New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-17
The Recent Lecture on Cay enne.
To a. Editor Of TAsN Y Tri5sas;


SIR: In your paper of Tuesday morning |
find bat brief notice OF the Lecture delivered At the
Broadway Tabernacle on Monday evening by Mr.. g.
Fsbens, late United States Consul Cayenne brief
paragraph in the Journal Of Commerce informs is read
ers that the lecture was delivered to small but ap
preciatye audience, and tina, the lecturer referred
particularly to the melancholy sAgpaton OF labor and
neglect of agriculture and manufactures consequent
upon the emancipation of slaves in French Guiana
the declaration Of the Republic, in las" Az one of
The small but nppreciatve audience that heard the
lecture feel disposed In few additional paragraphs,
10 rescue from oblivion further particulars Of
this lecture. When Patriotic TX ConsUls who come
forward give facts action on such Anmpor-
tant subject gather only "sua but ApprecistIye
diences and when the editorial guardians OF the Cas
tie Garden, Union are 50 niggsrdy and dlscrimnatVe
IN their echoes OF the highly aPpreciaHve wisdom that
reaches select care the great public are IN danger OF
losing the knowledge that shOuld be more widely diff
fused
TIE lecturer did nce confne himself % Csyenne"
not even % French Guiana He stepped Ovs into 81
DOMINGO and adyenrured upon the universal hk.0ry Of
the African race. IA specimens VI hs historical snow
ledge End verify, may mention hs alns-on 70 " the
horrCrs OF 81 Donlln 20, in Connection calculated %
convey the impression that those horrors were the
consequence, o! enhancement but Of restored free
DOM Tke "AppreclStIye aadience were not 50 far-
versus action in tbs matter They not told that
the sya OF the bloody drama was before emanci
paron was ether bestowed or contemplated, and tina;
The sec0sd consequent upon the perd0us attempt
ofNspoleOc rssuslsve the people after Their legal
ernsncipa A. and after period Of prosperity and free
dom OF the heriO-m Of Gen ToussaInt LOuverrure
he said nothing ose, CT a. IN exception - MS con.
ptuous eara;ure Of he eoored race he informed
hs @ayprecistve sndenoe' thst the race IN al sges
bad uniformly been proved incapable Of civilization and
ssfdreeton- Here be ignored snsent Etaiops Taeoes,
Egypt, Lyos, and Carthage a. be also did the time
koDored names Of Euclid, the father Of mstelatcs,
and Of CypriAn Cyril and g. Augustine bishops Of The
tLcienf churches GO say nothing Of Aexancer Durns
and others Of modern times when be broadly denied
TIA, any philosopher poet man OF letters had ever
vet appeared Asnong them The learDed ExConsnI
had probably read the writings OF HeZodoce ne
father OF history who res,ded IN Egypt and Esseied u
EopiA u which he testfes thar the two nAtons were
Of che race with JET blsck coupexors nzi noses ana
frizzled hair yet evidently regarding them - superior
people and Attes;ing that the Greek. and Romans re
eeired letters from them even N NJ Cay sendas tnei
sons 10 Be edsc.ted among them TIE eoq1sat speech
Of Alexander H. Everett before he Colonz kOn >oee
" r-cpg these scts several years ago and TIE r-en,
and similar speech Of Edward Eyereu oeiOrr tie same
soei,ty might have struck with souae surprise por
theun followed Mr. Ex-Coanulto-C Cayenne fsoeas he
Ne..r, Everett VII undoubtedly stand CORRECTED ~
h .,a srcisn, rsra.are and church history, n the
hand. Of some Of patriotic PUBLISHING houses VII DC
expurgstsd accordingly. The Union must De pre-
served. -. 1911.