Show OUR REVIEW of the me past future of the american negro by D W gulp culp A M M D THE oil XIV AND XV evan since the close of the civil war between the north and the south all the g 0 p leaders have endeavored to ram ram the false and the exploded idea down the throats of all the ignorant and all the unsophisticated members of our race that abraham lincoln proclaimed freedom to all the slaves throughout the south but up to the present time we have succeeded in proving beyond a reasonable doubt that less than one half of the slaves gained their liberty through president lincoln Lincol ns s proclamation the war between betwee vi the north and the south came to an end on or about april eth 1865 and abraham lincoln disappeared below the I 1 ho horizon abon on or about april 1865 bilt bat the slaves who resided in the states and parts of states which did not rebel against the federal government did not gain their freedom until after the adoption of the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments the ine late aft lyman trumbull whom we had the honor of knowing and who was one of the leading wheel horses horm of democracy right up until Y his hi vm very last day on this earth was the author of the thirteenth amendment but it nor the four and fifteenth amendments am did not become a part of the organic law lavi of our land until after they had been ratified by three fourths of the various state legislatures lasures throughout the union the thirteenth amendment was wasa ratified by thirty one of the thirty six state legislatures sutures Ut ures and it was proclaimed december 18 1865 the ne fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments were ratified by twenty northern states and d by teu ten south era states but they were rejected by california new jact oregon md and the great gmt seste or f new york the Pod aimed july 28 was proclaimed mara Maa rASp 1870 our ue numerous aus readers have already observed that all the slaves who wm were unfortunate enough to 1 reside in ba the states and a parts of states artie to ahe union can did not ot men until Decem december lm 18 IM 1865 which ara ra two yeara eleven months and ei eighteen days day after th aft culp mul gation of bf Abrah abraham wit I 1 second proclamation now e must take into conquer abion the the voters or evea eve mol M ol mon of eliat at ahat th at time U xz ertain idaly ly fee 71 that they V isa stat il mould tf at a ptsy VV 1 Ss 5 f i have TO tm 9 or 01 mem tal r ilk aum who W 41 kw jbf a i d mc their votes az e aaanna ite tyski tys fi sp s U M Z ate 51 1 t i mg 6 yi aap 0 4 he am P 40 0 V people are am supreme and they have the undisputed right through their state legislatures to protest against the adoption of any and all amendments to the constitution of the united states and this being tra true e then it naturally follows that there was no possible way whereby a handful of scheming and unscrupulous republican politicians could coula have ever enacted the legislation referred to without the consent of the common people and consequently the negro boes does not owe a debt of gratitude to the republican party nor to any other party for the blessings which have been showered down upon his head by the american people the negro race has been likened unto that of the jewish race by a 9 great reat many people but we can only discover a slight similarity between the jewish and the negro ram race for on the one hand according to jo sephus and philo the two greatest jewish historians the children of israel were compelled to serve their cruel task masters the egyptians for three hundred and seventy five years without receiving any compensation pensa tion whatever aud ard during that time they were compelled to make bricks without straw but at the expiration of that time according to the two eminent hebrew authors moses the great leader of his people succeeded in persuading pharaoh king of the egyptians to release the children of israel from the house of bond age and immediately thereafter moses and two million of the children of israel began their memorable march to the land moses and the israelites passed through tt t G e red bed sea without any difficulty and then they wandered around in the wilderness of sinai tor for forty years in the meantime their food had all disappeared but they subsisted on majetta ma manna jitta or angels bread which the gods had prepared for them As they drew near the land of canaan the trees of the desert the palm and ac cacia eacia disappeared and the earth became carpeted P eted with green plants and spotted with red an emones like drops of blood and here and there they could coul d see am a field of corn and at lasty lasts in the dist distance wace rounded hills with trees standing against the sky when moses beheld all those beautiful surroundings he issued orders to his trumpeters trum peters to blow their silver anver trumpets and his great army went into encampment and then one man from each tribe was deputed to spy theland the land and when they returned two of the scouts were em iu in favor of or invasion the others wad saia that it was a good land as the fruits showed a land flowing with tenth milk and d honey after ar ter mos Mose eshad saO listened to all reports he decided to invade the laud land of canaan but the people of canaan marched hed out ik i against t them hew an ana di a aku i m i sh took place and aid d moses mons and the two am million israelites ites were wo e defeated t t were frosi off jhc ace bithe the mth earth abot soffi V etly to enter into ta ana lot to ettoy goy the fruite atsa noflie the band santon an 0 other hand J the ne negro gm save A 4 q az aka ii 4 L 61 ar house of bondage he was elevated to the very highest pinnacle of american citizenship and from I 1 that time on to the present doctor gulp culp the negro has filled a g great reat niana many important positions in this the best and the greatest country upon the face of the green earth to be continued |