The copper era., 1904-07-14

Y Bartholdt spoke as follows: (See pas 1905, Congressional! Record Of April e I904)
 Mr. Bartholdt. Mr Chairman
 thank my friend from Kansas, Nil Scott. for yeilding 10 me at this partic ular time. It enables me to call the a' | tention Of the house and the country t , an incident in American history whfcl has long been forgotten and woult surely have been doomed to oblivion
 but for the hysierical criticisms ut
 tered on account of recent whit,
 house episode.
 NEGRO HAD A WRITTEN INVITATION
 l 1t is true that Mr. Cleveland did not invite d negro to dinner-and 10, one am willing 60 accept the denial over his own signature as conclueive- there iS yet another American presi. dent, greater president, and cetainlv one whom our democratic friends hold ln much greater veneratiOn. who did i invite negro to his home, and more 1 than that who hOnorcd that same ne- gro by formal invitation to dine with him at his family table. Tbat presi- dent, 10 and behold. was Thoma, .Jef- | ferson! The incident seems well au- thenticated, and the only reason why it is so little known, or. rather, why it is pot known at all, is, in my judgment. to be found in the fact that when it oc- cured no one thought anything O il or saw fit to criticise Mr Jefferson for it.
 If can have the time, 1 will give the house my authority for the state ments l have just made. In book re- gently published by the N. D. Thomp- son Publishing company. of St. Louis. Mo, aud entitled The Negro in Eevc- lation, in History and in Citizenship" by Rev. J. J. Pipkin. with an iatroduc- tion by -G.sr-.sr:tclTtsssysti~ systi~,lGS GA.,1aa. .,,1lo; GeUrgIa, l accidentaI'y found on page17 POI d chapter with these headlines: Thomas Jefferson and the negro l Julius Melhou"n. \ remarkable in | cident." With the permission C: the | I will read the passages . pertinent io my story. After an intro | duction in which it Is stated that | Thomas Jeffe son was opposed to hay inu slavery pcrpetutaed in the United | States. the author goes on to say:
 NO ARBITRATION EVER MADE.
 
 "The following statements are taken ! from a work published tifty-two years !! ago. entitled Life and Opinions Of Julius Melbourn; with sketches oi the Lives and Cha 'acters of Thomas Jef- fersou, John Quincy Adams. John Han dolph and several other Eminent The work was edited and prepared for the press by a mem per of congress.
 The work here referred to ! hold in my hand 1 have secured it from tbe library, and if that statement in rela- tion to that remarkable incident were not true. there was certainly time enough to correct them or refute them. To continue from the book:
 This man Julius was born a slave in North Carolina. July i, l79o. and was owned by d Major Johnson until he was five years old, when be was bought by Mrs. Melbourn. a widow living in Raleigh, who educated him. meanwhile in lso6) giving him his freedom. Alter leaving the Johnson family he came to be known as Julius Melbourn.
 Prescribing his appearance he says: My hair is curly, or woody. and my nose is more fattened than is- generally the case with pure blocded Europeans. In another place he said that, indeed, his hair was kinky.
 "lu July, 1915, he set out ou tour northward, meaning to visit Mir Jei- ferson on the way, and having letter of introduction to him from lawyer friend. Mr Pendleton. I had heard Mir. Jefferson so much talked of, he says, had read so much about him Tn the newspapers and so much of his own writings, of which , was q great irGr, Jtlab cut ip-AtH bO 0GC biIsAb great man ard converse with him was intense.
 JEFFERSON WAS CORDIAL.
 "Wheu he arrived at Monticello he was conducted to Jeffersou's study, where he found him sitting at q table covered with books and papers. He rose,' says Melbourn, when l entered and received me with great politeness and apparent cordiality. l instantly found mysel: at perfect ease in his presence"
 Then he goes on and gives descrip- tion oi his impressions of the great men.
 Continuing the narrative, Melbourn says:
 ''I remained in the neighborhood of Monticello nearly week, and spent a portion or each day in Mr. Jefferson $