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a relief special immediately to the scene of

the wreck from this city.

TENSIONS FOR FREEDMEN.

Strongly Indorsed by Frederick Donghsa In a

Letter to Congressman ConnelL

CniCAOO, Ang. 14. Ex-Mayor Vaugban,

of Omaha, who is at present in the city, has

received from Hon. Frederick Douglass,

ei-mini8terto Hayti, a letter in reference to

Mr. Vaughan'sbill providing for pensioning

the emancipated negroes, which was intro

duced in Congress by Representative Con-

nell, of Nebraska. Following is the text of

the letter which is dated "Cedar Hill. An

nacostia, D. C, July 35:"

'Sir I thank you sincerely for calling

my attention to the bill prepared by yon

and presented to Congress by Hon. W.

J. Connell, of Nebraska, which pro

vides for pensioning the freemen. Upon

first view I was somewhat amazed and

startled by tbe apparent impracticability

of the bill: but the more I thought of it,

the more practicable it seemed, and I say

that what the Nation onght to do, that,

the Nation, can do. The Nation as a na

tion has sinned against the negro. It

robbed him of tbe rewards of bis labors

during more tjran two hundred years,

and its repenftince will not be genuine

and complete till, according to the

measure of its ability, it shall have

made the retribution: It can never fully

atouefortbe wrong done to the millions

who have lived and died under the sailing

yoke of bondage, but it can, if it will, do

justice and mercy to the living.

"There never was. and never can be. a

proposition more just and beneticient than

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The Indianapolis journal. (1891). Indianapolis [Ind.], 1891-08-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015679/1891-08-15/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Indianapolis journal, 1891-08-15.