Blair's bill and asking Congress to create the commission. In no better
way can the question be settled, and the Negro does not fear the issue.
The following is the resolution:

Resolved, By the House of Representatives and Senate in congress
assembled, That the committee on labor be instructed to investigate and
report the number, location and date of all alleged assaults by males
upon females throughout the country during the ten years last preceding
the passing of this joint resolution, for or on account of which
organized but unlawful violence has been inflicted or attempted to be
inflicted. Also to ascertain and report all facts of organized but
unlawful violence to the person, with the attendant facts and
circumstances, which have been inflicted upon accused persons alleged to
have been guilty of crimes punishable by due process of law which have
taken place in any part of the country within the ten years last
preceding the passage of this resolution. Such investigation shall be
made by the usual methods and agencies of the Department of Labor, and
report made to Congress as soon as the work can be satisfactorily done,
and the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated to pay the expenses out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.

The belief has been constantly expressed in England that in the United
States, which has produced Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, James
Russell Lowell, John G. Whittier and Abraham Lincoln there must be those
of their descendants who would take hold of the work of inaugurating an
era of law and order. The colored people of this country who have been
loyal to the flag believe the same, and strong in that belief have begun
this crusade. To those who still feel they have no obligation in the
matter, we commend the following lines of Lowell on "Freedom."