The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-07-29
George Harris
Attacks Carney
Alderman 21st New York District, and
Editor of New York News
IN" GEORGE Y. HARRIS

Editor of New York News
NEW YORK, July 20-There has
been nothing done by one of their
race since their emancipation that has
anpered and alarmed Negro citizens
more deeply than the recent effort OF
Marcus Garvey. an alien and native
Of Jamaica. B. w. l., to form an ALI
ance with the Ku Klux Klan. Garvey
m;srenresents not only the attitude OF
the rativc-b. I'm eolored Americans
but * per eent OF the foreign-born
when he surrendcrs to the Imperial
Wizard OF this bloody and bieoted
band of outlaws. There is no obJeo-
ton to Garvey and his followers
choosing Africa as their adopted
home. but there IS objection to his
panderine to the prcjudiccs OF bigots
and traitors opposed to the principals
Of the Republic. He would sell the
birthright OF 100000 native-born
loyal Americans.
Garvcv. being a foreigner. does not
know that the ku KluX klan IS the
same organization that outraged the
mothers of the present generation OF
coorcd Americans, murdered lts
fathers. desecrated the black dead and
their graves, and coming into power
in reconstruction days, nullitied eman-
cipation. established iim-crow cars and
riveted political Acknowledgement upon
the black race in the South.
Resents Garvey's Slur
When GaryeY says this is not the
colored citizens country in the same
sense that it is the country OF every
other loyal American. black or white.
he knows nothing of the history OF
his race in this country. He does
not know that black men played vital
part in the explorations and settlement
Of this continent, that there were forty
black men with Balboa when he
discovered the Pacific Ocean and that
Balboa found a tribe of black men then
living on the shores of South America
He does not know that black men
were with all the Spanish discoveries
and explorers. with Cortez when he
went into Mexico and with Coronado
when he went to Kansas in l54l.
He does not know that colorcd men
helped establish the first settlement
in Jamestown in 1907 and that Africans
were with Ponce de Leon at St. Angus
tine in 1905; that Esteyanico, the black
explorer with three Spaniards, explored
the present State OF Texas. He does
not know that black men were with
George Washington in the French and
Indian wars; that a black man was
with Daniel Boone in Kentucky in
Iva and gave up his life as the first
one on that expedition; that black
man, Crispus Attucks, was the first to
shed his blood for American lndcpend
ence in the Boston Massacre in IVA;
that Peter Salem, a black man, was
the first to die in the Battle OF Bunker
Hill at the hands OF the British Major
Pitcairn; that a black man by the
name of York was a vital part OF the
Lewis and Clark expedition to the
great Northwest in 1907 and that
York's dry river was named after him.
He does not know that black sol
diers. were paid tributes by George
Washington and his Generals in l776
and by Gen. Jackson for their defense
OF New Orleans in the War of 1872
and that black sailors were with Com
modore Perry in the Battle OF Lake
Erie in 1872; that black men were with
Fremont when he discovered gold in
California in 1870; that black men to
the number OF 178,000 taken from the
trenches and the farms OF the Rebels.
IN coats OF blue turned the tide for
the Union and destruction of slavery.
Cites History OF Blacks
When he says that America is a
white nran's country he docs not take
into account that black men to the
number OF unnumbered millions gave
$50 years OF unrequted toll and marty
dom as slaves to the settlement, the
industry and present wealth Of the
South and the Nation. We say again
that this intcrloper among colorcd
Americans damnably misreprcsents
them. By all rules OF right and reason
OF history and of justice this is their
country, By all the things that men
hold dear they are going to preserve
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