The Cleveland Gazette.
VOL. I.
THE CLEVELAND GAZETTE.
Having long since noticed the need of
a colored organ in this populous city,
several of the Forest City’s well known
colored citizens have organized the Ga
zetee Publishing Company and, with n
Sood cash capital and the assistance of
numerous talented and well educated
people, homo and abroad, we have de
termined to^put the thought into action
and now present for your favorable con*
sideration the Cleveland GazKYte.
We know success is flitting, and where
you most expect to find her she is not,
yet an earnest effort, strict business in*
tegrity,' intellectual ability are the
charms that take her captive. We ful
ly comprehend the magnitude of our
undertaking and shall make an honest
effort to succeed. We shall endeavor
to present every week, a newspaper,
knowing, as we do, the power of the
press as a civilizer’and educator. We
advocate education, equality and pro
gression. We recognize no faction,
either religious or social, to the exclu
sion of another. By advocating their
rights, to the utter exclusion of merely
personal interests and whims, and by
producing every week, a live news
paper, we hope to gain the support of
every colored citizen in Cuyhoga
County’and the State of Ohio. The most
substantial kind of encouragement and
support you can give the Gazette is
your subscription money and that of
your friends, neighbors and relatives.
The officers of the Gazette Publish
ing Company are John F. Lightfoot,
President; John Holmes, Vice-Presi
dent; J ames H. Jackson, Secretary and
Treasurer; H. C. Smith, Managing Ed
itor.
WHY WE PUBLISH THE GAZETTE.
The following appeared in the New
York Globe, the leading col >red journal,
and exactly expresses our sentiments.
Read and meditate: “What we want
in religion is absolute equality of wor
ship, and when we can’t get it in white
churches we organize churches of our
own; hence the A. M. E. Church, A.
M. E. Zion Church, and other such or
ganizations manipulated by men of the
race. We want absolute equality in
the public schools—mixed scholars and
mixed teachers—ami if we can’t have
it, we want colored schools taught by
colored teachers. We want absolute
impartiality in newspaper treatment,
and when we fail to get it from white
papers we forthwith go to publishing
and editing newspapers ourselves—
hence the Globe, the Recorder, and
other papers published to proclaim the
wrongs, and demand redress for the
people. Not ;.t all—we do not draw
the line. But when others draw, as
they do, we simply demand that they,
“shinny on their own side.” Make
others respect the barriers they them
selves have drawn.
Show us one black president of a white
college in this broad land; show us one
black professor in any one white college
in this country; show us one black
preacher with a white flock; show us
one black editor running a white news
paper. On the other hand we have
wh te presidents of black colleges from
Maine to California and from the Pa
cific to the swamps of Alabama, and
white professors in black colleges by
the hundred; we have an army of white
ministers who grow fat by feeding black
souls, and we have even a newspaper
or so reputed to be run by white men
or by their cash. Who has drawn this
line? Certainly we have not. Then if
we did not draw it should we not make
those who did draw it respect and ob
serve the conditions implied in the erec
tion of the barrier? Obviously. We
believe in doing unto others as they do
unto us. If a man slap us on the right
cheek would we turn to him the left
one? Not much. If a man steal our
cloak would we give him also our coat?
Not if there was a policeman near at
hand. If a man ruthlessly shove us out
of his house, would we extend to him
an invitation to dine and lodge in our
house? Not much. Neither would Dr.
Tanner. Idealism is good, but practi
cal “hard pan” is not to be ignored.
WHAT HAVE WE!
Columbus has four or five young col
ored men as letter carriers, as many
colored clerks in dry goods houses, a
colored councilman, colored young men
are always employed in the Republican
committee rooms there when open, in
fact they are in all kinds of business.
What have we in the Forest City?
There are Just as many intelligent
young colored men here as there are in
Columbus. Cincinnati has colored
young men holding positions as clerks,
reporters on daily newspapers and a
deputy sheriff. A Cincinnati young man
Is messenger to the Supreme Court in
Columbus. George W. Hays, also of
Cincinnati, holds a lucrative position in
a Columbus court. What one clerkship
©r position of any kind similar to those
named above have we? Detroit's young
colored men are equally as fortunate,
if not more so than those of Cincinnati,
Here in Cleveland, tinle and again have
the Republican committee opened their
head-quarters, but not a colored young
manor old man has ever been employed
in them, unless it was to sweep out,
You may look until yous eybs toll ottt
Upon your cheeks and not a colored
man will be seen in the many different
city and county departments in any
other position than as janitor, and
precious few of them will be seen. An
election is approaching. You can geta
drink of liquor easily but no position.
Not even a clerkship in the Republican
committee rooms in which any light
weight white ward politician can get.
Now what are we going to do about it;
are you going to grin and bear it; take
taffy, a few drinks of liquor and “we
fought for and freed you colored
people” kind of talk to feed your family
with? Or do you want three or four
colored men to get a few paltry dollars,
spend one-third in treating you to acid
and hops .while they pocket the other
two-thirds and tell the boss politicians
they carry your vote in their pockets
and that you do not want positions for
yourselves, sons and your young men?
A Foraker and Rose Club was organ
ized some time ago. Two prominent
(?) members went after money to
support said club and did not
get it. At the club’s following
meeting it adjourned sine die. If the
Republican party or any other party
wants our support we have got to see
our young men gel something more
substantial than a cigar or a couple of
glasses of beer. We want young men
of our race in these committee rooms
whenever they open. Not one, but
young men, please don't forget it. We
don't beg it either; we demand it. If
the Republican party will not give it,
they will miss a good part of the colored
vote, just as they have repeatedly missed
the German vote. We are voicing
the sentiments of every loyal and in
telligent colored man in the State and
not the sentiments of obligated or
bought voters. The colored people as
a mass have always supported the Re
publican party. Many have been in
sulted, wounded, and numerous indeed
are those in the south, who have been
killed, because they held the Republi
can ticket in their hands. But by con
tinually ignoring the colored vote, in
sulting the colored intelligent young
men by janitorships while, in almost
the same breath, placing young white
men, their inferiors intellectually, into
clerkships, the Republican party leaders
are driving the colored vote from its
ranks. Irish and German clubs get
money in goodly sums, fat positions for
some of its members, and in fact al
most anything they want. But the
Negro voter is ignored or insulted with
a few paltry dollars. Young colored
voters arise, be men, get what is justly
your due or make some one feel your
weight. V’e demand something sub
stantial. The colored vote of Ohio can
turn the election any way. The colored
vote of Cuyahoga County can make it
exceedingly unpleasant for somebody.
Do not be willingly ignorant and think
for a moment that one, two or three,
or a half-dozen colored men carry the
colored vote in their pockets.
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The time for holding the National
Convention is almost at hand and, to all
appearances, Ohio is not to be repre
sented at all in this convention. The
questions that must arise in the con
vention involve principles that will
affect us and future generations. Ohio
is entitled to four delegates, if we re
member correctly, in which case
northern Ohio is entitled to at least one
of these delegates. Cannot some way
be devised by which we of northern
Ohio can choose and send our delegate
if southern Ohio is not inclined to do
so? The prime objects of this conven
tion are, to consider our present status
as a factor in the general common
wealth, to devise means of bettering
our position and welfare, to take steps
to put these devises into action and to
consider a plan for the industrial edu
cation of the coming Negro. If any
thing is to be done, it must be done
hastily, as there remains but a short
time before the convening of the dele
gates in Louisville. Here is a chance
for our rising young men to use the
ability and talent of some one of their
number. .
—Lynchings are becoming so com
mon in the West that housewives are
afraid to leave their clothes-line out
over night. In the morning they might
find it a mile away with a man hanging
to the end.— Troy (N. Y.) Times.
—The Burlington Hawk-Eye predicts
that by next season society will be so
artificial that the unrepresentable dam
sel will remain in her cottage and send
her photograph into the sun.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Jtidffß Mills’ lieeuloii in d Ultli iti«tii■
Case—The National Convention—Per
sonals.
Washington; D. C., Aug 20.
Foreigners who visit Washington say
that already it rivals in beauty and
magnificence the famous capitals of the
Cast; Its Streets and avenues are wide
and well shaded, its paved thorough
fares are not surpassed by those of any
citv in the world. The new public
buildings, namely, the State and Navy
Departments, .the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, and the National Museum
add much to the beauty of the city.
Extensive improvements have recently
been made in the Capitol and agricul
tural grounds. Parks are located in
every part of the city, so that Washing
ton may appropriately be called the
city of public parks. Before the war,
it used to be said that, take away the
public buildings from Washington, and
nothing of importance would remain.
This expression • is not heard now.
Slavery was the’eurse of the National
Capital, as it was of every part of the
United States where it gained a footing.
During Grant’s administration, “Boss
Shepherd,” as is well known, in oppo
sition to the pro-slavery spirit and
fogyism that then prevailed here, beau
tified the city by opening and grading
many of the streets. He, as it were, by
magic made what was once a dirty
mud-hole the attractive city that it now
is. True, we cannot boast of the ele
gant private residences that adorn
Cleveland and other large cities of the
North; but it must be remembered that
it is only since the war that capitalists
have thought it safe to invest here.
Many large and handsome private
buildings are being erected in various
sections of the city. Twenty years will
see vast improvements in buildings of
this character.
JUDGE MILLS’ DECISION.
Great interest is manifested in the de
cision rendered to-day in what, is known
as the civil rights case. Not long ago
Rev. J. 11. Smith, of Norwich, Conn.,
brought a case in the police court
against James W. Bell, a restaurant
keeperof No. 313 Pennsylvania Avenue,
claiming that he was refused accommo
dation by Bell on account of color.
Bell claimed that he did not refuse
Smith accomodation because of color,
but because it was about time to dose
the restaurant and further because
Smith was disorderly. There are many
keepers of restaurants and eating
houses in the city who refuse accom
modation in their places of business to
persons of color. They will not give color
as the reason, but invent some excuse
as in the case of Bell. Judge Mills de
cided in favor of the complainant, giv
ing Bell the option of paying SSOO, or
hiding himself in the district jail for
thirty days. An appeal was noted.
For the benefit of your Cleveland read
ers I send the closing part of the
Judge’s decision:
I am equally well satiefled that this violation
of that right was perpetrated from no other
consideration than that the plaintiff is a man
of color, and that the personal indignity
offered him proceeded solely from the same
cause.- The violation of the plaintiff’s legal
right to enter, on the same conditions us ot her
spectators enter, the place of public amUffe
ment managed by the defendant, renders the
hitter Hable to damages to the plaintiff, for
the act of the agent must be considered the
aet of the principal, and the Congress of the
United States legislates for the District of Co
lumbia making a parallel case. United States
vs. Newcomb, vol. 11, Philadelphia reports (510)
criminal is a case directly In point.
The people of our city, as well as of
the country, are anxiously looking for
ward to the National Convention of
colored men, which will meet in Louis
ville, Ky., on the 24th of September.
It was in Washington that the idea of a
convention was conceived. A com
mittee of twenty-five of our most in
fluential citizens was appointed by Capt
tain M. M. Holland, a gentleman well
known in Ohio, having been authorized
so to do by a resolution adopted at the
Emancipation Convention, held here in
April last. Our delegates are Hon.
Frederick Douglass, Kev. L. S. Laws
and Prof. James M. Gregory. The con
vention has a great work before it.
There are grave questions to be con
sidered— questions affecting the political
and civil rights of the colored people
the country over—questions in which
their educational and business interests
are concerned. Will the convention be
equal to the task? Let us give it
what sympathy and encouragement
we can. *
Washington has quite a deserted ap
pearance now, many of its citizens hav
ing gone to the seaside and to country,
resorts. The department clerk takes
his leave of absence usually in July or
August—from the 15th of July to the
15th of August is the time mostly pre
ferred. There are scarcely any of our
accomplished lady teachers in the city.
Several of them are conducting Teach
ers’ Institutes in Southern cities. Among
them notably are Miss Lucy E. Moten,
recently elected Principal of the
Washington Miner Normal School;
Miss Mattie Shadd, Miss Alice
Summervillp, Miss R. Coakley and
Miss Nichols. Hon. Frederick Dou
glass is recruiting his health in
Maine. Rev. F. J. Grimke and wife are
at Lincoln, in Virginia. Mrs. James
M. Gregory has been for two weeks at
Brightwood, in the District. Mr. George
H. Richardson is visiting his family in
Ohio. Miss M. B. Briggs, the newly
appointed principal of the normal de-
Sartment of Howard University is at
'ew Bedford, Mass. Minister J. M.
Langston is expected home next week
Register Bruce with his family will in a
few days leave for Ohio. It is expected
that the Register will take part in your
State campaign. Summer is the dull
season with us. Fall brings back our
people and winter brings Congress —
then it is that the Capital is attractive
to strangers. Some of our citizens
have (jount ry seats and are not compelled
to flea the District to escape the warm
Weather, Among those that may be
mentioned drd oiir highly respected
citizens, Hon. John F.- Cooky Collector
of Taxes; James Wormley, Sr., the
well-known proprietor of Wormley’s
Hotel,and his sons William and James T.
Mr. .(phn H. Nichols, formerly of Cleve
land, has a line country residence at
Brightwood, His amiable daughter,
Mrs. White, has just returned from the
Sorest City, where she has been visit
ing. She speaks in the highest terms
of Cleveland people and their hospi
tality.
There are a number of Clevelanders
residing here. It is our purpose in
another letter to speak of these persons
individually, so that our friends at
hometmay know how their absent ones
are prospering. More anon.
Capital. 7
What Shall we de With Our Boys?
What shall we do with our boys, is a
querj # that we hear daily. It is a ques
tion too of vital importance to us. Our
success as a race depends largely upon
the training of our boys. If we would
have strong and able men, we must
make our boys manly. Many a lad
has gone to the bad, because he has
been taught from his cradle, that a girl
is to be a model of virtue and refine
ment, but that a boy is born with a
license to do about as he desires. No
sadder mistake can be made.
It is not sufficient that the boy be sent
regularly to the day school. There
must be eternal vigilance at home.
The disposition of the boy to take ad
vantage of the weakness of his com
panious, to make too shrewd bargains,
must^pe discouraged. Economy must
be taught and gentlemanly bearing to
wardithose less fortunate than himself.
These seeming trifles, with many others
of a like nature, are necessary to the
make-up of a manly man.
As a rule our boys leave school at the
age 6f fourteen or fifteen to engage in
some employment, and too often this
employment is found in hotels and
club-rooms.
Here the boy earns money enough to
dress “a la mode” and has a trifle over
for cigars and theater tickets. In no
case will the sum earned compensate
for the extravagances and vices which
he has learned from contact with the
wealthy whites. If we would have the
colored laborer compete with the white
laborer, our boys must lie put, on farms
and into work-shops, where they may
be tr jght useful trades.
WTFftftnot make professional men of
all the bright and apt boys. We do
not want a race of professional men.
Where there seems to be a special fit
ness for some one of the professions,
we must teach the boy to feel that
poverty is not an insurmountable ob
■tacle to the yea’ S of study, that are
necessary to fit* him for his profession.
But we cannot, afford to make a poor
preacher of one who, with proper train
ing, would make a first-class machinist.
Nor is it wisdom to make a second-rate
'lawyer of a natural born blacksmith.
It is unfortunate for us that in a land
where there is a boast of freedom the
doors of almost every workshop seems
barred against the colored lad. Let us
not rest until the doors of every work
shop are opened and our boys are found
as apprentices to every useful trade.
Vigilance and determination of pur
pose will do much toward accomplish
ing the desired result. M.
SELF-EDUCATION,
Of the Slaves of Louisiana,
BY PAUL GASTON.
Part First—lntroduction.
The early history of Louisiana blends
the realities of truth with the poetry
and romance of the middle ages. The
chivalry of France and Spain watched
over the birth of the semi-tropical pro
vince with unfeigned solicitude. Kings
and statesmen fostered its infantile
growth, and the treasures of Louis le
Grand were lavishly expended to secure
its successful development. Every ef
fort which wealth, power or personal
influence could exert was indefatigably
employed to render this fertile colony
one of the most favored in the Western
empire.
Three hundred years and over have
elapsed since its mighty forests, its end
less swamps and its majestic rivers
were crossed bv De Soto and his little
band of heroic adventurers, who return
ing after a fruitless search for gold,
worn out by toil and disappointment,
found at last a resting place beneath
the tumultuous waves of the “Father of
Waters,” which he was the first to dis
cover.
A century and a half later, other ad
venturous spirits attempted the explora
tion and settlement of the province.
The Jesuits of France had already pen
etrated to Lake Superior, whence de
scending southward they made the voy
age of the mighty river, and mapped
out the country from the Falls of St.
Anthony to the Mexican Gulf.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Sam. Lucas, the comedian, has a
daughter, a contralto of considerable
merit.
Blind Tom is studying in New York
this summer.
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, of
Washington, is a talented dramatic
reader, who in company with Miss Ade
liade G. Smith, an excellent soprano,
and Fred. P. White, pianist, has been
making a tour through the New En
gland States, under the management of
Wm. H. Dupree and James M. Trotter,
the author of the nook on the musical
people of our race.
Logan Mitchell and H. C. Boston are
traveling through the West with a
musical company.
Some musicians (?) are so high
toned that they deem it beneath their
dignity to compose or to play dance
music” or to sing a ballad. In their
conceit it is the easiest thing in the
world to compose a good waltz, polka
or ballad, and if they would but try
they could shake dozens of such pieces
out of their sleeves. It being so easy a
labor in their sight, they consider it be
neath the dignity of a musician who
cherishes any art aspirations whatso
ever, to write such music. Well, let
us hear Mozart’s words about dance
music. He said that no one could be a
good composer who could not write a
pretty dance tune. Mozart wrote a
great deal of dance music, and some of
it paid him well. Yes, Beethoven,
Scmibert, Weber and others did not
despise the dance form, and having
written dance music, of course they ex
f)Bctcd it to be played.
We must not overlook the fact that
men like the Strausses, Gnngl, Lanner,
Labitsky, and a few others were cele
brated as dance music composers. It
would, indeed, have added more to the
credit of these high-toned musical
scholars had they produced one good
waltz, instead ot the dry and wearisome
pieces they squeezed out of their brains.
When listening to such compositions
one feels at once that the free flow of
ideas is lacking. ’Tis indeed bettef to
write a good dance tune than a bad
sonata, and so it is more to one’s credit
to play a waltz well than to play a
sonata poorly. We have not the space
in this issue to give the names of the
numerous old.masters who are quite as
celebrated for their simple and melodi
ous ballads as they are for theirsonatas,
adagios, etc. A great many young
musicians wish to be known as the
players of classical music. It is well
enough to be able to perform that class
of music, but it is not the kind that
delights the public audiences. It is a
bore, both to the player and his audi
enee. Not one person in live hundred
can listen to that class of music and be
pleased. Not one in every five of these
high-toned musicians who are continu
ally speaking of dance music and bal
lads as beneath their dignity can ren
der a piece of classical music passably
well, if at all.
Charles McAffee amj A. Bowman have
a small orchestra at Lit tle Mountain.
H. C. Smith has received an “offer”
to travel with the musical company that
L. Mitchell and H. C. Boston are with.
Harrison Millard has set Unefe Tom's
Cabin to music, and the opera was
given in Toronto, Canada, on the 26th
of June. The press speaks very highly
of the new work. What New York will
say concerning it remains to be seen.
Miss’ Alice Strange, who is visiting
Mrs. J. Harvey Jackson, of Sterling
avenue, is a pupil of Prof. Bischof).
Washington’s famous blind pianist, and
is one of Washington’s finest, young
musicians.
A colored opera troupe on a grand
scale will openshortly inNew York City,
under the management of the Frohman
Brothers. Madame Solika and Samp
son Williams were engaged by cable
from Paris, and in addition to them the
following artists will complete the.com
pany: Miss Madah Hyers, soprano;
Mr/Wallace King, tenor; Miss Louise
Hyers, contralto; Mr. Lewis Brown and
W. W. Morris, baritones, the latter
director, and Mr. Thomas Waddy,
basso. The chorus and orchestra will
be complete in every particular and
consist of forty people. Mr. Charles
Hicks sailed for Paris, July 7, to ar
range the details.
Paul Molyneaux Hewlet is a rising
young colored tragedian and author
who is captivating a udiances in London,
England, by his line impersonation of
Shakespeare’s famous valiant Moor,
Othello. Paul Molyneaux Hewlet—
better known at his former home, Cam
bridge, near Boston, as Paul Molyneaux,
—is a son of the late Prof. Molyneaux,
formerly teacher of sparring and for a
long time director or manager of the
gymnasium of Harvard College—a man
of good, athletic form and excellent
ability in his chosen art, of which latter,
hundreds of Harvard students availed
themselves quite advantageously. The
following is from two English
journals. Says one of these journals:
“Every one has heard of the conscien
tious actor who blacked himself all
over in order to do justice to the part
of Othello. Mr. Paul Molyneaux has
no need to resort to such a device.
Nature has endowed him with all the
physical qualifications—a fine presence,
a sonorous voice and last but not least,
a dark skin—requisite for depicting the
famous Moor. Nor is he unable to ap
preciate or incompetent to realize the
stormy passions that reigned in Othello’s
breast. His impersonation was at all
times careful and conscientious; it was
occasionally very impressive.” And
the other journal says: “On Fri
day Mr. Paul Molyneaux gave one
of the best, if not the best, impersona
tion of the Moor we ever saw. The
jealousy and anguish were depicted in
a manner beyond praise. The whole
heart and soul of the actor was thrown
into the cL .raeter and the result was
perfection. Mr. Molyneaux has the
advantage of being half caste. The
African Roscius (Aldridge), years since
played the same character, but we ven
ture to say, not with that finished skill
and deep pathos which characterizes
this gentleman.”— Extract front James
M. Trotter's letter in the N. K Globe.
The editor shall endeavor to make
this column as interesting as possible
for all lovers of music ana drama,
NO. L
Base Ball.
The Geneva’s are anxious to have the
Blue Stockings of this city visit them
and play two match games of base
ball.
The Cincinnati’s are anxious to play
the Bluestockings and have challenged
them. Likewise, the Louisville’s are
after the Blue Stocking base ball club.
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