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I , .--.._ ..-_, •---=2-7 " -- ~,, -- - Pr ! r. 1.-.....- - , - -r... ,- .^- !---- -..-- \,,,, i., . - _ _ . . • ''''r , l"" 1.1- ' - " A 0 g _ : . ,•.:•, C - . .!,•..,, .::•-• A.: • ::,:. -A , . . ... . _ , ..---- -,.. - -----,- •-, .. .- - ' ' " • LIM'LIM=- , ~.:42:.,i,1 : ::: 5 .... ';'..g.:,!•.i 5 - '••• - •'"--‘1-1 ' T . A ~,, Meeting of the Freedmen's -.- Aldlociety. '.- ME AN. OVERFLOWMG ATTENI)LNCE: What the Society hasatecomplished. 'INSTRUCTIVE STATISTICS. Addresses 4briMajor General O. 0.. .Hcrerfkrd9J•../•• i ang a tan i „ _ gighlai!d- 4 4 1 :SsfAt”: Last evelaktiVtir i!*EPPOIi; meeting, in behalf of the lreedmen's Aid! 'Comm:dud= of Western Pennsylvania, *as held in the Third PresbYterian Church t. (,Rev,, F.,„A Noble, prior) f Slith aye- 4C - ieetink - instance of the Amrie Missionary Soci ety of the !few q3cltool Presbyterian church, into the Commisslon had beit iudi tt en zutti oe,v 4 t el a_ll im d iti sttrac to t o e v d er 7 owin ismn g ense the cpmmodlnuseditice which it assembled. The r **mPn4 l 4; 4 ogecaba. with% r ItS.la e eboittaftei , Bev. J B Clark lurked the Divine Bless ing nport the enterprise:and the ministers, officers ana:-TAssAirtii#44o chunk which had aasuniet theremcaldhititir . of'oiirilhg out thwObject.. -fOr_widoli.Wwes organized:” Rev. p.; A. Noble ' read the ndred and ildit.)4troond hyntil; In AI 'Stoking of tr,.gtotPc 2 810.1 01 4: forced. At the oone 4 *of thhi iiiirAck t 4l44. Mr. , Noble, ?n.a few pertinelit7retuarim, intro dbOett Ho ~ the menla Bureausitird c°PireF av W e d hil l follo wi ng : who • address : i,... ~- ~ - --eS A- -- .,, :- , %-: nemoinictokr„lvesteiurs; --.:.,, e.4.,03 Cochhi, in his resume of the results _Of enrurticipstlen l iinksti %%How sit raised , to the riMiii:of e a- freeman,. By three, de itress—rOlkl- Ors . fillittiY, - . Property - . - ' Him does the freemeritledead to the leiverof a ' nblvgi'';:TP7t I. l3 nixtg - .loPnr i y%, - fIFOPY;7,et ligion." - . Now, these three "essential geode," mho calls -theil44iiipit , education. It is. Dot ' 4 lrnitta:toOlet!qtdk:%thek...ll4 l l44 :-of -men, toe exercise aerciat of these important ' , late: . 'silent .-..stf„ civil ly-I%4nm t'There must, . be. mottee-poice#- , brought , 'to ..; bear ` ` to .! se.' core,tks-propex ; sanctity of tke family; secure the-;establisninenti of pure re new, free-from the debasing influence & superstition, and , to render prop9rty in any degree permanent or_ valuable. 11 Eels*. session. The Motive power, this awaken ing, living preserving /ince, is education, nthvomo cm want= Trott. z ...••• ~ • - After emancipation in the several West India Islands,. a coloniit wrote thus : "Great indulgence is.' nesided'3owardirthose who „ have experienced in their lives both the weight.f the chains of slavery and OS' boundless joys of freedom.:, Their memo ries are not sufficiently effaced them to continue to seek the ergovieent ef idleness after a long day of labortz . ttitle*lll be the fault of the colonists ifjbe, children of those men are sufrenidstelpiest-to become a re. 'mach and *wimp the country." So it will' be 'one Inuit -if the children of the late slaves,: are _pot ,educated. Educa tion, has aoooMPUObjea liti;ithe.',West s ll%- dia islands, and has ' brought it to pass ..0571731,Witerg•ri4P' PrOollskt.eff time, succeeding , emancipation, the greatest results. - 'The.-FaineselpideiC . T.taN% there salvos been beneflted,b y it, but their next succeedingfinf*VOn'bnvd 1 ainifoldlY .0 1 -, lablISC the.=ffitiri/of r 434te4iOnst work. Wherever this work has been neglected, or in any war,.'hlnders43 , 4 l wvoyerning classes the.desirees- of OpstreSiChave been smallVen" , t , .. ,-:,/,'-,. -.. , ~. •:,,, ,-: , ,:-, - - -• Tnelifstoribff-A.ftreaktill 'with sixty of seventy years, presents a gloomy picture, Historians settled dowftrupon the convic. don that the diffietdty_Was organic, and the peat mass of,Wrilees: , okbitseAt - that rea aonhtgs solely uppnlthe material wants men, constantly_ enunciated : the doctrine of the aettltd laferiorityof thcr black man, and the ! utter 11W - of attemptitigle - rsise him to positions that 'God never fitted him to odeupy. Asetkaftet.lace,-pOople.efter f people, have ' lad thii.%chainir - of -slivery strickentrim their Embs, and have had the: appliance, At. civgizgies Jrrejight to bear upon 'thein;linA ,ft'',-theY-littie been raised „trent, supentitteli t 4noranee , and, cmlniiitsl4.4*l444K4At Puke,tkzTA With marmot% tii'arno.. . could, _mi7tne _, , _ ' time be , maid YoDarknsair mrerth the d.: . a t n o l c irosedirknoteitsrpOPle": 'The sap ' causes of this 'perpetual - night are , assab/04 1 4110 neglect „ of the Awards(' of the same appceeilletliinidiud4lnVisiat England • • ARP ,:-/Wninntriut to vili __jrizatien. I mean the usual apidiances of, Christian clidlisation, as miirsions, colonisation, com merce, With - - .thelr, Schoola, char es and per. -prinifig tlielf 'lrdipiences *dm the i almost eMlleas night of Africa, men deciare to tneftluentlY-that-if Abe MeltrOeeln-thik country - anoi-lwiseParate4- completely from all contact - with -- thehiirhit4 l they woad ptiffinilly - ileadeild 'ln - the 'scsle of eivilliationLp e birth to new superstitions ; and idols -d, in: process of tithe, be come wlutip smeestore_were,Y itc• most unlumpyiktid , ” ditid peoplif:lf-thie be tz true, it proves unless it can be de , nunistrate4 that 'meth will not the result witli - othee - recia-iiiid Veople: :,'• How '• Is It . with all those nations'that 'have risen to plinicles orgraildeneand then declined in •vel7 idi entgl ofehhltration.and now are only , mini oast tdattot ~! . '•• _: •,, • s• . • HOW IS it leith.chureh caganisms that once bid - the . piti e ,: a i n i - l e gmiplef , but now ezhibiChut faint traces, it, merelya mare •of IniPoWnltliiiik'indll ' ir-:littee?;.Tric e v h be tine thilVtli*`„wiird f - Brawl -• down ward-by them:slits:WAG u n teh -g reaterts the necessity of never 'cutting -thanikidesnfrank ~the civilizin g . influences : that have now be= come tnetrtiortion 7 Fortunately they are so thQiiat - teMitigliid truth men Oatli; every pan of the world, they are so thor oughly in posseosioe of the , :English len -Wage, so well moulded add 'developed by , our Christian systems, -so deeply im'bued with: the -gran& spirit' of :,- our liberty= : making institutions,, that i a separation, 1 an isolation•like that spokennf is an abso ,, lute impossibility, a mere hypettaisis. They are among us, they are of as, and they wilLtto doakt continue with lie to .the - 2.;,.:1.1 . 7-,5:4. -? , ];:.:::;7.-.'1''.'; • • end,,a that the .sooner we trample : upon mere prejudice and folly the better. ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE—MISSION URT EFFORTS AND OTHER MEANS OF EN- Within seventy YearitheUlavee trade has been abolished. Civilized nations have . ' taken active measures to reclaim captives froni mid-ocean, missionary efforts have been unremitting, frOMHarepe end-Amer na; z t h e ' Republic of" Liberia has been established, and emancipation _bee trans fired in • the British, , (1833) Frftch, 1NO) (1848) Danish. - (1848) Elm,. h, (11346). , AbUD1U - dir(lBC)`z.cOltinies, and lately in the 'United States. In Liberia and at the English and . American stations along the coast, the People have the advan- I tag° of the English language, and the An thill • literature with theigood ;influences which must always flostfrOnithein.'• These places . are now becoming :not only -the nuclei of every kind of posititre Christian • work, bat also the centers of trade, so that' commerce, too, is brio out and, exercis ing its wonderful el zing _forces.. • PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IR *MICA. 11 ^F.MOSt remarkable :diets are brought: us from Africa: the estiblishinent:of schools and colleges, the inflowhig of, people from the interior`brought under the influence of civillzed imple, and the outfiowing of thousaide of strewn* of civilization more or le%pute. t•We lupin - that the eagerness for govedinstructlari Is so great in interior towns that the people restrain the mission aries from leaving them to visit other places, 'fearing they will not return, and give them 4 / greatest attaitlon, • e have seen: that , till the -beginning of this century, there was a deep, impene trable gloom hanging over the African ..centm, „titeao.,viho., have,taten- toni tlieir ; native. shores ii and (tarried away to different quarters of t,ho globe, and sold to American - and Euro peen Masters, are, through-thskir children, blessing those Wholume minted them; and these children are retiftningitfthe land of - 110 Ir Whets laden with knowledge, with language and With the flible v te carry, good tidings of Veld . joyto their friends in the veryteglonfrof darkness. How, what further part are weAtuericans to act in this great work that „is - .beilltt_ s o-,' leomplished? We brought the negates here as alavesi'yet, In the providenotinf God;' in Spite of laws to the 'OO nt r a trtll 1 4 Vita Or projudicekend hatredlgrowing outuf *false eystem, in* spite of We evil, passions and, appetites that shivery/bus engentleted,great• benefits have been center r ed • upon the. olaveS, se - that it is int a *punt which lib- - arty ~wiliZprobe, which 'good management and good government :will' STArS PROM AN EPI7CAIONAX:VOTIPP Or VIER. In an educational polnkt,of view Plitt the present statnaut n fin this coon+ try? -To jeivkeny tatigitd* idea upon this 'subject, it:Nvoild be neotasiarYio *Marfa tenadvely Into detailsving the: number of schools, scholars, tea chers, etc.. - Even this would glee no complete'view of the edlicational work, .for, in:freedom. Men and women learn what they Could not know in 'slavery. More l methandes lare learning trades. They are-lighting against tradenunlims composedof > all taws but 'theirs.. The aohool•of ,povertY-14- theusands-andltionsfta to nelitrelianoci; to;frugidity," to the wring of their small, earnings.: They are learning totniffic, they, nre purchasing laud, and providing for their cultivation, and they:are learning how , to govern-as well as to be governed. 'Ver . ," ~ many churches,; every Southern Legisla= lute, every owtendon, every': political '. •Cluli, must he regarded - as n positive source Of knowledge. Newspapers nein the NOttl44 that a few years ;ago could not; penetrate ,into the SoathernStatm, _ere now read night - after night' ixt. ?bon's colored men: No &obi t prejudiced• me n. even in Washingtonentettain" Yoe by the ' day with stories of the-hatless, careless habits of . tionr„ negro, and of his general tvorthlesentkag yek . U.'e 'faCtlhat itt popu lation of upwards 0f„, 3 30,90(1.• ..lotedpeople,. less thenowtho indigent brie; marhable. -thaw hopeful signer' .Its poll le estimate of the number of pupils brought within 2 the' Influence of inatinction)stililluo fact stares, win the face that only abent,'onetenth (if the *doted popUlationlas yetteen reached by the schools fWe know from experience that three yaork of training cannot.prOduce scholdia. Few are able yet to pass the dinau primary college examinations. Two millions, at least, of ,people cannot-to-day read the word of God.. While we claim for them every " . right. that,; to men,' ...stilt we cannot 'help', pondering upon .. the fdingera to libe , to- ClirisdaMty, to civil izationn y:Avrapped up In such a mass of ignorance. The enemies of education, the enemies of ;.freedom, the andirdeffOf man, never cease to hatp upon this string: "The ignorance of the masses of the colored people." I know. they are respowible for it,. and they strivetuate this ignorineo by burningchotol ,, houses, by ostracising teachere, o PerOtual ants 'establish their theoryOf the absolute inferiority Of the negro; by thti•Veryt,cinetVot voice.. that , deny him the' right of *mitlihbed," by every: species, of intimidation 'and - opposition, int= malicious lying to open blows, often` culminating irr riot and murder. ' Stillr the herd fact remains. -'How plain; then, is the dtity of the, friends of humanity to acquaint themselves with the situation as it is, -that. they may , bring every possible influence to best to multiply the means 'of knowledge. 112 EMI .•;• , • • , , , In ordertofeel forcibly the necessity of educating the masses of: the negroes, one shoitld travel considerably through the fikitithi s 'atid vittit dlifeitentassemblages. The, lismtrikettietween thbse schools w hich have' been in`operation for the past three years mider good teachers, and thcorregentlyes tablishedtAit ant*. to - attract attention. Schools like the one tn ;Atlanta, 6a., ex! , .hibit . remarkable fruits. The modest, quiet aid orderly d e po rtment of the pupils,: their culture in sin reading, or re citing, indicate the fac not'only that they are rising, but that they have already risen far enough to - exhibit fair acquirements and - good prothise for , the future.. Theaftbot of such a school is*Vemarkable upon the pen- Pled The families from whick,thesoholars e have gathined'in it little Of: the "line ttOorrlitte• and “precept,,. upon preopt," which ]rave pint , edao beneficial to then bil dren. -Wherescheols • have never been es tablished,'where neither parents ncor chil dren have eye r been gathered lido - eV' kind of SOW/04' these poor people exhibit far leis intelligence. Their religions. moth* 111 :6101 1 lances we apt to afford'nolity exhibitions of Ines-, Mario excitement instead of sound and joy tful Christian demonstratiomi. - Many min isters assume to'Preculh who impart little or AO information ' but - merely. by their , man -.13,er, - work t,henisalies and their people into n a io sof , frenzy, difficult to dual and very objectiOnWe. - - • - When visiting three of the Witham Leg islatures I listened to speecheehom colored man Fthatsubjected, themto ridicule, not, from' a wank ofgood sense trip speeches but from their inability to the Eng //eh age oOrreetly....E ry too Man slonpathi7istwillt them, and.-makes all due allowance for the errors exhibited.' I cungladtaintAble testate that many. colored members of . the legislature exhibi PITTSBURGH. , Mo.hl D :Y, NOVEMBER 28., , tea not oulyilue . nat.ive talent but pa aine,ll aegreti ditnittire da'tilaplttyikit !the peer language which they, need. - BDUCA.TIOIif..4TI3.REFESSITT ASPROTBOTPIN „At Bastrop,' Teiaa, a r colored 'Mak cantle' into the office of the Bureau - Agent, begged the agent to go with him.; and help him sell bia-gotton.,- He could,not. read go figures on thescalabeam odd that drth , ' less tlze 0 1 ) 1 1cer,Wp with him teetradetittas !Pre to 7 deceive"' hiin A. - niodictimicir knowledge would:hive afforded him pro tectiork, _ . Bad men.- not including - the teiiindoil. carpet-bagger and scallatiag, have gone into Southern States for the purpose of robbing *very rieople of their, honest "earnlags.' *very species of fraud is resorted tb,:and too o ft en with - celdsiderablesnbcess. , ' ! One may studylkciety in the schools; the churches, at the places of trade, on the; plantations, in the houses, in politidal sgatherings, on the steamers, or ,elsewhere, and froin every posSible point •,of view the necessity of education is•constantly exhib ited. Mentally,' Morally' and~ apirituallY_ this need makes itself seen arid felt. Northern men vtto are generonein their contributions,Wish to know why the South, ern people, white and colored, cannot pro vide for the education of their children. The answer is simple. On the part of those willing to - educate.them, there Ilan inabil ity; and on the part of those able, there ill an unwillingness.' Mat is the hindrance in the way of the loyal Legislatures so taxing the property as to carry into execution a' thorough system of cominon echools in each State? Why should northern people be called upon for voluntary contributions, to cartr,forward the 'work. of educlition;, when this is the case? The answer to this is, that it is the people that make np the State. If they are Impoverished, the State is impoverished. - . The political traiditien of these several States has heen 'such as to preventcapital and capitalists ♦ from moving. in that &reo. tion. Therefore r nny „SysteM o f schools is at present but a skeleton sinews or muscles. Under a quiet.and orderlyadd. ministratien, , which ~vre now „expect, ..yra. shall Ree-a.markod , entuagein itangleyettr. : The land, the climate : and the boundless resources - of the , 8 0 ,14 wilt roxuAttriott tide, of inlinlitiation from Its accustomed , accusto highways: , Men and means will-give anew life and energy te that and edit.= allied school . 1 01 41 70f* WW•grittitYlXtfet aw y in active operation. ' Then h ot` wait midi this state of things: shall:,. beirought 'to pass,. without endeavoring to do for the people what they ought to do for them. selves. The answer is, if we wait we will be likely to wait forever. - . - ' --,.. To bring -property , holders ; Jo • top - Any lan& in the e ducation of negro children, it mares aeractical demonstration, first of itoefigba ilMillexk of Pi urgiV,lo.the ,tecaplents t h emselves . This hasbeen done y the actual establishment of school& that are at present' -16CoMpllatilnir-What We claimed for those children. • , 1 . !'Such schools have teetc,estohlished in nearly all the cities lady.l4.lliteref-the South,' and nreindice and op . . Bon are lietrptev* vaY, . Yet; mY.ftlet4ti - are still ninediat rot; , e.To , stop now , tiiii happy surrender. 1 I,' ': ' DettPitate.e t ts rat2kiFbert l ii,i. .4.. sinsi Vt Staunch old s P. 'I es,, Who - limier ceased :to 'Support • the _twiny and. the ..!oeuttry: .4 , Now, air, I guess you have got enough of it," Such is the'cryef the weak an d wicked'in the midst of every, battle. This N,ttle for education is a great struggle for human rights; -it is a war of-great cost and of great sacrifice; but as my parlotio i step. father answered the lady just referred to, "though the ' cost and acrificeinay be treat,, Still the work must.be , done.":. - . Those of my hearers who may be tunio. quainted with the present prospect of our educational,. WOE *BY i l l q uire 4 °7 g " 1 the -ball& - • We answer therein every prospect of a successful faun % -,When I soy we , I mean . those of - us areengiged in thestrug gle. who are of:a ;sianguine,temperament, 'Who see in obstacles only. hal gplaces, .and in oppesition only new opportunities for activity, for vigor, for,laierificel and itiho hive faith in the black man, faith in _the , s'white, man, faith" in ilie - famity, , lhe 'school ' , the church, .faith , in the, past, the present, the future. faith in God. Mason- and;Dixon's• entrenched line, , breasted closely on the north with schools,. ' and bristling with oppteition °tithe south, .. bad to , he broken up: The VrarJ , Clid--1t.3 Schoolefollowed closely onlhe beelseftbs ' army.,•Tlie.ein' iiV,liitikethrinigVand 441(4 the land t the schools have been left to m entor IP, ". '' , ''' -.-% 1 7. ; (),!/ 4- ---' 4 - ~ ' , [Here the Onlieidiatie,itinnitiPiltiliinl exam ofpractim.l tittooess in the educe ,tion work , • referring, to the American ovary"; Association, with its forty' thousand pupils; the 'Union OimMission with about as many, the Methodist, Epia. „copal. Presbyterian and Friends Commis , sione and theirlahor. ,"' Then he demispare" ted theeagerneW 'of t ile;colOrtkpeople Ng' knowledge; they Contributedlast year some '8360.000.._ ._ ' Next he speknet.the opposition en • the part of some ignorant and depraved adored pepple. Also of the ridicule and hindran. ces on the part of certain whites. He re ferred to the'alAni6::Of the :i I S - 6 11 6 , 04.470 83 and preferred the grateful plaudits of those • who thought he , had helped them. Notwith, standing all oppositien. the" prospect it most Schools of all kinds 4;026; Pll - 241,819; amounts contributed fbr the year by beneveledt tecieties MO*. 'For a few moments Gen. H. demonstrated the neseasityof educatiOn in 'view of the wel fare of the riliole.ixnultry, piemoting order =in the families, the church, thecommunity. . Now is Oren ,some interesting anecdotes 41 tincouth, and strperatitious - -customs, on joyous and 'solemn occasions. Than, the speedy effects of the school` work is illns tratedey. ,strikitfg examples—at, Norfolic r . Raleigh; 'Atlanta - and' other f)laces;; Its compares the body politic with ignorant inasseS' tertlialititnan body full Of "sorenr The cleanaing-Power is instruction, strearas. of knowledge. , • . . . ~. • ' Gen. H.'s next point is. "This work of edtv cation ehmild• be Chriatian. " The neccea=. ties of the field demand thehighest Christian sharacter ,of theleacher,.the.okuiest:-walk with rod. ,The Christian teacher has the key to tbetneatt; others to'the mina. The word is timeelcmer, but for eternity. - "We dare not,na Christian believers, ben writing upon the tablets of tender - hear ted 'children leasons that do not tend to preeppaarree them _for that endless life of which ; Shia le" but the beginning." •The (lenerathensayst wo w , my , tongs, in view of the.remark: able history of this race, left for "hundreds' of years la) pagan- darkness, ;treated ' by their fellow men as ehattke, captured and shipped to.different parts of the globe and Watt Into keratosis - Slave:7. worked like the `mules and oxen to save tne white man's la-. bor and to seetimulate his wealth, used for his luxury and Sts' eenvenience, -Without • the *Pe of utenkttel. and. Wlthont, eY,_Ol l - 4 1 1 8 .,taltiklite I •bt ; llastruction-iiii *lee , - of their present efforts, their strnggleil may .Say r forknowledge; shall we not extend So than's - helping htrt''' " -.. • '.. ,4 .„ . In spite of ever y di sability= Sia - dOgra ol6;; tion, they have gridually, beeoine ,from ob- , Pxst of strifelind hatred in the ' world, ob." joat of .ohrliltteizt- interest' end sympathy. Asthe effects Of.divine truth:-may - becollie wore and raguicobssmablY felt among civil.: Ized -nations, these. nati on- began=to see • , .. .their iniquity. Jeteed no bigger than a 131111e5band l epreads , . until it envelopes theteholeliestoeinvEstin' sersecution i erninal indulgence,insatiable avarice, murder, ' riot and - tebellidn' haying, _been, made Instrumenta in:- GIRO liandadti - ,:tifitible,them knoiviedfie,wealth, christlan ity, and t u d r yttivel energies from -the4lo.- tions where hey were captives. 'Their children " to, the-Aand of: , _ their . tathersiladen with theseprecious spoils.. In full-view of, the ScheoN.bolleges and 4 dniversities that • have sprung into exist ence in thiS' . .PoAntrY; Whet* net are acltic itriy.drinklng from the fountains of knowl mige,Os avaconteMplate Mir . on 4°49 as we . cent - Obviate :In° -part . _welia4 :per: formedin m1'001 , 006 too do far the; inind- to compass - an - enter rise where evidently the Ilueld 0f..-tho-$ p ity bas !Shaped its„ beginning has fashioned 'its proportiontatal tunignided itscompletion whet can we savf.Shall we say "step” and. 'soutane 'coat r Shall- we sigh over the tax ? Stuillmre-'.xeckona what we have donef for , shnrches- arid schools .at home, and= enunciatethe - anti-chriatia4tanti? bible dtatitrine; that- -cWty and ;ends aVlioilset . --Shall -sayfoi t-thent: take care of their own children," forget- Ong that sire' hive hid I . hand in`creating' weaknosainstsad4st; tart in - the past? ShalLantoty.l , Boi .0 rother's keep., -er ?f',- ShaThwEitrtist tint .I‘to' the - Liar.' rtow-minded,*: the prejudiced; , _the-tviolons andiunbelleabig, or to the careless and the indifferent; to-those-wh.,olAinking in the. bitterness of their owiesim axe so fall of gall that it neutralises`- all , their gratitude for past:favors 47:Shall - we - , even , commit this worklethode vtlfo`! are to edu cate, fittarhe.•With„eier, iDtte 'Dit*Pt perNtially: , din : 'the ears'. of .:their pupils Idea of ~inferlority_apd incapacity ? Shall re not bather ptiventiolienda td , the plow „ amt. ,lool i c forvrardt Shall we, not,- press Sri With energy and *ittilerebideeey, `till we shall have , won the battle for hn inanity beStbid , ' Y4 . * •bp: , ward. and, Mkttard. In the -light - of, ,past . achieventepts,AUi the ;Ina blaze of pteoeta: Success, under the triumphal arch , cov /ered with •Ititiehli'-thimighlythb';‘: nditig pathways;:tistdde the gmves of 1300,00 q cow, ' panionSiald upon tho - Oer stiartificki*, holding - 4U-the distiatate . ; the torches and banners of that irrunaiktirthlii,4pi6Oeielatti which encountered ..and,nsfercame the"or eanized host of rebellio n` end Opened the way of tantalise' lihertig and odtmatlotanit.: jilt now been tramping . pnand on to secure .the frnitti'ef-416tory , T itk Civil :6intSW - fel: lowing still the old leader, him tipenwtitate 'banner is 2 *titan mho , insvhave - peaces;" what will-yes do,„Yotimlwit,fed the,<Boldiere.;lou wha“ ,- flowaw - Tine= With constoury lOW law , : _withz. ; praV er 7 -.you 'called - loudly and'-'lUntr ':for , the • emetic/Whim of the %alma: 'and wba::kave: serer- ceased to " 'Sava OW the cause of humanity without regard to conditio n. race. totery.!-, Let %mak W4Vic": ll lWerl'llr peeitwii get of the Ciftteeilby theprecious memories tof- the - .pitrpdsai peat,- by.the. glorle&.llght" of the t, by flak - bright T::u: ,..w.,„,,,,r:„..,.,.....„,...„,.... : :, iax fp :: mb r.ve : . spaxi peye n 77 ' tkq' °tlk rtesf 'fl dTerw i j::::: e 4 we have t 6the t o the work g a u4tveng chrlOw eddea dress the Soegregationsang,the 1277 hymni- Pe.n.linencing" :' • ' , My days ate' roi ftty Awl aldlielmistraxgen."- After which Nor. - Mr. , Noble intrOduced - 174 v. • • Ddr Bittenger said': I imagine that theie may possibly .bey one PeFfien here, - who Is asking: himself. this question.:..Ale we, never to be done with, the, negro business P , I answer that when '.7ive•Jearn to' atturooll' the Principle taught by the Scripture, thatpe one blood'God madenifilkticniit, and we deal, w ith the negro as with'o l3 ooll9*Alete will be done with it, and not until then. risk that E if for two been imported into this government an ele ment which shook the country -to•its form :dation, and that element - hitting notirLbe come a „part , off. tha, government,, if, we. *should not•consider , ", the' ipropriety _edul .eating it and making it a strength in the nbtlon. ' " ' In this country :the- oneeigbtjs of the dopulatidn are mimes: It the Colored peo ple were-equally -distributed throughout: the land, every-eighth man would-be a me ,flrOs or hale tesrie bloodinhblvelthk What, are we to, do with' five irdniona. and five hundred thousand men in , this :country if we keep them - in ignorance? • The nnetion is risked, both North and &MTh, canove *eke anything iof the negro? We should at least give hiMiitrial; ',-;We'stait_t nothing for any of God's creatures, but • that they may have a ctumee ex er c ise _ the faculties God gar) them'. " " • L - 'Thenekroes were brought - to t his coml trv.heathens, and haYe been dealt with as Alaves. '` They had no rights, owned no -sorope.,lV. We sold.their libeity and sold "their lievelbeen :here two hundred years:as slaves, and they have nowsuddenly, and. unexpectedly ;, found themselves 'freedmen. 'Not 'lteemets :yet, but freedmen. The sword came down and cut the manacles, land 'Abraham Lincoln put upon paper that which freed four snits liens, of people.- Net. have m_ the with us. and . what . site' we AO - do - vilth - Their - advancement-, within the. last five years is teeny remarkable: t•ln three years I flroM" - the" -- tifne: of ' *the lish m ent.. f ...ou,: the ' AM* Collin& :ached for contrabands we hate placed a crescent of light clear round the Southern -States. , In 1865 theFreedmen's Bureau was .eatala•• lished. In the first report there 'was seVen hundred and , fifty -schools; . -and -mow .it reaches four thousand schools and four 'hundred and thousand pupils, and" in addition to, this we have twenty-five nor.. mat schools,_three. nr,fo . nr ,00llegen and* ,university. And ff you were to cover the: 'faces of the teachers andpupils, you would . not , know whetherithey were, biselt,or. ',white." "VIVe thciimindottilese scholars are 'in high schools, studyingthe same branches tangpt in,the Pittsburgh high schools.. The.Africai Mind hail =been so tong kept" " in ignolince That it has "Tolded itself :up and only awaits the efiltiVation• which God intended it should have tomakeit open out and read fOrtb its -branches •in all strength and power.' The speaker. referred to the manner in, which , the, negrces been treated bythe Whites,• and attributed the want of Intelligence to 'that , treatment:, -' He only asked for thf3 negtoes a chance to obtain'un education,. he did ' not'ask for any extraordinary aid._ He held that was to the interest of thebusiness men and ...manufacturers cif the North to educate the , freedmen in'a business. point of view and, ,A , Reg w itea as vp.pear t .gr h eo eir ;7,tott eh e.o_.b ris tihiartee tia :e n henerr d imanu u reinali ty l - x t 4 o oresodi d 7a 6 se .. m 40 . 11 4. iliv : ll: j aiohe,. the speaker made an eloquent and touch abluadihme, • } 1•• , , elo quent appeal to the phrses of the atidlein* an d wWe_she cards forreceffjak7ftic sob: narintione ware being dietdiltedisthe choir Rev. Air ‘ . e Noble;sr4 ithieenpd'salthdthlt*.bllo':44llfOLlO'id' to introduce - fettle istidiebbh• • • PROF. HERBY- Bii.ADiDGARNET, who sa id • --. 7 0 ( 1$:•,•.!' ,*.r71,4e When _l. -was, invited, ~m y. Christian frlendsito come h ere this evenin and take' • • I . , t ii,i -,..1,-i • coi ' c:i. .!,il.' 4: t:: ri.•-.= a Part, in tile . exerelsea 8 t ttt / 01 4 =41/ ' must confess that I felt no,iiin , _of hfieltation, forl remembeted that / 110 8 81 P tlemew'who were.advertised to oddreisfidal audience hod distinguished .themaely.elk- 1 4 , all times - during their 'public - serrates, Whether`lighting beneath the banner.. of the creel ()milder th flag of -the emintry,, ; I remembered the; o ne beloved andp.llant friend-;-the friend of a long itnred race was to ` ' °kWh' I your attention,' I meanrp.bfejor . General Howard, and that aliso you were _ tebe add ressed by Dr. Bittenger = and ' by' Dr. ' 'Clark, , and then, . too, .4.'reineinbered that I was. to stand , On; this grand and,magnificent temple. I,thought that these., xfintlemen could' debetter serviin , our good dame than I cotddilo. I remembered also, how ever, when I became emboldened, that if ~,the audience could. Stand what Gen. How; and could say to titling if they could with-. stand the argument of the advoeSe of my race; if • this church would throw open its doors ` for our cause, ` the •• probably . they mighv be -- willing to hear . a . sim •ple plea . from one as humble as myself in behalf of mvself and my pro scribed race. The Rev: tin Bittenger -said in his address he appealed to this. assem bly and asked if you are willing my friends to visit upon us the fate that has fallen upon the man; that is; are. you willing that we should be swept awayby the heel of the conquering and the ruling ram], would say Wray worthy and excellent friend that be need not fear on that point. The colored people can not be treated so; , Any other race oppressed as we have been for two and a half centuries, would' to-day have beim blotted out of eilatence.f -It-is Nelda a cer tain pot domestic animal , that .it has nine lives. We black people have more 'than that; we do -not intend to: be crushed • ent; we do not intend to Ale s beneath the op pressors' heel; we feel that, we have, God, ,andall good men on our side- we'have in us the Phoinix; iipirit, l Whiehi though , it May . be burned to ,ashes. iit , crleti; frem- those aehes. "I will arise," and , springs, up to new end vigorous life: • • - .. There are some people whoa Lave - always been.npding fault with the, greatest, and Edest act of the Illneteenth Century, e abolition of 'shiverj , in the United ' ant &Oro that great evenStila taken 1 08, p place.. they .. have . been .grallabc.*d . ,l complainhig, mid"' pose they =- Irmo to com p lain all threfugh their: vea; theY.will .grumble.when - Aher.are..Blool l lB over .. ,. the.,lftt'earlaWhhill diVidelegmte.Ao l l l ; but ' the work " haintlen• abcom- - Pl w hM ', and - slavery - can (framer, •Jigtdri be refeerildia the -- 1 Ito not eve . that: the. A.inertetui peotie desire i aril ay liba t irtde'iltits it , akmf: Withlthr-Americhn; peep's, aitgo - whether alavETqdp: g lrwittetetluis-tv mem e g mto d ecide the meted d 'r t he' - ; -thetretnfillfated people - ::,t1110111101v409 1 . 38017: , 110 1 110liag Jive millions, have ray serious Obiell/188a b/the re•establishinent of Vevey; - having' 'tasted the7.sweete itettld lira vervlarge du "E;4(f tables/04 tili bind Osaka thi oludisoloiltp their litillat.l. Rut aboqii,l,ll 1 0 6110Ve fillit o -;eternal . ' God, ,* kfik ,'; _Witch-Heal ho, Attritiotes, is ular',gliti 1. Welltej of Munn? as itiromme,Viii k v 0344 ,*4 -k4 1 0 32 ) iortiakk,; l 44o,-1# otAl 8 '. ' bki A. ( There er some t il e e.ivh. Vreteliot'a actly In favor of s ;_belleied it always to bcritinime and 11 and Yet they were not prebasstlbrinitne eminielpatiOn. They liken,' a held that the thing .ehould go 40=111:m01nd= &Math wawa. sin, but :it shooed emo Bone away .witgrid-- hally in tonerr. tWirtitY•Yeafel or d the preskmi geueratleil; Viet 4 01 8 8 1 1 ,11, 1 4 h ave = t ow &lice - nee to cominkalnihr s iniegeneration, on' condition that the next shell work right coldness and fear ! Godandifinclatth liberty. throughout the land." They hold that there should have Uteriripper time ibr pie _, 4 tion; that these: people were' not -q qualified to enjoy freedom ' t came upon them:: too suddenly: Their _ ews Aire the same as those which ere said to have' been - enter. tained.'by a number :of commissinnersin a .dertain country oii the other side ,of the deem, to, superintend the., building_ of a new jail.,. The commissioners went togeth er and visaed throe. resolutions. The Brat RerOlvo, What we have i,:nevi jail, ink that It be built upon the site fir the present Jail.'" The' ,resolution wee passed Mini: The second wasn , Resolved; That we take as much of the ms Eirial as; posSible of the old jail to build the .new i ltilL - This.wse passed Ainanimouely. ~ . - , - . ..- L _ : And,Ohir third was: i Besolved, That all .._ . the prieoners be kept in ,the old Jail until the new 81184 8 bal/1. 1 14 111gbter.1 And thus theseemancipationists gradual - would have these menkept by the million in slavery crushed beneath. Its Iron` heel, until theywould beeomco pried Air eman• cipation. Andwhen would t t oday come? I think itwonid be just a Iltd Vier Gabriel% trumpet would sound: There Is another club that believes in God's mode, of deal ing With sin,rand God has but one mode of :dealing with sin: Behalf given but one or ,der to convey.- , it, and. that is that, it ';is is ff man's duty to ceasasinning at once, to do so . this very instant. • In, it he- therefore says, ,"oesse to tiO evilly:4lM the oft Pressed. undo, theheavy. burthened, and. Jet the I oppiesed. go.' free." And rthanic'itiod the nation was at last forcedto adopt -- God's .mode in abOlishing% slavery. It was 'first coOderefity military men as a military measure, so said Mr. Lincoln, that Slavery should be abolished, = politicianii began to gee by and 'twos a political neces sity, that this mime should be swept, f from the land, and the church-saw at lad that it was a moral ,iindu religious:: necesitit; that It should. e destreyed, and .the ford system , WAS . smitten/ma Iby the e hand of . God, ' And is fell /like ,-lightning .to rise no more. L., Little ; did the friends, of freedom know what they were doi. Theydid not k llB B , how -fat ibel r benev olence was reach ; Jog when theYweke extending the hand of kindness and sympathy' to the c panting. • slave. 7_ I *ell reMeinber when the fugitive slave law was 'passed, 'whick 1 madeaf a 1 crime fora mane be governed : by the die. i taw of his , own:icepacience, and- to. be. moved onby his own humanity; made it a crime even td give a cup of cold water, w a night's lodging, or a;hit' of clothing to a , 1 02 41 1 4 fugitive who wakflaiiing before the hlobd hdrmds Which '*,ere pluming him. I thank God that 'there Were • many, thou aands ' ppon thousands 'who disregarded, 'that kiw i and who to FAthe language of one of daristateiunen, who,was .onco great, and stillEs_ great in his : past history. tint there waltz iditlitulaw that wan binding upon us =dj./tat /aW was obeyed.. <limy . coul d not. in.the race Prthat `,as represented 1 0 1111 10 1 i ',.... t h e4 / 4 11 1 1 t 1 1 1 '01 shall, ielSelliaee;; lll •ibe blotday, maYi when the Wavier shall say, I was bun- VI, and' le fed me ; I vois :ttii:ti and,Ye gave thellthlk ;I i was naked and fitothed met I was in prison' and Ye; tad inn*" and 4f the' inquiry . .enOuld .be . • made: . "When saw we the =Lord?"- ir l i x t;r i i e nr- • cumstances the answer , would • nu, asmuch as. yen did itnnto the least of se, my brethren, ye did it unto " ine"; Andso it is ,here. ~/ know theWatery' . of thisgrand city,. 'situated at the baseof Ake mountains. and an ihebealut *gibes+ rivera that Meet here, 1 know ;how the love of.liheny al ways tilled Air; bosoms of -bite people of of PittsbUrgh, yet the lie , was dragged away from [your m idst,-loaded • 7.2; MEN=M Tfithi_ ileheins ' and . „ : hydro tbito. - Nt • - li re worse than death s ` ' ; :7 YAM• dis= .., :reorded that law, and you took the ,"- N: ".. J _fugitive 10 your homes Land 'WM inner. employment, and pourdaughters andour_ sena taught hint, at night to read the Word ' of Ged; ybtf taught - theta to revere the :,,--- name of God in years past, and some of. those very _ men -and women have ,gcnnt batik fothelßouth, carrying good4fainge Of -' ' • great joy to their brethren. Some or theuirirlf,;4.t . have gone back mildst@ra, PfP the.- Goepel o. educated In - your Northern schools*ito' back as school teachers, although it wasatibt , 'iL: o - 11 when:yort were, agitating these queouc a wf_ - just as sure as you abolltdi Slavery,- th e . streets of yonr„ Northern cities `tie" 'z- Allied within rlertm. , and • labor negro win ~, --. be introduced until the• white mechanic 'Will; starve.. They even fixed the . wages_ fhatin that time would be given; ten 'cents a • day would the wages- be' reduced tae , ra Well elavery has been abolished. Do you r... sea your streets thronged with. black men • - coming up from the South? ' There az, 'el: -; -. few who can* here when the.- thunder of: , - the Union artillery Was first „heard. Some came up with the soldieni and the. Officers of our army-Lnoble men who advised them !- to come here and find a:. home.- The high-, - - -.J ways are crowded.with men leaving, their. homes eridseekingneatoriesaand Sometimer -- -. the white man and the black man meet upon: .;. 1 tbe highway; and, while' the White, man,: v . _ With his bright eye turned to the heavens says, "Ho, Westward 'the Star of ' Em.. = .- , l pire takes its way," : the= black allint'Adth.. his beating heart, and suers not less bright, , ~, says, "Ho, Southward the Star of Empire ' takes its way." - And the black'men of the - North, whove been here for yeartc - 1400.,:: .1 gone back h all the higher experience, wteo of a higher elviliration to benefit - their - - brethren. _ I llect—l shall never forget '- -3 it; ,Pardon me if I: refer to it, an do not . _ ,wish to be egotistical—when I was a boy eleven years -of age, the first school visited .. was : du 'a -.little— town -.called- _____ i • ,New - pope. My father and my mother _ , took 'Me - by ' - the ' bond' and ' - led'' '.= ' ' from the Southern shore of Maryland.::, Era /had never entered • a schoolhouse until that, age, or seen an open book: Now a few: ..,_ years'have past , l have ' been permitred.4o 4 .- ',, v visit my native city, and have,visited the, - ri --9 I scenes Of, ,myzativity, Mood- beneath:,thor,__ tree that used to stretch out` its ttimetier. me in the dayit env childhoodk I searched < I .T.Ir) inglie graveyard for , the names of those 4 551.1 ,once knew, and, found •- that : all had pimp away."lbr.ithirty-tilhe - years bad , elapsed. v : , Aid nowl am , pertnittedotponYthe :other_ :10i fatde of the river to have the privilege 0f, 1 ,-, teephing brlgldboys and girls, and when. ,they look"' nie in - ' mra face • and '..-Say,i' - .14tvhirr„, kir .z.haye emnpletail .my. ,• istnd.,::rsl'o tes, . if God permits I mean,: lo„ go back to South triruct mybrethren t,0 4 catry.edlicitkn 'dairy therOellef-"zif- .- es .mr. heart lea within me._ : -We eity. - . , ra .totour brethren in the Soutp,,rou must .1 pt thAreaulte of the war,! and! believe accept :that they MUM db do, And litraillbe- _proper. - - for A infdikatty kr eUrbrethmn in_the.Nortk r - ~, E gym too must accept the situation and, the _, 'Molts of the war, and ifthe people' be '-'.,,-- lige "Aber ivabat be . edneeted• , AlLthat We'--- telk W.let o i r W... AO= 5f07 % ._44:4711 4 , 1 A olot. o donot eto It enconreg ' iildliretellloB in matters pertaining, tooht , :1; L/ /' MOT aik:l4,l thaCWltigitlAttr npo tiklgt_liallicite# „inrt. ndthe k irtiv liti --trdir t a: - l ~:mpeets,. - - tut - charts and "-cOraistemit,„_ -..:--.! a s =. mulled% and if by ourindif- we te reach.the shore,the haven. , , .of peace 'and'rest, the ' fault' Will be''' , ', ours and not anybody eleas; , All we Sairiti:L: fEf fair play .and half the road., iWe want- eduf. _ cation for bur oldiiirem ,We want the bible;:.. we want' liberty;-we *ant everriight ' , that:: '-kr'C belongs to the American dtbsen—nothing 1 „Ig more - norznetideff less., • And I believe thaf the American people will do .this. ' I - In= that friends Will not 'bei &Montage:l; - Lat. 1 jaw: it be remembered that we have mortgaged. . ~, • our property, our houles -arid our-lands.' , . Slavery has done this. . Now t we mist par ' • the debt. - Give them these advantagen;mr brethren, edUestlen extdthe 9 0 4 1 0 1 .9 1 ' Jam*. -.9. " Christ, and., we „will take care - of the rest: - Let „ ' our `ndridie be 'enlightened; ' ,l •--' thin - is ' all 'we ask. Gitre us 5chci015..u,....1 . houses, give us. churcheai ~and:\if.7 this ,ahall be done, ,if the Ndithern pfiOplisliall `do tide,' then,' and not till their sluff veer 'z - -- 1 : light breaklbrtillis thamorning, and ileur t u -_,-,[ darkness be as the noonday; then, and p0t: . . , ,, till then shall yon be like „springs' whoia •'.` waters 'fail not, and the blessing otGodrwill---- resturon the:chunk - upon the State, :tik: -.._.,, -on the family , and upon the indiiidual. . - .., At the conidusion iif t iti.'Garnett's - re=„ ' marks, qOll. r Howard ,introaticed to ilia -- audience , J. L. LA.NOSTONiES9,„ • Mr , Langston said i • • - • lei- -- 1-1 , •My Prirods: Of course -mould not at - tempt an3rthinglike a speebb: before? you at_ this late Itour,, although the , General le Al waye afraid that would make a long - On6; 4 • • I would not say , a'word to-yon on this:lxvi:ut casion at all, if - it were not-thati ; howl, tened,very attenti7ely, to. !those gentlemen, ' and have _been' profoundly interested !midi - - - that‘they have sald.'llut they have unlash:l' one word about the poog,whites. - !happen. - to hamthree blood& coursing thiongh my veins; a fair proportiOnof .. • something:of =;thef negrwand a potation't the Indian. When I was .in the, ogee of 7 -) one of the agenbief the,bureaui'in COninth, MieshisiPpl, respectable looking:White. } - 1; woman come int= and. asked,'prooh4.- - -;r ions • for • lauself :and for ,five,, or six: amines llolntin the neighborhood about twenty The ~ agent 1%1 filled; a blank and-; sari to Phis:wo.taant 7l* "eign your name, you ple4ge, to tide - Paper militia:" • The WOrMirt s• -1 said; -46 1 cannot'writo: sir." • !4Tshe holdat- the-pe n, "- said the agent, "make your ocesS. here"..She took hold - and made her. Mesa Mtn! , she took her seat I••sidd to thficall "may I ask this, lady a few_questions, asked "If she had anyohjeMoO to a nswer ing , a questions?" She, answer, "lib - - 'air.' -"How . far .'do you live Wm here?" "About twenty "Where's, your husband?" ."He is dead, sir. He taken prisOner during • the war and died in , a ,Noithitrzyprison.", , ."Where , k is your eldest son?" "He is,. deed: He died In the same prison , iri" which hislathiir'dfed.' many ran have you at home?" "Five, hir,P, "Can any of ' - your ; pildren read,_and write?" ,• "Not sir." Could your husband read . -f r and write!":' "No, mr.": 4 -isCodid'yonr eld•A= est son ?" ,"No, sir." "Van „spy member-l ot your famiLy read or, write? " "No, WO' "How *Many families dcionierrresent this applieation forpprovisions She , Darn- pr ed end,•numbered them. t.- "JIFF, many moult among the man earned by ve in your neighborhood - eau read 'add writer" ,l "Not one,_alr, to my knowledge:lr, " mow many9f.: the women whomyou represen 'ou r in application can rea d writerr "Not one,' sii`."'< "flow )11faiir_ c he Obildren?!! I.l'Nei one,-air4 l :"Nseen 4 yon, ikAschool fo r the poorecwhitesin your neighberhOodV /hive you ichtiroh`ln'yomr -- neighborhood?"? "No air. >' n/e-tmeNe'YienOiitlt, No , Ana =ore Into! tine•" "Pnrielelitetr." l gOert -stinil, --.1 - 0e life,' ever teardi'in the neig hborhood 'in srhloti-yon - titrey a l mouton=,by.v:annne,;•,: white p!%blasktchave ";Yenkelreg-stieededtir 'fraYee•leeekiniet" "Plefr;riever. Jog in? 'the' presence' - of thaV)Mait; Ina- - pince:of that fact,. I said7<to - rePtelft .4anea EMI ,~ :v. ~'~=;+tom^K. • gill _ ~ : ~, . v ., . r..., 7 .. -..'1;',.i. j ---, • '...i. ' :' r-•..,"1.'i.'.;,..- t•-;,? ..:,_.,.'-:,;::!,*;•7!..-i EH MB
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