The Washington bee., 1902-09-13
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
1.-The Leopard's Spots"

We have Just read Ole ofthe lat
est additions to the powerful agen-
cies now at work against the
manhood rights of the colored peo-
pie. The title of the book is "The
Leopard's Spots" and is a well d.
gested epitome of all of the malice,
eupidity, interpretations and
promiscuous rot, so layishly be-
slowed upon the colored people of
this country by the enemies Of
Truth, Justice and Fair-dealng.
For audacity of sophiStea( preten-
sion, perversion of history, down
right disavOwal of Christian princi-
Piles and unjust criticism, 1t sur
passes anything of its kind that
has vet been offered for copyright
ven0mous insinuations and Kisses
are directed not alone at the col
ored people, but also at the char
acter and reputation Of that bright
galaxy of moral heroes who have
coatended for the recognition of all
mankind as one Brotherhood, en-
dowed by nature with the indefeasi-
BILE right Of life and liberty and
lust claim upon the FatherhOOd of
God: and whose lives have been de-
voted to the alienation of human
suffering and the development OF
the power of self-help among all
peoples. The book is written, it
would seem, with the view to con-
tradicting the doctrines and smirch-
ing the regulations of such great
characters as Lincoln, Sumner and
Stevens and of justifying physical
force, with all its heinous and un-
christian concomitants.
The characters of the book are
unique and illogical for the part
they pay in the farce, the most
conspicuous and at the same time
revolving, being that of the Preacher
who wears the liz cry of Heaven
to serve the Devil in, under the
bovine name of Rev. Durham.
Simon Legree," abhOrreUt and
unprincipled, is used as another
puppet to stigmatize Mrs Harriet
Beecher Stoves inspired book and
to scandalize and insult northern
society. is pure and noble women
and its brave and progressive men.
The object of the book seems to
us, to Ge three-fold. First, the
Preacher seeks to annihilate the
JeffersOnian doctrine that "all men
are born free AID are endowed by
their Creator with certain inaliena-
ble rights, among which are life,
liberty and the persuit of happi-
ness" by contending that the col
QTed people are born inferior and
must ever remain so; that they can
not hope to rise above the level Of
a menial; that they are entitled to
no social, civil or political rights
ard that their very presence at the
South is q constant S ,uree of irrl-
tation, menaeing the supremacy of
the whites and constantly threaten
ing its boasted civilization.
This Preacher rressurrects and seeks
to iuculcate all of the ante-bsllum
schisms, fallacies aud absurdities
and to propagate sentiment as
abhorent and diabolical as it is
mean and unchristian. He con-
tends for absolute Ignorance for
the colored people and even denies
them his religious advice, which he
claims is too good for them. Even |
the purely Industrial training he
contends is too good for them. He /
contends that so lOngas they rrmain
here, they should grO= up in total
ignorance, with mental powers un-
developed, motion paralyzed
benignted and inur d
by suffering, privatiOu, injustice,
tyranny and oppression to beeOm