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kand Gazette, 326 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland-
The Hon. J. P. Green orates at Nor
walk next Monday.
Governor Butler, of Massachu
setts, has nominated Edward G. Walker,
a colored lawer, Judge of the Charles
town District Court.
Hon. J. P. Green was renominated
by acclamation in the Republican Con
vention last Saturday, and “made the
best speech that was made in said Con
vention,” says the Courier. Right you
are.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Globe was a little too
previous when he said the “Hon. B. K.
Bruce is making effective speeches in
the Ohio campaign.”
Rev. J. W. Gazaway, of Spring
field, well known because of his con
nection with the Gazaway vs. School
Board of Springfield case, takes the
pastorship of St. John’s A. M. E.
Church, to-morrow.
It is expected that Professor R. T.
Greener will shortly take up his resi
dence in the State of Maryland, prob
ably in one of the counties bordering
on the District of Columbia, so as to be
within a convenient distance of his law
office in Washington, D. C.
Judging from the manner in which
some person was canvassing the city
the earlier part of the past week, trying
to find colored men “who would attend
the State Convention, which was held
at Columbus Thursday, if their expenses
were paid," wq came to the conclusion
that there was something brewing.
The Chicago Conservator came to us
the past week with a long account of
the “violent opposition of the Bruce
and Douglass adherents,” in an edi
torial upon the National Convention,
which is to be held next Monday in
Louisville. Says our esteemed cotem
porary:
One class of colored men claim Bruce is
the leading American Negro, and the other
declares for Douglass. Nearly every
movement of importance among the col
ored people flndsitself shaped by this fight.
The talk of Bruce for Vice-President, prior
to the last Presidential campaign, was in
furtherance of the plan to down the “Old
Man Eloquent.” Garfield faced the fight
and was obliged to split the difference,
giving Douglass the more money and Bruce
the more honor. Then matters rested
reasonably quiet until the colored Press
Convention at Washington in June of last
year. It was then a well-known fact that
.he harmony of the convention was de
•jtroyed by the “log rolling” of the re
spective adherents. The Bruce men finally
won, electing Pledger, of Georgia, as Presi
dent.
Matters moved quietly ui itil the colored
convention was called. Douglass signed
the call, and of course Bruce saw the pro
verbial colored gentleman “in the fence.”
Few who know Douglass believe him guilty
of trying to y it up a job on Bruce, but the
adherents o' the Register did, and began
immediate ■ ar upon the movement. Hence
came the dispatches that a second meeting
of “prominent colored men of Washing
ton” denounced the firstcalland proceeded
to issue another call. Then came the elec
tion of delegates at Washington. ,
For some unaccountable reason we
fail to see what Ex-Senator, or rather
Register, Bruce has ever done that leads
any class of colored men to claim him
as the leading American Negro over
Frederick Douglass.
It is true that he holds ahd has held
prominent positions, and without a
doubt is doing all in his powef to ele
vate his race, but then look at Doug
lass’ record; has he not held prominent
positions? Does he not do all in his
power to elevate the race? How well
he has succeeded can only be com
pared to the- familiarity of his name
to our people. There is hardly a col
ored person or child in this broad land
to whom the name, Frederick Doug
lass. is not almost as familiar as its
parents’, so long, and so faithfully,
and so successfully has the “Old Man
Eloquent” championed the cause of his
people. No colored man, prominent or
otherwise, has ever, up to the present
daV, reached the high estimation in
which Frederick Douglass is justly
held by his people. Register Bruce
is not a more able man than
Douglass, and there is »ot
a colored man living who can lay
as much claim to the leadership of our
people as can Frederick Douglass, al
thoughjwe may have men of broader
learning. Register Bruce is one of our
prominent colored men to whom we
refer always with a certain amount of
pride. Also Elliott, Lynch, Greener
and a score of others, but none of them
have the hold upon the the hearts of
our people as does the veteran, Hon.
FrederickjDouglass, Register of Deeds.
STATE CONVENTION.
A Most Disgusting Carnival—Wrangling.
Jangling and Finally Bolting—A Re
publican Meeting-A Disgraceful Af
fair.
A most disgusting carnival called a
State Convention took place at Colum
bus Thursday. H. A. Clark, of Cin
cinnati, called the delegates to order at
ten a. m. After wrangling and jangling
for two hours the convention adjourned
until two p. m. There seems to
have been trouble about the
time of calling the convention,
for at two p., m. fresh arrivals in the
persons of W. S. Thomas, Rev. Poin
dexter, J. H. Raney, J. G. Brown et
al., took possession' and . turned the
farce into a Republican meeting, elects
ing Rev. Poindexter, of Columbus,
chairman. H. A. Clark and a number
of others bolted this aggregation, as
sembled in the Board of Trade rooms
and elected the following delegates to
the National Convention:
For Southern Ohio, Peter H. Clark,
Cincinnati; for Northern Ohio, Richard
A. Jones, Cleveland; for Eastern Ohio,
A. J. Davidson, of Athens; for Central
Ohio, J. Allen Ross, of Troy.
The Republican meeting portion of
the convention adopted the following
resolutions:
Whereas, The United States are not a
confederation of States, but a Nation,
whose fundamental law knows no citizen
by his race, or nationality, or color, but ex
acts of all equal duties and guarantees
equal rights and privileges; and
Whereas, The interests of one are the
interests of all; and
Whereas, A National Convention called
by colored men, and composed exclusively
of colored men, to consider matter con
tained in the call for the convention of col
ored men to be held at Louisville, Ky., Sep
tember 24, 1883, is calculated to make the
impression that colored people are dis
posed to continue that separation of whites
and colored persons in things social,
civil and political, which was born of
slavery ana whose death is provided for in
the Constitution of the United States and
the laws of Congress; and
Whereas, Said impression would in our
opinion greatly retard the removal of the
evils complained of in the call for the
Louisville convention, therefore
Resolved, That we not only decline to
elect delegates to the National Convention
of colored men called to meet at Louisville,
Ky., but hereby solemnly enter our protest
against the holding of it.
Resolved, That the scheme evidently con
cocted by the Democratic management of
the State sf Ohio, by which it was intended
that the convention should be manipulated
in the interests of the Democratic party,
meets with our hearty condemnation and
we congratulate the convention in the mis
erable failure of the movement.
They then adjourned.
We are thankful that business kept
us at home and away from such a dis
graceful farce. The delegates have
been advised for weeks past to stear
clear of politics or they would do just
as they have—make a disgusting farce
of the thing.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
Mixed and Separate Schools.
If there is anything that causes us to
advocate mixed schools, it is the unjust
discrimination even in the selection of
studies for the colored and white
schools, always to the disadvantage of
the former, by the School Boards,
where th.ere are separate schools; also
discrimination in the. matter of salaries
—the colored teachers invariably get
ting less pay for doing the same work
the whites do, fewer number of school
buildings given, making many a poor
colored child’s journey to and from
school entirely too lengthy. Separate
schools are hot-houses for prejudice.
In Washington, Dr. Purvis, an intelli
gent and thoroughly educated colored
gentleman, a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Washington
schools, and a medical Profes
sor in Howard University, is con
tending for the equalization of
teachers’ pay in the same grades in
both schools and for the introduction of
such advanced studies in the colored
high school as have long been kept up
in the white highschool. No one denies
that the whites ought to have a greater
number of well educated men and
women in proportion to the colored and
white population. This being the case,
one would naturally suppose that the
colored teacher would receive the larger
salary. But he does not; he receives
less pay as a rule. Now, why is this?
As long as there are separate schools,
governed by boards in which the ma
jority of members are white, we can
apply the old and true saying—“blood
is thicker than water”—and explain
why the white teachers receive more
pay; why higher branches of different
studies are taught and why the facilities
for teaching are better, and why the
many advantages are in the favor of
the white schools. The strongest argu
ment in favor of separate schools that
is advanced is that they give employ
ment to our intelligent men and women.
True, but wherever mixed schools are
possible, we say have them by all
means, for it is also possible to have
mixed teachers. We have found it so
in the Forest City. Are we going to
allow the colored youths, where mixed
schools, mixed teachers and equal
chances and facilities are possi
ble, to receive inferior educations
because we are afraid we will
not be able to have mixed teachers?
Or, in other words, should we be more
concerned about our educated men and
women who are capable of looking out
for themselves than we are about the
thousands of youths who are seeking
education. It will be many, many
years before the separate schools in the
South are abolished. There arc numer
ous openings for the few colored
teachers there in the schools and in
colored colleges, where the white pro
fessors are, should the separate schools
be abolished in some of our Northern
and Central cities. In mixed schools
we receive the same instruction as the
whites, in the same studies and
alongside of them and have also
a chance of securing mixed teachers.
We do not wish any one to think for a
moment that we are saying aught
against the intelligence or ability to teach
of any of our colored tutors and profes
sors, even though they are fewer in
numbers in proportion, and receive
smaller salaries than the whites, but
the fact is they can teach in their
schools only those studies prescribed by
the Boards, in which their race is al
ways in the minority, if represented at
all. Where there is no possibility of
mixed schools, follow Dr. Purvis’ ex
ample, and endeavor to have the same
studies taught in as thorough a manner
in the colored as they are in the white
schools.* Also strive to secure the same
salaries for the colored teachers as are
paid the whites.
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
As called by Hon. Fred. Douglass
and others last May, to meet in Wash
ington, D. C., and subsequently changed
to meet at Louisville, Ky., on the 24th
inst., was as follows:
To the Colored Men of the United States:
During a convention of the colored citi
zens of the District of Columbia, Col. P. H.
Carson offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
Whereas, The political condition of a
vast number of Negroes in .this country is
such as to demand attention and careful
consideration as to its improvement: there
fore, be it _ /
Resolved, That the president of this con
vention be, and he is hereby requested to
appoint a committee of twenty-five, to be
composed of citizens of this District, such
committee to make arrangements through
correspondence with prominent colored
men in the country for the holding of a
National Convention during the month of
September, 1883, in this city, and that the
chairman of this convention be a member
ex-officio of the committee.
In compliance with the above resolution
adopted by the colored people of the Dis
trict of Columbia, in convention assembled
to celebrate the anniversary of their eman
cipation, this committee of its creation
hereby issues the following call, which it
believes should be and will be promptly
answered bv the colored men throughout
the United States.
Seriously considering the undeniable and
lamentable fact that the present condition
of the colored people is insecure, and the
future still more alarming, we deem it wise
to call their serious attention to these very
suggestive points and ask that they meet
in National Convention and give them their
due consideration and action.
1. We are not given a fair remuneration
for our labor in the South and not pro
tected by law in securing even that trifling
pittance’ for which we do toil.
2. We are not allowed fair and equal
educational advantages in the public
schools in the most parts of the country.
3. Our civil rights are still infringed
upon all over the country, notwithstanding
the passage of the acts of Congress for our
protection in that particular.
4. That our political rights are now al
most wholly ignored and the voice of six
and one-half millions of people with pe
culiar interests at stake lost from the legis
lative halls of Government.
5. That the colored men have given one
million and a quarter of votes for the ad
vancement and perpetuation of good and
peaceful government ever since they have
been enfranchised, and that the executive
officers of the Government have not in re
turn given them protection and encourage
ment half commensurate with their power
and fidelity to the Government.
That, according to the signs of the times,
the country is on the eve of a great politi
cal revolution, and it behooves us as a race
to make our interests paramount to those
of any party or sect; that it is our duty to
unite and strike out some bold policy line
of action, which shall bring us nearer to
the estate of full citizenship and power
when this great revolution is over.
We therefore recommend to the colored
people of the several States that they meet!
in State conventions some time prior to the
month of September, 1883, and elect dele
gates to a National Convention, to be held
in Washington, D. C., the twenty-fourth
day of September, 1883; and that the basis
of representation be upon the colored pop
nlation —one delegate to 25,000, giving to
each three representatives, provided it has
a colored population of not less than 10,-
000, and in no case less than one delegates.
The representation under this plan, ac
cording to the census of 1880, will be as
follows:
Indiana 3
Kansas 3
New Jersey 3
New Fork 3
West Virginia.... 3
Pennsylvania.... 4
Ohio 4
California 1
Colorado 1
Nebraska 1
Connecticut 1
lowa . 1
Rhode Island 1
Mame 1
Michigan 1
Massachusetts ... 1
Minnesota 1
Alabama 24
Georgia 28
North Carolina 20
South Carolina 25
Virginia 25
Mississippi 20
Louisiana 20
Tennessee 16
Texas 16
Kentucky 11
Arkansas 0
Maryland 9
Missouri 6
Florida -... 5
Delaware 3
Districtof Columbia. 3
Illinois 3
Total number of delegates 284
Yours for the interests of the race, Fred
erick Douglass, chairman; J. M. Gregory,
secretary; Arthur Smith, corresponding
secretary; P. H. Carson, John F. Cook, W.
R. Laws, George Williams, Collins Cruser,
C. B. Fisher, J. Brooks, G. S. Boston, S. G.
Brown, W. A. Talliafarro, R. T. Greener,
John M. Brown, W. C. Chase, John A.
Gray, W. M. Booker, J. W. Freeman, J. A.
Johnson, J. H. Smith, R. C. Collins, E. A.
Atkinson, J. F. N. Wilkinson, R. Laws, M.
M. Holland, committee.
Allowing for increase of population, 6—
290 delegates.
SELF-EDUCATION
Of the Slaves of Louisiana.
BY PAUL GASTON.
Part Third.
In New Orleans the same state of
things existed, but as the number of
free blacks who had educational privi
leges was greater, it naturally followed
that the difficulty of keeping the slaves
ignorant w'as proportionately enhanced,
for notwithstanding the social dispari
ty, intelligent, free colored men were
often found who would risk all for the
elevation of their race. In such cases
they would locate their schools in ob
scure alleys, where only one or two pu
pils were,'at most, allowed to enter at
the same time, and these localities were
changed every three or four weeks in
order to avoid suspicion; and whenever
their nocturnal studies were closed they
would separate in the same cautious
and secret manner.
Money was not the object, aim or re
ward that induced these men to assume
these fearful risks, but they were pur
sued from an innate love of danger, a
thirst for knowledge, an instinctive
benevolence, and the natural habits of
secrecy and vigilance, engendered by
slavery. These were the real motive
powers productive of the course pur
sued.
These clandestine efforts of the slaves
in order to secure even a slight share
of education, as foreshadowed in part
second, were eventually destined, not
only to be broken up, but many of its
leaders and supporters were doomed to
martyrdom for the heinous offense of
imparting li^ht, truth and knowledge
to their brethren in bondage.
One of the safeguards which the
slaveholder was ever careful to throw
around himself and family consisted Of
a number of trained servants, or spies,
whose exemption from field labor de
pended upon their faithful detection
and exposure to the matter of every
word, action or incident transpiring on
the plantation.
Aristocracy, with its worthy twin
sister, arrogancy, are confined to
neither race, color or condition, and
hence these human chattels, who lived,
moved and flourished only in their mas
ter’s smile, and who might, without
a moment’s warning, be re
duced to the most grinding op
pression, not only answered the
ends of their education by copying the
vices, prejudices and cruelties of thei»*
owners, but often improved upon the
original to such an extent as to utterly
disown their progenitors, because they
were of a darker hue than themselves,
and thereby aidingthe inhuman process
of perpetuating the infernal institution
and consigning their own flesh and
blood to the gloomy dungeons of men
tal ignorance, misery and degradation.
, (In the year 1813, during the progress
of the war with Great Britain, it be
came evident to the planters in the
parish of Point Coupee that an unusual
commotion existed among the slave
population in that particular locality,
and as the parish bordered on the Gulf
of Mexico, near the anchorage of the
British fleet, fears were entertained that
the slaves were in secret league with
the enemy, which might result in a
general stampede from the Elysian
fields of slavery and an alliance with
the invaders, or in a bloody massacre of
the whites.
In view of this threatening state of
things the most stringent preventative
measures were at once inaugurated,
and many slaves who were suspected
of being in possession of the secret were
Sut to the torture, without eliciting any
isclosures in confirmation of the now
general suspicions.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
A Mountain Alligator.
William Blackheath, who has just re
turned from a six-monts 1 sojourn in
Arizona, has brought to the Comstock
the skin of what he, for want of a bet
ter name, calls a Gila monster, but
which is evidently that of a saurian of
a different species. The skin now
measures seven feet from tip to tip, and
it has evidently shrunk some inches in
drying. Though about the coloi' of an
ordinary Gila monster, the reptile is
evidently a kind of inland crocodile, or
more properly, cayman, as it had not
the webbed feet of the crocodile.
The strange saurian uTas found in a
small valley in the Wheatstone Moun
tains. When alive it stood two feet high,
and its body, just back of its fore-legs,
was over three feet in circumference. Tne
creature was as savage as a bull-dog,
and as full of fight as a viper. It was
found by the dogs of Mr. Blackheath
and partner. When the men arrived at
the haunt of the reptile—to which they
were attracted by the fierce and pecul
iar barking of their dogs, three in num
ber—they found that one dog had al
ready been killed and the others were
badly cut up and covered with blood.
The creature displayed such activity
and was so diabolically vicious that the
two prospectors seated to go near it,
biing armed with noticing better than a
prospecting pick and a shovel with a
short handle.
Finally the thing got cne of the dogs
by the foreleg, ami finding that it held
on like a terrier, with no sign of loosing
its hold, Mr. Blackheath ran forward
and struck his pick into its head. Even
then the reptile held on, and it was not
until it had been struck several blows
with the pole of the pick that its jaws
relaxed and it gave up the ghost.
When the dog was released it was
found that his foreleg had been broken
at a point about two inches above the
knee.
Mr. Blackheath says he has met with
several of the creatures known as Gila
monsters that were two feet and two
and a half feet in length, but never before
or since saw, or even suspected the ex
istence of one so large as that whose
skin he possesses. It was a surprise to
all the white men in that section, but
some of the Indians asserted that far
south in the Sierra Madre Mountains
they had seen some tha^t were as large
or larger.
Unfortunately, in flaying the Saurian.
Mr. Blackheath’s only idea was tphave
the hide tanned and made into boots
and gaiters, therefore he did not pre
serve the feet, otherwise the skin might
be stuffed and mounted by a taxiderm
ist. He says the teeth of the creature
were over an inch in length, were sharp
as needles, and in shape resembled the
teeth of a shark.— Virginia City (Nev.)
Enterprise.
Cosmopolitan Cranks.
Long-haired men wearing broad
brimmed hats and high-topped boots,
who occasionally appear in this part of
the country, are invariably set down as
wild Westerners or bad men from
Texas, but, according to the Laramie
Boomerang, the same sort of individual
creates a sensation there. One of these
men got off a west-bound train at that
city, the other day, Aid attracted at
tention because of his long hair,
swarthy complexion, and the wearing
of earrings and bracelets. On being
interviewed this eccentric person proved
to be a citizen of Connecticut, which
has not been considered a Western
State for some years. He was on his
way to Montana, where he expects to
take the headwaters ot the Yellowstone
for a starting point and go down to
New Orleans, a trip over 3,000 miles.
He will use a small flat-bottomed skiff,
provided with rudder and sail, and cook
and sleep on board, tying up at night
when too dark to navigate with safety.
Cranks, it is thus seen, even those with
long hair, are not confined to one nar
row section of countrv.
dkmspintoce.
Fast End Items.
Mrs. Tobitbia Davis, of Fairmount
Street, will leave next week for Colutobus,
Ohio, her home.—Miss Lizzie Manley, of
Wheeling, W. Va., who has been visiting
Mrs. B. W. Moore, of Williard Street, will
leave for her home next week. —Miss Ella
Cochran left Thursday for her home, Har
risburgh, Va. Poor “Guss,” we feel for
you.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thompson,
who have been living on the West Side,
have returned to this side and are living on
Highland Street. —Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Brayton, of Pittsburgh, are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. David Fowler, of Frank Street.
A Positive Saving.
Ladies, we are ready for you. Our stock
Is wonderfully large. Our prices beat the
world. We know we undersell any shoe
house in the city. Note our prices, then
see our goods, at the “Popular,” Shoe
Store.
Handsome Infants’ Shoes at “Popular,”
62 Public Square.
Lovely Satin Slippers. “Popular,” 62
Public Square.
Canton and Surroundings.
[Nev. T. Henderson is the Gazette’s agent
for Canton and surroundings.]
Our Robert Finn, Esq., of Massillon, was
in town this week attending court. Mr.
Finn is a young colored lawyer of con
siderable ability. He has a very large
practice at Massillon, Canton and. other
places in this county. I will tell you more
about him in my next. —Mr. William
Corneal, who has been sick for some
time, is now convalescent and able to
ride out. —Ex-Governor Noyes was here
this week and explained to us
what he knew—not about farming—but
about politics. We made up our minds he
knew something about the present situa
tfon.—Mrs. Rev. Henderson and daughter
Mamie paid a visit this week to her father
in-law. Mr. J. H. Henderson, who still lies
in a very critical condition with the dropsy.
The Sergeant.
Plttatturgli.
The corner stone of the new A M. E.
Zion Church, near the corner of Wylie and
Arthur Streets, was laid September 18 by
St. Cyprian Lodge No. 13, A. Y. M., Mr.
Ambrose Butler, D. D. G. M. of
Pennsylvania, officiating.’ Bishop J. W.
Hood, Grand Master of North Caro
lina, was present and made some
very appropriate and forcible re
marks. St. Cyprian Lodge was escorted
to the church by the American Cornet
Band, which is fast making itself known
to lovers of good music. The crowd was
large and orderly. We did not learn what
the collection was. The followingministers
were present: Rev. C. A. Asbery, Rev. J.
M. Morris, Rev. Offer, Rev. J. Henry and
others. The ceremony of the Masonic body
was a very creditable affair to the orde’r
and the public.—Miss Mamie Denny, of
Cleveland, is visiting Miss Cain of this
city.—Mrs. Reed, of Detroit, Mich., is visit
ing Miss Sarah Mahoney of this city.
B. F. G.
Dayton.
[F. J. Mitchell, 108 South Main Street, and
James A. Miller, 204 Maple Street, are agents
for the Gazette.]
The Baptist “Lend a Hand” Society held
another one of their delightful meetings
Monday. After going through with the
usual programme of singing, reading and
declaming, the Society was elegantly ad
dressed by Rev. P. Folliver of the A. M.
E. Church.—Any person desiring the
Gazette can obtain it by notifying Mr. F.
J. Mitchell or Jos. A. Miller.—We will be
glad to be notified of any one visit
ing or leaving the city or of those
on the sick list, for publication.
—Dr. W. A. Jackson spent last Sabbath in
Springfield, Ohio.—The Iteview arrived
safely last Saturday and the correspon
dents were going at a 2:40 gait to their
subscribers, but there was no Dayton
news. “Boys, you must beat that or else
you will loose. —The A. M. E. choir is in
full bloom and they make excellent music.
They have arranged a very fine anthem
for to-morrow evening.—Mrs. Theodore
Manley, formerly of this city, but now of
Cleveland, is visiting her’ sister, Mrs.
Frank Simmers, of Forest Avenue. Her
many friends are glad to see her looking so
well. —Mr. Win. Wheeler, of Delaware, 0.,
is visiting his brother, Mr. J. J. Wheeler,
of this city.—Mr. E. P. Clemens and family,
of Greenville, 0., in company with Miss
Rice, of Maysville, Ky., spent last Sabbath
with Mr. and Mrs. James Lyles, of Zeigler
Street. —The friends of Mr. Wesley Brock
are glad to hear that he is able to walk
about, although not feeling very strong.—
Dayton will be blessed this fall with a
number of colored voters, among them
will be one of your correspondents.—
Mr. George W. Hartull says that Urbana
is the prettiest town in Southwestern Ohio.
His reason for saying so he will not tell.
George, there’s something back of this.
—lnvitations are out announcing the wed
ding of Mr. Frank Curtis to Miss Josephine
Brooks on the 27th. —Misses Finie Jones,
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dent at New Haven, he took a walk
one morning with Prof. Newton, a
man who lives in the world of
mathematics anti simply exists in
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wandered farther and farther from
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