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