Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28
From the Worcester County Gazette.
TOuSSlnt L'0Verture.

The Rev. Mr.. Weiss, of WATERFOWL, de-
liyered a lecture last Thursday evening week,
before the Worcester Lyceum, on the life and
character Of Toussa'nt L'Overture. We have
seldom listened to a lecture, on a similar oc-
CASTOR, with more pleasure or profit. Our
pleasure was a mixed emotion, arising from a
contemplation Of the intrinsic worth of the
character, from the ability and fidelity with
which it was treated. and from Joy that such
facts were brought before such an audience.
There are those among us who believe, or
pretend TO believe, that the African is of an
inferior order of beings. How any one, with
the life Of this African hero before him.
with a knowledge of the fact that the arts
and sciences first hourished in Africa,-that
among the early Christian fathers, some of
the most distinguished, both for learning and
piety, were fuIl-bIooded Africans, can doubt
their natural, mental, and moral equality with
the "pale faces, it is difficult for us TO con-
%ceive."
We were glad, we say, to see present
those who are wont to curl the lip in scorn
whenever mention is made Of the claims of
the black man. The following anecdote hap
PLY illustrates the absurdity of those who de-
ny the equality of the African.
In one of the river tow MS, in Franklin
county, a female was employed in teaching a
district school, who had not been infected
with colorphobia: nor had she learnt to con-
struct a scale or privileges from the color of
the skin, any more than from that of the hair,
but verify believed that of one blood God had
made all nations. Among her pupils was a
small lad, guilty of a skin not colored like
the rest. He was the son Of a widow, and
she a very industrious, intelligent and worthy
woman. In proof of it she spared no pains
in giving her son a good education, and pri-
ded herself in his punctuality, in his uniform
n~eatness and tidiness Of dress, and in his cor
rectness of department. His schoolmates,
not having been "schooled " long enough to
scent out his inieriority, treated him as one of
their own species, and admitted him, without
reserve, to their sports. The teacher, too,
mads no distinction; but let him sit and
stand with the other children, just as though
he were a human being, and had no infect
ious or contagious disease about him.
The clergyman Of the place, a protested
follower of Him who said, "the poor have
the Gospel preached unto them" and conde-
seconded TO wash the feet of his own disci-
ples,-this successor to the lowly fisherman
of Gallilee, made public proclamation that
his child should not sit upon the same seat
with a " nigger." To make good his words
he Ell. ployed a carpenter to prepare a seat for
his child, which he sent to the school with
directions to the teacher to reserve it for his
daughter.
At the close of the term the colored woman
was employed to clean the schoolhouse =
which, after having done, she took the new
seat and carried it 10 the door OF his reverence,
saying to him, that she had brought home his
child's seat. but why do you bring it
here Z" said he, " my child has no need of
it except in school," DO you not expect