Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-21
The Cincinnati High School.

children in Cincinnati. This school, which
has been in operation for a year or two, is
admirably conducted. Mr.. Gilmore has
spared no pains or expense to furnish facili-
ties for mental Improvement to colored youth
in the Queen City equal to those enjoyed
by white children; and his philanthropic ef-
forts have been crowned with the most cheer
ing %resdlts.
About a month ago a public exhibition of
this institution was given in the Baker Street
Church. The house was. allied to overflow
ing, and many were prevented by want Of
room from Witnessing the performances. So
highly delighted were the audience, that they
requested, by a unanimous vote, that the eX-
hibition should be repeated in a larger and
more commodious place. Mr.. Gilmore ac-
coded 10 the request. Application was made
to DR.. Williams, proprietor of the Melodeon,
and his large and fashionable Hall was en-
gagged for the pupils, for two evenings, and
public notice given accordingly. But the day
before the exhibition was TO commence, DR..
w liildlhs iuiOTlltu MI' b4lllOIc tldt tH0
Hall could not be had for that purpose!
Application was then made TO John Baker,
one Of the men having charge Of the College
Hall, for the use Of that Hall on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings Of the following week.
Mr.. Baker gave his assent and assured the
committee who waited upon him that they
might rely upon the Hall for the exhibition
at the time specified. Public notice was
again given, and Mr.. Gilmore was at con-
siderable expense in making suitable arrange
nlents for the occasion. After all this was
done, however, as in the case of the Melo-
doom, be was again informed that the exhibit
tion could not take place in the College Hall!
Such is the cowardly meanness-such the
malicious prejudice of those who control the
public Halls Of Cincinnati.
The Melodeon was thrown open a few
months ago foi the "Sable Harmonists,"
who, with painted faces, entered it to carica-
turs and ridicule the colored people; that
was all very proper in the Melodeon. But
when these colored children ask an oppor-
unity of showing 10 the people, who had
scorned their race as ignorant and degraded,
that when The same facilities are offered them
they are as capable of acquiring knowledge
and becoming intelligent and useful, as those
who SO cruelty delight to degrade and dis
grace them, the public halls are closed against
them-the Melodeon is TOO respectable a
building for that. The proprie,ors of the
College Hall pretended to fear that the meet
ing would be mobbed and injury done 10 the
Hall. Mr.. Gilmore, to silence this objec-
ton, offered to deposit five hundred dollars
in the hands of the trustees 10 indemnify
them against all damages. This proposal
was laid before them, and the Hall again
refused.
The trustees did rot fear a mob. Several
exhibitions Of the institution had before been
given in the city, and the best orde r prevail
ed. At the Baker Street Church there was
no, the slightest appearance of disturbance.
The refusal grew out Of the bitterness and
prejudice of people calling themselves re-
spectacle against the colored people. There
is a fearful responsibility resting upon those
who labor thus to crush every effort of this
| oppressed people to throw of the weight that
bears them down. There is untold wicked
ness in this hateful prejudice. The man who
lives in the world or leaves it, with the mark
Of Cain upon his brow--ihe stain Of blood up
on his hand and spirit, does less injury 10 his
brother man, and leaves a memory less de-
serving the excavations Of his race, than he
who cherishes this accursed hatred on &C.
count of color and condition, within his bo-
som-so we think.
The National Press says -
After these unexpected and cruel disap-
pointments, and almostd isheartened with the
stubbornness Of a prejudice which many had
thought On the decline, application was made
by the committee to r. w. Lee, for the use
of his new and commodious Hall on Court
Street. And here they were doomed to anoth-
er disappointment! Instead of granting them
the use Of the Hall at the usual charge, Mr..
Lee generously gave it, gladly and gratui-
tOuSiy!
me EXiloIllon look place, hundredS
crowded to see il, and witnessed for them
selves, and with an unconcealed qualification,
the astonishing evidences of improvement,
manifested by those who had been always
branded as incapable of cultivation.
Mr.. Gilmore, with 4 number of his pupils,
proposes making a tour through The State the
coming summer, as he did last year. He pro-
poses to leave Cincinnati in a few weeks, and
be absent about two months, holding meet
! ings in various sections Of the State.
We hope they will be welcomed wherever
they 60, and receive the encourog eInent which
they go richly merit.