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The Cleveland Gazette.
VOL. L—NO. 5.
PROJECTED SLAUGHTER.
SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS MUST GO.
Their Places Wanted for Chalmers,
Cash Ac Co.—Reasons for the Latest
Con* d’Btat of Mr. Arthur’s Mana*
Kers—A summary of the Situation at
the Mouth.
Trom the New York Globe.
The Washington Republican of to
<day contains an editorial so replete
with significance that I would suggest
its reproduction to the end that it may
be extensively circulated among Reptib
licans at the South, who will then dis
■cover the low repute in which they are
held by Mr. Arthur’s administration.
"The Republican has a meagre circula
tion in the South, probably not exceed
ing seyenty-five or one hundred. The
■editorial in question is the quintessence
of audacity and mendacity. It openly
and heartlessly counsels the dismissal
of all Republican office-holders at the
South, and the appointment of men
like Chalmers, Cash and the like in
their stead. I learn from a source
worthy of the highest credence that
the political editors of the Republican
were closeted with Mr. Arthur on Sat
urday, when the Southern question was
-discussed and the determination arrived
at that the Southern Republicans
“must go.”
It appears that the President’s po
litical managers have at last come to
the conclusion that Mr. Arthur cannot
hope to control more than fifty Southern
votes in the next convention, and they
will be given by Collectors of Internal
Revenue and Customs, United States
Marshals and Postmasters of large cities,
■while the vast majority of the votes will
be freely given toGeneral Lpgan. With
a view to combatting this anti-Arthur
state of affairs, it has been determined
to slaughter the old Republican leaders
and throw the party into the hands of
the Independents of the South, feeling
that nothing is to be lost and much to
be gained by such a movement. The
ostensible reason given for this coup
d'etat is that several Southern States
■can thus be voted for the Republican
party. Mr. Mahone and his Readjust
-ers will be welcomed to the National
Republican Convention, to the exclusion
•of the Blaine Republicans, and it is ex
pected that Chalmers, of Mississippi,
and Cash, of South Carolina, will head
Independent delegations from their re
spective States.
I admit that the problem is difficult
•of solution, but I protest against the
projected wholesale slaughter of South
ern Republicans merely to see if Mr.
Arthur’s prospects for receiving the
nomination cannot be brightened by
the promised support of Chalmers, Cash
& Co. I have known for several months
-that the Administration had made up
its mind to cast the Southern party
managers overboard. A significant straw
in that direction was when Postmaster
General Gresham told General Jack
Brown, of Georgia, that “all Southern
Republicans are d n scoundrels.”
"Therefore, I am not surprised at the re
sult arrived at by Mr. Arthur, which is
.so brazenly asserted editorially in to
day’s National Republican. Southern
Republicans should carefully read and
ponder upon that article. They are
therein denounced as “Bourbon allies”
and “political eunuchs.” And what has
been the sum of Southern Republican
-offending? Nothing, save that they have
not been able to keep their States in the
Republican column, despite the Bour
bon shot-guns and tissue ballots.
But how anomalous the situation.
Behold Arthur hobnobbing with ques
tionable characters like Hampton and
Vest. Reflect upon the ease with which
a Democrat can get a position un
der this administration. Behold Wade
Hampton compelling Arthur to give a
lucrative appointment to a renegade
Republican, Nat Myers, of Beaufort,
S. C., whose sole merit was that he be
trayed Chamberlain and rendered the
•counting in of Hampton as Governor
in 1877 possible. Behold the shotgun
Democracy —the followers of Lee,
Jackson and Johnston—armed, drilled
and equipped, ready to murder in the
interest of fraudulent elections. The
.same elements which routed the Fed
eral soldiery in the late war are blended
at the South to prevent Republicans
from voting, and their leaders are men
now in Congress—the Hamptons, But
lers, Becks, Colquitts, Vests, etc.
When these leaders reach Washington
they are wined and dined by Arthur &
Co. They are virtually commended
for their success in stifling the Republi
can vote at the South. When all of
these agencies combined result in the
overthrow of the Republican party
there, Arthur and Co. affect to be in
dignant and denounce Southern Repub
lican leaders as “political eunuchs.”
Never was greater political apostacy
practiced. Southern thieves and thugs
are encouraged by Northern Republi
can managers to intimidate and over
awc Southern Republicans, and when
the work has been satisfactorily per
formed Arthur & Co. emerge from
their places and cry out against South
ern Republicans, “turn them out,”
“crucify them.”
But let Southern Republicans remain
steadfast in the faith. They are now
being kicked and cuffed by Arthur and
his men, Gorham and Hatton, but the
day is not far distant when these ma
ligners of better men than themselves
will be remanded to the obscurity of
ward politics. For downright effrontery
and unmitigated assininfty, commend
me to Arthur and his satelltes, Geo. C.
Gorham and Frank Hatton, the politi
cal editors of the organ which sails
through this mundane sphere over the
cognomen of the National Republican.
To sum up, as the lay were say, the
situation is this: The electoral fran
chise was conferred on the Negro by
the Republican party, which endeavored
to protect him in his prerogative by
amendments to the organic law. But
the Democratic managers at the South
very soon determined to render those
guarantees null and void. Murders be
came common at the South, and it is
safe to assert that since 1868 ten thou
sand colored and white Republicans
have been made to bite the dust for no
oftense save that they persisted in voting
the Republican ticket. For all these
murders' not one Democratic murderer
has been hanged. On the contrary we
have seen Mr. Arthur appoint
one General Ferguson —the head
of the Mississippi banditti—to a
position on the Eads Commission at
a salary of $5,000. This appointment
was recommended by Wade Hampton,
Hamburg Butler and L. Q. C. Lamar.
We behold red-handed murderers from
the South on the most intimate terms
with the Administration, and they are
permitted to persecute Republicans in
that section who have manhood enough
to denounce them and their villainous
methods. When Arthur junkets with
men like Vest and Hampton and treats
them like honorable men, it is not sur
prising that their Democratic constitu
encies should renew the old business of
killing such Republicans as persist in
voting their party’s ticket. The Demo
cratic leaders have shot the Republican
party at the South to death, and during
the shooting the said leaders have hau
the open sympathy and respect of the
Arthurs of the North, and now that
there is no longer any party to shoot,
Arthur, Chandler & Co. have deter
mined to make a new departure, and
permit the Cashes and Chalmers to get
possession of the pastures green, hop
ing that the killings may be renewed,
thus again exemplifying the truth of the
old declaration that the blood of the
martyr is the seed of the church.
Southern Republicanism will never be
come respectable so long as a Federal
President persists in hobnobbing with
Democratic leaders, whose seats in
Congress are secured by murder, in
timidation and fraud. Senex.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 10.
Our Wealthy Colored Men —How is This
for a Negro Problem Item I
Washington, D. 0., Sept. 18.
The Lounger on the Avenue to-day
tells the following story: “Those who
see the typical colored citizen, in the
bootblacker or as an artistic operator
with the whitewash brush, will be sur
prised to learn that among them, North
and South, are some very wealthy men.
The richest man of color in America is
probably Mr. Aristide Meriet, of New
Orleans. He was a large slave owner
before the war, and his income from his
property in New Orleans is not less than
$40,000 a year. Besides this he has a
large personal estate, consisting of first
class securities. Mr. Meriet is a man of
fine accomplishments, a graduate of one
of the best institutions of France, and
lives abroad about half of each year. Mr.
B. F. Joubert, of Louisiana, is another
colored gentleman of handsome fortune,
also a former slave owner, though he and
Mr. Meriet were always free. He is so
nearly white that one would scarcely
take him to be colored, while Mr.
Meriet is a very decided brown. The
Dumas, pere et fils of New Orleans, are
very rich. Governor Pinchback is also
very well off—worth perhaps a quarter
of a million. There are half a dozen
others who have from SIOO,OOO to $200,-
000 each. In New York I Know of at
least a dozen colored men who have
from SIOO,OOO to $500,000. There are
two who are physicians whose profes
sional incomes are $25,000 a year. Mr.
Roselle, a barber in Williamsburg, N.
Y., recently died, leaving nearly half a
million dollars. Henry Thomas, for
years head waiter at the Grand Union
Hotel at Saratoga, and head waiter at
the Metropolitan Hotel in New York,
is worth $150,000. Dr. McDonald, of
New York, is worth $200,000, and Mrs
Gloster, of Brooklyn, is the wealthiest
of them all, her fortune being rated at
$1,000,000. John Tencyke is worth
$500,000. The wealthiest colored
planter in America died a year or
two ago. His name was Ben Mont
gomery. He began life as the body
servant of General Joe Davis, a brother
of Jefferson Davis. Ben Montgomery
owned the Hurricane estate, formerly
the property of Joseph and Jefferson
Davis, in Claiborne County, Mississip
pi. In 1863 he bought it of these gen
tlemen, giving them $300,000 for it,
without the slaves, of course. There
are ebree great cotton plantations in
this estate—Palmyra Island, Brierfields
and another, the name of which I can
not now recall. His crop used to be
1,800 bales of cotton a year, besides
corn and other products. Ben Mont
gomery’s credit was as high as that of
any planter in Mississippi, and he had
the good will and respect of all his
neighbors. Ex-Senator Bruce is also
a very successful planter, and owns
two very' large and valuable plantations
in Coahoma and Bolivar counties, Mis
sissippi. He is worth at least $200,000
and does not owe a cent to anyone.
Hon. B. K. Bruce, of Washington,
D. C., Hon. J. P. Green, of Cleveland,
0., and Rev. T. F. Hildreth, of Nor
walk, orate in the latter named place
on the 24th inst. The Excelsior Reed
and Brass Band will be in attendance.
There will also be a ball at night, with
music by the Excelsior Reed Band Or
chestra.
The Geneva Base Ball Club says that
they have repeatedly challenged the
Blue Stockings, of Cleveland, to play
one or more games, but they fail to
come to time.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1883.
OCR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The National Convention—Politics in
Ohio—Major Martin U. Delaney— Per
sonal— Hon. Amos Towrsend—Robert
Lincoln—Howard University.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 18,1883.
The National Convention is the all
absorbing topic of conversation in
Washington. It is discussed in the de
partments, in the hotels and on the
streets by the members of both parties.
Newspaper reporters seek interviews
with the delegates and prominent col
ored men. The anxiety thus exhibited
by the public shows that the Negro is
no longer regarded a cipher, but an im
portant element in the body politic.
Various reports have been put in circu
lation by those who are opposed to hold
ing the convention. They represented
that the Negro had all his political and
civil rights; was in a prosperous condi
tion North and South; was contented
and happy, and consequently there was
no need of a convention. They said that
it was an effort of ex-officeholders and
disappointed politicians to carry the
colored vote into the Democratic camp.
Failing in their object by such wicked
misrepresentation, and knowing that
Mr. Douglass, because of his promi
nence, age, experience and wisdom,
was the soul of the convention, these
same persons gave out that he would
not be able to attend on account of
sickness. The old man eloquent said
to your correspondent to-day that he
was enjoying excellent health, and, Deo
volente, would be on hand to call the
convention to order on the morning
of the 24th. A hall with a seat
ing capacity of fourteen hundred
persons has been engaged by the
local committee and complete arrange
ments made for the accommodation of
delegates. We are glad to learn that
Ohio has wheeled into line.
We notice that there is considerable
dissatisfaction in Ohio among colored
voters. They complain that in the ap
pointment of campaign and other com
mittees. and in the distribution of
offices, they do not receive proper rec
ognition from the Republican party,
with which they have uniformly voted.
It is not for an outsider to dictate what
should be the policy of colored men in
a particular State, nor do we advise
that they should blindly follow the dic
tates of any party. The people know
their grievance.^ and must understand
the situation better than one at a dis
tance. We should not forget, however,
that in a State or Presidential election
there may be general interests to be
subserved. The eyes of colored men
in the District and in the entire country
are turned to the political war being
waged in Ohio. Our wish is that you
may in this matter act wisely and with
? roper regard for your real interests.
he question of paramount importance
is what will be gained by colored voters
if they, by apathy, or by casting their
votes fbr the candidates of the opposite
party, allow the Democrats to get con
trol of the State ? Will the condition
of the colored people be improved in
any respect? Let the colored voter put,
the following question to the Democrat
ic party and have it answered before
he affiliates with them : Is the Demo
cratic party ready to break away from
its old traditions and recognize the Ne
gro as a man with all the rights of an
American citizen ? If an affirmative
answer is obtained, let that party
shows its sincerity by its works. The
truth is, the Republicans cannot afford
to be defeated in the coming election.
Too much is at stake. We counsel har
mony. We advise the party to consider
the grievances of its black ally. Do
not rudely thrust him aside, for he is
your friend and will remain faithful to
you if you but meet him half way. As
the canvas progresses we trust we shall
read in the columns of the Gazette
that all differences in the party through
out the State have been amicably set
tled.
Your .readers will indulge a former
resident of your city if he delays to say
a word of his old home. We were al
ways kindly treated in the Forest City,
and welcomed on each return 10, these
many years. Ingratitude has been
called the basest of crimes, and Cleve
landers shall never have cause to lay
that charge at my door. In our judg
ment Cleveland is the best city in the
country for colored men to live, so far
tw privileges are concerned. Its public
schools were free to the children of all
races without any discrimination when
the neighboring cities kept up a sepa
rate school system. Its hotels, restau
rants and places of amusement for
many years have been open to all alike.
Colored men have conducted business
and acquired property in your midst.
I remember Major Martin R. Delaney
visited Cleveland just after his appoint
ment in the army. He said in a public
speech to a crowded audience in the
old hall on Superior Street, that he had
come all the way from Washington to
have his military suit made by a colored
man, as Cleveland was then the only
city west of New IRork that could boast
of a colored man conducting a first
class tailoring establishment. Your
respected citizen, F. H. Morris, was the
gentleman to whom Major Delaney re
ferred. Mr. J. H. Hope has carried on
the boot and shoe business in your city
with great success. The bakery and
grocery establishment of Mr. Frederick
Valentine on Garden Street has grown
to magnificent proportions. Mr. Gre
gory on Erie Street has been a success^
ful grocer ever since we can remem
ber. Dr. Wilson enjoys the well
earned reputation of a first-class den
tist. Hon. John P. Green was elected
three consecutive times Justice of the
Peace, and afterwards honored by his
fellow-citizens with a seat in the Ohio
Legislature. There are other colored
men, beside those named, engaged in
business, and the owners of valuable
real estate. Of these it is our intention
to speak particularly at another time.
Before we take up other topics, how
over, we wish to mention the name of
one of your honored citizens* who
throughout his congressional career
was true to his colored constituency.
He secured appointments for two gen
tlemen, now clerks in the Treasury De
partment. Through his influence a
young man was appointed a clerk in
the War Department, and another a
clerk in the postal service. There are
other cases, but of these we can not
speak of our personal knowledge. We
shall not forget the manner in which
Hon. Amos Townsend, for this is the
Sentleman to whom we refer, intro
uced the writer to the late lamented
President Garfield and to Secretary
Blaine. It was just after the 4th of
March when there was a great rush for
place. Some Congressmen have one
w'ay to introduce a white and another
a colored constituent. Not so with
Mr. Townsend. Not long ago, Mr.
Neal, an Ohio Republican, at the
head of the District Committee, en
deavored to fasten upon the people of
the District odious legislation in the
form of a law making provision for a
continuance of the separate school sys
tem A committee consisting of Hon.
Frederick Douglass, Prof. R. T. Green
er, F. G. Barbadoes, John F. Cook,
George T. Downing, Prof. James M.
Gregory, Milton M. Holland, Prof.
Wifey Lane, Dr. C. B. Purvis and Wil
liam H. Smith waited upon the chair
nian of the committee to have the lan
guage of the contemplated law
changed. Mr. Neal insulted the com
mittee. He said we should not go too
fust. We ought to remember that the
race with which we were identified had
been emancipated only twenty years
He would vote for the section as it
stood in the bill. The committee said
that Mr. Neal must go. Well, I believe
he got left in the last nomination for
Congressman in his district. When
the same committee waited upon Mr.
Townsend, he said, “I am in favor of
common schools, and a separate school
is not a common school. Congress has
no right to appropriate public funds to
keep up a system of caste. If there
are persons who wish a separate school,
let them pay for it out of their private
means. I will vote to strike the objec
tional clause from the bill.” The bill
never passed.
Presidential candidates are coming
Ao the front. When we were looking
through the office of Secretary Lincoln
the other day, we asked our escort how
colored employes fared under the Sec
retary. Said he, “VVe have had no
Secretary that dispensed the patronage
of this office to colored men so liberal
ly as does Mr. Lincoln; and what is
more,” he added, “Robert Lincoln will
be the next President of the United
States. Don’t you forget it.” Many
are of the opinion that Governor Ben
jamin Butler would receive a large part
of the colored vote if nominated.
These are the two candidates that we
hear most frequently mentioned by col
ored men in Washington. Messrs.
Douglass and Bruce have been
named for Vice-President by in
dividual admirers of these gentlemen.
We are inclined to think it would not
be a bad idea for the colored press of
the country to agitate the question of
having a colored man for the second
place on the National Republican tick
et. Let us fight it out on this line, if it
takes all summer. We may not agree
upon the particular man, but we can
upon the idea. Let there be unanimi
ty. Remember the old adage, in
union there is strength. Sometimes the
same truth appears more forcible if put
in a negative form—there is weakness
in disunion.
Mr. Newall H. Ensley has resigned
the place of assistant teacher in the
normal department of Howard Univer
sity to accept the Chair of Languages
in Alcorn University. Howard Univer
sity is to have an industrial department.
Superintendent Mitchell, of Cincinnati,
will take charge and expects to open
the department October 1, beginning
with a printing-office, tin, carpenter
and shoe-shop. Industrial schools of
late have come into great prominence.
It has been found that large numbers of
young people who graduate from our
institutions of learning form a distaste
for manual labor. The sons of the
rich, brought up in idleness, often turn
out spendthrifts and debauchees. After
graduation the children of parents in
ordinary circumstances, failing to se
cure some lucrative position and re
fusing to follow the callings of their
fathers and mothers, degenerate into
blackguards and loafers. Before the
war Southern gentlemen were not
taught trades. It was considered dis
honorable for a gentleman to work
with his hands. Most of the labor,
skilled and unskilled, was done by col
ored men. In consequence some of
the best mechanics in the South to-day
are members of the colored race. But
there is a change in the condition of
things. Now throughout the country
the doors are closed to the colored
youth. Coming out of school he finds
it difficult to obtain employment unless
he engages in school-teaching or se
cures a Government position. Trades
will prove to be the salvation of the
rising generation. Capital.
Suggestion for the Colored Convention,
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Negro has a vote, and that will
bring him political respect. His good
conduct and increased intelligence only
can bring him individual respect, and
the latter it is which he most needs to
cultivate, and to further which his
racial conventions, when held, ought to
be directed.
THE HAITIAN INSURRECTION.
Minister Langston Not Confident as to
the Success of the Salomon Adminis
tration, Though it Claims to be O. K.
From the Courier-Journal.
Washington, Sept. 5.
The Hon. John M. Langston, United
States Minister to Hayti, h*s arrived in
Washington on a leave of absence. He
says that when he left Port au Prince
there appeared to be a prospect that
President Salomon’s administration
might succeed in maintaining its au
thority and pulling down the revolu
tionists, who, under the lead of Boyer
Bazelais, have kept the field for more
than a year and now hold military pos
session of three important towns and
fiorts of Merigane, Jeremie and Jacmel.
t is apparent that Minister Langston
does not feel very confident that the
Government will triumph. Its revenues
are derived wholly from taxes on im
ports and exports, and with several im
portant ports in the hands of the insurg
ents or others in a state oi siege or
blockade, and a large portion of the re
public in a condition of turmoil,
business of every kind is, of
course, greatly • disturbed, where
it is not wholly paralyzed. Still,
Mr. Langston says he was informed
two or three days before he sailed, by
President Salomon that money was
coming in in sufficient amounts to meet
the necessities of the Government, not
withstanding the extraordinary ex
penses required for military establish
ments and operations. Mr. Langs
ton, therefore, does not ap
pear to regard the financial
condition of the Haytian Government
as by any means desperate. The max
imum strength of the regular army is
16,000 men. There is besides a general
guard, a portion of which has been
called into active service, while the re
mainder is armed and held in readiness
to resist attack and quell symptoms of
disaffection. While the Government
troops are well armed, mainly with
Remington and Winchester arms pur
chased in the United States, they are
not very well drilled, nor are they
highly disciplined. In other words,
while they will do very well for skirmish
ing or to stand behind defenses and repel
attacks, they cannot be depended upon
to assault a fortified place which is de
fended with fair determination.
The three towns before mentioned as
in possession of the insurgents have
been strongly fortified by them, and it
seems hardly probable that they can be
carried by a land assault by any force
at the disposal of the Haytian authori
ties. The insurgents are destitute of
any naval force, and the Government
seems to be nearly as badly off. The
blockade is scarcely more than a “paper
blockade,” and is effective only because
other powers choose to respect it and
the insurgents have nothing afloat to
interfere with it. Both sides have been
trying to obtain one or more armed ves
sels. The Government requires three
in order to make its blockade effective
and to reduce the fortified towns now'
held by the insurgents. The leader of
the revolutionists, Boyer Bazelais, is
described by Mr. Langston as a man of
great ability. He is a mulatto and is
the leader of the Liberal party in Hayti.
When Baizroud Canal was President,
Bazelais was the leader of the Chamber
of Deputies, and was regarded as one
of the ablest statesmen aud lawyers of
his country. He has many sympathizers
throughout the Republic, but they are
kept quiet by the severe representative
measures of the Government.
Mr. Langston thinks President Salo
mon, who is the leader of the N ational
party, the foremost black man in the
world. He is of pure Negro blood, anil
a thoroughly educated and highly pol
ished man. He has traveled extensive
ly in Europe, and when John A. Hix
was the United States Minister to
France. Salomon was the Haytian rep
resentative to the same country, and
they became very warm personal
friends. President Salomon is regard
ed as the leader and representative of
the pure Negro population of the Re
public, while Bazelais bears the •same
relation to the people of mixed blood.
The present attempt to revolutionize
Hayti, Mr. Langston says, differs from
all which have preceded it. A Haytian
insurrection is usually successful at the
very outset-Oi else itis very soon put
down. The present attempt to revolu
tionize the Government began about
eighteen months ago, and the move
ment appears to have gained rather
than lost strength and vitality down to
the present time.
The Mixed School Problem in Wyan
dotte.
Mr. Tilford Davis, Sr., took Tilford
D., Jr., to the high school Monday and
asked that he be admitted on the
ground that he had completed the
course in the ward schools, and no ar
rangement had been made for colored
children taking a higher course in the
colored schools.
The boy was refused by the teachers,
and Prof. Sherman, the Superintendent,
was appealed to, who refused also, be
cause he had received no orders from
the board admitting colored pupils.
The matter has been referred to a spe
cial meeting of the board for arbitra
tion.
And yet there area few numbskulls
left who are in favor of separate schools.
The facilities are never quite so good for
educating colored children as for white.
The teachers may be as proficient
and the appointments as good in the
way of buildings and apparatus, but the
buildings are farther apart, which com
pels the children to walk farther to get
to school, and the grading more defi
cient for the same reason. Besides,
high school privileges are seldom offered
in a separate school, Cincinnati, Louis
ville and Washington, D. C., excepted.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ODB WESTERN LETTER.
Colored State Teachers’ Association—
The National Conventton.
Special to the Gazette.
Central Missovrt. '
A few weeks ago your first Columbus
correspondent was in Ohio enjoying the
salubrious climate and genial society of
that State, but now he is transported to
the soil of Missouri and ranges in a
lovely “burg” near St. Louis, übiquit
ously watching the newsy waves as they
roll in from the far West. While on a
flying trip to the “future great city”
Saturday, we tumbled across an old
friend from Cincinnati who mad® the
short period I had to stay in the city
very pleasant. In the course of our
conversation I was informed that a
great movement was on foot among
the teaching fraternity of the SL
Louis colored schools and their
friends to organize a Colored State
Teachers’ Association. The prime
object of the body is to create a strong
sentiment in the Commonwealth toplace
the colored schools all over the State on
substantial financial and educational
basis, and to secure a harmonious, uni
form mutual improvement of their in
structors. The call is made for Decem
ber 26, at Jefferson City, and will
probably be in session three days. Suc
cess cap not but attend this gathering
when such a worker as Mr. Inman Page,
President of Lincoln Institute, is at the
helm. It is to this gentleman the estab
lishment of the St. Louis schools is due,
and no doubt he and others will exer
cise the same influence in the “ides”
of December next. We would urge our
teachers in every section of the State to
make an eftbrt to meet us at the Capital.
We often clamor for advancement of
the race. Certainly no greater advance
ment could be made than in the above
named direction.
And further, a State Association is
something long needed in Missouri to
aid in working out the slave-stained
prejudice that occasionally shows its
heinous form in many localities. To
this end an educated rising generation
must demolish the barrier. Among
those who have signified an intention of
attendance are Charles Newton, of No.
1 school, St. Louis; R. H. Cole, No. 8
school, St. Louis; Hutchings Inge, No.
3 school, St. Louis; Joseph Pelham,
Principal of school at Hannibal, Mo.;
Geo. W. Mitchell, Principal of school
at Central<Mo.; and E. O. Trent, Prin
cipal of school at Allenton, Mo. We
wish the pedagogues a pleasant time.
While talking about conventions, it
may not be amiss to mention that the
State Central Committee have elected
the following persons to the Louisville
National Convention of the 24th insk :
J. H. Cole, Fulton; J. D. Brown, Kan
sas City; Charlton Tandy, J. Milton
Turner, St. Louis; P. H. Murray, Cote
Brilliante; W. H. Bell, Kirkwood;
Charles H. Tvler, J. W. Wilson, of St.
Louis, and Benjamin Girardeau, of
Cape Girardeau, were elected as dele
gates at large. With such an array of
able and intelligent men from Mis
souri, the citizens of the State can en
tertain no fears of being well repre
sented in the great National meeting of
Negro Americans. G. W. M.
HOW NOW!
We see by most unreliable corres
pondence to the New York Globe—un
reliable because without signature or
means of telling from whence it came—
that Bill Pledger is held up as a man of
great influence in the Republican party
and more especially of his race of
Georgia, and expressing a desire that
the National Colored Convention take
some action in regard to the ill-treat
ment he received at the hands of Presi
dent Arthur. This blind follower of
Bill Pledger is either ignorant of his
true character or he is of the same
metal. We say. had President Arthur
ignored the substantiated charges that
were preferred against Bill Pledger and
recognized him as the Globe corres
pondent laments, the Negroes of
Georgia would have sunk into a most
despicable state of corruption. If
“Sirius” desires the true character of
Bill Pledger let him examine the files
of the Executive Department and care
fully peruse the sworn allegations made
by the leading men of his race and
party of Georgia. If he is not con
vinced then let him visit Georgia and
examine the little “tin box” of the old
Ninth District.— Athens (Ga.) Record.
More School Trouble.
The following item, clipped from the
St. Louis, Mo., Contributor, one of the
leading and most influential colored
papers of that city, in regard to edu
cational advantages, completely takes
the fur oft the public school system of
Georgia, from the fact that we are not
quite as destitute of educational advan
tages here, although there is much
room for improvement. The item wa
refer to reads as follows: “Our educa
tional advantages are poor enough in
this city. Heaven knows. Between two
and three hundred children are in the
western part of the city with no school
at all. Five hundred voters have asked
and asked the School Board to give
them the necessary accommodations,
but up to date there has been no an
swer to the petition.”
Notice.
All persons, and particularly our ex
changes, must place our full address
upon letters and papers sent to the Ga
zette.
James M. Trotter, the author of the
Musical History, will soon take the
road with his combination, “The Vin
ton Davis Troupe.”