Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-03-12
JACxsONlAN DEMOCRAT REVIEWED.
Ladies and Gentlemen:


chords by hollering negro at the top OF
his voice, and as we know we have
thoroughly reached his case, as the
truth always does, we will administer
a tonic this week. Every person who Is
at all familiar with history knows that
Abraham Lincoln made race for the
presidency in 1850, and was fairly elect
ed on the platform in favor of shutting
out slavery from every federal territory
After the election of Mr.. Lincoln j. D.
was born kicking and If his hamstring
don't give way he will die kicking.
As J. d. kicked up so much dust in
those days, Mr.. Lincoln decided to let
Sambo continue to chop j. DIS wood If
be would only stop his racket, and be
peaceable, but the proposition offered
by Mr.. Lincoln only made j. D. kick
harder. So one day j. D. peeped out
from his palace to see how Sambo was
getting along on the woodpile, but Sam
bo had retired and has never come back
to the woodpile While Sambo was on
the wood pile he was mighty good fell
low and ]. D. did love to smell his fra
france, but now be enjoys liberty and
it is quite different thing. Why is it
Sambo don't smell as good as he used
to? Surely J. D. knows what makes
him so stale.
Some peonle tell me that j. D. is
without an issue, but l beg leave to diff
fer from them. When all else fails
there is always the negro, and il the
signs of the times indicate anything
the negro will be the next national
campaign slogan. In fact, j. D. will
never be without one old issue just SO
long as there is one negro in the Unit
| ed States not under his thumb. Well,
as a matter of delicacy we suppose there
is one phase of the negro subject that
has never been discussed publicly, but
there comes time when delicacy even is
submerged in necessity and we want to
say just here that we think j. d.
should be more mild about negro equal
ity because people living here know
that equality of the ballot or even So
cial equality, which nobody pretends to
practice, is by no means the lowest form
of negro equality. AS one of our cam
paigners once said; at is negro for
breakfast, and negro for dinner and ne
gro for supper, and negro again mex
morning and it is negro all the time.
The truth is if the negroes should be
given a country of their own where tht
door OF hope and the avenues OF dis
tinction would not be closed to them a.
they are here, there would be danger o
]. D. expiring for want of lung exer
else. If j. d. were compelled to stol
his spasms while the uncles, aunts, &c.
of the black and tan order filed by ther
noise. We know we are talking abOu
for all we have to do is to look. j. D
severely criticises President Roosevelt
about the Indianola affair but he taile
to tell us that under the present pro
tective tariff he bad been amply able t
employ one Of those lilly whites
4 cook for him. Now j. D., if one c
those lilly whites" can do work S
much better than full white lady, tel
US why you are making so much racke
about Roosevelt and tho Indianola a
fair. What, we ask, has Roosevelt
done more than any other President ha
done? Everybody in Washington know
that the few colored officials there ar
always invited to these receptions.
is said that Harrison did it, we kno
that both Cleveland and MKinley di
it. Then why should we not give the
3 the same recognition? My friend
: criticism of Mr.. Roosevelt impresst
8 me that he must have little selt-col
: ceit somewhere. Harrison appointe
; the Cox woman and there was no pr
r test Mckinley reappointed her al
: still there was no protest, but und
; Roosevelts administration she sudde
l. ly became so offensive that the white
forced her to resign for her life
One might as we'll expect bull fr,
to jump ten-rail fence as to expect
D. to be satisfied with anything the r
: publicans do. II he ever finds out th
4 the President has appointed a negro q
;, sistant district attorney at Boston,
will rise upon his hind legs and no
% worse than ever. Wonder why J.
81 did not colonize Sambo when he was
u in the old Egyptian bondage? 1t "
u certainly a very appropriate tin
II Sambo is a terrible fellow anyhow, sin
: be enjoys liberty of thought, liberty
d speech and liberty Of ballot, and dol
= get his iorehnger cut of If he gets
e telligent enough to write, and read |
e. Bible and other good literature. '
humbly beg the most noble J.. d. I
TO be worried about our every day
pressiOns. Remember the story u
b, the tortoise outran the swift-foot
oil hare. We call TO memory what A
NJ Lincoln once said to a brother lawy