The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-06-03
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
New York, May %, 1852

NEW YORK, May "a, 1892
To the Editor of the National Era.
One of my letters seems to have miscarried
Do you call this loss TO me, or to your read
ers! | am not the first letter-writer, it may be,
who is "sleepless himself to give his readers
Sleep
The Secretaries of the National Benevolent
and Religious Societies, whose anniversaries
have been recently held in this city, are now
busy as bees getting their Annual Reports
through the press. But difficulty arises this
year, owing to the new Postage Law, that re-
quires postage on pamphlets TO be paid IN adj
Uance. These Societies will not think it worth
while to expend sufficient sum to insure to
each member, or those who have been accus-
toned to receive the Annual Reports copy of
the reports, under the existing law. Some will
| be sent, doubtless while those who do not re-
ceive them must apply to the different officers
in this city, personally OF by letter, for them
What an absurd law! How contrary to the
genius of our Government and institutions
Why should this country be so far behind Eng
land in the matter of postagel Why should
a tax be laid on information useful to the
| people? Postage, both on letters and printed
matter, should be rs low as merely to cover the
cost of transportation and delivery What in
| uuu putIiotc man Will ut0y LnlS !.
Some 60 further and say that Government
might with proprety be at the sole expense of
sending printed matter broadcast to the
people. But il we can have inland and OCEAN
postage at rate merely to cover the expense
of the Post Office Department, not including
| tranked matter, we will be content at least for
the present If this is not secured we deserve
to be called Barbariaus.
| T I hal ho Lao 10 <,; IN,
| pany with GRACE GREENWOOD, HELEN IRVING,
and the author of UNCLE TOMS CABIN-three
| Of your valued correspondents. GRACE is bound
| to England, in the Atlantic, that sails to-mor-
| row. safe and pleasant voyage to her
Have you seen the account of the annual
meeting of the COLONIZATION SOCIETY, mt Bos-
ton this week 1t t-Herods Herodn What
scornful and hateful illusions to the free col
ored people of this country! What love for
the colored man--at a distance. Love IL is
pretence The COLONIZATION SCHEME Is A
LIBEL ON CHRISTIANITY. Our countrymen,
colored and white have an undoubted right 10
go to any part of the globe and there il no
crime in assisting poor and worthy persons in
going to other chimes but this is not coloniza-
ton as understood and practiced by very many
of the members of Colonization Societies in this
country They assert that the colorcd race is
naturally inferior to the white race-that the
people Of color cannot live here-that they en-.
danger the morals, the tranquility, and the
prosperity of the country Religious mel say
this and therefore unite with politicians in
beneyolentiy surrounding the free people of
color with such influences that as choice of
evils they consent" to 90 TO Africa Dat
upon such philanthropy
have been reading portion of WILLIAM
!. BowDIrcHs reply to DR.. Peabody, a. pro-
slavery writer in New England, in the Nation
al Anti-Siauery Standard Mr. B. says "We
are disunionists in this particular, and in this
only that though yielding ready and willing
support to oil the righteous requirements Of the
Constitution we refuse to support its upright
eous compacts, and these onlyo Is not this
the true doptrnel There are three men
OF the name Of BowDIrcH, if | mistake not, in
Boston, all men Of mark, and, ! believe, out
spoken abolitionists. They are sons of the late
eminent NATHANIEL BowDITcH have heard
an snecdote Of this renowned philosopher as-
tronomer, and navigator, that will give some
insight into the training his sons had A lady,
it is said, once told him, confdentially, that she
had remembered one of his sons in her will,
and that at her decease be would he worth
fifty thousand dollars. The father expressed
his surprise, astonshment, and grief that she
had spread such o snare for the youth, and laid
the foundation Of his ruin. He insisted that |
she should destroy the will, and persisted until
his wishes were accomplished. The sons, as
might he supposed, have, as did their illustrious
father before them laid the foundation Of their
own fortunes, in their enterprise, industry, and
scifreliance They have also dared TO be |
singular" and, in the midst Of the aristOcracy |
of Boston. have associated themselves with the |
hated seetp who loye liberty not for them |
/ selves only, bat for their fellow countrymen--
not for the whites only, but for the blacks also.
II JENNY GoLDscHMIDT, born Lind, takes her |
Fdeparture from these shores, in the steamer \
Atlantic, on the morrow. Sweet songstress
MAY your passage home, and your voyage |
through liia 30 prosperous and happy. When
| consider her early professionalism associa- |
tions--the temptations that have beset her
her success---her prosperity--the Hattery, ap-
plsuse, and almost idolatrous regard, Of 10
many thousands and tens Of thousands, where |
eyer she has sejourned-and her propriety Of
conduct, her simplicity, her iFreproachabie
morals, her bcneyolence her religious faith
ara filled With surprise and admiration have
evidence before me, showing her sympathy |
with the down-trodden and oppressed Of this
land, bond and nominally free. She has seen
American Slavery in its various aspects; she
has Witnessed tho absurdity and cruelty Of
CASTE; she has read "pncIe Toms Cable
and she has cxprp~sd, in becoming terms, her
sorrow AT the sufIsringS Of her black trethren,
to use her own words Is u not Notifying to