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7 ft i i iii mi'ii THE Jtsiiru'v ui BEE. 1 suts- A j. trw III' lylPl Li I I 'l 0. STE'V ARIMJusixes Manager and Publisher, VOL. I.

BOSTON SHOE HOUSE emoved to 924 Ladies' Fine Kid Button Boots, every pair warranted om Ladies' best Straight Goat Button Boots, every pair warrant cd 9 Gentlemen's Fine Frenoh Oalf Boots reduced to tm IdjM' Kid and Pebble Goat Button Boots, fm nn Lahee'Hnnd-Sewed Button Boots, crom LOO mi LadiP' Common Sense Kid Boots vm Gentlemen's Fine French Calf Boots and Shoes 2.00up BOSTON SHOE HOUSE, 924 Seventh Street, Northwest. ING'S PALACE. -o: 6 ill IP ITT lllKrl 1 IlnviiiR rowilvcd not to rarry any Kind over, we shall innngtirnto TWO CLOSING-OUT SALES EVERY YEAR, ONE IN JANUARY AND ONE IN JULY. Wr fJirrrlMir ofltT Our Extensive Stock of Fashionable coniHnff of Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Flowers, Plumes, Tips, Plushes, Velvets, Nntin-. Silk, knees.

Kid Glove, Corset, Ficlitts, Scarfs. Hatidkcrclilcfs, Ladies' Underwear. Jewelry. An Elcgnnt Assortment of Children's and Cloaks. 3T" Sale to commence with the beginning of the New Year, to continue until the entire Fiork is diepopcd of.

at prices that will surely make the goods sell. For quotatations of pnrpB please call at KING'S PALACE, 814 Seventh Street, N. W. The Largest Millinery in the United States. DOUCLA S', NILiXTII 4ttt Presents for COST.

Beginning To-Day we "Will sell all Holiday Goods at Cost Tins Department is still coinjiletc, and as no article mil he carried over that can possibly he sold, buyers Trill And this their opportunity. A Call early in the day, or late in the evening1, ensures better attention than it is piK-Ilile to give during- the hours Tfhcn we are crowded. DOUGLASS', Ninth and Streets. JOHN F. ELLIS 00.

937 Pennsylvania Avenue, Near Tenth Street PIANOS AJStJD OEGANS For Sale at Reasonable Prices, on Easy Terms Tuning, Repairing and Moving promptly attended to. GarnetF, Violins, Flutes. Guitars, and everything in the music lino for CASH OR OP JNeTAJLtMCENTS. roBLnsr in. ellis 937 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.

MMOTH DRY GOODS HOUSE OF UNSBURGH 420, 422 and 424 Seventh Street. Finest Elevator in Buildingr- hall open this week special bargains in BLANKETS, COMFORTERS, SHEETINGS. fases of Blankets at $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 up to $15 per pair. These wo guarantee to be 'vr than anr house in the city can Bell tbem without a loss. TO Bales more of those M.eiidid Standard Comforters at $1.40, retailed everywhere at $2.00.

5 Cases full ten-wirtor wide bleached Sheeting at 25 cents per yard. The best value over offered. Tin i -nnnot be repented. J'RlSJPOSJE. FOR, COLD WEATHER.

JJ Indies are invited to make ns a visit of inspection and compare our Coats. Dolmnns. rn-s. Jerseys, with those of any othor house. All are Tailor Made i ni Imported hJ ns.

We are prepared to show 6.000 Garments of all sizes and qualities. A fine lotion of Fur-trimmed Silk and Satin CIRCXJXrAHS AJNTD DOXlSASrS3 Sj'Mi and and Quilted Linings, etc A few HANDSOME WRAPS for largo people. A (inX apPortment of Misses' and Children's WRAPS in Qiik, Plush and Cloth, all sizes, to 1G years. We have an immense variety of DOLMANS 1 the new and desirable shapes, both in Trimmed and Untrimmed. Don't fail to see of Seal-Skin Sackques and Dolmans.

We guarantee every Seal Garment to be uion-dyed Alaska Seal and mads expressly for ns. All kinds of Fur Collars and Mulls. ANSBUBGH BROTHER 7th Street, N. LOSING OUT SALE. Holidays Home Rule, Industry, Justice, Equality and Recognition WASHINGTON, D.

Amusements. DR. J.W.STEVENSON fflDeliTcrMs MIMm of Fads anlM UBJECTTHE EFFECT OF FEAR AND IMAGINATION UPON THE PHYSICAL ORGANIZATION. Lectures given for the benefit of Churches, Societies and Sabbath Schools. BEV.

J. W. STEVENSON proposes to givo a Star Course of Lectures in his own Church this winter, and will givo, any of the following lectures for the benefit of the above. SUBJECTS: 1. Ths seasons of courtship; tho most Important part of life.

3. Whj marriage ii a lottery. 8. Superficial courtship. 4.

Marriage rereala true charade. B. True object of courtship. 6. Proper age to select a companion.

Proper age to marrr. 8. What is a companion 1 9. Courtship should reveal the true character. 10.

We should man. for the future as well as for the present. 11. God marries the truly married He joins the spirit partners He sanctions the union of those who are fitted for each other. His celebrated Lecture on Courtship and Marriage.

2nd Good and Bad Luck on the Secrets of Success, or the art of making Money. Also his very highly intellectual and classical lecture on the Formation of Character. The Conditions: One half of the proceeds. Address J. W.

STEVENSON, novl8-lm 1238, 19th street, N. W. KEEP NEW YORK. Manufacturers of the Best One Dollar Fine White Shirts Ever Produced, Sizes 14 to 17. COMPLETELY FINISHED, ELEGANTLY FINISHED, FULLY REINFORCED.

FIT TERECT. CAN ONLY BE HAD OF OLIVES P. SUEDSTTB '437 7th N. Sole Agent for the District of Columbia. declO-lm Guinhip Co.

820, 822 and 824 Seventh N. JUST BECBIVXD AND ABE NOW DISPLAYING THE LABGEST AND MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS, OUR LINEN DEPARTMENT. Ladie's silkand Plush Wraps ropuiar trices. oct28-lm liAW DIRECTOttY. FRANK EC- FALL, ATIORNEY-AT-LAW, 01, street, N.

D. 0. in 11 the Courts and all the Department oct7-lm. GEORCE COIDBERC PEALEIt IN Clothing and Gents' Furnishings. HATS, Shoe TrunliB, YHlirtO, Mnvicsl.lustrmneute.

Aleone ami Sje-oml-nnil Watebpn, Qudh, Pn-t'ls, etc 915 and f23 D. N. W. Watchos and Hflpnired. bppIG Itn.

YOUNG'S RELIABLE CLOTH AND SILK HOUSE. Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, LadieB' and Gent'a FurniBhingc 735 Seventh Street, Nortbweat, Washington. Every one dollar buyer gets a red tickot: air red ticketa entitles the holder to a useful present. Cheapest placo for bargain and presents. It pajB overybody to call.

bc 1G, 1 mo. Henry Boegeholz. Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Lager Beer nnd Fruit Essence. 1139, SEVENTH STREET, N. W.

declG-lra MAlHUFACTDHINeCO. Mrs. A. E. McClosty Co.

Wish to announce to their friends and the public that they have constantly on band a large stock of Millinery and Fancy Goods, Notions, etc, at 1030 SEVENTH STREET, N. Where th( rill be pleased to accomodate all. decl6-l ui 1 CM SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1883. The Twentieth Anniversary of Lincoln's Proclamation of The Grandest Event in the History of the Colored Man-Honor to Douglass-His Great Speech-Oiir Presiding Officer's Eloquent Speeeh-- DOUGLASSOur Honored Guest. HON.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS The Grandest Event in the History of the Xeoko A Universal Appreciation of the Great Leader Poets, Historians and Statesmen and Politicians Honoring the Old Man Eloquent for his Invaluable Serviges to his Country and the Colored Race The Twentieth Anniversary of Emancipation Ceie-brated Speeches by Journalists, Politicians, Poets, Statesmen, etc Honor to John Brown Senator B. K. Bruce's Opening Address Douglass' Reply Etc Etc. Monday, January 1, 18S3, being the 20th anniversary of the signing of. the Emancipation Proclamation by the immortal Abraham Lincoln, tiie leading colored citizens of the United States, representing all professions, from the poet, orator, historian, statesman, politician, journalist, tendered to Hon.

Frederick Douglass a banquet for his invaluable services to the colored race and his country, and F. rounds, on Ninth street, between and II streets northwest. Never before in the history of the American negro has there ever been such an assemblage of leading colored men. It was the grandest event on record in the history of the colored race. There is no man living whom the colored race honor, respect and esteem more than Hon.

Frederick Douglass. Mr. Douglass in his speech lost none of his vim, eloquence and logic, and the many speeches that were delivered bv the voting Solons, after the deliverv of Mr. Douglass' opening address, imbued into the old man's heaat a new impetus, and a warmth of enthusiasm, vigor and fire, that when he came with his second address, the applause was great, and the cry was, "Long live the OLD MAN ELOQUENT." So striking was the picture drawn, that it caused "each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The table w.is beautifully decorated with llowers, and on either side were lighted candles, and at the lower end was suspended the American flag. At half past seven o'clock the presiding officer, Hon.

B. K. Bruce, read letters of regret from George T. Downing, of Newport; Dr. Henry J.

Brown, of Baltimore; Hon. William Still, of Philadelphia; Hon. George L. Ruflin, of Boston, and Professor Charles Reason, of New York. The following were the invited guests: Ex-United States Senator 13 Bruce, Hon.

Robert Small, Bishop Brown, Hon. George Williams, Professor James Gregory, Rev. Tanner, Judge Samuel Lee, Hon. John Lynch, Hon. John Cook, Professor Greener, Mr.

Holland, Mr. Geo. Cook, Mr. Perry II Carson, Mr. Alfred Hailev, Mr.

William Syphax, Mr. Brown. Mr. William Matthews, Mr. Davis, Hon.

John Green, Mr. Thomas Fortune, Mr. Davis, Mr. Jesse Lawson, Mr. A Bro-die, Dr.

Atwood, Mr. II Cmey, Mr. Thomas II Carter, Mr. Taliaferro, Mr. Joseph Wood, Mr.

II Hunter, Mr. II Smith, Mr. Douglass, Rev. A Upshaw, Mr. Black, Mr.

Douglass, Mr. II Richards, Mr. Tompkins, Mr. Hewlett, Mr. Joseph Brooks, Dr.

Francis, Justice A Moss, Professor Wiley' Lane, Mr. II Howard, Mr. II Shipiien, Mr. Theodore II Green, Mr. John Ewing, Supt.

Cook, Captain C-A Fleetwood, Captain Kelley, Dr. Riley. Mr. Scott, Mr. Wm.

Allen, Mr. Bruce, Mr. according to Merit. The BEE Ahead of Time, James DeVeaux, Mr. George Smith, Mr.

James Kennedy, Mr. Frederick Douglass, Smith, Cromwell and Chase, representatives of the colored press. After reading letters of regret, Hon B. K. Bruce delivered address: the following SPEECH OF HON.

B. K. BRUCE. Gentlemen: We are here to do honor to our guest and distinguished fellow-citizen, Hon. Frederick Douglass, and 1 submit a few reflections suggested by the occasion.

Our guest possesses qualities of mind and heart that would have made him a marked man in any community, and brought him distinction in any career which he might have selected. The recognition given him to-night, while conceding to him the possession of great abilities, does not primarily or principally proceed upon this concession, but upon the further and honor able fact that he concentrated his great powers to the emancipation and elevation of his race. The great philantrophic movement which elicited his sympathies and furnished occasion for the exercise of his powers, had its inception nearly a century ago in a profound conviction ot the unrighteousness and barbarity of human slavery. The history of American emancipation exhibits the same general characteristics that have distinguished all great endeavors for the amelioration and improvement of the condition of mankind. First, the abstract conception of an existing wrong and the recognition of the obligation to correct it; next, the creation of a popular sentiment in harmony with the conception of duty, and adequate in its maintenance, to the evils recognized and proposed to be removed, and then concrete action, the expression in law and administration of the regulative opinions of the people.

The labors of Frederick Douglass, for the greater portion of his life, were directed to the accomplishment of his grand mission, when the dreary road he so heroically traveled was lighted for him by the siiblimest faith. For more than a generation his eloquent utterances were directed to quickening the public conscience, and lorming tne puunc judgmeutin the direction of justice and fair dealing toward an oppressed people. The apostle of liberty and human progress, he has lived to behold not only the successful consummation of hiswork, but survives to give the people for whom he has achieved so much the advantage of wise counsel on their entrance upon the new and better era of their history. The divine Teacher hath declared that, "A man's life doth not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses;" that its dignity is in the personal and not the relative qualities that make it, that its value and honor are to be sought and found in what it is, rather than what it has, in its character rather than its surroundings. The logical sequence of these premises is that development comes from within, and not from without, and that no people, however much they may have been stimulated and aided by exterior auxiliaries, ever achieved an honorable progress except largely through the representative men produced by them, and within them, and I may add also that no success achieved by a race was ever long maintained when that race ceased to recognize its representative leaders.

As a historic fact, marking the progress of a people, the remarkable men who arise in the different eras of its development are produced in groupj, not in a series, one succeeding the other, as the links connect and complete the chain. In some respects it may be said that our guest is an exception to this historical rule. While receiving the sympathy and- aid of many co-laborors of his own race, and many noble spirits not of his people, he, in an important his very eminence was isolated from his fellows, aM had no contenj- W. 0. ff- lirtfiaCifcaSo aSJS fc "-ipib-tii.

BR UCEOur Presiding Officer. poraries in the most critical period of his philanthropic career. In the dignity of the great purpose that has controlled him, in the magnitude of the work accomplished, in the resolute prosecution of his mission, in the steady maintenance of his integrity, and the retention of public confidence through all the rears of storm and conflict, we behold the element of a great character and the evidence of a i preparation, reel oil or demand a dis-grand career. He possesses, as the course of any dimensions and of any heir of humanity, the measure of in- nrnnties mat come to the lot ol the humblest and wisest alike, but in his relations to his great work, and in his actions in its behalf, it may be said in a ery important sense, he made no mistakes, and in retrospecting the past he will find no occasion for either revision or modification of his action. I content myself with a final thought: The man who will serve one of his fellows must serve all.

The efforts for one community honestly put forth must contemplate and welcome the improvement of all communities. The purpose to do right contemplates the fostering of all virtues, and even if the effort be specific for right-doing in one direction, the tendency of this honest, earnest purpose is to carrv us forward in the direction of all well doing. i Frederick Douglass found his practical exercise in this distressful condition of his race, and its first expression in an effort to redeem them from their wrongs. In the accomplishment of this work he wrought not only that for which ho specifically labored, but from the very constitution of society he currently helped all the races and all the people of the Republic. To-day, because he has lived and labored, the world has a higher estimate of the strength and benilicence of free institutions, and a broader and better faith in the capa- bilities and future of our common hu-I inanity.

1 now, gentlemen, have the honor to I cause of human liberty is not confined to one continent, but known throughout the civilized world, and whose name is a household word, cherished and loved by millions, who, from writhing under the cruel chains of slavery, have at last been brought into the bright sunlight of Freedom. He will now respond to the toast "The Dav," this, the twentieth anniversary I of the one fixed by the sainted Lincoln, when the emancipation proclamation I should go into full force and effect. After which he introduced OUR HONORED GUEST. Frederick Douglass, who Hon. de- livered the following address SPEECH OF HON.

FRED. DOUGLASS. Mr. President and Gentlemen: I am happy to respond to the toast just read. It is small to the eve and ear.

i i i uuu Jiuc iu liiu aim heart. It comprehends far more than can be discerned at this hour. i But before I advance a single sten in the line suggested by it, or say any- I thing of the great events which have made this day memorable and glorious, I I shall, as this is in some respects a Inprsnnal nrnasinn nsik vnn to allow mn i word or two of a purely personal character. I know that in taking this liberty, I may seem to invite the reproach of I -Wk 1 egotism. sut there are times, sir, when a man may speak of himself, if i only to prove himself worthy to speak of anybody else.

I wish in the first nlacft to correct an error into which, perhaps, vou have fallen, and to prepare you for what is enminrr or for what is not nomintr. I i iming, I win ecu you at once, wicn an iranKiiess and humility that I never had at any time, and have not now, and never ex- 'pect to have any talent, whatever, for rr people the subject of oppression, the friend 0t mine, a man or man) mt.i object of specific wrongs, and his love one who had large experience in mafc-fnr invt and hearing after-dinner speeches I LllltlH Ill 111 71 young irtend, an. atte present to you Frederick Douglass, the Rn, ,.,4. i dinner speech is a verv nno thing, i uiufiu.aibuatuL uu ut- uerfectly casion, wnose lame as an orator and i tum -i trom everything about which there 111 tlilllieSlL illlU Kilt LIV WIILKtT 111 LIU! i'il CEASE, Editor ajtd Peoit.ietori NO. 22.

making what are popularly knowni im after-dinner speeches. I have again and again with unfeigned embarrassment, my eyes fixed! upon the ground, unable to look been compelled to hear myself describedl as a natural orator, a sort of spiritual! medium, who could rfce in any au dience, no matter how grand or cribi- cal, and without the least thought or quality, befitting any occasion I am not here to accuse nature oB unkindness. for that would be a very ungrateful return for her many favors, but Fhe has done nothing for me in the line of making after-dinnerv speeches. Besides I am persuaded' that' such speeches, worthy of the come by practice rather than by nature, and in this respect I am singularly deficient. Nevertheless, anticipating the demand now made upon me, I will tell! you what I did by way of for I was anxious to appear to some-advantage on an occasion intended) to be honorable to myself, I was, in fact, a good deal perplexed to know what 1 nhfiuid snv.

more esDeciallv to know what I should leave unsaid, audi like a wise man in trouble I naturally called-for help, I sought out an oldl and resolved to take his advice. Ho had eaten all sorts of dinners in hit time, Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas dinners, New Year's dinners, ordinary dinners and extraordinary dinners, audi despite their forty horse killing he has survived them all, and is to-day, fat, fair and flourishing, ready to respond to any call to dinner which any-bodv may be kind enough to give him. Well! from this man of experkm I obtained a few hints, to the master and manner of respectable after-dinner speeches. I was happy in finding him in good humor, lie is not always so, esnc-ially when hungry. After hearing my request he kindly nwu.

ui iinn free 1H opinion, (lesuLUGo oi art, science, ethics, politics or brimful of wit, humor ar.d wisdom delivered in a quiet, graceful, conversational and gentlemanly way, andt im addition to all and above all, it shouldl be shot t. I was much encouraged audi told him, perhaps it was my vanity, that I thought I could comply with every one of the conditions specified but th last. I could easily exclude art, seduce, literature, ethics, polities and religion, but the trouble with me was about brevity. I never could be brief, 1 never made a short speech in my life with which I was satisfied, nor long speech with which anyway was entirely satisfied. 2iow you ran easily see the dilemma in which your kindness has placed me this evening.

I beg you, however, not to regard me as making any complaint. The situation is novel, but I am bound to say it is not altogether disagreeable. With a moderate allowance of time and a little vigorous exercise in thu i bracing air of winter. I could standi repetition of it. Now, Mr.

president and I have done with these playful! re marks, and ask your forgiveness tor their continuance so long. I do noU ask you to remember them, and shall not? regret if vou have already dismissed them from vour minus. Mr. president, I trust you will be lieve me when I teU you I am very happy to see you in that chair fchia pvpnintr seen vou in many honorable nositions during your public career. I have seen you in public and Hn private, at your desk in the and your desk in the senate, ana T.a If near leswiiiony uciwb i the sun, that you have borne yourself? wjthjiijtyntenimjee, ahilityandi (CjiUinucd on Snond Pug) it a uiiL'-i ii.

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