Chapter XII

The Progress Made by the Colored People, Morally, from 1865 to 1894.--They are the Equals in Scholarship of any Other Class of Students.--There is no Such Thing as a Negro Race in This Country.--They are Colored Americans, Nothing More.--This is Their Home and They Are Here to Stay by the Will of God.--Old Flag is His.--He has Defended it in the Past and Will Defend it Again.--He Will Stand or Fall With the Loyalist.--How Colored Families Were Established.--Their Names.--They are the Equals of any Other Class With no More Cash.--Contented and Faithful Laborers.--They are Not Anarchists, But can be Relied Upon in Case of War.--Can Same be Said of Other Adopted Citizens?--The Negro Will Stand by the True Americans in all Cases.--Why Should Colored Loyalists Suffer Injustice at the Hands of the American People?--Not Treated Fairly by the Press.--Injustice of Mine Owners and Manufacturers.--All the Colored People Ask of the Americans is Fair Play in the Race of Life, With its Other Adopted Citizens 128

CHAPTER XIII.

The Colored People are Charged with Being Imitators and it is Admitted.--Mistakes made by Following White People.--Advice Given in Good Faith.--The Hand Should be Trained With the Head.--Have we as Many Colored Artisans Now as we had at the Close of the War?--History of Tuskeegee Industrial Institute and its Founder.--How Managed.--Not a White Man in It.--$15,000, Donated to it by a Southern White Woman, Descendent of the Old Master Class.--Similar Institutions Springing up in the Southland 137

CHAPTER XIV

Need of Money and How to Get It.--Business Houses and How to Sustain Them.--Take the Jew for a Pattern.--We are Producers.--He Is Not, yet Accumulates Capital.--Our Preachers, Teachers and Leaders Should Lead us to be a United People.--Prejudice due to Condition, not Color.--We are Responsible for our Children’s Idle Condition.--Failure to Educate the Hand as Well as the Head.--White Men Have Used the Advantage we Gave them.--Duty of Our Ministers not Fulfilled.--We Cannot Always Rely Upon White Philanthropists, But Must Help Ourselves 143

CHAPTER XV.

Went Into Business in 1866, Which was Destroyed by Fire With Great Loss.--Reopened and Burnt Out Again, Losing Six Hundred Dollars.--Reopened and After Three Years Failed.--Went Into Politics and Beaten by Twenty-Five Votes by Ex Governor Glick, For the Kansas Legislature.--Pressed for Cash to Buy Bread.--Elected Doorkeeper State Senate in 1881.--Foreman on Construction Train, A. N. R. R.--Appointed to Position at Washington.--Promoted Three Times.--Personal Experience in Pension Office.--Different Commissioners Compared.--Gen. J. C. Black, the Ideal One.--Advice to New Appointees and What They May Expect.--Life in Washington as a Clerk.--Old Clerks are the Reliables and Cannot be Displaced 155