TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF UTAH to THE colored people of we have a word to say the editor of this little journal being himself a colored man feels fee I 1 9 at liberty to address his bis people on terms of candor and equality and therefore we ask you yon to come and let us reason together there has been no race of people on earth since since the flight of time who have been so much despised downtrodden and misused by their fellow men as the negro ram race originating in the jungles of a savage continent they have been brought to io civilization through the portals of servitude and at last 1 through the law of the survival of the fittest they have finally reached the goal of liberty and equality before the law his progress in the past has been slow but certain when he looks hack back over the pathway of his ancestors and the trials they underwent he but naturally feels a tinge of ind indignation ignati on at th the wrongs za but the time for looking backward has passed let us now deal with with the present and look to the future those who would have you ever recurring to the memories of the past do so with the motive of appealing 71 to the prejudices for sinister aims and purposes for example the republican politician has always claimed the colored i people should vote vate with the P party arty who gave them their liberty that they were their only friends and benefactors that the democrats were the negros enemies etc the result has been the colored people thinking 0 of the past only disregarding the present and future have as a class blindly followed that great party with a devotion unequaled in the history of man forgetting the fact that it was the t h e fortunes of df war and not the design of the republican party to free the B slaves slavery existed in the south the south ia is democratic slavery did not exist in new england which is republican hence the south is tha natural foe of the a and the north his natural friend this is sample sam ale of the sophistry used to pull the wool over the eyes e yes of the colored man in an have aye we not overlooked the fact that athe e reason slavery was not established in the northern states marthat yas that it was waft not profitable to the whites as M it was wa in the south so nth it wali recognized sand band practiced in of alie states mes ay and er the seto eerola g sp ty t f j sy i a y a y war it is true that the people of new england washed their hands of the sin pilate like by selling itlear slaves to their brethren of virginia inia georgia and the carolinas because it did not pay to keep them so far north it is true many of them then turned aud and clamored for the liberty of the blacks thus showing they were first actuated by a mercenary motive and then envious of the apparent prosperity of the southern sout hetu planter made a virtue of their jealousy to despoil t their 11 air ne neighbors i b ors there is no logical reason why a colored man should be a republican any more than he should be a mormon a methodist or a baptist it is time the colored people should act from reason and not from impulse and prejudice this is an active age new ques questions tims have arisen arisen the old have passed away and if we would keep pace with the progress of the age we must deal with live questions and not with ose SW that alaa aare dead ll Aa ion longas long as the colored p era ligia themselves with ith any political icil party for no other reason than for a prejudice or for a sentiment so long they show to the world they are not as broadminded and intelligent a class of people as they ought to be and must be 31 before they are entitled to the recognition they deserve the BROADAX BROAD AX will endeavor endi avor to infuse a spirit of liberal and honest enquiry into the living questions of the day and to lead the minds of the colored people away from false not notions ious old prejudices and disagreeable memories we want you to act for the living present to exhibit y your our independence ca of thought and do the right bight and thereby assist to break down the race prejudice that yet lingers with the american people while doing this we shall advocate the interests of the democratic party and ana ask you to be americans and not negroes negro es and to join us in an effort to discuss public questions and public men upon their r merits will you do this R fayou yoa will we w e shall be beahe the means of accomplish ing a gre great grea a advance among our T ra racer W in in utah and enable you tal boex ex arcise your mandod man hod didd and fre freedom ra