Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-21

tellect does not grow out Of their complex
ion. It is fashionable nowadays, whenever
n colored person exhibits talent, to trace the
cause Of it to Saxon blood: and have been
told that ! am mired -
desire here TO mention n fact which has
come under my own observation.--I was n
member of the coored School Bonrd from
the time il was organized in 1910 to March
18th, 1853, when by net of the Legislature
it wns dissolved. And during this period
was diligently engaged to see il there was
any difference in the progress of youths,
arising out OF color. Now in the schools
referred to, were oil complexions-Black,
White, Mulutto, Sambo, Muugroo, Quad
room and Nestle. And | declare tho, | was
never able TO make out single leading fact
] enqnii ed Of the teachers, n majority of
whom were white, and they informed me
that there was no difference; that some
among their hest scholars were Black, some
White, and some Of other compilations.
must mention one girl who has always
struck me with peculiar force. She is
about two md ten-blnck skin, short huir,
nose inclined to be flat, ,heel not long,nor does
her head fall backwards as lady's bonnet
when gracefully hanging upon her shoulders;
but will say in n word this much TINT she
has strongly developed many of the leading
traits of African character, aud yet this child
is the best reader, speller and thinker in her
class. Now these truths are all clear as
MONDAY, and yet we cannot coax the press
to see them. have never seen in the CO.
ored school examination member of the
editorial corps. They are either afraid of the
light, or seeing It, dare not send'iI forth greet
ing to nn infde world.
Jefferson, ia his Notes on VIrginin, says :;
"nevor could find that black had uttered
thought above the level OF plain nnrrn-
ton" What n strange thought to come from
the author of the immortal Declaration
Doubtless he had not heard Frederick
Douglass, G.. l.. Remond, Garnett, Lnngston,
Day, Clark, and last, though not least, of all
that blnck-iet Hack tower of elo1ucnce,
Samuel X. Ward, or his dreams would have
passed away as chnff is driven before the
wind. If they can be made mentally equal,
they can be made politically equal, and there
is 10 wny 10y which TO escape the conclusion.
Let me now sum up this argument to
wit CoIored persons easily learn English
branches, and therefore colored persons, like
white, are capable of the highest degree Of
civilization. They are physically equal that
is, in individual strength and proportion.
A Captain on Western Stenmer threaten
ed to whip black. The black, true to the
nslict Of his nature, said, Sir, you can do
that with impunity, ns you have the power
and ! have no means Of redress" "Yes
you have" replied the Captain, "for will
not toke any advantage of you."
"Enough wns the lnconic re-
ply, and they met as two bulls. The struggle
for n while was fierce and raGid. First one
up, and then the other down. But tho s,rug-
gle waxed warm, for the Captain exclaimed
in n vehement manner, "tnke this niger off
me-tnke him of, gentlemen"
1t is reported Of old Hickory, that he own
ed slave of real Greek metal, whom he at
tempted to flog, but got the worst of the
bargain. He declared he would sell him into
the far South Time rolled on, and rolled
on, and yet the big hearted black was in the
possession of his master.
"Why do you not sell that turbulent Ne
gro," enquired friend, speaking to Andrew
Jackson. "Ah," said the General, al will
not sell him, for he deserves a better fate."-
But noted American Naturalist, Peter A.
Brown, will hnve il that the supposed man
who flogged Jackson was sheep.
How does he prove il? Hear him: "IIair
is in shape, either cylindrical or oval, but
wool is excentrically elliphcal or fiat. Hail
will not felt but wool will and tho covering
Of the Negroes head will felt-has been felt
ed"-Of course, good coats, vests and pan.
taoons have been made out of tho covering
of the Negroes head and therefore he is .
sheep.
Wonder if this long-cared gentleman, Mr.
Brown, had read,
"a little learning is dangerous thing.
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sobers it again."
They are morally equal-not simply by
nature, but in practc.
Ethical writers are inclined to the opinion,
that man must be educated before he can
understand moral rules. Well, this may be
true so far as the rule is concerned, but
protest that it does not require Scion to
practice virtue. The biggest rascal in all
"Mr, Gaines, though justly claiming to be an