The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-06-09
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Annual Rant Of Yankee Negroes
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4 The negro worshipers of all Yankeedom
are now holding the anniversary of their
society. The hail. as usual on such occa-
sions, is crowded each day with motley
mass of all kinds of people, black and
white, and all kinds of sexes, masculine,
feminine and neu,er, and all kinds of reli-
gions, save that of Christ and the Bible.
The speeches made on the first day, if pos
sibie, we're more pestilent in Atheism,
moral treason, abuse of the Deity, our
Government and oil it's wise institutions,
and all who ever stood at its head, from
Washington down to the present exalted
Chief Magistrate, than had distinguished
any preceding similar occasion. To give
the reader O mere skeleton idea of how
these pes:ilent ranters go on, we have
condensed the following from the speeches
of the second day. G. L. Remond had
the stand. He is darkey of natural and
untarnished ebony, and evidently favor
ite ''brick" among his white brethren:
Washington, he said, was one of the first
and owners in this country, and
he thexefoye hated him and all his race. This
remask called forth quite storm of misses,
for vhioh Remond returned his thanks, con-
sideRing them, he said, a compliment to col
ored speaker. Being i'll a combative mood,
Remond next attacked his friends for their
lukewarmness in the anti-slavery cause. He
wanted every good friend OF the slave to be
considered as black himself, with hair as
curly and nose pug. The Inconsistency OF
Aboltionists was berated most soundly, and he
concluded with the prayerful hope that white
Americans and their institutions may be dash
ed in pieces, as he looked upon them as being
damnabls and devilish.
H. G Wright followed. His first
lunge was at the American Tract Society.
He said:
He did not wish to belong to any society
that recosn nizes the American God, who is an
infinite kidnapper, seller of babies by the
pound, and opposer of marriage among four
millions of our people. Applause] The
whole conception of God in this country is OF
a Deity who brands colored man as inferior
to the white race. He despised this God, and
cared not if he was called an atheist. The
Anglo-Saxon race he looked upon as the worst
of robbers, kidnappers, thieves, murderers
plT6toS, Uy pOCIltoS siuo dho IL SfSNoAASS
him to hear the eternal braggadocio about the
superiority Of the Anglo-Saxons over Africans
There is not nation on the face of the earth
that is an equal to America for stealing and
murder, and yet il is called an asylum for the
oppressed OF every nation. He hoped to live
long enough to see the Union dissolved ano
the formation Of Northern Confederacy. The
last sentiment was received with prolonged
applause. --..-..
In the afternoon, after little attention
to business, Parker Pillsbury, the mos
pestilent of all the pestilents, got of {
large quantity of poetical bile. just hea
him: --... .....z. ........ -.. &
| During the past year he had seen enough Il
satisfy any reasonable man that the clergy ar
Set of intolerabie hypocrites, and he believ
ed thatif the recent church revival had beel
as malignant in Boston as in New York tn
| Tract Society here would have initiated tn
New York Society The God worshiped at tn
business mems prayer-meetings he had n
1 doubt was the God of Mammon, and when tn
converts at those meetings reach the kingdom
of heaven their first inquiry will be for tn
Brokers Board, and they will dig up the goldel
pavements in the streets of the New Jerusa
lem, and with them build mills and factories
the noise Of which will drown the anthem
sung by the morning stars. Daniel Webster
he said, was always excessively religious when
ever he was about to serve the devil. Durin
the recent, IS we'll rs other revivals, he ha'
not heard OF single slave emancipated b
any of the converts. II aaslaye got convert
ed his value increased to such an extent tina
his pious master could not afford to part wit
him. So far as his observation had extended
he said that he had found that church reviv al
have always been followed by some new spe
cies of diabolism, either national or sectional
There! We cannot afford to regale on
readers. in one day. with larger dish fror
the sinking cauldron of these rantin
people. x Yes sE I 1aa .sa@ Eas.s &