New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-27


Tie latter would starve ont Of the country entire
" At this moment can more easily get my sOa in
IS. to lsWyers Office to study law. than can into
backsnliih's shop 70 blow the bellows and to WELD
the sedge hammer Denied the means of learning
useful trades. pressed into the nsrrowest linn
It's to obtain livelihood. In times past We have been
the hewers Of wood and the drawers of water for
American society and We once enjoyed monopoly
in meual employments but This is so no longer-even
these employments are rapidly passing out Of our
hands. The fact is every day begins with the lesson
and ends with the lesson that cOlOred must learn
-trades-must find new employments, new moies Of
usefulness to sociey-or that they must decay under
the pressing wants which their condition is rapidly
bringing them
The same views are pressed in a report by Professor
Reason, from the Committee on the Manual Labor
Schools. which is very able and schoarlike pro-
duction The only fault we have 10 find with it is that
it argues rather too much the intellectual aud too little
the purely economical benefits of such institution
venal fault perhaps in a scholar like Mr. Reason.
The wants Of the blacks demand that ii should be as
much OF a workshop possible. and only so far an
academy as COMFORTS with the main design.
The letter of Douglass to Mrs Stowe, urging the u-
request for bis advice in regard to the best method in
which she could permanently contribute TO the improve
ment the free blacks Ii understood that the money
collected by her h Europe bad this destination but this
Of course, will 60 but small way Its establishment
snd its depend upon the enterprise and good
management Of the blacks themselves To US il seems
Of the first Importance that should be made Prefa
Ue and eeemosynary institution In order that
the greatest possible number of young men should be
be taught TO AXE shoes cabinetware &c it is
sary that they should make enough Of those articles 10
repay the expenses Of their tuition and afford surplus
TO swell the means of giving similar utonto their sue
cessors 1t must be able to establish branches. andex
tend its operation. Moreover. the same unworthy
prejudice which excludes colored men from learn
ING trades will for time manifest itself in efforts to
curtai the employment of those who shall acquire
them and to limit the sales of their products. For
these reasons viii probably be. if not necessary, at
all events expedent that the graduates of the Indus
trial College should continue work in combination
after their course of instruction has ended IL every
way desirable too that the black should to be
seller of immediate personal services, and become the
seller of national products The first are always
tneed with sable and are depressed in the market by
prejudice when CANNOT ldsten uPon par vi OVols
simply because there need be nothing to Indicate the
color Of their maker These will sell just as well
even in New-Orleans provided there is no obnoxious la
bel the box in which they packed as if they came
from Lynn.
To manage industrial operations so most efectual
" TO avoid the disadvantages which affect men Of color
without reference to the economical advantage common
to them with the whites it is requisite they should be
done in way involving the of considerable capital
1t is plainly better that the Industrial College should
accumulate that capital than that separate agencies
should be devised for the purpose To our apprehen
sion the problem is to put many as possible, and IN
as short time possible, in condition to earn some
thing ore than subsistence. That once done they
will provide for their own education and, in an ncreas
ing degree for that of their children
After all this ii is superuous for us to invoke the
hearty sympathy of all toward the first combined effort
of the free blacks 10 ameliorae their own condition by
becoming in higher degree than before productive ct
zens They are among US and ,eW say-cOunt that set
tied Let him that is determined to hate them do 3d.
but he must either hate and pay may enjoy the lux
ury of hating without pay, according to their poverty
or prosperity.