| Show = c OUR COLORED CONGRESSMAN = 0 n A Talk About tho Negro and His Futuro With tho African Mombor From South Carolina = 0 J rem Slavery It Omereii ltMi a Colored hay Got an lUunlion Wllnonl StIrNwltlI TattleSlifery 11At Stalk ant VitfiVft He Stfiemtujrof He Murelit He Coltrt httf Ate Aefniiing Jttfetlr A Klttt Man IlhoPito5erenTAoosdAere7Ae Mfrvei Will AntlfavHle IWIt He H ItUtl t ntUug i n He Sent n < l Aw hnttenl Cthrtd Mm An II C Jong Ntgro CMfiiMllfn and til fntfetli fieJtrttk Dtujhti at StvtntfSu Ml lltint Hit NIl aid till UMIe ttifeA Sliry t Senator Room BtjhoodUlt Mjititge aJSimtlHnt Atot tin Mliilwffl Und rrojetl I = = = fKtol cknn ItI el r > i Yew WAIIIINOTOV D C 1119The only colored manIn Congress cornea from South Carolina His name Is I George Washington Murray and he represents 316000 people Ills district Is the fmout black district which was represented I repre-sented by Gen Kobl Small and it lathe la-the Uggest negro district of the Union It Is I two hundred mile long and It winds In and out like a snout scalloping the Atlantic tOAd nod cutting the slate of South Carolina like a saw It is I the district set aside by Ihe whites of that state for colored representation It contains con-tains few towns and only one fiftlt of its population Is white There Is no question about Geo W Murray ancestry lively feature of his cannon ball head li i modeled on African lines His complexion Is that of the ace of spades and his features are ol the i pronounced negro Ivpe He Is by no means a bad looking colored man lie stands about Ave feet eight inches In his stockings and Is broad shouldered and strong limbed l He hu shown himself lobes man of nerve ands politician of shrewdness lie i talks well but butchers the kings j English In many nf Ills sentences sen-tences He l has had to fight for all that i lie has and his education has been acquired ac-quired lln almost ai remarkable a way as MSS that ol Fed Douelats I had n talk with him last night about himself and questions relating to his race 1I0WaNI COIoRIID IAN WAS BDIICTJI I first inked him as to hli lililory lie I I I replied I was born In the district In which I I live Just about forty tears ago M le jor i r My parents were slaves and when Abra ham ell Lincoln freed the negroes I was j ar IJh Just eleven year old Iliad 1 no money and no one lo take care of me lull I de clued at that time that Io I would have I an education and went at It I learned my A II Cs by asking other children who i fafl went to school what the letters I were slid by practicing on every person whom I I met I finally I learned loread and write I studied i as best I u3r until I I i became able lo rend the newspaer 1 > anil I know that I could l stumble my way through a congressional speech when I waslUlcvn It 1 was about this time Hut Gco S Itoutwell a Congressman from Maine or Massachusetts made a speech which Ire I-re < I It 1 made a Impression upon I me and I can quote one sentence from It now It 1 was on Ihe soother n 1 I u r lion I and I think It reads follows 1 know IhM there It pro alatcr desire and always 1 al-ways has been and always will be until elbe republican irty grind It Into Ittwder trample I It under foot ami freedom free-dom blows I the dust II out with ire healing of her wings This sentence made an Impression on me and I probably read It lo some of our twople as the colored boy who could read always erJo the papers to the others Well In thu way I learned lo read and w rite Arithmetic always came easy lu me and I could figure out sums In my head lung helore I Knew I how lo make the figures When I was eighteen years old I had > u Ur progressed that 1 began to leach xhoul If th and the first school 1 ever enteteil I was as a teacher and not as scholar After teaching several jrars I went to the University of South Carolina and remained re-mained there school until the government govern-ment of the state prohibited the coeducation coedu-cation ol the races and forced 1 mo out I then went back to INch In the public schools and was engaged In leaching and farming until 1 was elected to Congress Con-gress FARMING AMONG TIIK NBOROKS How about farming among the negroes Mr Murrav I asked are they gradually acquiring properly loop ore Indeed emphatically replied re-plied I the colored Congressman The negro naturally wants a farm of Ms own 1 anti my people are buying 1 lands on long i lime and are Impioving them Some of them owns farms of from one lu 10 thousand acres and there is I a colored man Washington to day who farms seven thousand acres of land In Georgia He owns mote than this but he has this amount under cu tlvatlon I own a little farm of my own and there are thousands thous-ands of colored men In the south who own land We are advancing right I along In Hie accumulation I of property along fi nll = ThI ul r and the lime will come when our poop 0 wilt be a commercial and l business factor In the United Suits 1 believe that our success depends upon our education and enrichment ro and I look for the lime taken the negro will stand even with the while man as a properly owner How about property rights In the south Are those ol the colored people retiietlfd Yes I think so was the reply The southerners are unxloui that the negroes should own properly and l they encourage them to save and Invest their money They treat them fairly to far as munor any of these things are concerned but they 1 do not give them I a falr show In any rolltiral way There Is I fraud in every elecnun In the south and I thin ham not been a fair iticnn m tiuutll Carolina for years rhe whiten control the ballot boxes and they count th < ballots In suit Ihrnnelves The governor appoints the officers of election and there are all sorts of tricks to prevent Ihe negro from having a fair vole One way n In the OIlh f sin and shape of the ballots The Iwllot must be so many Inches long ami rr so many inches mhre If the paper varies one sixteenth uf an inch the ballot may be thrown iut The halloli are put Inio boxes labeled with the n imes < > f the officers to be I voted fur If a hallo Is I dropped into the w rong Iwo it doe not count Many ol our people cannot read and by changing the boxes about they make It so that r the I ballots go j into the wrung box and are thus woilhlesa We have also lAW fur registration which make It practically Impossible for a fair election Till KV kLUX IN THE MIU1II How about the ku LluxP There ate no ku klux in the south and there Is very little error ailslng at the polls The whim are able lo accomplish ac-complish their ends without the useol a shot gun They don need them 1 low I about the feeling between the negroes and the whiles will there ever be a war between the two races I think not The negroes appreciate the act that such n war olll < result In their destruction and the fight that they Intend lo make Is along business and I educational lines We propose to educate edu-cate ourselves and to save our money and when we become the equals of the whiles in property anil In business you will see that 110 have hello recognition Io you think Hut the negro Is I the equal of the while In 1 natural ability rhO 1 do replied the African Congressman Congress-man History has shown that the sons of Ham ore as strong as the sons of Sham and l Japhct every way It was one thought that the negro could not advance In learning beyond a certain liolnt but the colleges know that the negro is me equal 01 I me wane ann in many cases superior I think that we will gradually equal and eventually distance I W lfJI whiles 1r tance lie whites The reason for this is that we have got to start from the liotlom We boon nothing and we must fight for every Inch We arc very ambitious and we will not slop until wo gel to the top topA A MKCU RACK What will be Ihe future of the two races Will the negro ever unite with the whites I believe said Mr Murrav that there will eventually hue a mixed race In this counlrv made up ol negro and tacg blood l V m C white blood When Ihe negro becomes rich and l educated the objection to him will wear away and there will be Intermarriages Inter-marriages between the two races At present the negroes have no objections to such I marriage They think that the j YIII only ground of marriage should I be that of love The objection comes from the whiles and this will disappear us the negro equals them III property and oilier things Do not a large number cf j our people I peo-ple t object to colored men marolng white women r You remember Ihe howl of Indignation thin went up from the colored t eople ol 1 this country when fr rotl lk I Fred Douglass I married lunl n whiteSt white-St Ves replied Mr Murray I do and the Indignation against ougliss was so strong because he to I a Urge extent ex-tent represented I the colored people ol the United Stales and the fact tliat he married a woman of I white blood l was coohkretl at the constdereti hy unr p I plr n lap hi Th i v IIIIIhl lIonlen of uan I II meant that hr < u l not t fin I a oolued woman good Iu IIu t gli ire I hllllllnd hence hail to lake a while one 11111 COLONUA1I > 01 TJlIf NKORO Mr How about negro coloniaation Murray Will such schemes ever succeed suc-ceed fi11 ceedNo No was the relv I The negroM han never been in fnor of such colonl islkm nor hake tuck vhentea ever been engineered by pi I IIre who have not wanted to make money out of It There was a movement nlimit fifteen warn ago lo lake Ihe colored pole to I Kansas and there han lien propositions to oeod I them to Ilrail j I and r other I III places I The negroes are In tie United Stales to uy and If they could have free transportation trans-portation J to t Ijberi I i IT to Africa they would not lake It I do not think the people ol the south want to get rid of the negro and I think If we are let alone that WB will work out out ilestlny to the MIMhctlon of every one LVNCitiNc IN TIIS noirrii I luw about the numerous cases of lynching that have recently taken place In the louih The action nf II f whiles in this regard re-gard Mid Mr I Murray Is an outrage il upon civilisation Hundreds ol the men who are murdered m this yore Innocent and the hitching It brought about lo keep Ihe taces apart Trumped up charges are mnle II against the colored man IrresnoiKiblt while women are Induced to accuse ohnomotu colored men of crlnus k unst them The colored man Is I arri > ied put In jail A howl I of Indignation goes up and he Is I hanged and turlurcil williout 0 trial It H dangerous bur a Ftul 1 looking colored man lo b seen walkini with a dissolute while wcHM ii and l an i > relations between the races are sure to result In the lynchIng lynch-Ing of Iho colored m m I would rather not say anything about lids question Jbn li however but 1 know what 1 have l said 1 Is I the truth A LOOK AT raiD HOUOLAM Speaking ol the future of the colored race Fred l Uouglau la l one of IhOl4l who believe l that the two races will 1 eventually come together lie I lAY that the color line will be obliterated unit 1 that the only IAlvllon for the negro U I In union wllli the white Douglass It I about three Inurtha colored lihnielf and his aennd wlfu it an whileal any woman In the United Slate Sue seas his private pri-vate secretary when he married her and if I am tutu very fond of her husband Wie Is I nl twenty years younger than he and lives with her husband m the old Van hook mansion near Washington It be longed l to n fanioua necru hater who had left a will providing it should I i never be sold to a negro Fred 1 Douglass It I rich He Is l said to I be worm In Ihe neighborhood olaooouo II I le got joao annually M manna ln ol the Uiitrlct and he has for n long time received goo night for hits tenures I Ills books have paid him well and he ha 10 invested 1 hli money a > to be well fixed He U now seventy si years old and I he bus hs filled w Ithln the tail three or four ear II el He hai lot weight III and strength but i intellectuality lie la now strong a > ever and Ids last letter In reply to Senator IngalU Wit at strong a iwxr ai lie hAl ever written NATUR IIKtCK AND HIS UltSla lITI IAKW II00v I Dlanche K ltruce on lie floor f the U S innate yesterday He look hardly n day older than when he waked up to be sworn In on the arm nl Kotcoe I Conkting He K now des utinc his time to hu rMalc in Mi isinm and 1 Irclur Ia l llr han not innncv in I both par lulu and IIP told me no lung ago that he wa dividing I I up his i Minhslppi i t property prop-erty Into i small farm and j win selling lii on installment In the colored > con ite He has Unit a church snd school douse on the plantation and he believes with Mr Murray that the future of the negro lies In his education and In the accumulation accumu-lation of property > BRVATOR IlKUCKS UARRIAOR Senator flruce now lives In Uaihlng Ion In a fashionable 1 part of Ihe northwest north-west Ills vvlfcli a beautiful woman far more white In complexion than many of our Washington society ladies I lien lie-n 1 her while the 10 were at college together at Oberhn He mariled her mi he was In Iho Senate i and il the vent was one of two senator il wciM Ings which look place at Cleveland Ohio one summer MM I Ilruce was a teacher In ono III the Cleveland public schools She has been very well educated educat-ed and she w In fact as accomplished a lady as jou will t find r anywhere She dressea well look well and IUM 1 great natural refinement The last time I saw livr was at one of Clara Marlons reception anil she was assisting Miss llarinn to t lecelve her guests The other wedding that tool place that summer was that of Henator Don Cameron who married Miss IUzle Sherman the daughter of Judge Sherman of Cleve 1 J f land and a niece of the senator It was n grand 1 allalr and Its story look up many columns In Ihe newspapers Mrs Cameron also live In Waihlngton and her oldfa + hloned home just above I Illalnes Is now be repaired for the com i ing season now rmtcn MADE A QUARTER Returning Senator Ilruce He l had it I number of curious experiences during that first term In Ihe Senate and one 01 the queerest of Ihete was when old I Senator llogy asked him 10 vole for n bill which he had before the Senate llogy was one of the molt Aristocratic I ol the Senators 1 He crime from an old I SI loul family and as he asked Ilruce to do Ills ho sat down beside him Ilruce laughed as he mule the request and said Senator Iogy think 1 we can arrange this Iranuction btllcr than we did our hit business matter What do j oti mean said Ilojy 1 never did any business vvllli you be formDont Dont von remember meeting me beloro coming to the Senate said llniccNo No I do not replied llogy Well h said Ilruce I am yjol surprised sur-prised at tint lor It wai more than twenty years ago You were trying lo catch a steamer at St Louis and von had l a heavy log with you The day was hot and the perspiration was rolling oil you In streams A colored boy ran up to you and grabbed the lug I and ho carried It for you lo Ihe wharf You got there Just as the boat was about lo start jumped on and called fur the value The colored boy stuck to the salts and called for his quarter You had I to go 1 throucil every one ol I your pockets bluu I you could find a quarter and l throw It ashore Then the boat wa too far out for Ilia boy to throw the vallte The captain had to stop the boat and come back to the I char 1 i for you i to get our0alise I Now do vou remember t Ve I rel m rn tie r replied 1 Senator I Hogy bull I dont tea where you come Oh replied Truce I was the colored color-ed boy who got the quarter FRANK G CAKMSTER |
