New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-24

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Showing difference of Is, about II, in favor of
the white boys.
The whole number of schools among the free
black population of the North, is 66. There are
large number of colored youth attending white
schools some of them are pursuing the higher
branches of education, at Oberlin, Western Iheo-
logical Seminary, Lafayette College, Dartmouth
Collepe, and Oneida Institute. There are IN the
Free States l6 colored Literary Societies, with
Libraries varying from 100 to l,4OO volumes; and
there are | semi-monthly and weekly papers
edited by coored rnen and devoted to the ad-
vancement Of the people of color. There are also
ll9 Benevolent Societies. All these schools, &c,
have been established within the last 4O years.
Have the free black population made no improve
ment since the emancipation? Ii 1t be true,
that we have not yet produced any literature
worthy the name it is because we are waiting Tor
the Anglo. Americans to lead the way. The
next subject is
RELIGIOUS STATISTICS.
African Churches in the Slave States, "a
African Churches in the Free States. s..........ll4
United States Gazetteer: History Of the At
rican Methodist Episcopal Church, by the Reu.
Christopher Rush, Nep. York, l843.) Including
bond and free, the whole colored population Of
the Slave States, is 2,702,920; the coIored popu-
lation of the Free States is l70,7lS. The Afrl-
can Churches in the Slave States are, nearly all
of them, the property of the free colored popua-
ton of those States but, granting them all to
the slaves, there are in the Slave States one
Church to ll2, $50 slaves, in the Free States one
church to 1850 free blacks. Of the colored
Churches in the free States 103 have been erected
within 43 years. 1t is true that these Churches
have not quite so much Of the "temple made
with hands, as may be seen in some Broadway
edifces, vet they are endowed, in one respect at
least, with a more Catholic spirit-they are no
rcspecters of persons
1t may be thought that / underrate the re-
ligious advantages of the slaves, because the
Methodist and some other Churches reckon many
thousands slaves in their communion. But these
Churches grant nothing but oral instruction to
the slaves, whom they do not teach to read the
Bible. And may not be excused from calling
that Christian fellowship, which expressly denies
the common rights Of men to those whom they
have enrolled as brethren Are those Churches
wherein Bishops, Priests and Deacons' NllillStels'
and Preachers, who
Perfusi SAME vtas atrcque veneno,
their hands bound and their utterance choked
whilst in their mnstrations before the Altar not
of Cod but of slavery, they the changes upon
"Seruants obeu your maSterS?" Such are the
Churches in the Slave States, with one exception
let it be written upon every Protestant brow, fol
that one is the Roman Catholic Church-hel
doors, and her consultations are open alike to black
and white bond and free! She alone does not make
in the church militant distinctions, which il
were blasphemy to predicate of the Church tr
umphant.
In view of the schools, churches and bcnevo
lent institutions organized by her free black pop
ulation, under the genial smile Of Emancipation
may not the North, affectionately, earnestly anc
reasonably call upon the South to follow the ex
ample? This question has additional force wher
we find that blessing has followed those Of ths
free black population. New ork, led on BY
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setts yielding to the common sense agrument o
Paul Cufee and Rhode-Island urged by blood
less revolution have prc-eminently encouraged
and fostered their free black population ant
these are noble States and prosperous, their son:
need be proud of them in either hemisphere o.
anv cline. Pennsylvania, in 1888 cruelty dis
franchised her free colored people, and in 1913
she became bankrupt Men who look deepe
than the surface of things will percsive in tht
former act, moral obliqulty, to which the latte
was necessary sequence.
now, respectfully, submit the case. Let th'
public Judge whether it be made out. If, t
have right over his own person, be better thar
to be deprived Of that right,-if to possess hi
own wife, be better than to hold her at another
will-if to enjoy common school privileges, b.
better than the doom of brutal ignorance-n t
sit under his own Gospel vine be better than Il
listen to alien adlurations to passive obedience
if to live long in the land, be better than TO b.
cut off in lile's early prime-then the free black
Of the North are not worse off than the slaves O
the South. The evidence Is altogether in tavo
of Emancipation.
Much has been said about the free black popu
lation of the North filing the Alms-houses. Som
enquiry enables me to state that most of them II
be found In these Aims houses, are those wht
have escaped, manned, halt or blind from th
slavery of the South, or remain from the SLAYER,
OF our now free States. In 1886 the free coorel
people of Philadelphia paid into the poor fund o
that city $500 more than was required to sup
port colored paupers living at the public expense
In the city OF New-York, the colored population
is to the white as to lSl of 3,0S9 persons in tn
Aims House Department Saturday Januar,
90, 1914, there were 1873 colored persons, abou