El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-22
new YORK NEGROES MEET.

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Adopt Resolutions With Regard to
the Carolina Race Troubles.
A New York dispatch Nov. II, says:
A mass meeting of colOred men and
women to protest against the treat
ment of their race in some OF the
southern states recently was held to-
night in Cooper Union. AS a precau-
tionary measure the police were out in
force, as even in this city, in Hell's
Kitchen district, there has been q
considerable amount of antinegrO sem
timent. This precautiOn, however,
was not at all necessary, as the gath
ering, q though enthusiastic at times,
was q very peaceable one. The hall
was crowded with cOlored people with
q sprinklinR of whites. A number of
prominent white citizens, however,
sent letters commencing the object of
the meeting, During u tedious wait
for the speakers q white man with long
flowing hair arose in this seat in the
center aisle and shOuted:
"Oh, if we only had William Lloyd
Garrison, Wendell Phillips or an
Abraham Lincoln at this time"
This evoked tremendous applause.
T. Thomas Fortune appeared on the
stage q few moments later and took the
presiding officers chair. Mr.. Fortune,
in lengthy address told of the race
troubles in the south.
Ebenezer Dassett, formerly minister
to Haiti, also spoke.
The following resolutions were adopt
ed with lengthy preamble:
'sResOlved, 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.
"Kesolved, that we feel that the gov
ernOrs of North and South Carolina are
censurable for their failures to suppress
the said rioting and revolution within
their states and for their failure to in
woke the aid of the federal authority
if they were unable or unwilling to
cope with the condition of affairs.
Resolved, thai we deplore as I'm
American and provocative of endless
friction and contention the antRg Onism
to race and color which alone appear
to have caused the said riOting and re-
vOlutiOp in North and South Carolina
and that we insist uponit that the just
rights of all citizens under the cons
titution shall be respected as the only
safe guard against lawlessness and as
the only guarantee Of orderly govern
ment and that we appeal to the con-
sentative, law abiding Christians OF
the republic to assist in the creation
of public opinion which shall compel
those in authority to enforce the law
and to secure to each citizen adequate
protection in bis life and property, in
the exercise of his manhood and citi-
zens' rights under the constitution.
Resolved, that as the states of Mis-
sissippi, South Carolina and Louisiana
have by constitutional enactment, dis
franchised more than half of their
population, we demand that the basis
of representation of these states in
congress and the electoral college be
reduced in the proportion which the
number of such male citizens shall bear
to the number of male citizens 81 years
of age, as made and directed by section
2. OF article IA of the federal cOnstitu-
ton.
"Resolved, that we recommend such
amendment to the constitution as will
enable the president to use the federal
authorities to protect the life and pro-
perty of citizens of the United States
from organized or mob violence when
ever the governor of any state, from
fear or collision, fails to afford such
protection or to call upon the federal
government to afford it.
"Resolved, that we implore the guild
ance of Almighty God in the shaping
of our HON ogeneous citizenship to the
end that it make for righteousness, for
human progress and for invincibility
of our great and beloved republic
against the elements of riOting and
revolution from within and the assaults
of enemies from without"
Among the other speakers were Law
son N. FulleP, J. P. Peaker, president
of the state summer league of Connec-
ticut; Rev. DIR. j, N. Scott of Hender-
500, N. c., Rev. Benjamin w. Farris
of Boston and Elizabeth Grannis.