The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1954-07-03

1--WE need to restore the Peo-
pies confidence. We have a
great job ahead"
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
JULY FOURTH is Independ-
ence Day, the original having
been declared on July 4, 1776,
but signed a month later by
the thirteen colonies. Americas
Declaration should be carefully
read by many current politi-
clans who seemingly have "loSt
the lesson" and are acting more
like the tyrant King George
III, day by day.
THE TYRANNY which the
1776 COlOnists charged against
King George as written, in
Cludes: "He has melted insur-
rectlOn among us. He has
INSTRUCTED the administration of
justice. He has erected a
multitude of new offices and
sent hither swarms of officers
to harrass our people. He
has combined with others to
subject us to jurisdiction fore
ign to our Constitution. :" Who
does that remind you of to-
day?
TAN YANKS, from experience,
are always first to see through
oppressive tyranny and to bat
tie the bigots. Colored Ameri-
cans like Attucks, Peter Salem,
Lew and others pioneered the
fight against the Foreign OPP
preston of the King, just as
Fred Douglass, Sojourner Truth,
Trotter'S father, the famous 54th
and 55th, led the fight against
the domestic King George III
pretenders here at home. That's
history.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
(the Colonial day Walter White
actually proposed and helped
arrange for the planning, franz
ing and establishment of the
U. S. Constitution. An author
of the "FederaliSt" papers which
advocated the Union Hamilton,
a mulattO, was a father of this
nation, its Constitution, its fe-
deraI finance system, and the
U. S. Coast Guard. No one has
done more for America than
her Tan Yanks. Keep this in
mind.
INDEPENDENCE was not pos
sible for any nation begged
down in slavery. Booker T.
Washington truly said, no peo-
pie could hold a man down
without being held down them
selves. Therefor, it was the
Colored mans rebellion and
his spiritual awakening of
America" which helped make
America free. This is a ire
mendouS factor which every
honest historian must also con-
slider in the summary of con-
tributionS of our people.
THE CONSTITUTION was
further moulded into its true
and stronger values by the in
fiuences of Colored Americans.
The 1891 Bill of Rights was an
uncertain hollow protection for
all Americans until Tan Yank
influence created the more
solid 18th, 14th, and 18th
Amendments, the "citizen pro-
tections" against dictator slav-
cry and any dictator denial of
citizenship and the right to
the ballot.
SUPREME COURT to-day is
a more solid, Drawer bulWark
of Democracy specifically be-
cause of Colored Americans
continued tests" and appeals
regarding Citizens Rights. These
appeals were actually in the
interest of every minority group
in the Nation and Catholics,
Jews. Labor, and other minori-
ties have all benefited from the
Tan Yank fight. This is a fact
seldom mentioned in the news
or history text books.
U. S. HISTORY will and must
someday conclude that no
minority has been as consIs-
tentIy loyal and as consistently
safeguarding of American Ii
berries as the often oppressed
and misunderstood Tan Yank.
II is true that every cOlored
Civil Rights champion worth
his salt, has been called a ra-
deal. But SO were Americas
first civil rights champions in
Guiding George Washington.
Loyal Americans fear no such
smears.
Wise Sayings