SJcuotcfr to politic" literature, Agriculture, Science, iHoraliti), anir (Sencrnl intelligence. VOL is. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MAY 5, IS59. Ntf. 19. Published )Y Theodoi'C ScllOChi TERMS. Twb dollars per annum in advance Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if not paid be fore the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. No papers discontinued until all arreaiagcs arovpaid, except at the option of the Editor. IC7" Advertisements of one square (ten lines) or less, i?rie or three insertions, $1 00. Each additional laser tion. 25 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PRffff'S'ffiYCis' Having a general assortment of largo, plain and or namental Type, we arc prepared to execute every de scription of Cards, Circiilurs, Hill llca'ls. Notes. Ulnnk Kcccipts, Justices. Legal and other Man'ris, linphUM.. fci., prin ted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms al this office. (BY REQUEST.) West India Emancipation Vindicated. Speech of Rev. Henry Blcby, Missionary from Barbadoes ; alike Anniversary of West India Emancipation, atAbington. CONCLUDED. Then, I am told, if it had not ruined the laborer, it has ruiucd the planter. Sir, I deny that as plainly as I deny the other. I might maintain, with great pro priety, that if many West India proprie tors were ruined by emancipation, they only got what they deserved. I do not, however, take that position, but I say this: that it was not emancipation, but slavery that ruiued those who were ruin ed. They Avere ruined long before eman cipation took place. .1 would recommend our friends who can do so to read Mont gomery Martin's History of tho British Oolonies, published in 1S5J, a new edi tion of a warmer work. There it is shown, to a, demon-tration, that lonj be fore Buxton and Wilberforce lifted thtir voices in the British Senate to advocate the emancipation of the negroes, tho col onists throughout the We?t Indies con tinually complained that they were ruin inud. And no wonder that they were ruined. There wa3 a condition of things existing under slavery, that must inevita bly ruin any iaudholder under tho sun.-J-ust look, sir, at the condition of a West India estate under slavery. There were four or five hundred slaves. It is true, the master did uot go to much expense in providing them with luxuries, or even with food, but he had to bestow upon them so many yards of cloth a year, and several other small articles; that was one item of expense. Then, to superintend the labor of these slave-, there must be four book-keepers, as they were called, one to superintend the still, another the boiling-houe, .another took care of the cattle on the estate, and another, if not two or three, superintended the people in the field.- All these had to be fed ami sal aried. Then there was an overseer of the estate, with his harem, and he, too, living at considerable cspcuse out of the estate, and at a h'u'n salary. Then, over ail was the attorney, iu the absence of tho proprietor, who managed the affairs of the usUtc, disposed of the produce, and provided the cattle and other justcri als for working the estate. Well, he took his commission out of everything the estate produced, an J occupied, at his pleasure, what was called "the great home," aud having his harem there. Then, sir, there was tbo proprietor, wi th ins family, living in France or England, in princely stylo, and all this to be drawn out of the produ;c of one estate. I should like to know whether there is an estate throughout the length and breadth of this country, that could sus tain such a drain as tbi.J, whether there ia any property that would not be brought to ruin, with so many living upon it and out of it. It was that process that brought ruin upon many of the Wert India proprietors. Aud, sir, emancipation provod a boon to them. The compensation mouey enabled them to leson the mortgages on their es- tales. ly this expensive mctnou oi wom ing the elates, aud this expeusive style of living, the merchants, who had also their commissions to take out of the es tates, became mortgagees, by making largo advances on the property; so that when emancipation came, there was not cine estate in fifty that was not mortgaged to the full extent of its value. Emauci- j pation came, and iof tead of being a curse ' it proved a blessing to the proprietors. ; Suppose they had four hundred slaves; lhey would receive, on the average, not less than twenty pounds for each, about 9000, or glO'OOO for the whole.. It is true, tho mortgagee took this compensa- tion money; but then, the estate was relieved to that extent, and many of the proprietors were going on with a fair prospect of working themselves clear of their difScultie. Tjien came another sweeping change. You remember the free trade pplicy adopted, by "the briti-h government during the ministry of Sir Robert Feel. Among those measures was one equalizing the sugar duty, and throw ing the freed colonies of Britain into an unequal competition, or a competition for which they were not prepared, with Cuba and Brazil, where the produce was raised by slave labor. I do not find fault with that free trade policy; indeed, I do not j express any opinion upon it at all, fori am not much of a politician; but this change canae upon the colonies prematurely, be fore they were prepared for it, and tho consequent reduction of the price of su gar to an extent which rendered it unre aunerative, forced some of the planters to an abandonment of their estates, which ?8ssed into the hands of the merchants, n Antigua, some of the best estates on tbo island arc held by the merchants, Kho obtained them in that way. The ' English house of Shand have several, which came into their hands by the fore - closing of mortgages. It wns in this way not by emancipation, but by slavery and its concomitants, that the planters wero ruined Now lo..k at the Wot Indies as they are. in the island ot Jamaica, wo arc told there is a satisfactory state of things. : I cannot speak of that island from per- ' Rnnnl L'llfiwlnilfrn linonnon T Iitti nnt kann ' there within the la-t ten years. But I "ro PPulat5oQ the West India colo- that of any other civilized country. I be can say that before I left no less than nies havc becn shamcfulIJ maligned, and lieve tho criminal statistics of Barbadoes, fifty thousand colored people bad become that the da"i for "immigrant labor" for the last five or six years, would corn freeholders, as the fruit of their own in- Proceeds from a desirc t0 8raft uPon freo Pare w,th anJ otber country under kcav- dnatrir Vof tn nr.. fl.i fU, ..i will not work. How did thoy obtain; tliPRo fmnhnlnV f hpn? sm f tua : houses are riohly furnished, with mahog any bedsteads and sideboards. How did they get these, except as the their own toil! I was in Jamaica when the railroad J mongst the colored churches, and I can our disciplinary proceedings, was built, cxtcuding some fourteen or fif-'tell you the state of that island. Sir, Then look at our churches. Every teen miles from the city of Kingston. I that island, even in the most palmy days Sabbath, they are inconveniently orowd was acquainted with the manager of the 0f slavery, was never in such a state of ed by people anxious to receive instruc works. 'Jhero were considerable cngi- prosperity as it is now. This very year, tion. I know of no people in the world uccring difficulties to be overcome. The t,e ong drought lessening the crop of who will make such efforts and excrciso road was built entirely by colored people, sugar Jet they Tjavo rajsed) w(h no such self-denial to obtain education for and the manager of the works told me : srt.ater amount of labor than in the time their children as the people in Barbadoes. that he could not oVirc people to work of slavery, more than double the amount I will mention ono little iucident that oc- l.,.H. ,r !... limn rl w I I. 4 I. 1 . . .... ! .. . ..... ucicer nun inov uiu: mat nc could oo- tam workmen to any extent, and why?.Tuat is the resu)t of this year'8 Iabor Because, he says, on Saturday evening, ' ow iet ua iook at tbe value of prop. wheu they hr,vc finished their work for erty'in that iiland. If emancipation has tut- week, they have their wages, it was ru;ned the proprietors or the work-peo-not o upon tho elates, sir; and that is pC) if emancipation has proved a failure, the reason why hundreds and thousands how is t sir tbat 0D tho ibiand of Bar. of the colored people of Jamaica have re-' badoes, you cannot get an acre of land tired from work on the sugar.plautations. 1 f0. ioss than four or five hundred dollars I kuow that many huudreds of them were jn anj part 0f tue illanj? That is tho dofrauded of their wacs. Ouo of those truli1( sir. I lcnGW 0f an estate in my great planting attornts, who had some own neighborhood, of not more than two fifty or Mxty lar?e cMates under his care, or turc0 hundred, which was transferred made it his boa.it, in the presence of n toother hands for 1S,Q00 equal to friend of mine, after the net of emancipa- uearly S(J0,000 of your money and that tiou came into force, that he made those paid in cash. bere is there a farm of estates pay well, because he cheated the ' tie san)e extent n tlQ United States, people out of half their wages, by one tbat win bring a price equal to that? I mvthod or another. That was the diffi- wanted to buy a piece of land, witbin the colty. After the people were emancipa-, ast twcjve months, to build a school- v,u...j. .- jn-wjn, cuiaiiuipa-, ted, beforo -they obtained land and hom- i es of their own, they occupied the land, and nouses owned by the proprietors, which they had occupied when they were slave5, and the overseers made them pay tneir rent three or four times over. iou must pay, they would say, so mucn in lanor ior tne rent ot your house; then the wife uas required to pay an equal amount, and if there were two or three adult members of the family, cadi one was required to pay the rent of the cottage in laoor; and thus they man-1 of worship, the school house, my place of aged to got out of the people reut four : residence, and the teachers' residence. I times over m many cases, aud in number- wanted t0 enlarge our boundaries, and ess instances, three times aud tnjee. lere were two acres of laud, belonging happened to occupy a position which ' t0 a sruali estate in the neighborhood, brought me much into contact with the!find separated from it by a road-passing laborers and therefore I knew of the op-' through. It joins my residence, and eration of this evil. Ihe colored mem-; wmHd bo very oonveuient in a reSpects, t.ers of our churchos contributed towards j except that half of it is very rocky; but the the matut. nance of the churches, and to- ! owncrwould not let rce have it for less than wards the maintenance of tho ministers; I one thousand dollars, and I could not and very frequently the missionaries were! make the purchase, because the price was told, when they could not give their u.ual ! gob h j have known an Jatoto of contributions, that they could not obtain lhrce or foar faunbred acres sold, within their wages; and upon one occasion, aithe last eighteen months, for 10,000. poor man, whom I knew veil, whom I had ' It is shuateed nuar tb(J cU and that taught to read aud write, who had pfom-:M thn rnnflnn wi' tho -tna Jna fin mnnh icon rit'i il aI I iro tni Mm nnnaMn r ,' . 8cnooi-uou-e a&u church m the 'neighbor .u w ...uu, tu u"" told rue he was verv sorrv he could not' Ifinrl 1 Tl 1 1 1 f 1 II tin I I r.J n r n n. . ..f I pay the money, because his employer had ! wronged him out of all he had earned for f ,1- I,-..., i.r i ..,lPiauiura v eiuaucipauon. several months,- ...wl .i. 4 i i and tl!t (imn nror wic fl fnSII Wlin hriH 1 t'llfirc n f nrn ftmnonml r 4i i II V l J r.nnd in nonfttinn will. - R? beheld under the government. The poor rn ua uu,,! ,r,;i i,: . ed to sixteen doubloons 07er two hun dred and fifty dollars, and then his em ployer took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtor's Act, and never paid him or his fellow-laborers-thero were two or three - UVIVl U4IIU ill LU Ul UIO hundred of them-ono cent of what they .pwpnetor, Among tbe rest, 1 waited had earned by the labor of several months! ' "P00 n?T: frDgft0D. who owns two es Isit surprising, then, that the colored j ate9 within sight of my sitting-room, and people should choose to cultivate thciri pvo me forty dollars towards my ob own two, three or five acres of land, and icct5 an,d v!hlle there' I leflrned those get what they could off that, aud refuse! fact9: that last yoar, he made on the two to go to work upon the plantation when j ttes together, comprising between 600 they were expected to do the work of! fd 00 acres, three hundred and three ii . uujr.u . j 1 1 ititrz let. 1 1 1 ntfi?ni:ivirv. i ,,, . These sir, are the evils which have i wrought out tho.e results which have ' seemed, for a time, to justify she state- j ment that the people would not work in Jamaica. They are passing away. A rcceut number of the Anti- Slavery Stand- aru, puoniueu at iew i ors, wincu was built, instead ot the old wind mills, which 1 muat ho treated Dy them witn tne same put into my hands a day or two ago, con-; had been in uo from time immemorial, ' respect aud courtesy he manifested tow taius a long report from one of tho lead- two steam engines, and put up on one ea-! arda them himself. That, sir, did more in anti-lavcry men in this country, 'tate a double row of coppers for the man- j than anything else I know of to put an Mr. Charles .T appan, of a visit which ufacturo of the sugar. What is the re- end to the reign of prejudice upon that he has been making to tho West India BUlli He has raised seven hundred and ' island. Yery soon, tho colored " people Colonies within the last few months; and ! fifty hogsheads from those two estates. ! began to mingle upon equal terms with he says, in reference to Jamaica: Now; apart from the capital ho expended the whites; they met together in private "The alleged waut of labor is a false 5u improvements,' and in building, tbo 1 parties; and soon the colored people, by cry. To cuTtivato the whole area of land molasses, the draining from tho sugar, the exercise of the elective franchise ac at the prcseut lying waste in all tho col- would go a long way towards paying the quired a considerable degree ot political ouies-except Barbadoes would, indeed working expenses of these estates; and he power; and now it would be the ruin of any absorb auy number of laborers; but tho would carry into English market seven public man in Jamaica to have it known evidence is overwhelming that no addt- hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar, or suspected that he cherishes any preju tion to their number is necessary to meet would sell them, I dare say, at not less dice whatsoever against his folio men on the demand for the estates that are actu- than twCDty pounds per hogshead, and account of coldr. ally under cultivation. Where labor is would thus realize, from those two estates, Sir, tho colored people, removed from said to be deficient, it can be traced to more tlian sixt? tD0Usand dollarB for the underthe discouraging influences to which causes within the planter's control to re- present year. That, sir, is the kind of I. have referred, show themselves able to moso. Of these, insufficient wages, un- rui,D that emancipation has brought upon ! COpe with the white man under any cif punctual payment of the same, or ho pay. West India islands. onmstanpes. Take, for instance, the ment at all, ere stated to be the chief. So in Antigua, I lived three years in present head of the Jamaica government Immigration on the present system, is Antigua before I went to Barbadoes, and J Ed ward Jordan, a colored man; bis condemned as expensive and unsatisfac a friend of mine there, a member of my ' dark skin and his frizzly hair show his tory, injurious to tbe people who are in- own church, bought an estate, that wa to be nearly allied to the African race on Uroduced, and to the nativo colonial pop ; lation. The allegations of idleness and immo rality, which have been propagated by ! The Times t are indignantly repudiated j as gross calumnies, and the writers are 'aUenged to produce the proof of their 1 satisfied that all unbiased persons who read tho auuexed communications must come to tho conolusion that tho no- laoor a system oi iorueu eerviee, wuicu is otal ompattiblo with the spirit of tbe Act of Emancipation." oo mucn ior Jamaica, x cannot say much about its present condition; for 1 result of bavo D0i becn 'nere r en years- 1' persons, and during the last two years I j sir, I have been in Barbadoes, and there . have uot had one aingle case of interaper tl am lahnrinrr fit nresenfc. as a minister a- ance rcnortod to me. in connection with r nrm? linn t ln r? nttnf tninr1 iiwli I'lminnn jag( twelve mon house upon. It" way from the to was nine or ten miles a- ay irom tne town, and consequently not a buildiug lot, and there was no circum stance associated with it to render it. of extraordinary value. I was offered a : i. : -i. u c r i much do you think? Four hundred doh tars That vas at the rate of 3,200 per acre for land in the country. I occupy a mission station about nine mile3 out of Bridgeton. 1 have two a- crcs of land, upoa which stand the place the other one to which I . . umesin regard to tho "ruin" i u of British T .,, . ' , . , t 1 l teH U ?f uuuu viuw-hl uijuu luusu isianus. ... . B . 1 1 1.4 4l Z i 1 ifou -II , Will pit lease to understand that I did not furD,iiU mJSl!lf W,lh faCtd Defor0 1 CaUle a" i'5 TV? .IU0IincliIeilUlI- . "ad no idea that I should have a word to say upon the anti-slavery question, or I would have coinebctter prepared with sta tistics. I am building some schools for the children of our colored congregations; and T I J, . , , UBV? uucu ro.uuu ueGK,uS j oi iue uuouuuus ui sugar. aiiia yuar, uu re- - ' resolved to make an effort to extend his cultivation, and enlarge tho produce. He did so. He employed laborers to cover all the rooks with Boil, digging mud out of the ditches and out of the pond, and 'covering uo every vard of naked rock, and planting canes upon it. He j sold under a decree of Chancery, for 5000. He has taken off three valuable crop's, which have more than repaid the i i , original purcuase money: and he has , been offered 10,000 for the property. and refused it. That is the kind of 'ruin' that has come upon the. West India is lands because of emancipation. Then, hir, look at tho moral condition of these islands. Tho moral condition of Barbadoes will compare favorably with eu, wuuuut uiaau vantage, vvo seiaom hear of anything like serious crimes. I Then, sir, the vico of intemperance is not , preTaieui. among tue people, jl nave a 1 membership of seventeen hundred colored ourretl only a day or two beforo 1 left to come to tuis country. une ot my own church members, a colored man, bad just j finished manufacturing his little portion j of sugar, grown on a part of the half a- , ere of land on which he raised the provis- j ions for his family, and he brought me i six dollars and requested that I would j receive tho money in advance as school fees for his four children for the next j twelve months. Tbat.sir, is the ouly in- j stance I ever heard of in my life of a man in his condition, pre-paying the education : of his children for twelve months. Ho ' resolved, whatevor else suffered, his chil- ! dren should not suffer the loss of educa- ' tion; he had secured it for them for the ! next twelve months. ! i The people are willing to do all they . can to raise themselves, and they do raise themselves. I have heard since I have becn here, that colored people in this country do not make efforts to raise themselves out of their degraded position. J A voice "That is not true." If it be true, I do not wonder at it. 1 do not see how any people can lift themselves up a- , gainst tho weight of discouragement that seems to be cast upon tbem in this coun- , try. When 1 came into Uoston, two or three weeks ago, I went into a hotel, and the very first thing that arrested my at tention was thi?: A play-bill hung in the office of the hotel, on which I read iX Colored iKoplc admitted only to the galle ry?'' That alone was sufficient to satisfy me that they are laobring under discour agements, difficulties aud prejudices which must exercise a blighting influence upon them, and must necessarily keep them down. The colored people of the British colonies have outlived all this, to a great extent. Lord Mulgrave, when he came out as Governor, in 1832, took noble ground in this respect. Tho law which had placed the colored people of the col ony on an equality with tho whites bad just came into operation. Formerly, in all those islands, as now in the South, a colored man could not sit in the juy box, A voice -"lie cannot in the Northern States" nor on a coroner's jury; ho was not allowed to exercise the elective franohise; he could not hold any office under our government, either civil or mil itary, and up to within a short time ho could not inherit any property, except within a very limited amount. Well, sir, a law was passed, and went into force, which did away with all their legal disa-. bilitios; still, they wero subject to the same discouraging prejudices that I find existing here, to a great extent. A white man would have felt himself degraded by sitting down to table with a coloTed man. Lord Mulgrave determined to put his foot upon this evil, and ho invited gome of the most intelligent and respect able colored ladies and gentlemen, those whoso wealth, intelligence and position in sooioty entitled them to such a mark of distinction, to his parties. He made it a point to danco with colored-ladies him self, and ho introduced colored gentlo men to Lady lUulgravo as partners, ivitb whom she danced; and when some of tho gontry gave the cold shoulder to these colored guests, he caused it to be intima ted to them, that if they expectod invita tious to the Government Dou-e, his guests one side, as be is to the white race on the can only conduct our school- iBeiently, other. I remember tho time when Ed- by having and training colored teachers. ward Jordan, who acquired all theb-ar- and we do that, arid we find, the colored ning he had from our mission schools, man iu every wnlk of lift. Me to corn stood within tho shadow of tho callown, pete, and that successfully, with men of and bad a very narrow escape for his life, and for what? It was iu the days of slavery, and he was a leader in the anti-slaver party. He had taken an ac tive part in the agitation which etided in tho removal of tho legal disabilities of the freo colored people, and then he stood up to agitate for the abolition of slavery, ha- ing started a semi-weekly newspaper call- and I have seeu thoc coiorcd ladies pre od tho Jamaica Watchman ; and iu the siding at the tabic of their buabatids with beginning of 1832, there was a pro-slavery as much grace aud dignity as auy white' man, who had been a leader in that par-j lady could display in that position. -Sir, ty who suddenly came over to the anti-!gie them the opportunity, and they will slavery party, and took active measures j show themselves to advantage, whether to ameliorate the condition of the colored male or female. people, and propare the way for tho abo-t I do not know, sir, that I should feel lition of slavery. Well, sir, in the news-Justified in dwelling any longer upon this paper controversy to which this gave rise, theme; I fear I have wearied this atfdf Mr. Jordan wrote the following sentence: cnoe. However, you asked me to enter "We are glad to seo Mr. Beaumont in detail, upon this question of the failure, coming over to tho right side, and we ! of emancipation; and I think, although I shall be glad with him and all the friends have done it very lamely, I have stated of humanity, to give a long pull, a strong facts which go to prove, beyond dispute, pull, and a pull all together, and bring that emancipation in the British colonies down the system by the run, knock off is no failure. the fetters, and let the oppressed go free."j Sir, I am in this country on a special That was the ecutence. The folio wing j mission. I did not come here to deliver week, as ho sat in the Supreme Court, re-( anti-slavery lectures, nor hid I, as I said; porting for his paper, to his utter astonish-1 before, any idea that I should have the ment, he heard his own name proclaimed j opportunity of attending any anli-slavery by the clerk, under indictment for a cap-' meetings. I came to this land partly ital felony "constructive treason. IJc;for relaxation. The wasting and er had never beard a whisper of it before nausting effects of a West India climate' but he was taken from his seat placed in I rendered it necessary that I should take the felon's dock, and arraigued upon that! a change for a few months, and I deter capital charge; and it was with tho ut- j mined on coming to the United States;' most difficulty that his cousel, IMr. Watts, (hut my principal object was on which' also a colored man, succeeded in getting ! to mf! seems very important. I fold you' his trial postponed for two days, to pre-1 that I am a teacher 6F the colored race, pare his defcuce. The proseeutiou failed, and I havo been all my life a minister because they could not prove the publica- among the colored people. In one thing, tion of the paper; but there was a regularise are behind in the West Indies, and1 plot against the life of Mr. Jordan, to j th a t is, education. We have not, as yon' which the Governor, Lord Belmore, (to 'have in thia country, a well organized his shame be it said,)was a party, he hav ing agreed, if Mr. Jordan wac convicted, to sign the warrant for his execution. He wasremoved shortly afterforincompe tency, and then came in tho noble Lord Mulgrave, now Marquis of Normady, to whom I have referred. But this effort to destroy Mr. Jordan, only placed him upon an eminence. The colored people rallied around him. They had the control of the elections in Kings ton; and at the next ballot thjy elected him as their representative of tho com mercial capital of Jamaica, which posi tion he occupied for twenty years. A bout the time 1 left the West Indies, he was called into the upper branch of the legislature, the Council, and now Mr Jordan is Prime Minister of Jamica, the head of the Cabinet. He occupies the same position in Jamaica, as the Earl of I Derby in England, and he H a man who commands the respect of all parties and all colors in the community. Then, sir , there is Mr. Richard Tlill He has been for twenty years tho head of the stipendiary magistrates' depart ment in that island, and a man of well known ability and information; indeed, he is looked up to by all parties on tho island, as authority in all matters of nat ural science. Mr. Hill is also coiorcd, only one remove from a black man; that is, he is tbe child of a black mother, hav ing a colored father. Mr. Hill is a man whom any man might be proud to call his friend; a man of maaterly intellect, a per fect gentleman, and everything that a man ought to be, and I may add, he is a Christian man. Then there is upon thejudioial bench of Jamaica Mr. Montcricf, as only one remove from a black man. His father, who was a man of sqme wealth, sent him to England, and gavo him a liberal edu tion; he was admitted to practice in one of the Inns of Court, rafade his way to the Jamaioa bar, and then to tho bench, and is now the second amongst tho judges of the colony. Sir, place tbo colored man along side, on equal terms, and be will compete with tho white. How has Mr. Jordan forced his way 7 Not by favor, sir, but by tal ent, and the exercise of that talent. How have iYTr. Hill and Mr. Montcricf won the" positions they now fill I Not by favor, I . 1 k.' Tit. ll t..n m n r sir. but by competing witn tno wnuoman, with all tho advantages of education and igraefui for"it. Surely, there are fifty, a wealth and interest iu his favor. SIr mJ i hundred, or two hundred in this cbngrc observation goes to show this: that thoy j wbo can ppare a dollar in this make good mechanics, very good mags- j cau,G or a smaller sin; and whatever tratCH, (formoro than balfthe magistrates ; s,jajl fee, pron)pte(I t0 give, .by syrn in the island of Jamaica are colored men,), fa for (hftt object wij! bt? faUhfullyv efficient legislators, (I suppose not less , dpVotcfl l0 it. ond i trus that He who than a dozen in the Legislature of Jmnai- bag Jd that cup of cold water given to ca are men of. African descent, two of(ft isfplo in His name, shall in uo wise them "perfect Africans," to oo an e I its reward, will abundantly reward you pression common here; one of them asf fc f.y0 tQ 0au-e, 'and to .1.1 ..!.!. J I! 11. t,n. n-' 1. . .. ... occupied tne position ue una u fourteen years, tho other, ten years and occupied tbem respectably and cfBeieut - v Tfiov ninkft. also. ffOOU lllCtilCal practitiopcrs. One of the cleverest men T 1.. n. tdnrwl nf An 111 lilrtll. and a1 cinnd first in one braucii or ' man practice was a coiorcd man. They make '( a rchiin or colored man teacher in tho Weat Indies, I snooi'i decidedly give tho preference to. the col- as a accommodate bim-seir to pis ppsiuou, xu nearly all esses where nieh come out from" Europe to take tbe position of schoolmas- ters, they turn out to be failures. Wo very excellent schoolmasters. Easton tfauk,- where they win una ono oi teachers are colored men, and I would tnojarffegl bjt aS30rtmeuts of OldtnV not exch&npo them for white.men. If 1. . - ;kin. Then what about the Indies? I can say a good word for them. They make ca pable housekeeper!, devoted, faithful wives, tender and jodieiou" mothers.- Sir, it is not an unco'tunion thins for white mon to marry coiorcd ladies. I have known numerous instances of this kind, system of instruction, that embraces all' classes, and gives them a first-rate trail ing not only for the life that now is, but for that which is to come. We have5 hardly succeeded yet iu really convinc ing those who hold the reins of authority in the West Indies, that it is not danger ous to educate the lower classes; and. con sequently, we have not, iu those islands,' anything like a general system of educa"" ;ion for our children, and we" are obliged to do by private effort what ought. to' be done by the government, and what fra'sr been done by the government of this coun try. Now, sir, in the island of BarhadoesV the government have been brought to just this point: they will help the schools, that is they will pay half the salary of the master', when ihe-y are established,' but they will not otablish any, or help Atinst thif ID building school-hou-es. difficulty we have to labor. 1 have sev- en hundred children under instruction ir my schools. I waut to increase this num ber to a thousand, aud I am building five school-houses, in order to give them1 that instruction which will fit them to become useful members of tho communi ty, discharge the duties which they owe to society, and' make their way to a" bet ter life. Sir, I have received from my colored people. towards this object, 500, although they are giviug me besides for the buil iing and repairs of churches, 52500; I have raised S500 more by pub lic lecture I have gone about begging among the proprietors, and have raised $000 in that way; I intend to go about begging and lecturing ngain, and expect to raise 500 more. But, sir, when I have done all I can, I shall itill he short $2000; and one object I had tn coming to tho Uuited States was to go among the' churches of this country, and ask them to give me help to the extant of 81 000. I have had an opportunity to appeal to some congregatons, and I have obtain ed help to some extent, and I want to lay this matter before the friends here, and beg them to give me a little help. I am working with you in the greaLanfi-ala've-ry cause. I aSn trying to give the color ed people of Bar.bn4oe? the means of de velopment, such "development .as shall put to silence and sharric tho falsehood that emancipation has not proveda bless ing but a curse to thorn; and if you-will . in . ... ranfoP t -iinn ho. hfiartilv cvcry cao 6f benevolcnre, a- bubared- j fojj n Jne presenl jjfCt ana jn the .world ; lQ com0 witb lit" evcrjasting. jjQsfGentlemcu 'n want of garments, j . ,) ;:it .1 ,ll Jxrr Aiilinn nn uiaue iu uiuui, ... uu . .v B R. C. Pyle, at his Store, opposite the bToV oiiks, xo., ivu. m . ptuFij, j and satiafactorily attended .to. Hblfead itt.mndo Clothing is enual to anv cusfe5! . , . f K(ol, tt;- ' . - " v. ; tariff of pnoci are lower titan thuf other Tailor iu Eastan. Jairer UasseniOro?, juooskius, viwis, xmsuu,
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