The race standard. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 18??-1???, 1897-01-02

Chief councillors. corresponding
Secretaries and members of the
National Equal Rights Council
and Conclave of America. Greet
ing:
Another year fraught with I'M
usual interest to the race is fast
winding to a close. A great bat
tie, in which the lines of political
parties were in many instances
periodically obliterated, has been
fought and a victory of the peo-
pie, irrespective Of racial dlstlnc-
ton has been most glorlously
achieved. Right has prevailed
over might, apid justice unman-
cled, stalks abroad not to be again
hampered by an invidious coterie
of circumstances, engendered IN
slavery and famed into life by
late fratricidal war. Lynch law,
the last relic of an obsolete Negro
hating refrain, only survives in
the lap Of ignorant barbarism,
where school houses and church
are either unknown or presided
over by pedagogues and prelates
who dis race the calling they es-
pouse. The American people, ir-
respective of color, religious, creed
or party affiliations, have spoken
by ballot in no uncertain terms.
The government at Washington
still lives and the spirit of John
Brown, Lincoln and our own Doug
lass is marching on. Our National
Council and Conclave has been
most potent factor in the con-
Summation of all this. A cOncen-
tration Of forces under federal
direction, and the obligations that
bind us in one indissoluble chain,
has echoed silently and inpercepti
bly,, but forcefully throughout the
Union, and our names are upon
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nc artinftrsrr1cus r5rT, enormously
designated as 1.-The Old Guard. .
who. in the darkest hour of a ma
tons peril, have stood for all thai
was loyal, just, equitible and hon
orable. But the victory, so far al
we are concerned, is not yet won
not by the sounding of the tocsir
of war. Antagonistic utterance
or measures but upon the broat
plain of Am srican man and woman
hood is thu conflict to be wageC
and won. We, now, more thai
ever, are the architects of our owl
fortunes, and it is only by organi
cation and concentration of gu
available means and forces, forced
down to a practical business basis
in which the ingredients of an hon
est, economical and frugal, sober
second thought is paramount, ca
we hope to succeed. Many Of yo
have permitted your Councils t
languish, to almost die for tn
want of attention. l know tn
forces upon which you mus
rear your superstructure is crud
and inert, but the cause is rigE
as God is right, hence, the MOI
diias.zSg and perseverance is re
ouired. In order that sou may |
encouraged to once more enter tt
lists as valiant knights, you WI
please observe the following rul'
and regulations, to be read in ope
Council meeting:
1. The RACE-STANDARD, Il
National Organ. has been FORWARD
ed to YOUR several addresses for OF
year. You will, therefore, send
once your subscription none
You have been furnished with
newsy and instructive paper al
you must pay for it, and that
urce.
:. All National District al
Local Deputies will communities
with me at once, as all OF their col
missions have expired and must
renewed by 1897.
3. All Corresponding SecretarI
will be furnished with blanks
make their annual returns upo
and Chief Councillors or Loo
Deputies are instructed to imm
diately call meetings OF their Cou
ellis, that the reports may be ma
up.
1. In order that all Councils n
chartered may be enabled to get t
same for the next thirty days, cha
tiers will be issued upon applicati
for $3.50, including a full set
degree books.
5. All Councils that have recelv
their charters will be entitled
degree books, providing they are
good standing, by forwarding
6. The National dues of ST..
per is abolished, and all me
bers will pay monthly