The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-07
1T COULD NOT BE KEPT OUT OF
THE ENGAGEMENT FEA-
TURES.
HARAnGUE FOR MKINLEY
CERT" AT PILGRIM BAPTIST
CHURCH.
JOHN M. LANGsToN's FAUX PAS
Causes Some Feeling ON Account OF
Its Dfscourtesy eo His Nom
Partisan Hosts.

This country is again approaching
crisis in it's history; it's safety is
again imperilled, and as the negro was
called to its defense at the time Of the
civil war, SO you will be called upon
this coming November, not, however.
to fight with arms, but with that
mightier weapon, the ballot, and if you
cast your votes for William Mckinley
for president we are saved. God grant
that you may take the right course"
Such were the concluding remarks OF
j. M. Langston, Of Washington, ID. c.,
ex-United States congressman and ex-
minister to Hayti, who delivered an
| address at the sacred concert given at
| the Pilgrim Baptist church, Summit
avenue and Cedar street, yesterday
afternoon for the entertainment of WIS.,
iting colored veterans The remarks
| or Mr.. Langston were received with
applause by some of those in the au-
! dience, though it was plainly evident
| that others failed to see the connec-
ton between sacred Sunday concert
held in a church and Republican cam
pa1gn arguments promulgated from
the pulpit. Politics, however, seemed
to be in the atmosphere of the church
yesterday Afternoon, and J. H. Lewis
OF Louisiana, also concluded his adj
! dress with an appeal to the colored
people of st. Paul to vote for McKin-
ley. Mr.. Lewis, however, was less ar
! dent in his petition for Republican
votes than the other speaker, simply
remarkfng that IF were on the stump
L felt that 1 could. perhaps, have en-
tertained you better, but I hope that
you will vote for Mckinley and help
us OUT
Before introducing the next speaker
Rev. Mr.. Hill expressed the wish that
Mr.. Lewis might be induced to remain
in st. Paul. and take the stump during
the present campaign.
! The other speakers of the occasion
| were F. L. McGhee and Mrs. T. H.
Lyles, of this city.
i The concert opened with an anthem
by the church choir of ten. voices, which
was beautifully rendered, particularly
in the solo parts.
/ FOLLOWING the singing prayer was Of
fered by Rev. J. w Muse, of jackson,
ILL.,, after which Rev Hill, pastor of
the Pilgrim church, introduced Mrs
/
Brown Monument association" Mrs.
Lyle is the national president Of the
association, and gave an Interesting
account of the origin of the plan for
the celored people to erect a rnonu-
ment to John Brown, and briefly de
4 tailed the work accomplished UP to
date, stating that the negroes through
4 out the United States had become in
4 terested in the memorial project and
I That over 1000 organizations of celored
I people had Endorsed the movement and
promised 1t financial support
Col j. w. Lewis, of Louisiana, was
! introduced as the man who helped
raise the first colored troops of fine
civil war. He said in part. IT believe
! a monument and a memorial should
/ both be erected to the memory of the
martyr, John Brown, by the scolored
people OF this country. 1t is proposed
to build a memorial school in the South.
We of the Southland would rejoice to
see it erected there. We see no marble
or bronze statues of those grand men
4 In the South" pointing to pictures of
! Lincoln Grant, Douglass and John
4 Brown, hanging behind him. Living
! where We do we see the monuments
| erected to Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
j Lee and StonewaH jackson, and we
would gladly give our might toward a
1 memorial of one of those who fought
for the Union and our freedom, which
was to be placed in our midst The
war with all of its devastation, both
OF lives and of property, is in the
South still referred to as the s1ate I'M
i pleasantness, and we hear far more of
] that than of the patriotism of these
4 men. We have their pictures in our
/ homes and by our. firesides, and we
4 fEQaC1IrQ fhnTo hn-y oil
i sessions, but we are not satisfied. We
/ would see them in marble and bronze
] in the public places. The country
i never had more loyal people than the
i negro. We responded to the call in its
hour of need and now we feel that we
would again express our patriotism by
aiding in the perpetuation of the names
of it's heroes.
"A gentleman of your city said to
me the other day, Colonel, you have
more eolored people in Louisiana than
4 there are whites. How is it then that
! you allow yourselves to be beaten at
the polls? i replied that the question
contained an implied and unjust accu-
sation against the negro You have
taken away our guns said /, and yet
you ask us to fight with sticks, the
people whom 1t took the entire United
States army and navy five years to
/ whip. However, we are not diseour-
aged. We have educated our children
and if We do still ride in Jim Grow cars
and are excluded from places of
] amusement, we know that such condf-
/ lions will not be much longer In pass
/ ing away
Referring to the Grand Arny en-
campment, Mr.. Lewis said that he had
attended seven or eight similar gather
ings. and that he could say with truth
and pride never had a more hearty
gladstone welcome, irrespective of race
been extended the veterans in any city
which he had visited than that ac-
corded by the hospitable citizens of St.
Paul
After a solo by John H Hickna, Mr.
Langston addressed the audience, tell
| ing story of John Brown and his fol-
/ lowers, during the course of which he
! detailed the plans of the raid at Har-
] per's Ferry. He had been q young
lawyer in Oberlin O., and John Brown
Jr. had come to him with proposition
| to Join the Brown forces He had re-
fused to do, not believing the time
/ yet ripe for the contemplated move
ment, but had introduced young
Brown to two colored men, Leary and
! Copeland by name. who did go with
him. Leary was shot in the fight at
Harper's Ferry and Copeland met
death on the scaffold beside his
/ leader
Those were the men, in the opinion
| Of the speaker, to whom the colored
| people should erect monuments. the
negroes who had given their lives for
| their country. John Brown, Mr. Lang
ston said, had died, not for the negro
alone, but for the whole nation He