The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Memorial BY Local Afro.Amercan coun

sided. The following program was
carried out; Singing, Battle Hymn
| Of the Republic, Audience; Prayer
Rev. NJ. W. Withers; Remarks, F. Z,
McGhee; Piano solo, Prof. W.. A.
/ Weir: Address, Gov. S. r.: Van SAINT
Vocal solo, Claude D. Jackson; Read
| mo one of Douglass Speeches, Har-
|vev B. Burk; Address on Douglass,
Mrs. 7. E., Porter; Remarks, Grant
Ivan SAINT; Piano solo, Miss Edna
lGrey: Grafton on Douglass, Rev. r.
lC. Ransom, Chicago; Singing, "Amer-
}ica," Audience! i. y s.l.
| The program was pleasing i'll every
particular. Governor Van SAINT 5
Ispeech was excellent and contained
many words of encouragement ne
impror1ptu talk of the Governors son
was also very pleasing. Mrs. Porter
paper was excellent in every particular.
The playing of Prof. Weir and Miss
Grey and the singing OF Mr.. Jackson
were delightful The reading OF Mr..
Burk, was apropos and well done
1.-THE principal speech was that OF KEY.
lR. C. Ransom Of Chicago which was
Frequently punctured with applause
Among many other things, he SAID
Some questions may be left to time
to work out their solution and others
must be settled To dodge them or
leave them for the future is cowardlce
and criminal. We have never lacked
for men of courage in this country.
When Fort Sumter was fired on we
had them and the same can be SAID OF
the trust problem. So with the Negro
question:" we have men who Will not
dodge but will settle it. 1t may be said
| Of Frederick Douglass that he achieved
greatness in spite of his environments.
He stood as the champion OF liberty,
civilization and manhood.
AT the close of the Rebellion, we
s,,nDosed the status of the negro had
been fixed on the field of battle. and
afterwards in the halls of congress. AS
time has gone, however, there has
|been apparent spirit Of unrest On the
question of the civil status and pollt1-
|ca1 rights of the negro. President
Roosevelt has been most fair, not as
Dettv politician, and his action IS not to
get the Afro American delegates to the
|next convention, but to dispense the
law invariably for all the people.
"Roosevelt's frankness has caused
others to be frank The states now ar
raved against the suffrage amendments
are the very states which sought to
DISRUPT the Union, and they are IN the
Union today only because 100000 black
men united with the white men forty
wears ago to pin them there. Today
the negro should have the same rights
as the men who sought to disrupt the
Union. =,
The South has never acqulesced IN
the results of the war The South, say
what you will, is today seeking to gam
in the halls of congress what 1T lost IN
the field of battle.
"The Afro-American has won his cit
izenship. and by his courage on thf
battlefield. The man who sits IN the
White house today sits there BECAUSE
he was saved by the Ninth and Ientf
cavalry. When the Seventy.hrst New
York regiment ffinched and faltered
the Tenth cavalry literally marched
over them in the charge up San Juat
hill.
!: so far as l am concerned I have nc
heritage of any country but this.
} have brought no songs OF the 1ather
; land across the seas. This is the coun,
: try of my father and his fathers.
speak English.
1--WE have exercised the elective
) franchise for thirty-seven years. and We
have in the public schools 100000
boys and girls; 10000 school teachers
and they are studying and teaching
/ from the same books the white boys
and girls are. Do you mean to tell me
that these 100000 children are mo-
worthy to use the rights of citizenship
; "Over $36ooo,ooo in taxes are palc
| by the Afro-American and we nave
200, 900 homes which we have bought
and paid for in generation. we are
) doing right we'll for race which forty
: years ago was in slavery.
"All OF the matters that relate to ou1
; civil rights should be brought up tc
the supreme court Meetings like thl:
!. and resolutions will not settle the quess-
? ton. We have got to get together II
!, means you have got to go down III
your pockets and fight the battle in the
, courts and until we do this there vii
be no settlement of this question. The
great mass of the American people be-
lieve that the negro should be permit
ted to attain the highest development
he can attain
| AT the conclusion of the address BY
Rev. Ransom the following resolu-
tons, presented by J. Q. Adams. were
presented and unanimously adopted:
"Whereas, President Roosevelt. II
the appointment of DR.. w. II: Crun as
collector of customs in Charleston
gave practical proof that he meant just
!, what he said when he said: 1 cannot
consent to take the position that the
door of hope. the door of opportunity
!. is to be shut upon any worthy man
purely on the grounds OF race and
color and, -,
"Whereas, the senate committee or
commerce (of which our own Senator
Knute Nelson is a member. but who
was absent when the vote was taken)
to which committee the nomination o.
DR.. Crum was referred, has reported
. adversely on the presidents nomlna
ton; and,
: "Whereas, the nomination will nov
come before the senate Of the Unltec
States for its action as a body; there
> fore, be it r. E* -: =..s
"Resolved, That we, representative
gathering of Afro-American citizens O
Minnesota, assembled for the purpose
of revering the memory Of the grea
douglass. who would be doing battle
along the same lines were he alive
and. who, though dead, is with us II
spirit, most heartily concur in the no
! bic sentiments uttered by Preslden
Roosevelt and indorse his manly stant
| in regard to DR.. Crunl: and be, it fur