Show I EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION Colored People of Salt Lake Observe Thirtyeighth Anniversary of Freedom of Slaves I 1 a S JS I The thirtyeighth t anniversary ot the freeing of the slaves Jn the United States was celebrated at St Marks schoolhouse yesterday by the colored people of Salt Lake On September 22 1SC2 President Lincoln notified the Southern Confederacy that If It did not lay down its arms within 100 cn she s-he would declare thtj slaves fiee In pursuance of that notice the emancipation emanci-pation proclamation was Issued January Janu-ary 1 18G3 and by common consent the former date Is observed by the African race throughout the country There was a programme of speechmaking In the afternoon followed by a banquet In the evening and a ball at night Ill H Voss Is president of the emancipation eman-cipation celebration committee W P Powell Is secretary and treasurer and 1 W Taylor who acted as chairman at yesterdays meeting Is master of ceremonies Two large tags covered the end of the hall back oC the platform plat-form on which were arranged S the speakers and on the right and left hand of the chairman were Miss Mamie Garner and Miss Frances Tv ool fork respectively Ieprescn tns quVjena and each attended by two litlte girls as maids of honor At each annlvcr t j nary mooting a queen Is chosen for the ensuing year After the singing of America Chairman Taylor In calling the meeting meet-ing to order spoke of the importance of the day to his race and urged an Increased attendance that Its observance obser-vance might be perpetuated Miss S P Rhodes congratulated hor hearers that they were enjoying freedom free-dom Instead of serving under theNfhfp of cruel taskmasters The tslmasters negroes she said had freed themselVes l by fighting fight-ing as the Union was not victorious until it received negro aid and she did not believe that the white man had fought for the negro but Cot hlmsolf o i Mrs L M Woods took the L f same position po-sition and claimed that President Lln 1 cola had been merely an Instrument in Gods hands to liberate her people H H Voss said that he hold with I reverence the name of Lincoln the I great emancipator and when ho looked at Old Glory he felt that thc spirit of Lincoln wns hovering over the colored race He wanted to see the day always al-ways observed with Increasing Interest Inter-est estO O Stallsworth praised the white people I peo-ple who he said had done so much for the negroes You cant tell me he sid that H Lincoln and others I had not freed us that we would have freed ourselves The colored man I could not help himself or he would have done so instead of remaining In i slavery for centuries He then re erred to the noted abolitionist and characterized John Brown as the bravest brav-est man and Lincoln as the best man that ever lived V II Shelton told of the advancement advance-ment of the race W W Taylor told o Africas gift to civilization and Charles Wagner spoke entertainingly for education of the negro The meeting closed by singing the StarSpangled Banner after which the audience of about seventyfive people peo-ple sat down to 0 wellsupplied table In the evening the decorations were increased by a large portrait of Lincoln Lin-coln being hung against the rag The attendance was much greater than at the afternoon meeting and dancing was the principal feature until 1 oclock when a voting contest unti cents a vote for the queen for the com ing year and for thc most popular man was held the proceeds to go to the celebration committee Miss Woolfork won over Miss Garner by n vote of IU9 to 121 and was presented with a pink silk dress pattern The mens contest resulted in 303 votes for S S R S Stewart 20 votes for V II Shelton II and 7 votes for James Thompson Stewart was declared the winner and was presented with a goldheaded cane |