The Washington bee., 1903-02-07

/ SOlOTtu man IN the countries OF MS
/ origin.
How kind What kind of a home
/ has the Senator prepared for his col
| Ored fellow citizens of Alabama? The
/ lash, torch aud diSfranchisement are
the political Jewels the Senator and
/ his party have Dut upon the neckS OF
! the colored Americans Of Alabama; and
/ their new constitution and laws, with
/ the grandfather clause and educational
/ qualification WeIe made and adopted
I by the Senator and his friends. with
the avowed purpose of degrading the
negro. While the Senator receives
( tue uSutruct of the position as United
/ , ateS Senat r. and from that lofty
/ perch as an Ex-COnfedeTate and paTOl-
ed prisoner dictates TO the Nation the
| segregation, separation and emigra-
| ton OF native born American citizens.
! Did you ever know a Negro, who
( was parOled prisoner to participate
an the rebellion against the stars and
stripes? Not one IN the ten millions
| of this Republic
| The Senator further states that the
facts OF history show the practical i'm
/ possibility of the real advancement of
/ the Negro race in a country where
/ they are IN competition with the white
/ race. | deny that statement in toto
and challenge proof, not pTesumptive
or arrogant opinion. - -
| The United States, alone in the last
forty years have shown that when the
/ COlored man has had an equal
chance of education~a and fair play in
| common with the AnglO-Saxon out
| FtE h~a
that he has advanced side by side with
his white fellow citizens in war and
peace.
Frederick Douglass. J. c. Price,
/ John NJ. Langston,J c. Dancy, Robert
Small, Governor PInchDack, Judson w.
| LYONS, Pay-master Lynch. Paul Dun
bar, Senator Revels, B. X Bruce,
Iohn Mitchell and w. Calvin Chase
aud host of lesser lights have held
their own in competition with the
white man. Faithful laboriOus in
neace. brave and gallant in war. by
what token shall the negro be judged.
| The senator patrOnlzinglY says
MANY of your people are aversed to
giving uD the rights and privileges OF
| Citizenship in the United States
Let us reflect Aversed togIving mp
| our lega rights" What's the matter
| Nith tue Senator? How would he IKE
10 give up his gnts as a citizen and
Senator from Alabama? Turn the ia
bles for a moment, and these white
people from Alabama and the other
Southern States, WoulC grunt and
squeal worse than a tt ,usand pigs
under thousand plantation gates If
1 c,rgnacf Hannvsaftc, tkafr
former European c. untTies.
1t IS all a question of whose OK is
gored, and the h norable Senator
knows it better than anyone else, but
still continues to rid : two horses cross
ing the stream of negro deportation.
/ can assure the Senator that forty
years OffreedOm has give us awonder-
tul taste for the article, and it will take
more than oily woIds and soft soap
argument to induce us to leave our
native land and start a new life in a
land of SavageS.
The Senator in another part of his
remarkable political letter, sagely
says that obedience TO law is the on
y rule, thatCau secure TO both races
the blessings of domestic peace"
| am sure that any man, though a
compare i've fool, would not deny that
statement, but coming from the Ala
bama Senator. whose white Constitu-
entS disObey and violate the United
States law every day in the week. is
really amusing, if not insulting TO the
Intelligence of common people.
And further on the distinguished
Senator says that " | look to
the ultimate separation of the white
and black races in the United States,
and thus will come by the irresistible
force of public necessity
! Public necessity" the very argu-
meIntS and implements of politicians
and tyrants in all lands and climes.
God Almighty foresaw the destiny
OF the Negro IN his new home in
America. He saw the pilgrim fathers
in their native land oppressed, out.
ragged and condemned on account oi
/ freedom of thought of conscience and
religion. He saw them finally embark
/ for America, land Ofreligious liberty
" hiCh was destined TO be inhabited hy
three hundred millions of people, the
Continued on 4th page.
/ HOI For A Suffrage Convention,