The Colored Convention
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The Colored Convention
Source
Chronicling America
Publisher
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Date
1876-03-28
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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1876
THE COLORED CONVENTION.
By a general and authoritative understanding, a convention composed of colored delegates from each State, Territory and District of Columbia will meet at Nashville, Tenn., April 3, for the purpose of devising and adopting measures for the weal of the colored citizens of the United States. We regard this as a move in the right direction, and as one demanded by all social and political circumstances existing at the present time. Emancipation, in the order of Providence, was secured at a fearful cost in blood and treasure, and all the rights flowing from it and established by law must be preserved. It is only admitting a fact when we say that a powerful influence exists whose tendency is not only to abridge those rights, but to obliterate them altogether. That influence is concluded within the Democratic party. As the ancient and implacable foe of equal rights, it displays on every possible occasion its inborn, natural hostility to the social and political advancement of the negro race in America. The ascension to national authority of the Democratic party would be marked by, in the first instance, a complete stoppage of the progression and elevation of colored citizens, and, secondly, by a swift and cruel curtailment of the privileges already won Under the rule of Democracy, the equal, just and legal rights of colored citizens would be destroyed without mercy, and, by a majority of that party, a relapse into the very degradation of slavery itself would be viewed with an amazing equanimity. The Republican party as a unit, as the tried and true friend of the colored race, sustains the call for this convention, and it will, in great degree, be controlled by its resolutions and decisions. We cannot regard it otherwise than a most important movement, wisely conceived and capable of accomplishing great good.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1876
THE COLORED CONVENTION.
By a general and authoritative understanding, a convention composed of colored delegates from each State, Territory and District of Columbia will meet at Nashville, Tenn., April 3, for the purpose of devising and adopting measures for the weal of the colored citizens of the United States. We regard this as a move in the right direction, and as one demanded by all social and political circumstances existing at the present time. Emancipation, in the order of Providence, was secured at a fearful cost in blood and treasure, and all the rights flowing from it and established by law must be preserved. It is only admitting a fact when we say that a powerful influence exists whose tendency is not only to abridge those rights, but to obliterate them altogether. That influence is concluded within the Democratic party. As the ancient and implacable foe of equal rights, it displays on every possible occasion its inborn, natural hostility to the social and political advancement of the negro race in America. The ascension to national authority of the Democratic party would be marked by, in the first instance, a complete stoppage of the progression and elevation of colored citizens, and, secondly, by a swift and cruel curtailment of the privileges already won Under the rule of Democracy, the equal, just and legal rights of colored citizens would be destroyed without mercy, and, by a majority of that party, a relapse into the very degradation of slavery itself would be viewed with an amazing equanimity. The Republican party as a unit, as the tried and true friend of the colored race, sustains the call for this convention, and it will, in great degree, be controlled by its resolutions and decisions. We cannot regard it otherwise than a most important movement, wisely conceived and capable of accomplishing great good.
Convention Minutes Item Type Metadata
Convention Type
National Convention
City
Nashville
State
TN
Country
USA
Start Date
1876-04-05
End Date
1876-04-07
Provenance
Library of Congress
Event ID
1876.TN-04.05.NASH
Citation
“The Colored Convention,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/2793.