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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447996" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Crum Appointment</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,<br>How they persecute a Negro when a man he tries to be,<br>'Tis of national importance and the world enjoys the sport,<br>Caused by William Crum's appointment as collector of the port.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the president decided to appoint him to the place,<br>Then a train of opposition from the city set apace,<br>'Our objection to a Negro,' said the whites, 'has ever been,<br>That we fear contamination from the color of his skin.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This the president dishonored, then they brought another plea,<br>'To the great and grand old party, he has faithless proved to be,'<br>Crum his loyalty established and the fallacy declared,<br>Brought McComas to his rescue and the prejudice was bared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the friends within the senate they directed their appeal,<br>To defeat his confirmation and suppress a Negro's weal,<br>For a time the plan succeeded, thus a vote was thwarted twice—<br>He was promptly re-appointed till the same was numbered thrice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then they tried intimidation, told him how the race would lose<br>All the favors of the white man, and between these he must choose,<br>They persuaded and they threatened, aye, the Southern press was wild,<br>In denouncing such an outrage, how the city was defiled!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He with patience bore their envy, heard the clamor and the din,<br>Ev'ry accusation answered, save the color of his skin,<br>As a pillar of Gibraltar, he in firmness took a stand,<br>Braved the storm of opposition like a Moses of the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When at length he was commissioned, great, indeed, the city's change,<br>'Twas a hundred, aye, and fifty that applied for work! how strange!<br>'Twas the very class of people that his color filled with dread<br>Who then asked for sub-positions, though a Negro man was head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a telegram was brought him saying, salary was paid,<br>To no one who was appointed when the senate gave no aid,<br>Equal to the dire occasion, he made answer, ''Tis no test,<br>Till the government shall warn me I'll take chances with the rest.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now contamination's mountain sinks away to common dust,<br>They are not afraid of Negroes but desire the place of trust,<br>They want Negroes to be servants and their bosses to be white,<br>Prejudice distorts their visions and they cannot see the right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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How they persecute a Negro when a man he tries to be,
'Tis of national importance and the world enjoys the sport,
Caused by William Crum's appointment as collector of the port.

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