TUB DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 18C7. NATIONAL SALVATION. A Lecture Delivered Last Evening at National Hall, by Mr. F. E. W. Harper, With Some Ac count of the Lecturer. fiVBOlAL BKPORT FOR TBB EVENING TZLKORAFR.l The fourth lecture in the present course before the Social, Civil, and Statistical Aseodution of the Colored People of Philadelphia, was de livered at National Hall, lact evening, by Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper, a colored lady of moro than ordinary oratorical powers. In this con suction a Sketch of Mrh Harper ay not be uninterestinR. Her early life, under the name of Frances Ellen Watkius, was passed in Baltimore, where she was born in 1825. Her mother was bom a slave, but through the ex ertions ol herKrandmotber her freedom was purchased, and Miss Watkins was, therefore, free from birth. She remained at school in her native city until she was fourteen years of age, and subsequently to that obtained her own livelihood for some years by sewing and teach ing school. In the former occupation she was for some time employed by Mrs. Isaac Cruise, Of Baltimore. This lady was the po.-sessor ot nulla a laree library, to which Miss Watkius bad free access at all times. Belug strictly entolncd against peruslnjr novels, the informa tion which slie thus picked up in her leisure lionro whs of the most solid and desirable ciiar acter. Her experience as a school teacher was qnite extensive, and this calling she followed at times in Baltimore and the neighboring coun try lor some years. Miss Watkius was early Riven to poetizinir, Dome of the productions ol ijer muse of wlilch a specimen, entitled "An Appeal to the Ameri can People," is printed elsewhere in our issue ol to-day exhibiting more than ordinary depth ol thought and fervor ot expression. These early poems she usually composed while busy with needle and thread. While on a visit it'o New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1854, she recited oroe of her poems to her triends, who were so deeply impressed with their merit that she was invited by them to appear before the public as a lecturer. Just previous to this she had be come strongly imbued with a desire to con tribute, in some measure, to the enlight enment and social elevation of the outlawed race to which she belonged. This ambition sprung from the recital in her presence of a story which in those days was as common as it was disgraceful to the community by which it was tolerated. A free colored man had moved into the State of Maryland, and in pursuauce of the law then and there in vogue, he was tor this dire offense seized by the authorities and sold into slavery. Being afterwards taken to Macon, Gcoreia, he there made his escape, but only to be recaptured and returned to a bondage from which he was soon after released bv death. From the time that Miss Watkins listened to this oft-iepeated tale, she resolved to devote all her time and energies to the welfare of her kindred race. So she was nolhiug loth to ap pear upon the platform, and delivered her tirst lecture in New Bcdlofd in 1864, from which time forth, for six years, she continued upou the stage, restricting her labors principally to the New England States. For a time, however, she acted as an agent of the AnU-glavery Society in this State, fh November, 18C0, Miss Watkins was married hi Cincinnati to Mr. Fenton Harper, a free colored man, from Loudon county, Virginia. Her married life was passed on a larm in the neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. During this time she seldom appeared in public as a lec turer. Mr. Harper died in May, 1864, and in Octobpr, 1865, Mrs. Harper resumed her former calling, which she has steadily pursued up to the present time. New England was again ber lavorite field, but she has likewise spoken in many of the ether States, and. during the present winter, has passed eome time in Kentucky and Tennes see, addressing the people, whjto and black, whenever and wherever the could get a chance. On the 24th of last month she spoke at a meet ing in the Capitol, at Nashville, Tennessee, her oratory even receiving praise from the semi Rebel sheets which still flourish there, although ber politics were denounced as abominable and as tending to create a hatred between the races, deeper tban that which at present exists. Last evening was the occasion of her third appear ance before a Philadelphia audience. We have given this lengthy sketch of Mrs. Harper's career, because she Is a living and present proof of the fact that the colored race is not hopelessly depraved and benighted. In person she is rather small, and of preposessing appearance, with vivacious manners and an en thusiastic bearing that impresses all who listen to her, either in public or in private, with her thorough earnestness and sincerity. The merits of the lecture which we give below will speaic lor themselves. She was introduced last even- iiig to the audience by the following j Remarks by Rev, Sir. I.yucli. Ladies and Gentlemen: You are assembled to listen to one of the most cultivated daughters ot the persecuted race, who has plead their cause lor more than twelve years, in poeiry, in thrilling eloquence, and in logic, from the filatform. Additional interest may be expected n this lecture to-nieht, as she is recently Irom the South, where she lectured to the delight and instruction of the loyal wbites and blncks; and, judging from the encomiums ofsemi Kebel Andrew Johnson journals, we have discovered that she possesses a power that we have not before known that of enchanting a certain kitd ot serpent called Copperheads. I mow have the honor of introducing to you Mrs. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. (Applause.) Address of Mr. P. E. W. Harper. Reform has her seed-time and her harvest, her night of trial and endeavor, as well as her day ol success and victory. But before her ears are greeted with the shouts of triumph, thev are bailed with the hisses ot malice and the threats ot revenge; but as amid the darkness and the cold, nature spreads her dews aud carries on the work, bo amid the darkness, cold, and pain the spirit of retorm carries on her work of pro gress, and sows in tears the harvest Bhe is u reap in joy. Men trend with bleeding feet their paths, and from the soil covered with the ashes of martyrs and arenched with the blood ot heroes, has sprung up a new growth of charac ter and civilization. Now In the question ot dynamics, or the appli cation ot force to any end, it is necessary to know the amount of resistance to be met, aud the power which is needed to overcome that resistance. For instance, a man, who would wish his locomotive to go fitly miles an hour would not be acting very wisely if he only put on steam euough to carry it teu miles an hour; and the same remark would apply to the man who would wish a luree water-wheel turned bv little rills, and would supply fifty gallons of water where a thousand were needed. This man would not be acting wiselv in these Durticulurs He would be tailine to take the right means to gain the desired end. Now, in the mural and political world, as well as in the physical, there are resistances to be met and obstacles to be overcome in carrying out the aim of true civilization, which is the social advancement, ana me individual develop' uient of the human race. And if we look -tbroueh the bistorv of the cast, we will find "that there has been an old struugle going on for jigee a struggle of the oppressed agaiust the oppressor a battle which has been fought voder different names, and continued under 2iderent auspices, but which is still the con tiiNiation of the old struggle, lit one aee It has assumed the form of a con' i.hetween the lowest ot the people and the fcierarOby; Btill aeain, against the despotisms ,kiA shaakled the human intellect and out letters nion the human conscience. In another are it has been a struggle between freedom on cue side ami slavery n the other. Slavery, cot content with having simply a battle of ideas, resorted to the arbitrament of the sword, and the sword decided against it, and slavery went down in tears, and wrath, and blood went down amid the rejolclne of men and women who had burst their chains. Now slavery, as an institution, has bcon over thrown, butslavory, as an tdea, still lives in theAmertran Hepublic. and the problem and the duty of the present hour Is this: Whether there is strength enough, wifdom enough, and virtue enough in or American nation to lift It out of trouble; whether by its legislation and Jurisprudence these distinctions between man and man, on account of his race, color or de scent, shall cease. Last year, my Iriends, I spoke of the nation's great opportunity. 1 still think we have one ot the greatest opportunities, one of the sublimest chances that God ever put iuto the hands of a nRtion or people. But it is not lu opportunities presented, but in opportunities Accepted, that the very pith and the core ol our national existence lies. What we need, my friends, in this country, is all the energy, all the wisdom of the nation so to reconstruct this Government that It will render another such war impossible. Thi-re is romething wonderful, my friends, in the power of an Idea. And what to dav is the watchword of the present hour? It H the brotherhood of man amid the din and strife of battle, amid the conflict of the present Bee; and yet it Is an idea which has been struggling through the centu ries, baptized In blooJ and drenched In tears. To-day the tendency of the spirit of the age is towards a higher form of republicanism and a purer type of democracy, and jet this idea has been struggling for ages. I look away back on the pages of history, and hear it preached by Him who made it, in His death, the sublime lesson of His life eighteen hundred years ago. Proud and imperial Home stood crowned and sceptred amid her seven hills, apparently the stroneett power In the world. At the same time, in a manger lay a child whose work of leform whs destined to Nve when the proud empire should be laid away amid the dcid kingdoms. This tden, my Iriends, met with opposition, just the same as this idea of equal rights meets with opposition to-day. This man held tip the single idea taught by Jems Christ, with His giant enthusiasm tor humanity, aud it was met with opposition from every distinct class. And yet this reform, meeting with all this opposition, lived on until it became the pro fessed faith of the most enlightened and pro gressive nation on eaith. The men who mar tyred Jesu9 Christ now sleep in lorsrotten graves. He lives and shines in the hearts of ail who accept Him as the true and living Christ. The crown of thorns has changed to a diadem ol glory, HLd the cross has become a power and ennitrn of victory. The Protestant Reformation sprang from the same sptnt, and e Till fignts its way against the ipn ranee and superstition of aces. It lived ua until the Inquisition ceased to claim its victims, until the ovto-de-fe no longer lit its fires, until Protestant kings sat upon the very thrones from which the edicts against the children of Re formation had pone forth. Men then grappled with agony and death, so that they could secure the rights which we this day enjoy. We are carrying on the cause, but we have enly got through one part of the strug gle; the reform we are now carrying on, we may feel assured, notwithstanding all tho opposition, notwithstanding all the obstacles in its way, with truth and juptice clasping hands, shall yet win the fight. Oh, my friends, the woik epes bravely on! I look back, seven years ago, and see this nation apparently in a' prOKperoun career, with slavery bound to" her with a lour-l'old cc-rd. Ip. ;pur commercial Interests, men said, virtually, Let us1 make money, though we coin it from bloo J and extract it Irom tears. H?re were ecclesiastical interests, the same fuom Maine to California; here were our political parties claspiug hands North and South; and yet they were all snipped asunder, simply because they lacked the cohe sion of justice. (Cheers.) Now to-nlsht the question arises, What shall be done ? How shall we terve the lntetesi oi ireeooui so tu;u hub nation shall be wise enough to know its citizen, and knowing them shall be strong enough to protect them? I One thing that this nation has been doing, is i : throwing away an element of strength. The colored man, as a laboring force, as a political j lorce, and even as a moral lorce, in this I country is an element of strength or ot weak- ness. As a passive force he is au element of J I weakness; that is, he weakens the country j ' when he is pressed down in tbe scale of life, when be is wronged and robbed. But justice t will certainly t:ike sides with this peoole who have been pressed down in tne scale of life a i people who are strugtlino; for a higher and 1 purer state of existence. Now, I hold that the I colored man is capable of being au element of ! strength to the American nation. ! j I have lately been down amid the cabins and humble homes ot Tennessee; and would you j believe it, my fnendsr some ot the most oeauti- . lul lessons of faith and trust that I have ever I learned, which could never have been learned in the proudest temples of wealth or fashion, I have learned in these lowly homes and cabins ot Tennessee. There may be some people who think within themselves that it is a little strance Andrew Johnson, after having promised the coloied people that he would be their Moses, should turn around, and instead of ;helping them to freedom, should clasp bauds witu the Rebels and traitors of the country. (Cheers.) Mv friends, since I have come from Tennes see, 1 am not surprised at the position that Andrew Johnson takes. Do you kaow wliy it was that David was not permitted to build the temple of the Lord? Because his hands were not clean; he was a man unfit for the work. And so, when 1 have gone anion;? some ot me people ol Tennessee, who have breathed their words or laitn ana uu.fi, i see in auurew Johnson a man whose hands ure not clean enough to touch the hems of their garments. (t heers.) Do you ask me to-nigm wnac are tue coiorea eople doing in Tennessee? They are rtoiug UBt exactly what Mr. Lincoln said the colored man mieht be required to do in this country. They are helping to keep the jewel of liberty in the lamiiy oi nations, Anu now are iney aoin it? I have heard, my friends, of serls to whom broader and higher freedom came, and thev did not know how to appreciate it, aud ou'ered to ?o back again into seridom. I have been in humble homes where poverty has been staring them in the face, aud said 10 them, Would you not rather go back agaiu into slavery? And such an answer as this has come up: "1 would raiuer live in a coru-crm." i remember, some lew years ago, I met in Louis ville. Kentucky, a woman who lived in a room whieh looked as thouch it might have bmn a stable converted into a dwelling. I said to her: If vour master would tane good care ot you, would you not rather be back airaln?" The woman, with eyes filled with indignation, for 6he did not know that I loved freedom so well that I liked to hear its praise trom the humblest lips, t-aid to me: "Don't you wish to be tree and stamp your loot in juouee r iiou uii-h iuu poverty that brings me that privilege." (Ap plause.) There Is one thing that has impressed me more forcibly, perhaps, than anyibiue else about the inner lite of these people who have lately come up to freedom, aud that is their faith and trust In God. 1 met a mother there who had lost her child. But here was a mother looking over the track of distant years. How did she feel.us a mother who has given her child up to death, saying: "Ihit innocent Is mino; 1 cannot spare him irom my arms, To lay him, Deal a, in thine. "J am a mother dear; I nave that oarling birth i 1 cannot bear in life e linius Should moulder in the earth." when her child was taken from her, and when she felt the distance increasing between tiiem, and knew that she could not meet it till she met it In another world. Oh, when I look at this beautiful faith and trust, when I see them, too, iu their humblo homes, and ask them what t uu 4iiiutatnfi t bruit. what has kept them up in these dark and gloomy years? the almost invariable answer that t omes jo me is: "itie power of God 1" 1 rjnet with a wouijoi in Tennessee who bad been the mother, I think she said, of five chil dren. All were absent from her except one. 1 don't know that she could say in what part of the world hef children were. She prayed for them, and said, "I only see them in mydrrams. This was a woman upon wboso heart the shadow of slavery still bung black and heavy, iier husband beard thst his children wanted to see him, and he started to po to them: and then word came to this mother and wile that her husband was dead. Before be started he bad contracted a debt of twenty five dollars. When the news came to the mother of his death, what did that woman do bhe went and paid off the obligation, by working at nine dollars a week, and living In a house where she was charged five dollars a month. Look at the dignity of soul in that woman 1 Her husband dead, no one could have forced ber to pay that debt; yet with tuch a keen sense of honor and dignity of soul, she takisuptbe obligation, aud pays it off. Inte rested friends, let me tell you Andrew Johnsoti's hands were not clean enough to clusp that woman's bands, to be her Moses, and lead her up to freedom. When I see this faith and trust, it Is beautiful. But there is another fenture ot life among this people which might impress you just as plea sant ly.aLd that is the tender humanity displayed among them. I have gone into tbe little cabins, where tbe liebt of tbe sun came through a elude window without a pane of glass, and yet, in that numoie nome. iney were taking the children and sending them to school, aiid it is a thing you will often see in many of these little homes. This people, that have gone through this weary night of suffering, have come out of it with a tender humanity, clasping in their arms poor little oiphau wails, giving them shelter, school ing, and a home. (Cheers ) And then there is another feature, and that Is their greediness for knowledge. A few weeks since I was in Louisville, Kentucky. They had just opened a school for colored people, charging twenty -five cents a month, I believe. The people were so eager that their children should have sc hooling, that by half past nine o'clock it was necessary for the Superntendent to lock the door, because they were overcrowded with appli cants, and nany ol the parents went away in tears because their children could not enter tho school. This greediness tor knowledge on the ptrtot the colored man is an element of hope and of future strength lu this Government. (Applause.) The ancients had an Idea that there was a giant chained under Mount Etna, and that the eruptions ot the mountain were caused by his turning over. So when I go down South, and fee and hear of their eagerness for knowledge, T see the rising brain ot tbe colored man, and I hope, my triends, that if any ot tbe enemies of humanity shall attempt to build any system of despotism with an idea to the disfranchising a lace naking it in the name of freedom, and torturing it with the essence ot slavery that the rising brain of the colored man wi'l be evoked, and quell ihe despotism at the start. In treating this question, I think ol tho legend ol ancient Rome, of the chasm that yawned there, and of which the sorcerers predicted that whosoever should bring the most precious gilt should be the means of closing It nnl ot saving the city. Cassius, thinking that he himself was the most precious gift, leared into its yawning jaws. The legend has been repeated in part iu this country. Slavery has made a chasm in our American republic. It has trade you two people in the midst of one nation a people lor free dom and a people for slavery a people for knowledge aud a people for tenoranre! And what have you tried to do? You have been tryingio bridge it ever by compromise, uutil tbe hlitoiy Of American pontics in the history Of compromise and concessions, from the hour that Jeorgia and 8otith Carolina demanded the slave trade, down to the last Couttitu'.ional amendment. Slt.vcry w anted more room, and you cave it land enough for an empire. It wanted the power to hunt the trembling fugitive, and tbe Fugitive Slave bill was passed, and the trem bling victim was thrown into the chasm. R.ill it jawncd, and slavery was not Fatistied. For itself it wanted a white nmn's government, and you made a trial ot a white man's covernmeut in this country lor four years, and the prayers ot the freedmen are ascending that we iiiay never have another such a government as long as tl;e world may stand. (Applause.) You threw into this chit: m a lew million lives, warm with the rich Hood ot jour patriots. ou thre iv into it the life ot your loviug, honored chief j Abraham Lincoln. (Applause.) And yet to I niht tue chasm jawns. You are still t o peo ples in tbe midst of one nat.on. Would jou close over this chasm? Do not ' try any more compromise or concession: you might us well try to bridge with egg-shells the ! l'oiomac river. What you need to-night is to take the shackle from the wrist of the colored j nun, and to put tbe ballot in itj stead. (Ap plause ) When I see tne streets of New Orleans and Memphis red with the blood of unexpluted murders, and I hear of tnat miserable Recorder I counselling them to burn and hang the nigger, , I ask that the colored man should have tnat , much power in bis hands, to turn all such men , out of efhee. (Aniilause.) ; Lock at New Orleans. Whose fault was it? I You should ask that ot Andrew Johnson. Let I me tell jou Andrew Johnson is not the most i guilty maninthio republic. I don't know but that we have needed bim. 1 have, in tbe course ot my lite, had to put a mustard plaster on my self. Now, I don't like a mustard-plaster, aud yet I would ra'her sutler an hour with it than suffer a pain in my chest for a week. I don't know but what we have needed Andrew John son in this coumrv'as a great national mustard plaster, to spread himself all over this nation, so that he might bring to tbe surface tbe poison ot slavery which still lingers in the body politic. ism wnm you nave dene with the rnustara plnster, what do jou do with it ? Do you hug it to your bosom, and say it is such a precious thing that jou cannot put it away? Rather, wnen jou nave doue with, it, you throw n aside. Now, my friends, why do you not do the same with Andrew Johnson, and impeach him lappiaubei, and bring him betoie the Daroi me nation, and prove to the world that this Ameri can nation is so strong, and so poweriul, and so wise, that the humblest servant beneath ks care, or the strongest, is not to behave without us restrain i. I was in Boston a few davs Binc and I heard a gentleman speaking of an accident that had htippeDed. It was ot an engineer who was insane. I Fiippose that the peoole did not koow that he was insane. He got on the locomotive, and he imagined that he was going to the moon. He was not swinging around the circle, hut was toiua to the moon, and he was dushiug away wnoiy. jjeath was ot no moment to mm; no was going to the moon. Now what did the people do ? Did the people stop 10 ak his iriends uuuiiuim, urtrj iiim a little longer uuru uu had doue some mischief? Nr nn? the case was too lu n.inent for tbat. A student psed up a block ot wood to try and dash him off. So to-day Anurew JohuBon stands at the head ot the Government, a man who is striking hands with tbeltebelsot the South. Is there not iu thh nation, from the Potomac to the Rio Gran ie. a hand stiong enough und earnest enough to throw at him the billet of impeachment, and let him go home to Tennessee to rust oui the re ,n.(,er,of ins life? (Applause.) 1 dont, my frienas, berate him because he may have swung aiouud ihe circle from the sea board to the MisBippj. although, as far as that is concerned, it reminds uie tbaithe colored man has the advantage of him there. I reuieui ber when I was a girl ho the colored man used to be burlesqued in popular songs. One those songs ran thus: s I'woZd lick i0V 01 ,he Val s6' I woaia ilea uiolabu .m.,u, .,h uiolsbscs caudy aud swing upou the gain.' That might have been a burlesque upon the S?I0,.hlHple! but my trlenils- 1 'lttve 'ived t0 tStrtZPlM.01 W d"8 swing around mn me Pres dent, tbougu ue - "-i vuuugo ne does candy, takes something that stronger. . (Sensation.) and though he does not lick molases is a great deal ow, this reform must be carried on, as others are, against opposition and persecution. This cause has already parsed through part of the time of persecution. It is a different thing to-uaj from what it was when William Lloyd Harrison threw his words like burning coals upon the nation's heart. Since then the ideas that originated In the Boston garret have become a mighty building, bearing upon it bosom hundreds of millions of men, women, and children, translating them from the oli garchy of slavery to the commonwealth of Ireedom. Still the work needs courage to-day. There is a small matter of prejudice that I want to take up that aeainst color m particu-lar-and I am coming right home to Philadel phia, and not intending to spend my ammuni tion on tho Rebels, who are so many thousand miles away. But I am to talk to those who clasp hsnds with Rebels in the city of Philadel phia, and I am not going ta bailie my lips In honey when I speak. Two weeks last Saturday nieht I was in Louisville, Kentucky. I came on from Nashville, had a little business down the street, and I got Into the city cars; and I found thattheie Is no difference there m Kentucky as to the people's riding in tne cars; Kentucky bad just burst from her chains, yet she was aneau oi ruuaoeipma in mat. I went into the house and picked up a Phila delphia paper a Christian Hecorder. What did I read ? There I read that a woman had been kicked out otthe cars in tbe streets of this city. What had she done? Simply claimed her rlgnt to trave1, and had been brutally kicked in thpse streets. Where was she kicked? Let me tell you. Did you see that man with a surplice, chanting his solemn litany? That man fs an r.piscopauan minister, uuu tutu brutal man kicked her in his presence. Do you see that man with a simple ritual ? He is a Presbyterian. I don't think there Is a Church in the world to whomcivl liberty owes more than to the Presbyterian Church. They came out and preserved civil liberty in the wilds ol Scotland, and this man kicKud this woman in h;s presence. Do you see that man who has Just been cele brating the centenary ot his Church, ot which Jobr. Wesley is thes)t. Paul ? That man is a Methodist, and he kicked her lu his presence. Do you si e that lady and gentleman, in plain garb? They, too, have a gnmd memory, reach ing away back to William Penn, who came here to Pennsylvania, and taught the world how Beace and Justice could clusp bands; and Mary ijer, who pave up ber lile on Boston Common, and who died for a principle. (Cheers.) He is a Friend, and that woman was kicked in his presence. Do you see that man, uiion another plain, who ki.cws it is better to have the peace ot Chrvt than to quarrel about Cnristianity ? He is a Initarian; kicked in his preseuco also. Do you see that man, who believes iu God and the brotherhood of the human race, and that He will ultimately clasp us all in a living embrace ? That man kicked her in the presence of tnewhole popular Church of Philadelphia, and I ask them have they done their duty un this subject? I pick up the papers, and I hear a great deal said about the running of the cars on Sunday. The day is sacred in Philadelphia, but man U vile. Where did he kick this woman? In the very streets over which colored men marched to the iront, laitbful to the country wheu others were faithless (.applause) who were rallying aiouud the flag when Keuels were trampling it under feet; irue to the country when she wanted a friend. Witness, now, that the sisters and mothers i.f thee uifii can be kicked irom the curs in our popular thoroughiares. (Ap plause.) Friends, when tht-t man kicked that woman, he kicked me. lie kicked my child, and he kicked the wite and child ol every colored mar. in Philadelphia. He kicked tbe wife, sister, and cLild of every colored man who went out to battle and to lay down his lile for bis coun irv ; Mid I am here to-uigi;t to protest against it. (ApplHUFCI.) Last summer I was here; it, may have been the fourth of July; it does not matter, though. I was going up the street with my child, iip tween five and six years of age. My Irieud Mr. Silll was with me. He, living on Fifth sttee;. thought the nriveis would know him, and wait tor us. I did not ask these drivers to take me in; 1 shall faint upou your paved streets before I am such a favor. Do ou think they would stop lor us? Oh, no! They swept by us as it we were paupers. The next nay mv child came to me and said: "1 know why we can't r.de in the cars; because we are colmcd 1" No women leel' this depriva tion bo keenly as we do. aud wheu m v orphan ehilu come home aud told me that stio hid read the cruel, bitter lesson, I felt b.-td. Aud yet to-uigui, poor, ignorant, and trodden under loot as our people are, I would not change souls with the richest and proudest stockholder iu Philadelphia. 1 would not charge souls wi'h a man who reprt acl.es his Cod by desoising His poor! (Applause.) Again, my friends, I fo net .'eel that the colored people need despair; we only lake our turn in the sullering world. I do not demand social equality; I do not tie n and that jou shall take us into your parlors, and make us companions ot your wives aud daughters, it they have no liking tor us. All I ask is that jou take jour prelud'ces out of the way and plve the colored man a thane 1 to grow; give him a chance at the ballot-box. Why this ideuof social equality? 1 don't know of any colored man that demands it. After all, this thing depends upon social affinities, customs. wealth, and habit, and iu some cases on shoddy and pretroleum. Bui there is a dread ot blood degeneiation. t-omchow I do not think I should like to stand before the world, with pale lips, dreading the bugbear of social equality; airaid of giving tbe colored man a chance, lor lear that he might somehow outstrip me in the race of life. (Applause.) If I was in his place I would sav, '1 will give him all the chance 1 can; I will not press him oown in the scale of lile." I should leel that I was superior, because of a superior teaching, look at slavery : has it not robbed us ol our wives, children, and husbands; robbed us of tur very complexion, and put some ot the meanest kiud of white blood in our veins? (Cheers.) And we have lived through it all, and come out of the war the very best cnarac ters down South. If we don't complain about it, what right has anybody else to do so? (Cheers.) O irituds ! if there is any danger, you make jour President aud Congressmen; jou make jour own laws; ii any mau feel.' that tne case is urgent, let him go before the Legislature and say to them: "Honorable Sirs We have a deep concern on our minds; it haunts us by day and comes over our dreams by night. We ure so afraid that some colored muu's uncle's aunt will marry tome white man's cousin's aunt, aud we want jou to put a law upon tbe statute booKs that no white man shnil marry a black woman unless he wants to." (Great laughter.) 1 think that they must necessarily be guided by their withes. Some men have no oilier wants than those which are low and grovelling; they are like tbe men to whom the grasshoppei is a bur deu; they are afraid of that which i high. Justice is high, aud liberty is high, and equal rights are hipb; aud tle men are afraid of that which is Inch, aud putting their ears to the ground thev bear the advancing tread ot tue nppro. and would retard his cniuing. (Cheers.) Wtyjou have a paper in this ciry called the Age. The better nauie for it would be to call it llvhind lite Age. Last si ring ir had a call 'or p. Democratic meeiing, and in the call it included all those who toted lor a white man's Goveru o ent. 1 have been taugDt that power of gravity arsuutauiajn the strongest hands. Wuat possi bilitv is iheie that we should get to the head of the Government, or that the whi e race should stand trembling be'ore us, oi that riitit thou sand perfousare going to get the upper baud of the nution ? He has dropped the rags of the plantation and put on the uniform of tho nation. In the Dis trict of Columbia he ha exchanged tbe fetters on his wrists for the ballot in bis right hand. Mr. Johi.son did not aomire that very much, so be gave us a veto; ho paid us a compliment. som how, bv supposing that we would come Into the District for the purpose of giving a vote. II it is such a privilege to au American citizen, be will go where he can have the right6 of a oltizen. The colored man is taxed in this country, he Is dratted In war: and yet to-night I live in an American republic; I am a taxpajer. The Gov ernment may increase its taxes uutll it runs down every seam aud fold of my dress, may tax .the very bread I break to my orphan child; but Jt brings me back a rich compensation es mv in Tennessee, and Alabama, and even in tnis city of Philadelphia when! want to ride in your cars. Iriends, this is the nation's hour for every heart and band to build on jnstlce as a rock, to trust in the truth, and never yield. With truth and lustlce classing hands, we jet shall win the fipht. SKATING PARKS. EST rillLADKLPHIA SKATING PARK, 1BIRTY-F1KST and WALNUT Streets. ' TUB ORNT CAHNIVAL OF THE SEASON. SCUJC.-1F B-NOW FALLS, IT WILL BK CLEARED O I ' . m.w M.narivir WltL TAKE Ptxr-E. iK 8T0KMT. 11 WILL BE 1 r F08TFO fcD INT IL MONDAY 1 BY UK NEK L IKfS CAKiOlVAL ILL, BE GIVE AT HI Id ' TO-NIGHT Ttnrlns the Afternoon (rmnd dlpty ol .'KATING by tlie bf t tpni In the rjnitfd PUwi Ilaiinn tta Evening grnd dlpla7 ot FIRE WORKS, bt iToieiuor Jackton. ... AU perfon on lits itiowed on the, ice. Jll periooR n.ont pm throaiih tbeeince onmtakea. AdmiKKlun, DO cent. Bu owriuti"- K Frtie. M. B Altwruon. J. C. Sterling, H. Blmfd. W. hasbton, T. f. Wood, H. WerrH. T. W. Mrohment, B. Al'snandliiiier, M. Mircbment, R. J. Hteen. I, . B. Koecker, W. lUncoeki, W. Jenkins. W. A. squire. F. M. Caldweili A. Fitlrr, ' Koons. F. J. OH, M. U. Murphy, J. S. Borgeoskl, 8. Fenn. C. H. Gillespie, O. 11. Barnes, F C. Howell, J. B Wllklns, W. R Tucker, O W Palmer, J. H. Foster, J. Brandt. Dr. li M . Townsend, J. II Snidea, II. Davis, P. V. Wever. vfiTK-Kever finer ice skated on tban the let of yesterday. Our planes overcome warm weather. It f-i KATllifl. MC81C. AND FUN'." O There Is Kkatlna THIS AF1ERVOOS and tVKVlKO. at the KKVHTONE PARK. TM1KU ftlKI AK RR1B. Illumination and ilusio UlattenUance.lt AMUSEMENTS. ar additional AmiuemetUt ice Third rage. rpHB PRLTTlKST8l0iHT EVhR WITNESS KD I in this city was at tne L id mis -jJrK ANI) gilt, MATINEE, on Saturday last at tbe ARi 'll. .,., Hht OND JACK AND GILL MAT1NKE, SATURI'AY February 2. at2 o'clock. It TAKE THE Llll'LE FOLKS. FERTILIZERS. J MM O MATED rilOSriIATE, AN UNSURPASSED FERTILIZER For Wheat, Corn, Oats, Potatoes, Grass, the egttahlc, Oardon, Frail Trees, Grape Vines, Etc. Eto This Fertilizer contains Ground Bone and the beat FerUilzinit baits. , Price 60 ptr ton ol 2fH0 pounds, tor site by the manuiacturcrs, WILLIAM ELLIS &. CO., CBEMISTS, 128niv.fi No. 724 MARKET street gAUGU'S HAW BONE S TJ P E R-PEOSPHATE OF LIME The ureat Fertilizer lor all crops. Quick in Its actio acdpiiuiantnt m lie -tltcts. Established over total v yCalers supplied dv tbe cariio. direct Irom tbe what ol the tuanuiuclory, on lltieial toinu. Uanuluctuiedonlv by . BADGII & soxs, Office So. 20 South DELAWARE Avenue 8 4amvr Philadelphia. COPARTNERSHIPS. mnE UNDERSIGNED HAVE THIS DA If X entered into Copartnership unuer the firm of MAKl'IltQ & WHITF, lor the transaction of the Whole sale Grocer? Busl eB, at vos. 2!l ud 31 Houth FKO.Vf Street anu Sos. 28 and SJ South WIKK Street ALEXNDEIl HAKD1NO, Kfc.sKY C. WHITE. Pbllaae:phla,'.January 22, ml. 1 23 Ht FOR RENT. FOB RKNT TWO LARGE AND WELL- Liiil Lighted Booms 25byH0ieet; also, some smaller Ruoms. at .No 724 uhesmj r troeu 128 fit LOST. T OST IN A CHESNUT STREET CAR, A Ji ROLL OF fiOTKS. about 20 or 25 dollars The Under v.111 be sultablv rewarded by Icavlug It with tne Cashier at THIS OtFICE. 1 31 31- I N E P ICTURE8 EARLES' GALLERIES, No. 81 G CHESNUT Street. JAMES S. EARLE & SONS Have oa FREE EXHIBITION for a short time, Saul Weher'i Greatett Work, "An American Forest." Marshall's Portrait of Lincoln. Mr. E. D. Lewis' Mew t icture, "Harper'i Ferry After the War." Bierttadt's $20,000 "Yc-Semite Valley." Hew Productions of W. T. Richards, Hamilton, Moran. HEW ECFOPE AH PAINTINGS. lJ66t J0USE-FUIINIS1IING GOODS. EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY BARGAINS. TO 8ECURB To do tbe estate ot tbe late JOHN A. MUHPHKY. I n porter and Dealer In I1UUSC-FVRNISIIINO GOODS, No. 083 CHESNUT ST11IJUT, Between Moth and Tenth, south Side, I'btla. ills AdmmlHttaturs no offer the whole stock at prices be.ow the orcmary rates chared. Ibis stoca embraces eerv lh u wanted ina eil- id.red boiiHehold Pialn Tlu "Ware brushes, Wooden Ware, burnetii. Plated Ware Cutlerv. Irou Ware. Japunuvd Waie, aud took tpu Ctenm.s of ever? description. A great variety ofSll KK GOODS. BIKD-CAGKs, eto. etc.. t an be oDtalned on the most leaeonable terms C.tM'INE AKCTIO KtKUlOtUVlOHo aud WA1EK A fine assortment ol PAPIER MAf HE GOODS. This la the lamest retail establishment in this line In Philadelphia andcltlzvnt ud strangers vUI and It to ttelr advantage to examine our stock beiore purchasing. ote Our iriends In thecountrv miv order by mail, and prompt attention will be slven. waCU 1 tbstuS DRKEIt & SEARS REMOVED TO No. 412 PHUNK treet.-lKKEB & sKAKS, formerly oi Ooldmnlb's Hall, 1 HtKAHl Mreet, have removed to o. 412 PRlE Btieet. between Fourth and fifth stiects. where they will continue their a anuiactory ol Gold Chains, bracelets, etc, in every varlet". Also the sale of tine Gold, BllverjamUj Copper. Old Goid aud H liver bouiibt- CnBCav jguryllH67' b 1191m UNITED STATES REVENUE STAMPS. Prluclpal Depot, No. 304 CHKHNUT Mreet. Central Depot. No 1113 B. Kl t Til Street one doorbelow Chesuut. Established li. sxs Ilevenue Stamps of every duuiiutioa constantly o hand In any amount. uruer. m jh.ii ut Express promptly attended to. . United Btmee Ntes. 1 Dralta on Fblladelohla oi'w rora. or current runns reeelved In pa reeelved In paymtou aid to small orders. particular attention paid to small orders, Tha OeClslOD. of lh. I amtiitHilitn ..an Imi ertBSU.ted. and any laiormatiuo regardine; the law cheerfully given CLOTKING. S "YV A A U ' M STATES UNION CLOTHING II ALL, No. 600 MARKET STREET. No. 609 A most complete stock of HEN'l AND BOYS CLOTIIINa AT VEBT MODERATE PRICX9. WE HATE SMALL I XP EN BEDS, AJTQ CAH AFFORD TO SELL WITH SHALL FBOVFTS. Fire Fskin-o Beaver Overcoats, ontylM; flne Beaver Overcoats, any desirable color, t'ilx frosted Beaver Overtoats, V(J: erv fltie Chinchilla Overcoats, onir iiu.itu ufBTerrunf, vunuiiuins, coar, pants, and Tcri.eiu; nne nocri reaver racks, irom lit to tt Mi vest,;do. sUk mixed, only (24: black Rack Coaim. ta anrl from tig to 20 1 business Coats, from (7 to l4t Panli and Vesta to niateh, irom f 7 to tl4; Boys' Coats, frej 8 to 114; l-i ma. from 1 75 to . Come end convince yourselves. 11 14 3m Rp FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETO. THE FURNITURE AT COULD & CO.'S ' I URNITURB DEPOTS, N. E. CORNER NINTH AND MARKET STREETS,. AMD Not. 37 and 39 North SEC0ID Street, Ii the Largest, Cheapest, and Best Stock in the World! Fashion, style, durability, finish, and cheapness all' combined In their Immense variety ol Clff-MADt rC'KNlTUUE. Beiore purchasing call and examina, t -nil for J a printed catalogue. Jlujp p O UOUSEKEEPERS I have a large stock ot every variety oi FIJI IN ITU HE 1 Which 1 will sell at reduceo prices, consist oi PLAIN AND MAHBLE TOP COXXAvdl L1T WALNUT CHAAlbEK 8tlT8. i I'AkLOU M II IN VELVtT PLUSH PAKLOR 811T8 IN IIAIK CLOTH. I PAVLOK fcUITN I'M KKP8. I Sideboards, Extension Tables, Wardrobes, loocaae. Uattresaes, Lounges, eto etc P. P. GUSTIKEr 8 It N. E. corner SECOND and KACEetreets. JSTAXSLIS HE D ( 1795. A. S. ROBINSON, i French Plate Looking-GlaEsoa.. ENGRAVINGS PAINTINGS- DRAWING Sf tTO. manufacturer of all kinds ol LOOKING-GLASS, PORTRAIT, AND PICTURE. FRAMES TO ORDER, No. 910 CHHSNUT STREET. THIRD DOOB ABOVE THE CONTINENTAL HILA-DKLFBIA. ',S AUCTION SALES. PANCOAST & WARNOCK AUCTIONEERS, i 518 No. IU) MARKET Strut. B. SCOTT, JR., AUCTION K JiR, .No. 100 CHKSNL'T STREET. LEGAL NOTICES. 1 N THE ORPHANS' COUttT FOR THE C1T1 JL AM COUK1Y OK PHILADELPHIA. kstateoi PATRICE AicNsLLV. deceased. The Auditor appointed to audit, settle, and atjus the account of j()HN Mentis A.MIN anu JAMt' bURRAY, executors ot the esta'fj of PaTRICKI MoN aLLT. deceased, and to report distribution oi lb Laiance in the hands of tbe occountants. will meet tn Dart its Interested lor the purpose ot bis aDuointmeni f . HLn.V VAt.a, n.w I'i IMK7 mt A Alnou P IU u VII 1 lT.Qla,l ICUIUU ....... V. " ...v.. " Mi his office, No, 139 S. hit IU htrc t, in the City o Philu Oeipuia. yv iLi.i-a.iii a. ouua u. 2 ItmwSt Auditor. TN THE Ultl'HANS' roUKT FOR THE CITu L AND COUNT 1 OJI.l'jllLAiJELI HlA, Estate of PATRICK, hjcll otlbl, Deceasea. MARY bicLOUOHLISi, widow of the said decedent has filed her petition, with appraisement or property selecteu to tie letainea nnaer tue act or Apm 11 ik and Supplements, and the same wilt be approved by tli Court on bAlURDAY', Febiuary 16, im. at 10 Celtic A. At., unless exceptions be filed thereto. JOHN A. CI.iRK, 1 1 ftu 4t Attorney lor Petitioner. TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITi 1 AKI COUliTY OF PHILADELPHIA. CHUlbTIANA FINSr Y'rt RSTAIE. TRUST E9TATJ Kit IIItJMA" Ht,lLIv. 1 The Auditor appointed by tbe Court to audit, sett! and adjust the tinal account o t. f.uttt.t ii Kt.r.at trustee tinker tue win or lirtugiuiit riii deceased, and to report distribution o tbe balance lnti. hands ot tbe accountant, will meet tbe varties iif terested for the purpose of hla appointment, on lUR l DAY, February ft, 1867, at 4 o'clock P M., at his offlcJ Ho. 717 WAixCii street, in rue city 01 i-nuaaeipma. 125lmw8t JOliii CLAYTON, AuOltur. THE SAFE DEPOSIT COllPAH The Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safi Pepoa.t Company, for tbe Paf sleeping 01 uonas, siocue, ana J Oilier valuables. 1 CAPITAL S 500,00 DIBECTOH8. N. B. 11R0WE, EDWAEO W. CLARK. CLaKEKCE U. CLARK,; ALEXANDER HLAKlf, JOIIIh WELSH, b A. 1 ALU WELL. J. CilLLllsCiliAM FELL IllLaRY V. GlUbON, CHARLES MA OA LESTER. Office in the lie proof building of the Phlladelptif fiationai Hank. CttiSKtl Struct above rourtn. t 'J bis 1 omoauv receives on deDoslt. and liUARAH TEES Ilia. baFE KEtPlMJ VALUABLES uH tue loiiuwiug rates a year, viz. 1 t Coupon Bonus 1 perllff itetifftlered Ikindsand Securities Au cents oertH Hold Loin or Bunion al7 per flfr Sl.ver Coin or Bullion S2 per Uold or M ver Plate 1 nor lit t aKd R01.es or small tin Hoxes 01 Rankers. Brokeii 1 apuaiisis, etc, content unkuown to the couipu.. anu uaomi; iiiuitea luauur 'Jhe tompauv oflers for'RKNT (renter eieluslei holdlriB lie kevl AFR IKS1DK llS VaULIn m. a), 140, aiu, and 75 a year, according to sue sj ,wa 1 lull. Coupons and Interest Col ec ted for one per cent Interest al owed on Honey Deposits. 1 his Company Is authorized to receive and execu Trusts Of even ll,.i.i.rln,intl. llSluiwup B BROWNE. President Hobkbt J attebeoh. Keereta-y and Treasurer. L A N D S E E ll'S ENGRAVING "8ANCTTJARY," and "CHALLEXiGE," 1400 each. Veryflnf. MONARCH OF THE GLEV, $10. FIFEB, RUT-CBACKEBS, and others, at tb lowest and mct moderate prices., EARLES' GALLEKIES, , l6 10t No. 816 CHE S NET St JJGITH & PICKETT COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND DFALEB9 IS WHALE, BPEBM, L.ABD, ENOIIIE, AND MACHINERY OILS. Also, Agents (or M anbattan a xle Oieae Company. I Uo. 134 South DEIAWAKE Avenue 1 M wfuijia
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