The Washington bee., 1901-09-21
ne NEGROES
EMANCIPATION Day
r4ousAND ASSEMBLED AT HAMIL
TON, VIRGINIA.
-u,,r.ts In ths.Parads.-Speeches by Mr.. w
.,,,. snd Mrs, Rsseetta E, Lawson.
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I,mi,ton. Va. September. 2I. IooIJ
The. Emancipation celebration of the
'.m,.ry o. this place and the sur
-..,rFr1g counties took place this
--Irrsag al o'clock. Long before the
..rr 10 assemble the people from
... surrounding counties began tOI
...-r,ble Precisely at O'Clock the
-.--,,lan formed and marched
gnsgh the principal streets headed
-.f fa- celebrated band of that place /
there were several other bands in the
.-errsslou al the head of the several
.5sl5ns The chairman of the meet
rr Nr lanes Hicks, a we'll known
..y-n of North Fork. Va, had the
..srsgement Of the affair. The speakers
.. lar occasion were Mr.. w. Calvin
Chase and AIRS. Rosetta E. Lawson
.. Washington, ID. Z. Mrs, lawson
made a very eloquent speech, and
mas followed by Mr.. " Calvin Chase,
Ua1 made the principal speech and
spoke as follows;
Ms fellow citizens: After a hard
years. toll. you have assembled today
rg r0lil and rest. Have you beenI
.u.nc.p8tea from physical and pollti-I
a. slavery, or are the chains 10 bel
--Hened. or are you 10 retrogradel
g. goir former political conditions,
prior 90 reconstruction? You hayeI
published from one end of the StateI
SD the other that this Is your EmanCi
patton cay. What have you TO rel
..-- over? Is it the assembling oil
rIlr constitutional convention, in the
..g os Richmond, whose object and
4.us are to deprive you of the right OF
slfrage2 Do you see in the far future
rught prospects OF unlimited citizen
-lp2 | have not come here to give
-auering gencrallties. neither shall
-Nro. your virtues. Your committee
-u.0ugh your distinguished chairman
whom J know well, and for whom
have Jhe most profound respect. saw
..t3Iuylte me to be present with you
DID this, the occasion of your EmanCi
patton celebration and | shall not give
rgG any false doctrine, nor am / here
.s paint plctur of heavenly love, OF
l-.U,u oppression.
Iu every State and Territory in thi.
republic. the negro is being discussed
.t5eems that he Is the bone of COnten
IJu especially South. The negro
att.tlv o, the same that he was pTiOI
% and subsequent to reconstruction
except that some have learned a little
more OF possess a little more book
learning, and why IS il that he is suCf
bugbea, within the parties among
whom he has been living so long il
peace and prosperity. Is it his fault
.H.|# .fat. 10. L. =
crush him II has been some years
-luce freedom or since the proClama-
non Of Abraham Lincoln and the first
sscendenCY OF the republican party
AZ that time over four millions oi
slaves were set free and allowed &c
see light and enjoy such rights and
privileges as the white man then en-
Dyed lie had control of the State
governments, with the assistance oi
the army but he allowed a Carpet-bag
element, that knew no law, aud haC
no morals 10 plundsr, rob and i'm
|oyerSh the people. Ii was not Sc
much the iauIt OF the negro as il was
me CrdiunesS and the cunning intrigues
o' the Carpet-bag rule, or certain
"alle men from the North. After they
"a4 h,icd their pockets. and their
.ascallty was discovered, those who
we're not captured and jailed fled, and
The poor negro had 10 suffer for the
wrong doings Of others. The former
master, who once lived in ease and
P.endor and was made poor from
.he results Of the late civil war. had to
axe back seat. What little prop
..ly be had left was taxed to support
mevlng and hungry set of white
carpet baggers. Thus the in1igna-
non ot the once rich master of the
'.a'r became enraged and no rest or
'-tce OF mind came to him until the
as, Ee'uEe of carpetbagism was OBJ
.al-d. carpet bag governments
over thrown. and the result now Is a
'-,'3d political enslavement of the
..EEa. Those who were benefited
..teI lae reconsIuCtiOn regime and
male rich rrured 10 the North from
whence they had come are now silent
. TIE question of the distTanChI5e
.-"- 10. the Southern negro. Who