The Washington bee., 1898-12-24
RACIAL TROUBLE S.
DISCUSSION UNDER AUSPICES OF Ma
TIoNAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY CRITICISED
APPEAL TO CONGRESS AND RESoLU-
TIONS ADOPTED.
IFrom The Evening star.l

A mass meeting under the auspices
of the National Racial Protective
Association held last Monday evening
in Zion Church, Rev. DIR. w ]. How
ard, pastor, on E street southwest be-
tween ed and AZ streets. MIR. Calvin
Chase, president of the association,
presided and Mr. PERI w. Frisby was
secretary. Others on the platform
were Rev. z. E. Hart, Rev. DR.. Geo.
w. Lee, Mr.. Lucius Peterson, Mr.. K.
AZ. Hewlett, Prof. c. l.. Davis. of
Virginia. MIR. +. Thomas Fortune, of
New York, Mrs. Belyia A. lockwood
and Miss Jessie NJ. Holland
Devotional exercises were conduct
ed by DIR. Howard, during which
America" and 81 nm Trusting" were
sung, lhe object of the meeting was
explained by Dr. Howard
M Chase said it was the intention
of the associa ion to agitate the queS-
ton of protection to Colored people,
not only in the south, but throughout
the United States, until their rights
are acknowledged everyw here
By request of the chair Mr. risby
read a series of resolutions, which
were adopted.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The resolutions reClte that "the
President of the United States. Will
liam Mckinley, did not deem 1t expe-
dient to recommend in his message to
Congress that some action be taken
by that body relative to the killing OF
prominent republicans OF. the eve OF
election in the states of North and
he
of the United States in mass meeting
assembled under the auspices of the
National Racial Protective ASSoCia-
ton, deem it necessary to appeal to
the Congress of the United States for
the enforcement of the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the Constitution of the United
States, and that the president OF this
meeting be, and he is hereby, directed
to appoint committee of representa-
tive citizens to prepare and present d
memorial TO Congress requesting an
investigation of the recent Ontrages
committed upon innocent citizens, as
alleged; also, that the National Racial
| Protective ASSOCIATION organize al
once auxiliary associations through
out the United States, with head
quarters at the capital of the United
| States"
Before the question was put Mrs
Belvia A. Lockwood made a short
speech, in which she claimed that the
proper place for the colored people tC
make their complaints was to the gov
ernor of North Carolina. She refer
red TO number of precedents to sus-
tain her position The chair answered
that this course was tried, but it was
of no avail.
| CkITICISES THE PRESIDENT.
Mr.. /. thomas Fortune was intro
duced and said he was glad the
gentleman who had asked the divine
blessing on the meeting had gone out
OF the beaten path to ask God bleS-
sing on William Mckinley, for if ever
man wandered farther away from
the laith than the President of the
United States he would like to know
IL He did not, he said, care for any
man whu did not care for him. He
referred to Gen. Wheeler as the side
partner of the President on his trip
to the south. If, said he, the repub.
llcan party wants to unload the color
ed voters, the Colored voters of New
| \ Ork want to know 1t.
If the confederate graves are to be
cared for by the atlonal government.
| he wanted the confederate widows and
orphans penSioned. If treason is TO
be exalted, then there ought, he said,
! to be erected monument to Benedict
| Arnold.
If all the black aud yellow people,
stood on the same ground as himself,
there would nave been II" thirty color
ed men killed in Wilmington unless
there were also thirty white men kill
ed. If the colored people did not
nave Winchester rifles they had pitch
| pine, and, while the whites were ill
ing, the blacks should nave been burn
ing. ihe negroes Will never get their
! rights, he said until they stand up r
them. he worst organization which
ever existed was the organized chival-
ry vi the south, and as d result we
have 10000 niNiattOes in this country.
| Why, The very NEIL killed at Whining
lou, he said, were the sons and grand
sous oi the men who killed them.
lie despised Rutherford Is. Hayes,
who, he declared, sold the rights of
| the Colored people for a mess pottage.
| He has tue UTMOST respect for Ih-
| presidential office, but he considered
Iiim immensely superior to the pres
sent President, VINO, he believed, as
ne mad been unfaithtui to his trust,
would be false TO MS God God bless
| Alger, he exclaimed tin the neck,
ana ii. {. Goblin likewise. Tney have
given us sixteen first lIeutenants,
wneh ii was the coiored soldiers VINO
saved the day at Santiago, aud but for
wnom the American troops would
have been de!eated.
came down here" he said, "to
tight the President. He has gone back
| on Us. | want the man whom fought
! tor to hight tor me, and If he don't, feel
like stabbIng him." (At this several
persons exclaimed, Stab him'D
LACK OF AMITY'
I'VE have not reached the period of
amlty stated by President Mckinley.
There was not Colored man on any
committee appointed to receive him in
any OF the principal cities, although
the colored people composed the ma
Jorlty OF the population
Ihe speaker expressed the utmost
contempt for the Supreme Court, be-
cause OF the decision on the Misslssip-
pl ectlon laws He asserted that
Grover Cleveland had more backbone
IN his big toe than Mr.. Mckinley in
his who're back.
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