Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-16

ana ardor is necessary in literary toll -application
without warmth may enlighten, Int beat is as
necessary to mature The hurvests Of the soul as
those OF nature. BE careful that your present sue
cess prove not a sterile one. You have taken one
good step, it is true, but what n way vet remains
to be Travelled, il you would deserve well Of man,
kind and OF your country. You have done no
great things as yct-pardon a friendly rrankness.
YOU have done as yet very little, Man has so much
to learn, aud you, my friends, are only n, the be,
ginning. Suffer not yourselves to he carried away
by Il too natural sclf,congratulatio sleep not on
this bed of laurels-these crowns which have en-,
circled your sable forelloads will soon be faded
If you take not the precaution to renew them"
With such noble and hearty determination, and
such examples, we may hope for much ia the fu'
tnre of llayti.
When shall prizes Of honor be awarded in our
colleges to colored Americans?
Is there not something in the Craternal spirit OF
France, its absolute and philosophic superiority to
the prejudice of races, which may account for this
result in Paris? The Africans, az a race, are ex,
ceedingly approbative. They are sensitive to kind
ness OF unkindress. They need q warm, kindly
atmosphere to grow in, as tropical plants. The
pitiless frosts and Ieltiug storms of scorn, ridicule,
contempt and obloquy which have fallen upon them
could not have found a race moro sensitive, more
easily beaten back and wiihered. But as Christi.
anity, rs a public sentiment, MS the light reflected
from all other civilized nations, help us to correct
this peculiar Un1 local prejudice. we shall see more
and more development of talent in this race. The
day will, we trust, come when it will be no longer
recorded rs a prodigy that an African has excolled
in anything.
conceded, because Of the great superiority of the
African race in our country to their barbarous an.
%cestors in Africa, that the credit is due to the
Southern States Of having at least civilized and
Cbristianized q race.
1t is far safer to say that the natural aptitude of
the race for civilization and improvement has been
such that they have developed in spite of every eff
fort on the part of their masters to prevent it.
Forbidden all learning the very initial steps to
the temple of knowledge guarded from them by
pains and penalties-the family state studiously
corrupted and dcflcd, by the refusal of permanen,
and legal ~marriages-all rights of restraint or ed
ucation taken from parents-in sE ort, a systematic
warfare directed against every element Of manly
progress which God has placed in the soul-they
yet have risen, as the Hebrews multiplied in spite
of the cruel prosecutions of the Egyptians. The
slave.owners have educated and civilized them lust
as the Egyptians increased the population of the
Hebrews, and not otherwise. Other races so treat
ed have been broken down and disappeared. Wit.
ness the native tribes of America. But this Afri.
can race, with its grand, warm, tropical vividness,
with it's noble breadth of physical vigor and en-.
joyments, is destined, evidently, to q future. This
gigantic aloe, which has stood silent and neglected
in the worlds garden, will yet come to flower and
put new vigor in the worlds life and history
The young communities OF Hayti and Liberia will
90 on and from Canada and from the Southern
States will rise men to feel an electric thrill of
pride and sympathy-and in that day let Cypress
ors tremble. They may have proofs Of the capaci-
ty of the race far other than they desire.
Andover, September p.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in The Independent.