The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-07-14
Resolutions introduced By
julius F. Taylor and Adop-
ted by The Big Meeting at
Bethel Church Last Sun
day Afternoon.

hereby instructed to prepare and for
ward letter to Col. Roosevelt highly
commencing him for the noble and
manly stand which he assumed in rela-
ton to the twelve million loyal Col
ored American citizens and that they
are ready and willing to follow in his
footsteps to the end of the earth.
Fifth, that the Colored people have
freely poured out their blood on every
battle field from the Revolutionary
War down to the late war with Mexico;
that well on to two hundred thousand
Colored men fought in the war of the
Rebellion for the preservation of the
Union; that more than forty-four thou
sand of them were killed on four hun
dred and forty-four battlefelds; that
the Colored soldiers have never per-
mitted Old Glory on the land or on
the sea to trail in the dust in dis
honor; that the Colored people in gen.
eral are far more entitled to freely en-
joy their civil and political rights in
this country than the ignorant hordes
who flock to these shores from the
European countries.
Sixth, that the Colored people resid-
ing in this community have not held
any mass meeting recently authorizing
Louis B. Anderson, Edward 81. Wright,
Editor S. B. Turner, Editor Robert S.
Abbott, B. II. Lucas, A. ]. Carey and
others to represent the two hundred
thousand Colored people scattered
throughout the State of Illinois in any
capacity whatever, nor requesting
them to set forth their sentiments
which appeared in the Chicago Tribune,
Saturday, July 18th, in relation to estab-
fishing all kinds of Jim Crowism and
segregation for the Colored people
residing in this city; that men who
give expressions to such sentiments
should not be permitted to pose as
the true leaders of the Colored race.
Seventh, that the immortal Thomas
Jefferson, author of the Declaration of
Independence and the father and the
founder of Democracy on this CONT
nent, on one occasion exclaimed: that
''He trembled for his country when he
remembered that God is just and that
one hour of slavery or bondage was
fraught with more misery and suffer
ing than whole ages of our Colonial
expressions; that more than four cen
turtles before the Christian era, Alic
damas, a pupil of Gorgias, taught that
the Gods had sent forth all men free
and equal; that slavery will in time
bring down the Judgment of Heaven
on country which tolerates it, as
nations cannot be rewarded or pun
ished in the next world, they will be
in this by an inevitable chain of
causes and effects, for God Furnishes
national sins by national calamities. -
The words uttered by Mr.. Jefferson
at that time were true for the Gods
of war have punished this country in
connection with the freedom of the
slaves, that unless the vast majority
of the American people refrain from
their lawlessness that it is only ques-
ton of time until the Democracy
founded by Thomas Jefferson will be
blotted out in a whirl-wind of mob
and lynch law, anarchy and bloody
revolution.
Eighth, that the Colored people are
sadly in need of new bold and coura-
geous leaders, like unto Toussaint l.,
Overture, Christophe or Dessalines,
to teach them bravery and heroism and
to lead them out of the land of Jim
Crowism, disfranchisement and segre-
cation into the land of commercial
and industrialism, civil and political
freedom then they will be able to ex-
claim in the language of the immortal
Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty OF
give me DEATH"