bankers. merchants.
manufacturers aud mechanics. Men Ut
great moral worth and high standing
are among us-men who have risen
from the valley of Obscurity and wretch
edness to the summit Of human grandeur
and manly excellence, and not one act
of theirs has tended to reflect dishOnOr
upon themselves, their race or the cOun-
try. will mention one of hundred
such men i'm the person of w. S. Scar
borough. Negro born under the ban of
slavery in Georgia, graduated from
WilberfeIce University in Ohio. col
lege owned and operated by Negroes,
and the author of Greek text book that
is used in the schools of New York.
This is evidence, gentlemen, of the
progress being made, and these the bar
DIV achievements that shall mark our
consequence in this nation and ultimate
" Obliterate the color line.
No power will ever be welded by the
Anglo Saxon that can stop the intrepid
march of this people. but will rather
give them an impetus upward and on
ward to such degree that you and the
civilized world are bound to recognize
and respect. And to you old veterans
who shed your best blood that govern
ment for the people and by the people
should not perish from the earth. any
whose heads are now whitening with the
frOsts of many winters, as the sable cur
rains of eternity shall be lifted from the
portals of glory to receive you one by
one, may you be able to look over the
battlements of heaven upon the grand
est nation ever known to ChristendOm'
nerpetuated bv our children and our
children's children-a nation whose in.
telIectnal grandeur and moral culture
and christian humanity shall tower to
the heavens. making the world all light
and lumlnous-a glorious land stretch
ing from the pine-clad hills Of Maine to
the rOck-bound coast Of the Pacific. with
no solid North, no solid South. and nc
race problem.