Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-10

dealing with civilized men, but men brought
up in the wanton and unrestrained exercise
of power. The lynchers of the south are
not like ordinary men. These people have
not been in sympathy with the spirit of
civilization of the rest of the world
These people are as separate from other
people as thugs and pirates are from other
people,
How was this spirit evidenced during the
war? By importing blood hounds to hunt
loyal soldiers, by scattering cholera, yellow
fever and poison Their institutions have
not taught them to respect human life, ana
especially the life of the negro. A dead
negro with them is but a joke.
Social Discrimination.
Mr.. Douglass then branched off into dis
cussion of other features of the negro prob
lem. He referred bitterly to the social dis
elimination against the negro.
''Our Young Mems Christian Association
of the District of Columbia-Christian asso-
citation, mind you, does not like anything
dark, Talk about Bob Ingersoll as an OPP
ponent of religion. The men who stab the
Christian religion deepest are the men who
wrong their colored brothers. Men are
more than institutions. Education is great,
but manhood Is greater. Men We're not
made as an attribute of education, but edu-
cation is an attribute OF man. l would not
make illiteracy bar to the ballot, but the
ballot ba- to iliteracy."
WORLDS ldlr even was guilty OF ulS-
elimination. 1t was hoped that here at
least the idea of human brotherhood would
be exploited. But human caste here made
itself felt. 1t was a white City" All
classes and conditions were there except
the educated negro. People from abroad
noticed that although there are S0OO,HU
OF us. there was not one negro appointed a
commissioner or to place of honor. or
even as a Waterman guide. The freeSt
nation upon the earth turned its back upon
portion of its people"
The LawIess Limitation of Suffrage.
1t is the lawless limitation of suffrage
which makes trouble in the south. If the
negro knows enough to fight for his coun-
try he knows enough to vote.
THE proposition to disfrarchise the col
| ored voter of the south in order to solve
the race problem l derounce as a mean
and cowardy proposition, utterly unworthy
of an honest, truthful and grateful nation.
III Is proposition to sacrifice friends in
order to conciliate enemies to surrender the
Constitution TO the late rebels for the lack
| OF moral courage TO execute it's provisions
The fevor with which this ccwardly propo-
sition of Acknowledgement has been re-
ceived. by white and black, by republi-
cans as well as democrats. has shaken my
faith in the nobility of the nation
Decline of National Moral Sense.
when the moral sense of a nation be-
gins to decline and the wheels of progress
to roll backward there is no telling how
low the one may fall where the other
will stop. This downward tendency has
| already swept away the important safe
guards. 1t has invaded the Supreme
| Court. 1t has destroyed the civil rights
bill and has converted the republican
| party into a party of money rather than
| party of morals, a party of the past in
stead of a party of progress. a party of
material interests rather than a party of
humanity and Justice"
He deprecated the movement for the
colonization of the negro in Africa, and
spoke at considerable length upon this
branch He was very bitter in his denun-
citation of the government refusing to help
the negro in the south. We can help the
queen, Liliuokalani, but can't help our own
people. 1t is such helpless government.