The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-10-22
CORRESPONDENTS.
A,chi's Defender.
ED. The INDEPENDENT:

me as "a nIgger" and to w. y. Achi
as "a @ Chinaman," makes me smile
to think that gentleman OF Testa's
character and culture should fur
nish the money to print such black
gnsrdism as runs through your arti-
cle-stuff that could come from the
tongue or pen only Of cad, or OF a
man who is not always responsible
for what he says and what he
writes.
Now, Mr.. Editor, il you personally
wrote the paragraph in question, l
do not believe that anything OF the
kind was ever said. You represent
your friend as saying, "When a Mig
ger ct. McCants Stewart) and a
Chinaman (W. @, Achi) take the
stump for the Republicans, say
pass and my time has come to be-
come Democrat" Either such a
man is myth, or if any man made
such a remark, his brain has been
softened by too much rum, or he is
a born ignoramus, Instead of print
ing such stuff, Mr.. Editor, you
should have said to your friend
something like this: Why, man, you
are a fool. Where do you come
FRONT Americans of intelligence
and character say Negroes. Only
low-bred Americans say "niggers."
But, using your own words, you
must remember that such "niggers"
as Fred Douglass, one of the great
est of American orators, and John
M. Langston, Henry Highland Gar,
nett, and other "niggers" took the
stump,f 1856, for John G. Frem-
ont, the first nominee OF the Re.
publican party for President; and
these "niggers" helped to elect
Abraham Lincoln in 1860, as the
first Republican President of the
United States. Why, my friend,
from the campaign for Ulysses S.
Grant down to the present cam
paign for Mckinley the "niggers,"
like B. X. Bruce and John @. Lynch,
have been among the best Republi-
can campaign speakers; and in 1896,
that "nigger," 7. McCsnts Stewart,
took the stump in New York for
Mckinley and spoke with Theodore
Roosevelt, and other such Repub-
licans.
You should have told your friend,
Mr.. Editor, that "a nigger," Lynch
presided over the Republican Con-
vention which nominated Garfield; f;
that "a nigger," Bruce, presided over
the United States Senate; and that
"a nigger," John P. Green, was
President pro tenn, and presided
over the Senate of the State OF
Ohio. You should have reminded
your friend, that before your party,
the Democratic Party, shot and
murdered "nigger" voters and Office
holders, and passed laws taking the
ballot from them, "niggers" were
Governors, Senators, Secretaries
and Treasurers OF States, and "a
nigger," John M. Langston, was
candidate before the Convention fol
Vice President of the United States
at the first nomination OF Harrison
Instead OF degrading yourself and
your paper by printing your friends
blackguardism, you should have
told him to 90 slow; that this is moi
a safe place in which to call people
"niggers", that Prince Cupid, thai
manly scion of a noble house
knocked man down here for call
ing him "a nigger"; and that low
bred men, like your friend, have
called our police officers "niggers'
so much that it is wonder some
of them have not had their head
knocked off Men from the slum
of the States, like your friend, wheI
they think it safe to do 80, call al
dark skin people "niggers" II
such men, the brown man, the Ma
lay, the black man, the hali-white
all are "niggers": Your friend re
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