Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-20
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY.


10 circular entitled Food for
Thought" :" addressed TO the coored race
of the Uaited States in general, the
Rev. r. E. Gilcbrist, weli-known COL
ored minister of Washington. says:
Il hold these truths, that | shall state
10 be self-evdent, that the republican
party never freed us for our good, but
only as q military or war necessity, that
the draftieg and forcing OF US slaves in
the late rebellion to crush toe iu5urrec.
ton, and then at its close, knowing that
we had 90 homes, no money, or pro-
lection, aud very few friends, made no
provision to settle us on homesteads
and aid US until we recovered from the
ore cartons and Strengthened circuro-
stances in which we had bean placed
by reason of slavery, shows that they
had no real friendship for US, nor never
Intended TO have freed us. We We're
turned out like oxen, after being work.
ed day, into a plowed field where
there is no grass. We had no education
TO combat with the subtle and Graf y
rascals and carpelbaggers OF the repub
ican party OF that day and time, who
pretended to be our friends, therefore
we were robbed with impuuity in the
house of our supposed friends. The
Freedman's Bank proved this.
We had nothing but that which was
our masters, and when the war closed,
that which bad been left from the sword,
fire and theft was the masters, not
ours. and when this old master class re-
turned home from the conflict, not van
qnished, but overpOwered by force OF
which we were part, to find every
hing, except in few cases gone, MOTH
ing left behind hut our children and
old decrepit folks with the old mistress.
The old masters class returning from
he war had to start life anew, and
many of us after helping to overpower
them in the war, returned to them
again empty-handed for succ0r. They
lever turned their backs on US, but
eadily found employment and gave us
such sid as laid in their power with the
scsnty mears in their possession Ond 10
many cases the master helped our old
mothers, wives and children until we
returned for them. Now the question
of the Good Sam aritan comes in. VINO
are our friends, the ones who used US
in war to their interest sDd afterward
passed Us by, or those who took US 10
when homeless and gave us shel er ard
food? Let conscience declare that toe
south hern ex-slaye holders have don't
more for us since ,aaE.torced emancp3-
| lion than the northerners, considering
the condition in which the southern
States were lett after the war.
The second question is: Since ihs
republican party never freed us for In
sake oil Justice, but from necessity o.
SC somethng to their interest, why shout
we as distinct race continue TO vot
for men of its party in preference to
good men in the democratic partyY
And why should we continue 10 sail
longer in the old ship of state with
them while they are running the slip in
the interest of eastern aud Europes o
hondholders, trusts, and monopolitst
| Ought not 400 years be long enough to
serve the European lords and Ameri-
can aristocracy? Who perpetuated hu-
man slavery in this country as long as
it was but the money power, which ls
now raising its monster head through
The repu olican party, with its monopo'
lies. trusts and imperialism. to crush
out the life blood of the republic, and
to drive every poor man who is not II
these trusts into poverty, and we, the
raoroas. will be the first to feel the bur
den. for very few of us have anything
TO fall back upon of this worlds goods
Brethren, now let us turn and Try
the democratic party and see II they
will help us out of our present condi
lion where politics has placed us, fol
the republican party has forssken US si
a race. Let us vote this year for th'
great champion of the peoples cause
William Jennings Bryan, and the en-
tire democratic ticket, in every state
CITY. town and hamlet, and on the 6tf
q; November when the sun goes doWI
behind the western horizon the new
mav he flashed over every line Of tele
oronh wire that the neRro's vote hal
helped save the republic again, this
time from the grip OF republican car
petbavgers, democratic renegsGes
trust-preed, and imperialism. In
whole world will then realize that tn
negroes can't always be fooled. ~
this and guarantee you that the po
litical freedom of the negro will be ae
complished.