Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1880 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -BY-J3G-BY" &xCO., OFFICE, 12 MILLEll'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Market Si. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Catered as second-class matter at at Indianapolis, Ind. tbe Postoffice TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single Copy, 1 year.... .00 1.00 ... .60 44 1 month... ....... ...... Clubs of six 1 year, each copy ten, 1 year, each copy. ... .20 1.75 ... 1.50 THIS PAPER SS KSfV&S Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contracts may ue maae ior iu - - TOBK (Subscribe for the Leader. Ti pvprv colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Lead er; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it ia the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. - ai-a n Tnnnarv " ...I 5. There are signs that have an extra session. we shall The feature most to be regretted in the riotous proceedings in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, ,was the fact that General Weaver was not permitted to punch the snout of Sparks, the Sucker ruffian. ThA "Rnrnmde educational bill as passed by the Senate last week, ap propriates the revenues arising from the sale of public lands to the sup port of general education. The money will be distributed among the States according to the illiteracy ex isting in each. Congressional seat-stealer Chal mers, runiian-like, boldly justifies the villainy of throwing out 5,000 votes cast for John R. Lynch by the hnlldnzar. to ffivo him a seat to 1 o which he was not elected. Congress men would do well to keep their hand on their nocketbooks and watches when Chalmers is around. Ron. G. W. Williams, of Ohio, who recently visited New Mexico, says that the New York land company that was going to . colonize Southern colored people on its 700,000 acres of land in that Territory is a fraud. He says they do not own that much land, and what they do own is worthless. Our people of the South should emigrate to tho West and North, but they must steer clear of Eastern land sharks Let them come to Indiana, and they will make no mistake. Land is not so cheap here as in the West, but we have plenty of work for those who desire to labor and be industrious. WEAVEB-BPABKS. "Prior the war they had red-hot times in Congress. some often ending in rough and tumble fights, duels, assassinations, and the like; but the scene last Tuesday between Sparks, of Illinois, and Weaver, of Iowa, takes the cako compared with anything "since the war." The rowdy Sparks behaved himself in such a despicable manner that Gen. Weaver was compelled to denounce him before the House as an ordinary cheap liar. Sparks' reply to this was of such a nature that the General felt called upon to visit corporal punishment upon him. This he proeeded to do in a business like manner, but was prevented from carrying out his laudable design by the interference of other members of the House. The day's session was broken up and dire confusion prevailed in and about the Capital. But contrary to antebellum regulations, there was no challenge, no coffee and pistols for two, no rifles at long range, no "nothing." The matter came up in the House Wednes- . day for settlement, and after various resolutions for censure, expulsion, etc., and speeches thereon by the members, the matter was ended and the curtain lowered by each of me onenuers mivmj uu numuio apology to the Houso for his share in the happy little episode of the previous day, OKLAHAMA. Why should not Indian territory ' be thrown open to settlement by any person who chooses to go there? There are millions of acres of unoc- ' cupied fertile lands in this Territory belonging to the Government, and as t there are not Indians enough in the whole country to occupy them, why .'should they not be sold to persons who will .improve and make them valuable ? Can anybody give a valid reason to the contrary? Most of the Aborigines in this Territory have assumed the habiliments of a civilized people, have become agricultural, commercial, in fact they are essentially civilized. Such being

the caso, why should they be segregated, fenced off to themselves?

Why should they not be incorporated with and become a portion of our cosmopolitan population ? We3tward marches the star of empire. Indian Territory is in the path of this movement toward the Occident, and to suppose that civiliza tion ia going to skip tlustavored ana fertile spot and seek the sterile plains of the Jtecky Mountains, U just as idle as to suppose that a tornado moving in a straight line is going to spare certain places directly in its path, and without diverging, strike others farther on. Tornados don't do that kind of business, and neither do stars of empire and civilization. If it is the design of theorists simply A. to preserve a distinct type of the aboriginal race of this Continent, the object might better bo accomplished by the pre-emption of an island in the Pacific Ocean, and the removal thereto of such aborigines as sympa thize with ilus theoretical view of the perpetuation of their race. States men and rulers should look at the inevitable rather than at the theoret ical side of questions which come before them for solution. By so doin-. thev may often write an inA I. I enviable page in the history of their time. Now the inevitable tendency is that'the Indian Territory must be thrown open to the onward march of American civilization, flanked on either side as it is by railroad and telegraph lines, and with free schools, free speech and free ballot in front Nothing can resist tnese iorces. 1 ne advancing host can not skip Oklahama and stiike New Mexico The Indian Territory must be thrown open to settlement. Tho only ques tion now is. when. WEST POJ.HT. The following very able article is copied from the Chicago Tribune, one of the best newspapers in th country : General Schofield was not removed from the command of West Point Academy a moment too soon. The President would have been justified in sending him to the plains inline diately after the Whittaker courtmartial. The color prejudice which he exhibited on that occasion was un becoming a National officer in a lie Dublican armv, and unworthy the servant of a Government which hap declared that tlvM-e shall be no lega distinctions among its citizens on ac count of r;tCv or color. Schofield's offense was aggravated by his report to the Secretary of War during the political campaign, in which he de nied the equality of the colored peo ple before the law, and begged th whole question of the capacity of the race for education. His argumem would have been suitable for a pro slavery speech or sermon before the war in old slavery times, but it was utterly wrong and indefensible man officer of the United States army speaking of six millions of his fellow citizens. It is quite time that a certain aris tocratic clique in the army should wake up to the fact that the coloretl race is a large and important constit uent of tho American population The people raise the army and pay for it, and the tax-gatherer makes no distinction between black and white There are 6,000,000 blacks and mu lattoes in tho United State?. Thej are among the most industrious, loy al, peaceable and inoffensive people i . rni . 111 mis country. A"cy i;w neanj tho whole oi tnc cotton-crop, ana much of the corn, from which a large share of the National wealth is denv ed. They are, directly and indirect ly, the means of paying a share o the public revenue equal to their pro nortional number. in uoie oi war they are subject to military service If they had the men qualified for the places, and were in a position to make their power felt, they might justl claim one-eighth of all the offices in the United States, civil and military. To deny them such representation as they can have in the military academy, or to seek to nulify their rights by discriminating against colored cadets, is a piece of insufferable impertinence, of which only a spurious aristocrat like Gen. Schofield could be guilty. There are indications, indeed, that General Schofield agrees with General Hancock in his opposition to dd nigger domination," as the latter said to General Grant, and would not himself object to going into training for a Democratic nomination in 1884 on that broad and comprehensive platform. If he had been ordered to Alaska, instead of to Texas ho would have been properly rewarded for his colorophobia. He could there cool it off. The assignment of (Jen. O. O. Howard to the command of tho Na'ional Military Academy gives point and emphasis to the rebuke of Schofield. The former is a better officer, and a better American, than the latter. Gen. Howard has been a consistent friend of the colored race ever since ho has been a man. All tho cheap flings at him on account of the Frcedman's Bank failuro, for which he was not in the slightest degree responsible, will not obscure this fact. Nov will his reputation as a soldier be diminished or tarnished by slurring allusions to his religious opinions. Ifhe is what he is because ho is a Christian, then many American, citizens will indulge tho hope that other officers of tho army may attend his sanctuary. He will enforce the laws and the regulations of the West Point Academy impartially. No boy will be turned away from there bo-

cause his skia is not colored like his own, nor excused for flagrant disobedienco because he is white. Both races will be put to an equality, so far as the discipline of the academy goes, from the moment he assumes command; and, if he can not keep . . .

them there he will not stay to seo either of them wronged. The "aristocracy" which is bred at West Point is, for the most part, of the codfish order. Not one in ten of the cadets has any pretensions to birth or breeding before going to the academy. They do not average higher in social position, refinement, wealth, education, or inherited capacity than the students at the average college for civilians. The academy was intended to bo, and should be, thoroughly democratic in its scope and organization. But tho c l i ; a. m: - c iaiso, un-American iruuiuons in iub placo, bred and transmitted from slavery times, beget notions of casto v - i a . , i itnclf, as they are to those feebleminded persons who entertain them It would be better for the army, and for the American people, who maintain the army solely for their own convenience, that West Foint should bo abolished rather than it should bo used to breed ill-feeling and the spirit of caste between different races and classes of the American people. OUR EXCHANGES. Lafayette Leader: The Indianapo lis Leader is a first-class newspaper, and is edited by a colored gentleman. National Era : Appreciative. Washington is fast becoming a musical propagating center, from which artists are taken to supply the coun try, lhe latest demand comes from New York, and the parties temporarily called upon are Miss Amelia Tilghman, the popular soprano of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Belleni I). Fleet, the accomplished organist of the same, who are invited to sing and play in that city at Steinway Hall, Thursday night, December 23, for the benefit of Bethel Church of that city. People's Advocate : Sorry we can not now change our name to suit tho Indianapolis Leader's idea. Some day wo may. For four years it has icrved us quito well. How does tho Leader like this : "The Washington Leader !" Ohio Falls Express : Tho Indianapolis Leader proposes to have a lot of tho names of newspapers changed because they are too long and not euphoneous. Among others he mentions the Express, and tho Leader seems to forget that Ohio Falls is the local part of the came, correspond, ing to the word Indianapolis, only 'Ohio Falls Express" has not quito as many letters in tho name as "Indianapolis Leader" has. Since the Leader seems not to understand that Ohio Falls is a common local name, a few instances are submitted: for example, Ohio Falls Tannery, Ohio Falls Brass Band, Ohio Falls Iron Works, Ohio Falls Cooperage, Ohio Falls Tobacco Works, besides our Ohio Falls Spice Mills and Express of same name, circulating in the Ohio Falls cities, Jeffersonvilie, New Albany and Louisville, connected by the Ohio Falls bridge. National Tribune: There is ono thing certain that the Negroes of all sections of the country are clamoring for better recognition from the Itepublican party. They, as we, believe that Mr. Garfield is the ablest man this country has ever elected President. He is not a man to be controlled by any class of men, whether Grant or anti-Grant, but will select his Cabinet and go to work to advance the interests of this great country. Virginia Star: Bishop Keane has opened the doors of St. Peter's Cathedral for the instruction of the colored people, presumably because there is no Catholic church in this city for their accommodatien. There is no Presbyterian church in the city for their accommodation cither ; what are our Presbyterian brethren going to do for our race ? Do they owe us nothing religiously ? Louisville Bulletin : The petition which is being circulated through the city, for the purpose of being signed by those who favor the appointment of colored firemen, policemen, city clerks, etc., was handed to one of our high city officials, lie said: "I had just as soon be arrested by a decent, respectable colored man as some common, dirty white man, bat I will not sign the petition." Just see how a decent, respectable colored man is rated. We won't forget that officer should he ask our our votes again. Montgomery Advance: There is no hope for an ignorant and uneducated people. It has been observed that children who road tho newspapers make greater and more satisfactory progress in school. The newspaper is tho most successful educator that c&n be sent into the community. It reaches everybody even these who do not attend the schools. It fashions public opinion. It creates public sentiment. It brings the news of the world to all alike, the poor as well as the rich. Arkansas Uasion: We vigiUd the

colored colony near Van Bargn, last Thursday, and found them in splendid cIrcurastances all owning little , ... . . . . Place8 of their own and raising their own meat and bread, and they have as fine hogs as we ever saw, and they

k,, thoir nWn r.rtWfl i.H lrsw n also have a nice church built in fine style. These good people mean business and in a few years will be the richest colored people in the State, Thev have one school and teacher. and they would readily accept more if they could get them. Why don't some of our educated ladies and gentlemen leave Little itock and Pine Bluff and come up here and teach 9f ' for these people? There are about 700 or 800 in tho colony. This surely would bo a grand move. Lot some ono follow. Rev. A. Phillins returned t0 N an Buren from Fayettev.lle. GKXEKAL NOTEH. Tub Quaker dress, fabinel ia America, Is now aaopted in Parin. It ia thought that the prosecution of the Irish Land Leaguers will cost over S-'iOO.noo. A tetitios for the appointment of a woman on the police force is circulated in Milwaukee. Mr. James Goroon Bennktt is reported to have contributed $25.000 toward the Grant fund. A couple of Cincinnati ten ant girls, Mary and Rosa Steeeman. have fallen heirs to a fortune of 5100.000 by the death of an aunt in Philadelphia. J C3T1CK Clifford, of the Supreme Court, has failed so rapidly within the last few days that his attending friends have ceased to expect his re covery. Mr. II a yks, President elect Garüeld and exPresident Grant are all expected to attend the New England Society's dinuer in New York this month. A factory has been discovered at Milwaukee from which 12,000 pounds of oleomargarine are sent out every day, with no marks to distinguish it from genuine butter. In Meadvillo, Pa., the Collector of City and County Taxes, James Lark ins, being a defaulter to the amount of about .8,000, has not run away to Europe, has not remained to make an elaborate technical defense in the Courts, but has sim plified matters by shooting himself. When Napoleon III. went to the front, in 1870, his mas of baggage looked like a traveling hospital. It included three kinds of bath tubs, a large medicine chest, an invalid's easy chair, and a peculiar Bort of stretcher. The Emperor took ev eral very gentle horses, andj had double-wadded saddles, with extra paddings in the back. Ellick against Elllck was adjourned at Troy a few daya ago by mutual agreement. The hus band, a very old colored man, was shown to have boon recently released from 8tate Prison. "Why were you sent up?" asked the Jude in a stern voice. "I took a ride," murmured the old man, 'wid anoder man's hone and In anoder man's buggy; dat's all, but I repeat I wants dis yere trial adjourned." The Judge was touted by the ap pearance and situation of the aged plaintiff, whose head had dropped forward upon his collar button, and whose form swayed to and fro under the heavy load of humiliation which he was car rying. And so the Court determined to make the defendant bear her share of the disgrace. Turn ing toward her he asked: "How many husbands have you?" "Must 1 tell?" "You must." "Well. your Honor, I'm married to dis yere old State Prison bird, and to Mr. Holden, and to Mr. John sou. and to Mr. Rogers. Dem's all I can tink of now, but if you'll adjourn de case maybe I can recollect one or two more." PERSONALS. Two of General Garfield's suns, aged seventeen and fifteen, will euter Williams College next year. Stephens, the ex-Fenian head-center, is In Paris. Half a dozen English detectives watch his movements. Carlyle has just passed his eighty-fifth birth day. His health is feeble, but not worse than it has been for several years. Mr. Gerard Crane, aged sixty-six, died in Jamestown. N. Y.. yesterday morning. He was one of the pioneer oil producers of Western Penn sylvania. The Yorktown Celebration Committee has se lected lion. Robert C. Winthrop, of Masaachu setts, for orator, and James Hope, of Virginia, to deliver the poem. Mr. Storet, the editor of the Chicago Times, is erecting a beautiful marble mansion at Chicago, Intended to be the finest private residence in the West Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, who presided at the White House during the administration of her uncle, James Buchanan, is expected to pass some weeks In Washington this winter at the house of Mrs. norsby, a da lhter of Judge Black. John W. Mackey, the California millionaire, has announced his intention of giving 50,000 to endow a scholarship in Bowdoin College, in Maine, and a Philadelphia gentleman, who does not desire his name published, will do the same. Mark Firth, a wealthy manufacturer who died recently at Sheffield, Fjigland, during his lifetime gave that place a public park at an expense of 8100,000, provided almshouses at an expense of S100.000, and also founded and liberally endowed Firth College in Sheffield. Abraham Lincoln's name was received with thunderous applause during a recent lecture before a Norfolk, Va., audience, and a few days ago the Atlanta Constitution claimed that the people of the South have a keener appreciation of his character, his genius and many excellencies, than the people of the North. Dr. Prime, the veteran editor of the New York Observer, has very lile sympathy to waste upon young men who get their education by forced loans from relatives, ne says to an earnest your.g fellow, who wants an education, but can not afford to pay for it: "The way of the world now is for you to look about and see who will help you to get it. That Is not the right way. Look about and see what you can do to help yourself. Grind your own ax. 8upport yourself by honorable industry, and earn your bread while you improve the odds and ends of time ln study. When you get something ; ahead, use it to support yourself while you learn. Ten thousand men are now serving their generation with usefulness and honor who never asked anybody to grind an ax for them." This is very sensible advice. The young men of this country, as a rule, are helped altogether too much. If they have the right stuff in them they can get the education which they need without begging and borrowing. DOTS AND DASHES. The steamship Westphalia, from Havre for New York, brings us 1220,000 in gold. in a railway accident near Leeds, England, one lerson was killed and fifty injured. The President yesterday nominated A. B, Cooper as postmaster at Union City, Ind. Fourteen Chinese lepers departed from San Francisco for Hong Kong, yesterday. A battalion of British soldiers has been ordered ta proceed to Ireland from Aldershatt. John Shurr, a workman, of Philadelphia, was accidentally burned to death yesterday. Major John R. Viley, of Woodford County, Kentucky, a prominent stock man, died yesterday. Further investigations into the South Carolina census confirms the accuracy of the June count. The statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows an increase in specie of 2,4 10,000 marks. The roof of the Martin Coal Mine, near Petersburg, Ind., fell in a few days since and killed one man. At a Land League meeting, held at Dublin, yesterday, Da vitt condemned indiscriminate Boycotting. General Grant had an interview with the Nlcaraguau Minister at Washington on Friday, and expressed his conviction concerning the desirability of tha Nlcaraguan Canal. He also visited the Senate and Hooh, and was well received by the Baraibera,

DETROIT'S DOINGS.

A Bevlew of the Lr.dlns; Events, and Some That Are Sot so Leading. We take it upon ourselves as correspondent of this paper to urge upon the Detroit people the importance ot taking the Leader. "We have read its columns and know their contents to be spicy, readable and to the point. It can but be beneficial to our race, to have an organ of our own, wherein ideas pertaining to us as a race, expressed by men who have time and ability to give the mat ter thought, can reach every colored voter. "We wish to assure every colored man of Detroit that this paper is not of ephmeral existence, the reason why our colored papers hive lagged is because they have not received the support that they merit. The effect of newspapers has been felt ever since the monks of England chronicled in Prince Albert's time. "Whj not we use it as a means of working ourselves up to equality with the nations of men. ABOUT KKW TEAR'S CALLS. The Leader will publish a complete li3t of the Detroit ladies who will receive their friends on New Year's day. Such a list is an absolute neceessity to the gentlemen who go out as it enables them to make a large number of calls, and that too without any annoyance. It is vexatious to a gentleman to find his lady friends not at home, after tramping perhaps miles to pay his respects to them. The great 'amount of care and labor necessary to classify the names will compel us to havo all the names by Monday next. All the ladies who intend to receive will favor us by sending their names to us immediately. The Leader will be for gale in this citv on ml New Year's morning and the gentlemen should leave their order now so as to insure them a copy. The paper will be delivered to all who order it betöre r nday. It will be an invaluable aid to gentlemen and every one of them should have a copy. SOCIETY. Byron has truly said, "There is society where none intrudes." Society is the only order God instituted on earth. The first that comes conspicuously under our notice is that of the Israelites whom God gave a distinguishing mark, separating them from the rest of his people. Society flourishes among all civilized nations, because it is ele vating for men to meet and exchange thought and knowledge, even as it is busi nes3 like to exchange produce. Society, cradled in the bosom of ambition, nourished by sound senoe, and invigorated by thought is a good thing. But all good things can be denied, even the Temple at Jerusalem was denied, and so is so ciety defiled when men plunge irt it like the Hebrews did into the waters of Siloam. There is a difference, however, for the deeper we plunge into the depths ot s.ciety to the neglect of our duty, the more unfinished are we as men and the more deformed are we in intellect. Society it like medicine, enough to cleanse the system of bashfulness is invigor ating, but too much crushes our intellect ual health, and leaves us abject mummies. The average boy and girl of our times can hardly finish a common school education, before, like Nero of old, they are dancing to the harp of two or three societies; while the fires of ignorance are burning upon their very thresholds. The evil consequences of too much 'society is clearly shown by the example of the descendants of Noah, whom God told to disperse and to populate the earth, but instead of dispersing they stopped to build a temple to the skies, which like our aircastles, had not sufficent foundation and fell. To day they leave the church, God's own society, to mingle with the vanity of our own. In reference to the boys and girls of our city we would like to say a word ot encouragement, for they stand sadly in need of it but we can not. Nine out of ten of our boys large enough to black boots, are also large enough to smoke and chew tobacco and to use profane language, '-like my big brother." Some of our girls, too, ladies ot society, ranging from twelve to seventeen, are so demoralized as to grin and think the boys 'are so nice(?)" They even keep company with them. If the term company can be used to convey to our readers, the idea we wish to express. We know there will be weeping and wail ing in our city, not Rachel, but parents weeping for their children, because they are not what ,they should be. In our humble judgment, the very best society lor any young person is a good, wholesome book, and the sooner they awake from their dormancy to this fact, the sooner will our societies be a Moses leading us to the promised land ef Education. ELOCUTION. The select reading given by Prof. E. Wm. Crosby, of Buffalo, under the auspices of the tueen of Sheba Council, recently, was hardly up to the expectations of those present. The Professor was greeted by an audience of our best readers, and consequently was very critically received. The ladies of the Council made it very pleasant to all who attented, and what was lost in listening, to the English language being "murdered," was balanced by the many pleasant hours spent afterward. a disgraceful occurence. Lodge No. 60, of the Good Samaritans, this city, gave a concert and festival at the Abstract Parlors, recently, and sad be it to relate, was the occasion ot a disgraceful row. Disgraceful alike to its perpetrators and to the Good Samaritans. It is to be regretted that this thing happened, as it not only brings tho Samaritans into disrepute, but also makes it harder for us as a people. It appears that two men, with more whiskey in them than common sense, engaged in a dispute, which at length led to blows. Every effort to quiet them only made matters worse, until, at least, one-half of those present were mixed up in it, and some of them realized the truthfulness of quarrels ccmplet: "ThoMwholn quarrels lnterpos Mutt often wip a bloody none." The Samaritans are to be censured for not having had the disturbers arrested, as they should have done. Had they done this, such things would occur less frequently, and their entertainments would be attended by the better class of people in greater numbers. COMING EVENTS. The postponed Lodus Club party will probably be given immediately after the holidays, at the residence of Mrs. Gregory. The Attucks Rifles give a grand entertainment soon, which promises to eclipse any of its nature yet given. The M. E. Sunday School will give its Christmas festivities at their school, on Monday evening December 27th. The monotony of this kind of an entertainment will be relieved by Professor Brown, who will show his stcreopticion views, which have been pronounced superior to any yet produced in this city. The Detroit Quintette, an entirely new and unknown organization, will give its first concert at the Y. M. C A. Hall, Thursday evening, December 29th. The Kbenzer M, E. Sunday School gives its Christmas entertainment on Thursday evening, December 29th. MERE MENTION. , , Mrs. F. E. Preston gave a very pleasant reading to a few friends, on Thursday evening. Mr. E. Win. Crosby, of Buffalo, N. Yn was the guest of Mr. J. L. Martin, while in this city. The installation exercises of the Hiram and Mt. Power lodges .were attended by quite a large audience. They passed off vary pleasantly, with the exception that the

master of the ceremonies was hardly qualified to preside. Manv hours were very profitably spent after the exercises. At the annual meeting of the Attucks Rifles, the "crack'' colored military organization of this city, the following officers

were elected for the cornice year: Captain, John W. "Wilson; First Lieutenant, Robert White; becond Lieutenant, Alex. Cowley: President, Henry Thompson: Secretary. Walter Stowers; Treasurer. H. Thompson. Board of Directors: Edward Lee. Henry Thompson, Robert Pelham, Jr., Robert Dun can, Walter Stowers and Edward Campbell. DURVIRAOK. ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE. Walnut II11U. "Lancaster. On Dec. 8.A number of the pupils of the colored sccool were trans ferred to the school for white children, on Monday, and many citizens are aggravated thereat." The above paragraph appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial of December 9. Aggravated P Aggravated at what? Echo answers what! Poor little Lancaster, which has only grown great because the Re form School is located there, has citizens who are ''aggravated" at the reality that colored children shall attend a school where white children go. We refer her indignant, 'aggravated" citizans to the villages ( ?) of Cleveland and C'olumbus, who set the precedent, and wboee citizens are not all dead from aggravation, nor whose children. from personal class contact with colored children, aro not hopelessly demoralized. "Aggravated'" we turn our eyes upward and wonder if man is made in "God's own image. lie is no respecter ot persons when will man imitate the spirit of his Maker! It ia time for white people to begin to know that colored people do not consider it any special honor to be spoken to by them. to sit by them or send their children to the same schools with theirs. The demand made for the admission of colored children into white schools arises from the fact that col ored children, as a general rule, in small towns, do not enjov the same school ad vantages that the whites do; or nearness to a white school and great distance from the colored school may be urged. The colored people are awake to their rights, and clamor for admis&ion into those white schools, be cause their own are frequently presided over by some green youagster, who gets his first experience in the colored school, and who is moved to a white school on the first evidence ho exhibits of having in his possession the tact of the true teacher. We laugh both in ridicule and dügust at such aggravation, since we know that those same children are not a rod's distance from the school house before they are arm in arm conversing or playing; arid frequently find each other such congenial associates that they eat at the same table, and sleep in the same bed We presume a white woman feels the same aggravation when a colored woman or some "great burly negro," as the is pleased to call him. dares to sit near her in a street-car; but how her aggravation can be transformed into pleasantness if that same individual, as a coachman, rides by her side in her private carriage. Sensible people can not but see how ridiculous and absurd such prejudice makes one appear, since it un mistakably bears on its face positive incon sistency and unargumentative unreasonable ness. It seems never to have entered the brain of some Caucasians that there are colored persons who feel themselves the equals of some of the the best of their race; and many are the superiors of thousands whom nature has clothed with a white skin. We know. too. that there are hundreds of each and every race of whom the better portions are ashamed but what does this argue in favor of such inconsistency 7 Absolutely nothing. A good man is good, be he black, white, red or yellow: a bad man is bad, no difference to what race he belongs. If the proverb be true that 4In your patience possess ye your souls,' we think that of all races on earth, the representatives of the colored race our pen refuses to say African, for we loek in vain about us to find it ought to possess their souls. A highlycultured colored man or woman has become so at a greater cost than one of any other race. It is hard to control one s temper when continually provoked to anger; it is hard to say pleasantly, 'Excuse me," when such apologies fail to receive the acknowl edgement which common courtesy demands; it is hard to be generous enough to make room for some one to sit, who prefers to stand, rather than to occupy a seat near you. O, the inconsistency of prejudice! Aggravated" indeed! Piccola. Wllberforee (() We have closed the work of out first term in this school vear. The examinations are over and the results generally good. The work of the term just past may be counted a decidt-d success. Yet mueh better work may be expected during the coming term. School is quite lull, and more are expected. The two young men from Ilayti, are beginning to feel at home. One of them has entered the Theological Freshman class. Tho Leader was three days late this week. A few young men spent a short time at the Evergreen Cottage, the other evening. Miss Gussie Clark is as entertaining as ever, she and Miss H. Q. Brown attended the college sociable some evenings since. In spite of the failure on the part of some of the ministers in Indiana, to answer Miss Brown respecting her western tour, she will give an entertainment at Terre Haute on the 14th. The Y. M. C. A. is holding regular weekly meetings. The Y. M. C. A. is also in a good working condition. Prof. R. Robertson, of Dayton, is our teacher in elocution. The Prof, is master of his situation. Prof. Brown ot Xenia comes three times per week to teach music. He has two large classes. All of the senidV class were present at the last social, though some of them made stay quite short. We shall take no vacation till Christmas, when we can enjoy it more. Grapho. Springfield Fractions Married on last Thu4sday eve, Miss Mary Smith to Mr. Henry Brown of Louisville, Ky. Tbe marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Chas. Jones at his residence on bouth Winter street. Ex-Deputy Sheriff Green Wilson, died on last Friday after a severe and lingering illness of consumption. His funeral was largely attended on Sabbath by his many friends. Miss Mary E. Piles died last Sunday eve, of consumption, at the residence of her father on south Limestone street, where the funeral will be held Wednesday at 10 o'clock. The deceased was a life-long member of the Baptist Church and for several years a teacher in our public schools, she was well-known nd liked by many who deeply lament her death. The City Commissioners of Sewers, Lon don, have recommended that the AngloAmerican Electric Company ; light (the Brush system) be tried tor a year in one of three district of the city at an outlay of 1,410. For a second district the Electric and , Magnetic Company's light (the Jablochkoff system) was recommended, at a remuneration for the same time of 2,930. For a third district it was also recommended that the Siemens Brothers be paid 2,726, so that for twelve months a trial may be had of the Salmans light thert,

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