Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-02-07

this connection, VIII state TO the colored PEG
pie Of 50. Mary's county. that the white people
Of the county are willing 70 go hand I'm hand
and assist you In your laudable undertaking.
but that they viii expect you the colorcd peC-
plej 20 assist yourselves and them at the same
time. Naturally you win say: How are we 10
do this? The answer Is simple and plain-fhaf
wherever the coloned man has been highly Cd
ucated. you ind the majority OF them Demo
Gratis and voting the Democratic ticket In
your present illiterate condition you are una
bic 10 read and discuss the great difference be-
tween the two political parties Of the present
day. Educate you and you will learn TO love
the Democratic party as well as you now do
the Republican party, for you viii then read-
u see that what Is to the white mans interest
II 90 your interest also and that the Democrat
ie party has all along taken the lad IN the ed
ucatiOn OF the colOred race by giving them
sites on which To erect school houses and then
helping to build the same. Away back in the
days of Col Chapman Billn2sley he gave the
colored people an acre Of land upon which to
erect q school house, and, "a this State il Dem
ocratic and you want a college. il would seem
to me that you would or should he willing 10
assist the Democratic candidates this coming
fall for the purpose Of enlightenment and
higher education for the colored race The two
races are here in old 81. Nary's county well rs
everywhere else in the United States, and the
only way for them TO prosper Is to go hand IN
hand In this great undertaking. Stop for one
moment. my coiored friends, and reflect on the
many advantages you now have for an educa-
ton. ani the source from which they sprang.
Was 1t not from a Democratic source, showing
beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Demo-
~
whole State Of Maryland, are friends TO the
colored racer Having proven 1t in the past,
you might expect a great deal more In the fu-
ture. But, it seems TO me, that the colorcd
race is arrayed against the white race By few
designing white men. who have great fond
ness for the colored man about election time
In the fall. They use them for all they are
worth. They get their votes to ride into
some fat Office, and Mr.. colored man is not
thought of again until the time rolls around
for another election. Stop once again, my col
oTed friends, and think what has the Republi-
can party ever done for you. Did IL set you
| free Did 1t give you the right TO vote? In
! the name of high Heaven what has IL done for
you that you cling 10 IL so tenRciouslyI No.
my colored friends. educate you and then you
will soon the error of your ways. am afraid
IL viii not be till them but IL will surely come.
and that day is not far distant, because moral
and intellectual influences are now ut work,
and the colored man Is beginning to see the
error Of his ways and Is looking to the welfare
of his family. As an example of this, look
what was subscribed at your meeting to-day;
and they are willing to do more but want you
to show no disposition on your part u, help the
party Democratic that is using both energy
and means to fit you for u higher station in
life, by educating you, and In lending you IL
helping hand in everything that is noble and
essential to your welfare. One of our poets
has said that wise men stop pause and think,
and then turn from the error of their ways.
II Is now high time that the colored race of -.
Mary's cous,ty should commence to think and
turn from tine error of their ways. know
cOlorcd men who are intelligent, but they are
no better than the rest They are particularly
preiudced To the Democratic party-and why
50 f-simply because IL is the only teaching
| that they have ever had. and they don't seem
| to want any other. for, as the poet again says,
IA man convinced against his will, Is of the
| same opinion STILL I would like to see the
| the colorcd people wake up from that profound
| lcthargy In which they have been sleeping
| the tool of white Republicans assert their
/ rights. ! am sure that that sooner or later il
will be done. and, not till then, can the colorcd
| mgal be supposed To belong Ia himself. No.
| you men bui,5;;g To the Republican party and
not To yourselves, but ! am glad To state in
| this connection that the cOlored man is bC gin
ming To open his eyes herr, IA they have done
elsewhere, and that they no longer remain the
tool TO delegate some white man into promi-
| hence. If the Republican party is SO much the
| friend of the colorcd man, why don't they
place him on their ticket and vote aim into Of
| fee: But no, they don't want him then. They
| tell him that the Constitution forbids, and all
such chaif us that, and the poor co!ored man
believes IL all, because good white Rcpubi-
can told him Why don't the colored man
look aIEl find out for himself that all this chat
quaiIed into his cars is so: | might go on and
write volume ON this subject but no. will
stop right here for the present. and will pro-
pose some interesting data for the colored peo-
pie in my next communication things that will
strike directly home 20 them and the Republic
can party. Let justice be- done thouhh the Hca-
Ncus fall. CANDID.