Show THE X NEGROES E G R 0 E S REPUDIATE THE CARPET now the negroes are giving the rascally carpet the cold shoulder wanting to be well rid of them mr ered pred douglass in a fourth of july speech at hillsdale near washington asked that the negroes be let alone by the white men whether politician or philanthropists and particularly by the carpet a wolves fred simply simple asked for the negroes xie jie groes a fair and white mens mena hands off is how bow he talked of certain white mendicant they are lawyers without clients broken down ministers without churches wandering teachers without schoos schools they are great beg beggars ar a they havu havo the gift of begging down to a nicety they are great at getting out circulars they scatter them broadcast over the land jand as leaves before autumnal gales if you are worth anat anything in they will end out where you live and if you never got a letter before you will betone geb get one now fellow citizens we must stop these men from begging for us they misrepresent us and cause causa the coti country to look upon ns us as a poor and helpless people they say please give something to help to educate the poor black people but do I 1 pray pay it to me ine and if it is a hundred dollars it is reduced to about a hundred cents gets to tta the poor black people we do not want cewill we will not have these second rate men meu begging for us we protest against it here is a rap por for Freedman the mig s bank u 1 we haye had a 6 freed mana 8 savings institute but wui we do dont alt want anymore any more our white friend told us thab that if w we q h had aa defils to ta bring them to thern and aud thy would take care of themi ant alq if tye had dollars or hun hundreds hundred died pi pr thousands also aiso to bring th them th they told us they had a goose and a rolden golden egg yes we put our millions there but where whre aro are aro they thai now the men who went lino rino iino that bank a few years ago ako poor men are now domiciled in beautiful homes and drive their nine fine turnouts it it makes me feel badly to think ho how W we have been robbed just enough honest men have been put into thu tho bank to insure its success but while they put pia in two sound apples they slipped in five nive or six specked ones and were sure to turn the specks down on this affair iid and rid fredb fredas remark that it made him mm feel bad the N Y herald thus comments we should think it would woul id it is a feeling in which the country will share the failure of the Fre edmans savings bank k was most disara disgraceful ce ful fui in every way it was a deliberate cold blooded shameful robbery of a de dependent ident poor a and rid struggling race a robbery under the guise gulso of morality alid and religion give us the names of these robbers mr douglas Dou glass glasa must know thom them th aina because he i speaks of their houses bouses and coaches coache s let lk him give us their I 1 names that th they ey may maj may be hilll ed up by the ears in festering infamy |