Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-18
THEY PROTEST.
The CoIored Citizens Of New
York in Mass Meeting
Protest Against 0utrages on Their
People in the South.
Strong Set Of Resolutions Calling Tor ju..Ie,
and Fair Treatment.

New York, Nov. IA mass nnaat,rr
Of colored men and women to profess
against the treatment OF their rare ~
some Of the Southern states recen4lv
was held. tonight, In Cooper Iynfnn
The hall was crowded with colored neo.
pie, with sprinkling Of whites.
number OF prominent white citizen.
sent letters instead Of appearing q,
person. commencing the object OF tho
meeting.
During the wait for the speakers a
white man with long flowing hair.
arose in his seat in the center aisle and
shouted:
'Oh, If we only had a William LLOYD
Garrison. Wendell Philips, or an
Abraham Lincoln at this time" This
evoked tremendous applause.
T. Thomas Fortune took the presfd-
ing officers chair. Among other things
ne said: I'VE come here to protest
against mobocracy; against the white
rufiians who claim to be the vice re-
gents of Cod
Ebenezer ID. Bassett, former minister
TO Hayti, declared that the purpose of
the meeting was not to indulge in in
temperate language, but to protest
against 1.-The outrages in North Caro-
lima"
The following resolutions were adop-
ted, with a lengthy preamble:
Resolved, That we, citizens of
Greater New York, protest against the
rioting and revolution which have dis
graced the states of North Carolina
and South Carolina, and which has
been contrary to the letter and spirit
Of our institutions and calculated to
subvert the guaranteed rights Of citi-
zens and to damage the good name.
reputation and credit of the republic at
home and abroad.
Resolved, That we feel that COVER
nors of North and South Carolina are
censurabie for their failure to suppress
the said rioting and revolution within
their states and for their failure to in
woke the aid of the federal authority il
they were unable or unwilling to cope
with the condition of affairs.
Resolved. That we deplore as UNI
American and provocative Of endless
friction and contention, the antagonism
to race and color which alone appears
to have caused the said rioting and
revolution in North and South Carroll
na and that we insist upon it that Just
rights of all citizens under the consti-
tuition shall be respected as the only
safeguard against lawlessness and as
the only guarantee of orderly govern
ment, and that we appeal to the con-
sentative, law abiding and Christian
people of the republic to assist the Gre
alton of a public opinion which shall
1Val thnCc, IN, ~ - .Ros.
the law and to secure to each citizen
adequate protection in his life and
property in the exercise of his manhood
and citizens rights under the consti-
tuition.
Resolved that as the states of Missis-
sippi, South Carolina and Louisiana have
by constitutional enactment disfranchised
more than half of their population, we
demand that the basis of representation
IF these states in Congress and the cleo
toral college be reduced, in the proper
ton which the number of such male citi-
zens shall bear to the number Of male
citizens p years of age as made and d.
rected by Section of Article IA of the
federal constitution.
Resolved, that we recommend such
amendment to the constitution as will
enable the President to use the federal
authority to protect the life and property
of citizens of the United States from or
ganized or mob conspiracy whenever the
Governor of any state from fear or col
fusion fails to afford such protection or
to call upon the federal government to
afford 1t.
Resolved, that we implore the guild
ance of Almighty God in the shaping of
our homogeneous citizenship to the end
that it makes for righteousness, for HUI
man progress and for the invincibility of
our great and beloved republic against
the elements of rioting and revolution
from within and the assaults of the enc
mics from without"