Evening star., 1898-12-20
R ACIAL TROUT BL E S
Discussion Under Auspices of National Pro-
tective Association.
President Mckinley Criticised - Ap-
peal to Congress and Reso-
1ntiOns Adopted.

HeIu last evening III zion 1nuTcn, REV. DT.
W. j, Howard, pastor. on f street south
west between Sd and AZ streets Mr. w.
Calvin Chase, president of the association,
presided and Mr.. Peril W. Frisby was sec
| retary. Others on the platform were Rev.
Lucius Peterson, Mr.. E. NJ. Hewlett, Prof
c. l.. Davis of Virginia, Mr.. T. Thomas
Fortune of New York, Mrs. Belva A Lock
wood and Miss Jessie NJ. Holland
Devotional exercises We're conducted by
DIR. Howard. during which America" and
Il Am Trusting were sung. The object of
the meeting was explained by DR.. Howard.
Mr.. Chase said it was the intention of the
association to agitate the question of pro-
lection 10 colored people, not only in the
south, but throughout the United States,
until their rights are acknowledged every
where
By request of the chair Mr. Frisby read
a series of resolutions, which were adopted.
Resolutions Adopted.
The resolutions recite that the President
of the United States, William Mckinley, did
not deem it eXpedient to recommend in his
message to Congress that some action be
taken by that body relative to the killing
of prominent republicans on the eve Of cleo
ton in the states of North and South Car
ollna, and we, as citizens of the United
States in mass meeting assembled under the
auspices OF the National Racial Protective
Association, deem 1t necessary to appeal
to the Congress of the United States for the
enforcement of the thirteenth fourteenth
and hfteenth amendments to the Constitu-
tlon of the United States, and that the
president of this meeting be, and he is here
by, directed to appoint committee of rep
resentative citizens to prepare and present
a memorial to Congress requesting an in
Vestlgauon of the recent outrages commit
ted upon innocent citizens. as alleged; also
that the National Racial Protective Asso-
citation organize at once auxiliary associa-
tions throughout the United States with
headquarters at the capital of the United
States.'
Before the question was put Mrs Belva
a. Lockwood made short speech in which
she claimed that the proper place for the
colored people to make their complaints
was to the governor of North Carolina.
She referred to number of precedents to
sustain her position. The chair answered
that this course was tried, but 1t was of no
avail.
Criticises the President.
Mr.. T. Thomas Fortune was introduced
and said he was glad the gentleman who
had asked the divine blessing on the meet
ing had gone out of the beaten path to
ask Gods blessing Oh William Mckinley,
for if ever man hal wandered farther
away from the faith than the President of
the United States he would like to know it.
He did not, he said, care for any man who
did not care for him. He referred to Gen.
Wheeler as the side partner of the Presi-
dent on his trip to the south. If, said he,
the republican party wants to unload the
colOred voters, the colOred voters of New
\ ork want TO know 1t.
If the confederate graves are TO be cared
for by the national government, he wanted
the confederate widows and orphans pen
stoned. If treason is to be exalted, then
there ought, he said, to be erected a monu-
ment to Benedict Arnold
If all the black and yellow people stood
on the same ground himself, there
would have been no thirty colored men
killed in Wilmington unless there were
also thirty white men killed. If the col
ored people did not have Winchester rifles
they had pitch pine, and, while the whites
We're killing, the blacks should have been
burning. The negroes will never get their
rights, he said until they stand up for
them. The worst organization which ever
existed was the organized chlValry of the
south, and as a result We have 10000
mulattOes in this country. Why, the very
men killed at Wilmington, he said, were
the sons and grandsons Of the men who
killed them.
lie despised Rutherford 3. Hayes, who.
he declared, sold the rights of the colored
people for a mess of pottage, He had the
utmost respect for the presidential office,
but he considered him immensely superior
to the present President, who, he believed,
as he had been unfaithful to his trust,
would be false to his God. God bless Al
ger. he exclaimed Gin the neck, and II. c.
Corbin likewise. They have given us six
teen first leutenants, when it was the col
ored soldiers who saved the day at San
tiago, and but for whom the American
troops would have been defeated.
Il came down here" he said, ito fight
the President. He has gone back on us.
l want the man whom l fought for to
fight for me, and if he don't, / feel like
stabbing him" CAT this several persons
exclaimed, Stab him.D
Lack of Amity.
we have not reached the period of amity
stated by President Mckinley. There was
not colored man on any committee ap-
pointed to receive him in any of the princi-
pal cities, although the colored people
composed the majority of the population"
The speaker expressed the utmost con-
tempt for the Supreme Court, because of
the decision on the Mississippi election
laws. He asserted that Grover Cleveland
had more backbone in his big toe than Mr..
Mckinley in his whole back.
He severely scored Governor Tanner of
Illinois for his course in the recent mining
troubles in that state.
In conclusion, he urged the support of the
colored people for the advancement of the
objects Of the association, and said it was
necessary because the President had
'queered' the whole situation as far as the
ColOred people of the nation are concerned.
If the republican party. said he, is tired of
our support, let them stand up and say so,
and not act like a sneak.
Il feel that the time will come when
mobocraCy will be done away with. They
talk about rape. If ever there was a race
Cf raoists II is the white men of the south
There is nothing purer and grander In
all the world than the white womanhood in
the south he said, land if the colored
women do not mea sure up to the same STAN
dard II is because of the lascvious white
men who have had their way there for
more than 300 years" He believed he
sald IN mixed schools, mixed marriages
lalNed churches ard fair deal in ever1r
thlns. and entreated that the associati1n
make no compromise with those who on
posed them in getting their rights
Brief speeches We're made by Rev w 7
Iio"Isu. J.; II. Peterson. Rev. George w
II -; rev. X r. Hart, T. L. Jones Rev. w
III. scott and Rev. DR.. Lee.
Funds of Freedman's BnnI.
resolutions were adopted to send a nett-
tion TO Congress in reference to the affairs
OF the F'reedman's Bank.
resolution was adopted thanking The
Star for its fairness
The New York Age, Washington Bee and
the Richmond Planet We're indorsed as the
organs OF the National Racial Protective
Association.
Chairman Chase appointed the following
committee on memorial to Congress: 4
thomas Fortune of Sew York chairman: