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CLEVELAND, OHIO,

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1886.

HON. JAMES E. O'HARA,
MEMBER CONGRESS FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

A SHORT SKETCH

Of the Interesting Career of Hon-
James E. O'Hara, Congressman
From North Carolina.

Hon. James E. O'Hara, of Enfield,
was born in New York City, February
26, 1844, received an academic edu-
cation; studied law partly in North
Carolina, and partly at Howard Uni-
versity, was admitted to the bar of
North Carolina in June, 1871; at pres-
ent a practical attorney; was engross-
ing clerk to the Constitutional Conven-
tion of North Carolina in 1868; also to
the Legislature of 1868-69; was a mem-
ber of the State Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1875; was chairman of the
Board of Commissioners for the County
of Halifax, 1872-76; was elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress, but the certificate
of election was given to W. H. Kithin,
Democrat, and was elected almost
without opposition to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 18,531 votes against 1,413 scat-
tering. He was also re-elected by a
good majority to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress.

Mr. O'Hara was remarkable for his
studious habits during his pro-
fessional course at Howard Univer-
sity. He was the admiration of
those who knew him, and the wonder
of the many who looked upon
him as a man unapproachable except
to chosen friends. But the Mr. O'Hara
of those days is quite different from the
Mr. O'Hara of to-day. He has laid
aside theoga of a professional student
for that of an experienced lawyer and
statesman. The zealous care with which

he has watched the interests of his race
during his Congressional career has
won for him commanding ground in
the estimation of all lovers of Liberty.
It is a fact that Mr. O'Hara is the only
colored man to whom social courtesies
were frequently extended by the high-
est official of the Republic. Upon sev-
eral occasions he and his wife attended
by invitation the State receptions given
by Mr. Arthur while President, and they
seemed to be as much at home as any-
body else present. Mr. O'Hara became
prominent during the last weeks of the
lest session of Congress by having en-
grafted upon the Inter-State Com-
merce bill a clause compelling equal
accommodations for colored people
traveling on public carriers, provided
they pay the same fare as other pas-
sengers. Mr. O'Hara is an agreeable
conversationalist, a ready debater and
an effective orator. While in Wash-
ington attending the sessions of Con-
gress, he and his wife board and room
at Mrs. Patterson's, on Fifteenth street.
Their home is in Enfield, N. C., where
they have a comfortable residence, and
pass their summers, when not at
Nagg's Head, an aristocratic summer
resort for the wealth and beauty of the
Old North State. Mr. O'Hara is a
ereditable Representative and it is to
be hoped that the good people of the
Second Congressional district of North
Carolina will retain his services in
Congress as long as possible.

"You shall vote the republican ticket or we will crush you"—that is the mandate of the republican Senate to the colored voters North and South. Pray what has the republican party done for the colored men to justify such slavery as the republican party imposes upon them? The war made them free. The constitutional amendment perpetuating that freedom was passed by democratic as well as republican votes, and could not have passed without the help of democratic votes. The vote was conferred upon them against the protest of leading republicans like Senator Morton. Then came the reconstruction of the South, in which the republicans played on the ignorance and gratitude of the colored voters to corrupt state governments, to steal and rob and cheat; and having played that monstrous and disgraceful game until Northern public opinion would bear it no longer, having by years of unmitigated and unblushing rascality of white republican leaders aroused race suspicion and hatred against the poor colored people whom they made their tools, the republicans coolly abandoned the colored instruments—because they could no longer use them.

If they had been honestly the friends
of the colored race, the republican lead-
ers after the war would have had a
great work open to them: They could
have led them by clean ways to a prop-
er knowledge of their duties as citizens.
Instead of that they played on their
"gratitude" and excited their ignorant
terrors in every Southern state to make
the newly created voters their tools for
the wildest and most unscrupulous
misgovernment known to modern days
—outside of Ireland

And now if a colored man dares to
vote the democratic ticket the republican
Senate declares it will "crush" him if it
can get hold of him, and the Quaker
Chace, with Ingalls and Hoar, holds up
the body of Matthews as a "fair warn-
ing" to colored voters of what will hap-
pen to them if they venturs to think
and act like freemen.

How do the colored voters like it?
N.Y. World, Jan. 31, 1887.

["Washington, D.C.", "March 19th 1888", "Washington March 24th", "1888", "## THAT UNFILED REPORT.", "The Commissioners Will Bring Re-\ncorder Trotter Into Court.", "The Commissioners this morning are called to take Recorder Trotter into court and make him to record the report of the recent tax sale, under date of May 10, 1888, instead of the day that he was to record on the record books. They summarized Attorney H. E. Davis before him this morning, attorney and directed him to this hour to present to the court a list of mandamus directed to Recorder, to show cause why the report should not be recorded under date of March 10, 1888, and that he is not entitled to record the documents on the date of their receipt by him. Commissioner Webb, who is now in the office, stated that he is not entitled to record the documents on the date of their receipt, and that he has not made any challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule, he says, had the result of a more careful preparation of papers—very few now require record less than a dozen instruments having been on for record-reading until the day of the record. He said that the record of fees no states that the average number of papers received daily is forty, the average number of days in a month is $1.50—about three goes per day, and that he has enforced this rule without partiality, avers that no single instance of failure has been made by him, and challenges proud of proof to the contrary. The rule,

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the world's affairs has been contemporary with the emancipation of the slave, and though the movement has had its temporary failures and set-backs, yet a thinking person can scarcely doubt that woman is destined to be, at no distant day, the equal of man politically, as well as in all other respects.

Slowest of all seems to be the movement of the great social and moral reform of temperance; but still it does move. King Alcohol makes a hard fight, it is true, but as the best elements of society and of public opinion have arrayed themselves against him, he fights rather under cover, no longer flaunting his flag in open field as of yore. Ardent liquor no longer forms a part of the hospitality of the average home, nor of the attractions of any private social gathering, as in the days of our fathers. We can ourselves recall the period when rum and gin were quite as respectable a part of the stock of any general grocery store as tea and coffee, and when every ship that went to sea carried them as staple articles among her stores for the voyage. When we read and wonder at the figures representing the immense sums paid for liquors in our country, as compared with those of a past period, we must take into the account the vast increase of population, and the golden prices at which liquors, formerly so cheap, are now valued. Drunkenness is quite as destructive and fatal to the happiness of its victims as it ever has been, but we cannot think it is as common or as lightly tolerated by the sober portion of the community as it was half a century ago. Therefore we see glimpses of hope even through the wine that is red in the cup, and have faith that time, patience and effort will gradually emancipate the human race from the bondage of this, the greatest of all evils, Intemperance.

LECTURE.—The eighth and last lecture in the Atheneum Course was given Monday evening by Hon. Frederick Douglass, who gave his lecture on "John Brown." The house was crowded, even the platform about the speaker being utilized, and Mr. Douglass held the closest attention of his hearers, who, though familiar with the general history of the subject, were entertained with many personal reminiscences of Mr. Douglass, who at times displayed wonderful oratorical power as he dwelt upon some of the more stirring events of the period of which he was speaking. The lecture was acknowledged to be one of the most interesting of the course.

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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1885.

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### Our Summer Visitors.

Below we publish the number of passengers brought to Nantucket by steamer since the summer time table went into effect, June 22:

June 22 to Aug. 12, (noon) inclusive, 7,707 Evening boat, week ending Aug. 18, 727 Noon boat, week ending Aug. 19, 787

Total,

9,221

961 ahead of last year for the corresponding time.

## A Distinguished Visitor.

HON. FREDERICK DOUGLAS

Revisits Nantucket, the Scene of His Debut as a Public Speaker.

His Address Sunday Evening.

Hon. Frederick Douglas and wife arrived in Nantucket Saturday noon, and took rooms at the Sherburne House. It may not be generally known to most of our readers, though well remembered by our older citizens, that Mr. Douglass delivered his "maiden speech" in Nantucket. It was forty-four years ago, and Mr. Douglass, then a fugitive slave, had come on from New Bedford with a company of Abolitionists to attend an Abolition Convention, at which there were present William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen Foster, Wendell Phillips, and many others, who subsequently achieved honored notoriety for their labors in the anti-slavery cause. Miss Anna Gardner, of this town, was Secretary of the convention, in fact, it was called through her efforts, and the meetings were held in various places, as the attacks of an incensed mob compelled them to move from one building to another, and when at last the were of all the public halls and churches doors closed against them they took refuge in the "Big Shop" of George and Rouben Coffin's, in the western part of the town, which had been tendered them by the proprietors. It was at one of these meetings that Douglass was induced to speak—to plead his own cause—which he did in a manner to win the hearts of his hearers, and when he had concluded, and William Lloyd Garrison arose and put the significant question, "Shall such a man as that be carried back to slavery?" the whole audience with one acclaim shouted back the answer "NO!"

The subsequent history of Frederick Douglass, his rise from the obscurity of an unlettered fugitive slave to one of the most conspicuous characters in American history, renowned and honored on both sides of the Atlantic for his gifted oratory and philanthropic and

persistent labors for the amelioration of his race, feted by the crowned heads of Europe and honored with responsible positions in the national capital by the Federal government at home, are too well known to warrant recital.

The news of Mr. Douglass' arrival in town spread rapidly and many called to pay their respects to the distinguished gentleman. In the afternoon he called upon a number of his old "Abolition" friends and the following day he and his wife were the guests of F. C. Sanford, Esq. He was introduced to speak in the Unitarian church that evening, and having consented, announcement was made from the several pulpits in the morning. Long before the appointed hour the church was packed to its utmost capacity—aisles and gallery—and hundreds were obliged to turn away unable to gain admittance. The services opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Twiss, of Medfield, followed by the reading of Scripture by Rev. Christopher C. Hussey, formerly of this town, and singing by the choir. Rev. Mr. Twiss then introduced to the audience Hon. Frederick Douglass.

The speaker prefaced his discourse with the statement that he had not come to ask a hearing, but to stand once more on the island of Nantucket. He was deeply impressed with the changes which had been wrought since first he set foot upon this island, a fugitive slave, trembling with fear lest he should be taken by kidnappers and carried back to bondage. Induced by the people of Nantucket and New Bedford he had first decided to become an advocate for his race. He had appeared in many other causes, but to-night he appeared as an American citizen, clothed and invested with all the rights and privileges as such. This evening he would lecture on that great advocate of civil and religious liberty, "William the Silent," and he proposed to show in the course of his remarks the progress of events since he came to Nantucket forty-four years ago, untaught and unlettered, from the plantation. He referred to great people and great wars, saying, "Deplory it as we may, the Red Sea of blood lies between the pilgrim and the promised land. The world moves, but only by fight. The line over which oppression may not go must be marked with blood." He gave on outline history of the religious proceedings in the Netherlands and the tyranny and oppression of Philip which compelled the people of the Netherlands to rise up under the lead of William of Orange and throw off the Spanish yoke. He then found and analogy in the conflict between the American colonies and

Though clothed in the choicest diction and exceedingly interesting for its historical data the lecture was of a different nature than the audience had evidently anticipated. Perceiving this, the venerable speaker paused in his discourse, frankly admitted his mistake in selecting the subject he had on this particular occasion, and said he would lay aside his notes and talk to the people as he did forty-four years ago. This statement was received with tremendous ap-

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LETTER FROM THE NATIONAL W. C. T. U. TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Headquarters of the National W. C. T. U., 161 La Salle Street

CHICAGO, Jan. 1, 1888.

Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

We send you our New Year greeting, and ask your earnest attention to the following facts; Fourteen years ago this winter, a mighty power from God came upon the women of the churches in Ohio, and they went out from their pleasant homes into the saloons and bar-rooms of almost every village, town and city in that state, to read the Bible, sing hymns and offer prayer to God that He would help the people to leave off drinking, and to put away the drink houses that tempt men to destruction. This new and blessed way of working for Christ spread like wild-fire all over the land. For the first time in the world's history, women began to see that by God's grace they could do something for the protection of their homes and tempted loved ones. After about two months spent in visiting the drink shops, the ladies found that the better way to work was by training the children never to touch liquor, and persuading all good men to vote against allowing the drink shops to be opened at all. So they formed a society called the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or the W. C. T. U. Some people says these four letters mean, "We Come To Unite," and "We Come To Upset," and "We'll Conquer This Union." All of these meanings are good, and help to explain what we are trying to do. This society has grown so great that we now have one hundred and fifty thousand women who are members, and over six thousand local unions. The National W. C. T. U. has a publishing house of its own, that sent out last year from Chicago fifty million pages of temperance literature. The Society has spread to the ends of the earth, and the World's W. C. T. U. has local branches in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Islands of the Sea.

We have had for years, Mrs. Frances E. Harper, 1008 Bainbridge street, Philadelphia, Pa., a colored woman, gifted and edu-

cated, as a national superintendent of work among your people at the North, and we have recently appointed another, Mrs. S. J. Early, of Nashville, Tenn., national superintendent of work among colored people in the South. Alabama and Tennessee have already organized state Woman's Christian Temperance Unions of colored women, Mrs. C. O. Boothe, of Selma, being president of the one, and Mrs. L. E. Phillips, of Nashville, president of the other. These four officers were present at our recent National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., among the three hundred and forty-seven delegates from almost all the states and territories, where they with several others of your race were cordially received as members, and the four mentioned addressed the Convention most acceptably. We earnestly desire to see state and local W. C. T. Unions among the colored people organized all over the land. At the North colored women will be welcome to join the same local society as white women if they prefer to do so, or they can organize in their own churches, if that suits them better. In the south the latter method will usually prevail, or several of your churches may form one union, and the local and state

societies will be separate from the white. But when they come to the National W. C. T. U. Convention, all will be received on the same basis. For further information, forms of constitution, etc., send postal card to our corresponding secretary, Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, 161 La Salle Street, Chicago, and she will freely give you all the help in her power.

As women who are disfranchised we most earnestly and solemnly call upon the colored men of our beloved land to cast their ballots for the protection of our homes and children, as well as of their own. Strong drink crazes the white and black man alike, changes the industry of both to idleness, and transforms plenty into poverty. It is for the sake of your children that our society has worked hard for the Blair Educational Bill; which would devote seventy million of dollars from the United States treasury to public schools, most of them in the South. It is for your homes that we have toiled as much as for any in the great Republic,

and we call upon you in the name of "God and Home and Native Land" to vote the dry ticket, and so represent the women of the North and South alike, who have no power to represent themselves. It has been falsely said by bad men who sought your vote that Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator, was in favor of strong drink. This is one of the lies with which the devil, who has his headquarters in the saloon, seek to dishonor the great and good man's name. Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, signed the pledge against strong drink in a temperance meeting, held by "old uncle John Berry" of Illinois, and said, when he had become famous and great, that for doing so, he believed he should have gone to ruin, as almost all his companions did who went on drinking. We urge you to remember that Abraham Lincoln was a strict temperance man, and when a committee brought him word that he was nominated President of the United States, he called for a pitcher of water and glasses, saying that he would treat them all in the best beverage ever brewed—cold water.

Brothers and sisters of the colored race, the National W. C. T. U. prays God to put it into your heads, hearts and ballots, to stand by the sacred cause that Lincoln loved, and drive the drink devil out of the nation.

Yours in the blessed hope that Christ shall rule, and the saloon and Satan be overthrown.

FRANCES E. WILLARD,

Pres. Nat. W. C. T. U.

CAROLINE B. BUELL, Cor. Sec.

["Washington \"Star\" March 14, 1891", "263", "THE PRESIDENT'S VETO", "THE WASHINGTON POST. FRIDAY.", "The Committee of Colored Men. — The President promises there shall be no restriction on a Color Line — The Delegative Highly pleased.", "The colored soldier is on top today, and he and his brothers are consequently in high spirits. The President has declared that the order disbanding the two colored battalions and mustering them out of the National Guard of the District, issued by Gen. Orway. Wednesday, shall not be carried out, and that there is to be any reduction of the colors in the District — an account of the colors of the armory fund it shall not be made on a color line. This result came from a con forecence which the President had with Geordy at 10 o'clock and later with a degradation of colored men representing a negropopulation of the District, who call on him by appointment about an hour later.", "The President and Gen. Orway went over the entire case, it is supposed, and during the conversation the former indicated very clear evidence that he was not sympathizing with the idea of the military out the colored troops alone. He made mention of various ways in which deficiency might be overcome, and he said, would save the credit of District guard. When Gen. Orway left, about half an hour, he had a good idea of the colors, and would then be revoked, either by means of another order by an understanding with the two or three majors.", "A CALL AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT.", "The delegation was composed as follows, representation having been elected at night's meeting: James H. Smith, Walter Thomas, a census office clerk; Hon. J. R. Lynch, E. M. Hewlett, John H. Smyth, F. B. K. Bruce, D. W. Jones, R. H. Terrrell, of division in the sixth auditor's office; John H. Douglass, Milton M. Holland, division of the second auditor's office; H. L. Douglass, William E. Matthews, George N. Arnold, J. William E. Matthews, George N. Arnold, R. R. Doufford, Henry E. Baker, Chas. R. Dow, Prof. John W. Cook. They met at Treasury Department at about 10 o'clock went at once over to the White House before they entered. It was stated that it would be a courteous act for them to go over to the War Department lay the case before Gen. Grant, that they would return to the United States. So they postponed their return on the President in order to be court found in the War Department. Grant very willingly agreed and ready and willing to list them. Auditor Lynch stated, the case before them, the few words, and then a general version ensued, by means of which acting secretary became pretty fatiguing. The President, although much interested and said that would look into the matter at once and the proper action taken. The crowd that over to the White House improved, while", "the effect of the call said but not the average of the two. Gen. Grant and his staff were in session of the Committee and the committee on military affairs was provided for. It was provided that there from that time on the communication on the part of the President, before the call of the United States of the United States of America, the President, in case of emergency, should be authorized to suspend communication at his discretion and to suspend all military influence above the President and to be", "AN AUDIENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT.", "At the White House they had little or no difficulty in getting there. The President. Auditor Lynch and Recorder Bruce first saw Mr. Hal- ford, who agreed to arrange for an audience with the President. The delegates waited in the cabinet room. In a few minutes Messrs. Lynch and Bruce were called into the audience, and they laid the facts of the case before the chief magistrate in brief form. It took them about ten minutes to show the matter up in all its lights and shades and then the beaming finger of Cerberus. Loufier drew the entire delegation into the inner temple, leaving two reporters who had hoped to pass as colored men in the outer darkness.", "The President did not wait for the delegates to state their grievance, but advanced to them at once, saying, \"I have anticipated this visit of yours, gentlemen, and I understand your request very well. I understand that you have a request very well. I understand that you have a request very well. I understand that you have a request very well. There will be no partition will not be taken. There will be