Year: 1876

vocating the cause of Coy. Gar lands opponent in 1874 and 1875

 and was rewarded for my pains hs seeing party hacks gobble up every position the government had to give, while those who were the friens and relatives of thcse self constituted lords of the color

 ed voters of Arkansas, and the representative men of said voters were cohtemLtuously ignored while one of our young men-an honor to hls race-was thrown out of the Post Office, and adven- turers called to fill his position or some other, and when he was re-

 called his salary was cut off to go buy "beef" for relations. Color ed men have played second fiddle long enough to these men, at least Chambers has. There is just enough of them in the State to fill all the important offices and no more. The colored man will soon be conjurcd to rally to the standard of the candidate of the regulars" for governor. He will find to his as tonishment that he has pulled the wool so far down over their eyes that they are now looking over the top oft. Our position was a false one. The robblng of our people of millions of hard earnings Tn the Freedinan's Saw ings' Bank iniqulty, the disposi tion to keep alive race antagonism in this Statei the shifting from side to side by men who wish to be governors, is proof positive that the true position for mo to occupy is the one of common sense; namely, the position which will insure me personal and State as well as governmental aid, when the material and industrial inter- est of my race is concerned. l had the honor of erecting Q mon umcnt in Fairmount Park, Phila- delphia, which is to be unveiled on September 22d, intended to give the colored people of this country representation at the ban quet of nations. Governor Gar land not only attested my books, but generously headed the list of governors with a fifty dollar sub scription. Speaker Pennington Senator Loughborough and many others initiated his noble example. When the boaster friend and de- liverer of the colored people was called upon, with q Phariseeical grin he pleaded his poverty, and kept his dimes, as shall this fall keep my vote, from him. We made an application to Congress for aid. Governor Garland wrote our delegation in Congress to be- friend the bill. The committee on Appropriations recommended its passage, it was presented to the House in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill and unani- mously agreed to by that "Con' federate house." It went to the Senate, was referred to the Con-

 mittee on appropriations of that body, who struck it out; and the august Senate of Republicans kept it out notwithstanding Sena- tor Morton had emphatically told me my chance of getting this through the House was just one m a hundred, and that if the House passed it LIE would see to it that the Senate concurred. The matter was referred to a con ference committee of both houses and this strange but significant spectacle was prcsentedI Demo crats insisting upon helping the colored people in this their first national scientific effort for rep resentation, while Republicans opposed them in such effort. It was finally agreed to upon Dem ocratic demands. Thus it is seen what is tho animus of these men styling themselves our friends. They had rather hear of negroes being murdered, robbed and in timidated in the South than to have them enjoy the the friend ship of Southerners. l have enough negro manly independ- ence to scorn their leadership, and shall act independent at once. No eloquent fiction or eXtravagant hyperbole have we resorted to. Our action is only manly and pro grIssive. Such as the times de mand. O! for an indefinite con tinuance of the policy of the pres ent administration. May it be initiated throughout the distract

 ed South, until every vestige of violentce, usurpation, fraud, rob

 bery and political snavery is sub

 merged beneath the irrepressible

 waves of an onward rolling Chris

 tian progressivs civilization, Un-

 til disslmulation and falsehood

 lie at the feet of Truth, right and

 equity stroll hand in hand over the placid streams, green wales and towering pines of this, the

 Eden of the North American con

 tinent, and all the sons of the

 South, without regard to race,

 color or previous condition of seryitude, unite in developing the