Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-01

Doodle Themselves - They We're Ar
raigned by Bishop Tanner as Responsi-
bile for the Condition of the Colored
Schools in Delaware.
Editor Gdzette dnh Journal: A false witness
shall not be unpublished; and he that
speaketh lies shall perish.-Proy. XIX, 8,
w II. IL. Butler, d. d., W. IL. Heard,
d. d., W. II. Davis, presiding elder, w. IL.
Edwards, all these and other negroes were
told through the public press that there
was no contention Sought with them when
this contest for the liberation of our people
from political slavery to the Republican
party was entered upon.
They will have IL otherwise, so the dis.
tinguished gentlemen are challenged to de-
tend the issues, as they are promulgated,
by, the party of ''wc freed you
| have named above the "knghts Of the
black CLOTH" the dazzling iigure-hcads,
tue willing tools. and paid hirelings of
Higgngs, Bach, and Co.
These are they; the itinerary scayengers
sent out to hold the people of the various
churches Of the A, NJ. Il. connection, in
Delaware, in political slavery.
These are they who are meandcring
around the State holding political meet
ings in churches and schoolhouses, with
no other issue, than the unnitigating
falsehuOd- the "Republican party freed
you. and therefore you must be its politi-
cal slave"
These are they--the same "old Niger
trader that sold from this section of the
country, not only the bound slaves, but
the free negroes, only they come in
another form now, they come in the form
OF the black spiritual advisers of the peo-
pie.
These are they that do not seek to know
the facts relative to the condition of their
people, but start out at once to array the
negroes against the majority Of the white
people, irrespective of their direct interests
and of the issues of the day.
These are they who howl about mob
violence" when they have done, and are
doing more TO cause the mobbing of
negroes at the South than all other instru-
mentalities combined. These are they
who have led the negroes of Delaware and
the South into the damnable wilderness
OF Republican political slavery, until no
negro is respected by the white people
These are they who have come to tell
the people of color that the Republican
party has no money, and that they are
surprised that any colored man should
demand money from the party that freed
him."
These are they who have dyed their
own garments i'll Republican Doodle, and
made them as black as Egvptian night;
the lily.white representatives of Him, who
advised their class of creatures to ''render
therefore unto Cesar the things which are
tWsars, and unto God the things that are
Gods"
These are they that say to their congre-
CATION OF quarterly conference, you need
not expect any good preaching from ma
Until after the election"
These are they who the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Tanner charged in the annual conference,
with being responsible for the condition
OF the schoolhouses in Delaware, for the
last ten years. lie might have added with
equal force the conditions of the people
also.
These are they who have for years put
fadses on the colored people and sold them
out to II party that mas successfully robbed
the negoes out of twenty-five millions an
nually for wearing apparel alone, and tho
southern negro out of over fifty millions
on jnte bagging and ties in twenty-four
years.
These are they who. when men are
working among the people. for the true
good OF the people, men who ask the
people TO consider the issues as they affect
lhem--are bounced upon by these evan
gelical fakes us trying to mislead the
people
These are they who coerce sinners to
mold up their hands in their congregations
Us not wanting TO 20 20 hadeS. They con-
tinue the system when they speak TO the
people about the q. o. r. of 1--WE freed
YOU" "All who are going to vote for the
party that freed them stand up" "All
who are not going to demand pay from
the party hold up your hands"
~ this means they can find ont how to
strlke the bosses for Doodle next day.
w. II. II. Butler has very little respect
for facts. He would have the negroes in
Delaware believe that Pennsylvania is a
vertable negro paradise. The negroes are
shut out OF all protected industries
there. The State has chartered organiza-
tons in whose constitutions and bylaws
they have only white males. Here in
delaware the interests of the negroes arc
in the hands Of the dominant party. We
have asked them to consider their educa.
tional, industrial and political interests,
and see il they are not justified in dividing
their votes, so as to enable the people who
have the power to legislate in their favor
rather than against them,
The converse Of proposition is ALWAYS
true, viz: If all the negroes in Delaware
are against the Democrats politically all
the Democrats must necessarily be against
them.
On the burning issues of the day rela-
tive to the ncSru-thc protective tariff,
division OF the negro vote, and mobocracy,
am "a Democrat" w. ii. BANKS
tREDEEIeA, DEL, Oct 18th, 1884.