Show COLORED coy COI OBED PRINTERS AND THE TYPO GRAPHICAL UNION MR AIR CLAPP public printer at washington has disturbed the equanimity of the typographical union of that th city by employing colored journey journeymen men printers in the government office at the latest accounts the union had a long and very noisy meeting to consider his course and adjourned with the idea that he would abandon his position but clapp says he considers it an absurd idea that a government institution should be controlled b by Y any union and he declares he be will em employ ploy colored men without regard to the action of the union and further that he lie expects to put inome in a me cI colored ored apprentices the th e same union has been bistu abed by the application of lewis H douglass lass s a son of frederick douglass the colored orator for member membership in the union A preamble and resolutions were presented by a member at the meeting the resolutions censured cen aured the financial secretary for granting mr douglass a card permitting him to work until the society shall bhail take action in the premises ps and directed the chairman of the office in which he be is employed to cause bim him to cease work the resolutions were ruled out of order the subject ii causing considerable excitement cit ement and it is believed it will eventually be rede referred fred cred to the national typographical union the colored men are too popular just now for the printers to make any headway against excluding capable colored printers from employment in prid prin i ng offices and we shall be surprised it if they do not have to succumb frederick douglass made a speech at the anniversary of the american antislavery anti slavery society in new york a few days ago the subject was what colored men want 11 he we summed up his theory in the sentence let the negro alone he alluded to his sons case in which thirty six printers employed in the government office were truly disgusted by the employment of one negro as a printer in that establishment he understood understood too d that they had leave to retire and lie he hoped they would retire it is easier he said for him today to day to get his son aon into a law office at Eo rochester chester than to get him a place in a shipyard ship yard to build ships R s the reason is the higher you go up mip in the gradations of intelligence the farther you get away from prejudices and the more reasonable men are he found it less difficult to get along with educated men than with those who are uneducated rather flattering this to lawyers in whose offices a negro can get comparatively easy admission but rather a doubtful compliment to the printers I 1 I 1 mr douglass Doug lacs says what he be and hb hla race want and what they are re resol solvin vint vini to have is the right C to be men anion amons men men everywhere in the tho sou the planters owning their ac aci of land have banded handed together and c ter mined not to sell any large lar e or small smail a all ail parcels to the colored men therefore he mr D advocates it is t the twe e duty of congress on or some other power the present government at any rate to see that the negro has fair play in the acquisition of land let him purchase land and said he let him work and not say that you will not work with him he gave the democratic party the credit of being logical and of seeing further than the abolitionists in the senate it had I 1 been stated by that party that manhood suffrage meant the bringing of a black senator into that chamber to be seated in those chairs mr douglass said the statement was right it meant all that and he was just the man to go there this statement ot of his elicited cheers from his hearers let the negro vote he continue dand be he will be voted for if voted for he will go to congress there is no telling where he wont go we honestly think congress is ls the best place they can go to |