The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-03

the Negroes and been at a discount po-
litically with the white abolitionists
But the truth of history has been vim.
dictated again and we are curious to
see how the old abolitionists and the
Afro American brethren will take it.
Will they assail Mrs. Dale's veractity,
or will they complain of being bun
coed? On the Douglass monument a
new inscription might be carved:
Frederick Douglass had been slave
and championed abolition, but he did
not have drop of Negro blood in his
veins AS Douglass attributed his
mental gifts to his mother, a half
breed Indian, it would seem that the
aboriginal red man and not the black
is entitled to all the honors of his pro-
duction, as the white ancestors would
probably surrender their claims and
give poor To- the right of way"
1t is very strange that this absurd
story has just come to light five years
after Douglass death. There is no
reason to believe that Douglass ever
said any such thing. Anyone who
ever saw the great Douglass knows
that the African imprint was on him
in complexion and hair, which was in
clined to be crisp and kinky. No
child of Caucasian and Indian parents
was ever born with hair like Douglass,
which was perfect bush about his
head. It is too late in the day for the
Chronicle to attempt to belittle Doug
lass attachments and attribute them
to his white and Indian blood. Doug
lass always acknowledged his Negro
blood and was the champion of the
Negro race.
Leaving Douglass out of the ques-
ton, THE APPEAL will, for the ben
eft of the Chronicle, and some of it's
Southern contemporaries, name some
famous men of pure Negro ancestry.
DR.. J. G. Price, president of Livings-
ton College, Salisbury, N. c., was, by
many, considered superior to Douglass
as an orator. DR.. Price was a pure
black, and had not one drop of Cau-
casian blood.
DR.. Edward w. Blyden, the great
linguist of the race, and president of
Liberia College, is pure African
Negro, yet he speaks forty languages
and is an author of recognized ability.
Richard Allen, the founder and first
bishop of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and preacher of power,
was of pure Negro ancestry.
Rev. Alexander Crummell, the great
Episcopal rector, of Washington, and
author of many books, was of pure
Negro blood.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the greatest
poet of the race, is pure Negro.
Rev. Henry Highland Barnett, the
eloquent Baptist preacher, writer of
ability, and United States minister to
Liberia at the time of his death, was
a pure Negro.
Lawyer T. McCants Stewart, author
of several books, and now the attorney
of syndicate in Hawaii representing
many millions of dollars, is a pure
Negro.
D. Augustus Straker, a Detroit law
yer, and formerly judge of one of the
courts, and also author of several legal
works, is pure Negro.
Martin R. Delaney, who was a COM
missioned officer in the war of the re-
bellion, and the author of number of
books, boosted that not drop of eau
casian blood flowed in his veins.
Toussaint L'Ouverture, who whipped
the great Napoleon's army and ,liber-
ated Haiti from the white mans rule,
was pure Negro. ~
Phillis Wheatley, the greatest poet
ess of the race, was pure Negress.
Benjamin Banneker, the great as
tronomer, was pure Negro.
THE APPEAL could name a number
of others of pure Negro blood who
have become famous, but the list is
sufficiently long to prove that. persons
of pure Negro blood have left their
impress upon the annals of the world.
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