St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-02
COLORED PEOPLE CELEBRATE
1T VERY HAPPILY AT FOR-H III
EST LAKE.
TALKS BY EARNEST MEN.
LAWYER M'GHEE, OF ST. PAUL.
EXHORTS HIS PEOPLE re,
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His Hearers. 81 81

neapolis lodges of colored Odd Eel
dred, went to Forest lake yester-
day to celebrate Emancipation day,
and incidentally to have few hours
recreation and amusement away
from the heat, noise and grind of
daily tasks. Accompanying the Odd
Fellows were several other hundreds,
members of their families and
friends.
It was the eleventh joint outing
of Mars and st. Anthony lodges,
and in the light of past experience
arrangements had been more COM
plete in detail and more elaborate in
general scope than ever before. Be
sides the regular excursion train,
which went out at $50 in the morn
ing, there was a special at $50, and
Two afternoon trains carried those
who could not get away in the
morning.
On arrival at the lake the younger
excursionists plunged at once into
amusements and games usual to
such an occasion, while the family
parties sought eligible locations to
swing hammocks and spread the
contents of the heavily loaded lunch
baskets. The general committee of
management. w. Fisher, chair
man; J. H. Dillingham;, assistant
chairman; w. P. Matthews, J. A.
Scott, j. Q. Johnson, w. G. Wilson,
E. w. Crancum, w. M. Turner, ]. B.
Johnson, w. T. Francis, secretary
had performed the advance work so
faithfully that nothing but praise
was heard. And in managing affairs
on the ground they won general
commentator.
During the day addresses appro-
pirate to the occasion were delivered
by Messrs. F. l.. McGhee, J. Frank
Wheaton, of Minneapolis, and Rev.
Douglas Underwood. pastor of the
Pilgrim Baptist church. The G | o b e
was able to secure only a synopsis
of Mr.. McGhee's address, but the
general trend of all the speeches was
in the same direction, and the efforts
of all the speakers are spoken OF in
very f1attering terms.
In opening, Mr. McGhee asked: What
is Emancipation day? What do we
mean by the celebration of emancipa-
ton? He proceeded to answer these
questions, saying: We mean that man
comes back from the state in which
man had placed him, contrary to di-
vine law, contrary to human right;
back to the place that God gave him
when he created him-a sovereign, free
and Independent being. BY -emancipa-
ton we mean that every man has all
the rights possessed by other men,
subject only to the limitation that the
law lays down for the rule of common
society. There must be in everything
that tends to- promote and enhance the
good of man a great beginning. But
man, in giving honor and place to
achievements and accomplishments,
gives honor and place to the ends that
have been achieved, and forgets all
about the little beginnings.
Let me for moment invite your at
tention to the beginning of the eman-
cipation of the black people OF this con-
tinent, and let me beg that you think
about these things; these thoughts
that would give you of the signal be-
ginning, because of this day. At this
time, when the most heinous misrep-
reservations are being made against
the black man, it is well that we con-
slider these things, in order to under
stand what place we occupy and what
our possibilities are. If the Hayden
people could wrest their full manhood
from the blood royal of France, why
cannot the black man of America, by
himself, gain all of the rights of Amer
lean citizenship? If the Haytien peo-
pie, without money, without an army,
without all that goes to make a peo-
pie, could gain their manhood, 1 APP
peal to you, my colored brothers, why
cannot we gain ours? If you would
make yourself the citizen that the
American republic holds out opportun-
ity for, do your duty by your brother.
Let US shoulder each others burdens.
for our children want places in this
great American republic. Then 1 beg
of you to hear again the voice of dead
Toussaint POuverture; hear again the
rallying cry of the sleeping patriot,
''Black man, black men, gather to-
gether' Let US stand one for each
other; let US fall, one for all.
1t was late before the last of the ex-
cursionists returned to the cities; but
there was little of WEAKNESS, and
naught of disappointment, in the bear
ing of even the children. The Twin
City brass band, made up of colored
musicians did much to enliven the day
by their excellent music.