Show HBQBOB8 Now and then a colored man works himself to the front among men of intelligence and education and dcei it himself overoominc the obstacle of dark akin that must long be a disadvantage dis-advantage to a man in this country The time wai during and after the war when a negro really had the better S bet-ter ot tbe white man it his ability were anything like equal to the place or vocation sought Hi skin was something that the ordinary poor man might almost envy But that time ham passed Tbe negro wLo S comes up now must do ao by genuine merit His color is against him with all parties and in every eocietv hence in an otherwise even race be is handicapped S handi-capped A ttw years ago the naicma r House of Representatives was somewhat S S some-what BDOuked who negro facee ands and-s one African countenance glutened f in the Senate Chamber Now however how-ever a change has come The negro ban lull the Senate and the colored repmentativea are scarce They have been replaced by Caucasians chiefly because the latter were more intelligent shrewder and better edo oitod The black men could not bold 5 his own could not keep the position into which he had been thrust almost 5 al-most by brute force But as we say S now and again one of tbe dark I S lace elbows his way among S men asking no fajror only fair treatment treat-ment Ont of these is i exSenator S Bruce of Miisissippi who has lately bteu made register of the United StalL treaeury an important offi e under the government and oneS one-S which places heavy responsibility S upon the occupant and require inS in-S him no small degree of basinets ability and intelligence Mr Bruce wat not appointed because of his S color but because be was trustworthy and equal to the duties of the office No objection wss tflered against bis confirmation the nomination not i even being referred to a committee but being treated with the oourtscy S that the senate ever shows to the nomination to office of one of its members Bruce was a slave st tbe i outbreak of the war His political S advanofment and social growth have t been the result of laborious study unflinching integrity and the tamS tam-S mon sense to understand that hiS hi-S color was a disadvantage His course I has been manly and straightforward S his platform being When a blackmAn black-man of tbe same party is i a contestant S for an office with a white one the S color of the ono should not be conS con-S I sidersd a certifies in his favor nor that of the other a bridge of disgrace i to be overcome superior merit before S be-fore be can attain his object over a S competitor in all else his equalS equal-S That is the platform upon which S the colored race must stand S l and which while statesmen ot both q t parties are fait adopting When the j white race gefs over its too deap sympathy for tbe blacks and the S negroes learn that they are simply S S human entitled fo nothing they do not merit the blacks will drift into S S their proper places whether it be in GoDgrcis in responsible offices or in t tbe cotton field A Bruce or a Fred S Douglass will come to tbe front and oo one will object if none applauds S end tbe numerous Samboa will find their sphere on the plantation rather S than in legislative balls 1 t H |