Show OUR REVIEW of the past and the future of the american negro 0 by D J W culp A M M D Z xan CLASS legislation claben anne swayed over the destinies of england and the english people from 1664 to 1714 and during that time her solicitor general and attorney talbot and york were instrumental in causing her lord chief justice to render an opinion to the effect that no slave was in the possession of any right which his english master was under the slightest obligations to respect one hundred and eighty three years have elapsed since the lord chief justice of england rendered that infamous decision and from that time to the present all of the highly civilized civil used and christianized Christiani zed nations and states throughout the entire world have enacted class legislation with only one object in view namely to circumscribe the rights and liberties of the negro race in order to verify the statement which we have made in atef reference arence to class legislation we will very briefly review the class legislation which has been enacted by bi the various states of the union during the past hundred years for the purpose of retarding the progress of the negro in 1788 the state of massachusetts passed a law to A the e effect th chajt 4 if an african or negro not born there and not in bondage should tarry tam within the state for a longer term than two months he was to be imprisoned at hard labor until the next session of court and if found guilty be whipped with ten stripes and ordered out of the state with within in ten days and it if he went not the same game couric coarse to be repeated laws of mass vol aj I 1 1788 in 1819 the tha supreme court of mass achu handed down an opinion to the effect that it was waa not necea sary gary to use a bill of sale in order to transfer the property of a slave glare which is a mere personal chatt chattel elv but might pass as other chattels by delivery and ana the same court says scat at the time of his birth caesar was a slave and as 83 suan such was the property of his master as much horse he had no as his ox or his civil rights he could acquire no property nor dispose ot oe any with consent of his master his children of the issue of his marriage with a sieve lave would immediately laia tely upon their birth become the property of his master or the master of the female slave 13 mass reps parker judge the legislatures of new york connecticut bhide island new jersey aua and of the other W ew F england agnew and middle states enacted e enact similar laws respecting the treat meat ment which should be accorded to allfree negroes who contemplated residing ln in their resPect respective i states by the laws of af the great state of new Ne koa anite X man was fined fin ed five pounds and IL a colored colo red man ten fen PO pounds da bebr adir offense Offen sr we SA s t ef to the in in have evl hul b W we ii 7 ie bs tan hear some Z r ahat I 1 map J ai ed ro W ho t tt 23 gim the ni 34 negroes today than what their were generally speaking thatis that is true but we desire to call the attention of the people of new england to the fact that bishop benjamin W arnett was ejected from all the leading e hotels of boston durin daring the month of january 1896 for no other reason than that he happened to belong to the negro race the state of new newyork york abolished slavery over one hundred years ago nevertheless no negro was permitted to ire frequent quent a first class hotel or to occupy a respectable seat in any theater throughout through ont that state until 1895 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW in 1848 abraham lincoln daniel webster william H seward charlow weed and a number of other great leaders of the whig i party succeeded in nominating zachariah taylor for president of the united states who was the owner of three hundred slaves and that distinguished gentleman and millard fillmore of new york were inducted into their respective offices on the ath day of march 1849 but president taylor expired on july 9 1850 and then millard fillmore became president and during his reign the fugitive slave law was enacted which was by far the most atrocious measure enacted iu in this or in any any other country in the world commissioners were appointed by president fillmore and they received ten dollars whenever they adjudged a negro to be a slave but they only received five dollars if they decided that the negro was entitled to his freedom it is fair to presume that the great majority of the commissioners were always in favor of earning the ten dollar fee to be continued thanksgiving DAY PiLES president IDENT mckinley mckenley has issued his thanksgiving 0 proclamation and in accordance with a time honored custom next thursday november will be observed as a n national holiday throughout the length and breadth of our republic and all those wh who 0 hf with the various religious organizations and sects are am admonished by the president aud and by the governors of our various states to repair to their respect respective ive places of worship on that day and to offer up pray prayers ers and duplications to the gods whom we are am taught to believe a sit it on their thrones in the he heavens avens beyond the starry skies and who are supposed to shower down their blessings upon all who are am possessed within and a contrite heart upright spirit I 1 it may be that a great many people of our country feel fed that they should be blessed and feel thankful than tAil for the glod fortune which has attended them during but it is hard for us the past year to conceive how heart could he be f filled led with gladness and delight on cu that day if they permit themselves to meditate upon th the e and suffering which is conc condition litzou more than half of esperie experienced need by of the human race the bemb members ers which we are scatter scattered ec I 1 throughout our country and throughout t the he wor world la shaula thanksgiving zay day ot ought ight to he be a ARY adof of great rejoicing icing amo among ng the alike but we ver fear rich ilich and poor compe compelled llad to th that at those 03 e who are an for the mere ere laor labor incessantly mece anes of life will not ex experience in on an that day y if sufficient wealth to spaced sp ased e enable us to do so we would traverse all sections of the world and provide each and every person who are in poor circumstances with a big fat turkey chicken or duck and we would throw a beautiful bouquet in the lap of every little poor boy and girl and provide each and every one of them with a bran new pair of redtop red top shoes or boots with plenty of good warm clothing with a new slate and pencil with a lovely little story book and with everything which would tend to gladden their sad little hearts and to every poor hardworking hard working widow we would provide her with plenty of coal and wood and with a bushel basket full of sweet meats and with other good eatables and we also wish that i we had the power to traverse here there and everywhere so that we could cheer the faint to raise the fallen to gladden the hearts of 0 the weary and heavy and to illuminate the pathway of all humanity who are bowed down with a heavy weight of woe |