The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-14
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From the y. 7. iHd'PmdsHt.
A Brilliant Success.
by HARRIET D. STOWE.

Put On tffAtJ ~ LDl AQE IIltg Ut least Iut
reputation,
Time was when to hold ones fellow
beings in bondage was tolerated BY the
world as a thing indefepSlble op nora!
grounds, into which mep were eptralned
by various lower powerful motives, whose
free the lax morality ef the world adj
mtted as a sufficient Justification.
Bat in our day the spirit Of Christian
ity, ursed on By the kindiing breath of
an Uu~eeS bat ever living Power, is con
stau.,y forclag the reluctant masses of So
ciety to the logical results of its precepts
and principles So the Richmond En-
auirer SAYS This subject Of slavery must
GONE at last to the great test question,
as it right or is it acrong" The South
esh Eh4reh has been pushed, by the force
OF conscience and the spirit ct the age,
buck on the ground of an attempted con-
scientious defence of what all her books
of discipline in the olden time condemned
as the sum of yillanies and iniquity,
The great argument on which they re-
ly is that the African race are naturally
inferior, incapable of the education and
progress of the white races, and only ca
pable of subsisting in a seryile aud de-
pendent position.
Hence it is that every colored person
who achieves anything noticeable in tho
intellectual world, by that very deed as
saults the main fort Tki0b defends the
castle of slavery.
\ colored artist like Ira Aldridge,
whose ac,ing has become famous in all the
courts Of Europc--a colorcd orator Ike
FREDERICK Douglass-nay, every gentle
many, VEL l-educated colorrd man, in his
sphere, is az argument in the face of pro-
slavery politiciags and religlonists greater
than any or I'll Abolitionists unsupported
by this a7e able to produce.
No race SO abused, maltreated and en-
shaved, could have developed faster than
the African during the last fifty years.
Although the world has been 10 arms
against them, and all that they have un-
dertaken or achieved has been under
crushing odds. yet there is now no man
ner of doubt that the race is rising, and
destined to be living power and have a
living history yet in the world.
Regent papers bring US intelligence of
p most oigpal triumph which has been
acbieVad IN THIS regard, on the most cou-
spicuous theatre of modern Europe.
Three young Haytiens have just car
ried ef the three first prizes IN Greek,
Latin and Rhetoric, in the old university
of the Sorbonne in Paris. We have be-
fore us the congratulatory address of VI.
Aud3ip (himseif Haytien) delivered in
banquet bold in honor Of his compatri-
OTIS, and bearing the motto, "Marche 8
non pays!" and we augur well, not only
from the event itself, but from the s6ri-
Gus and manly tone in which it has been
recognized. Far from fulsome a4Qiations
and soJhomorical fluctuations, We fad
the grave and earnest tone of men deteF
n4ined on the highest things
Addressing the victors, he says:
iOue of you, Faubert, has held honor
able rank in this great competition in
Paris, and has come out of the field the
first among oH-the frst-mark that
the first in Paris, where intelligence is
no rare thing, and where intense study is
not, as I understand, considered marvel
Delva has horne away the first prize in
Greek composition; and Dupuy, your
you 1ges: comrade, has gained tho highest
honor in the Latin.
"Such a result is brilliant, my friends,
and each of you has right to rejoice in
it, and even to be proud of it; for in hav
Jug to strive with so many capable and
determiEed RIVALS, you could have borne
sway the palm Only by the force and per
severance Of your application. Note well
beg of you, | have not said by your tai
ent x / prize highly native intelli-
gepce-that precious gift; | appreciate
the jqst happiness Of those who enjoy 1t,
*** But [ cannot and you'd NOT ac-
cord praise to man simply ap the ground
of natural talent, because it is a gift which
we bring with us into the world-an adj
vantage belonging to our nature indie
pendent of any effort of our own, and Of
which consequently we cannot pride our
selves. But application .-laDor !-ah,
let us pride ourselves more on labor
There only is true merit, for there alone
does the man reFe4l himself acting, be-
come a living force. aud make felt the
power of his will--tke will in which is
found the true title of manhood.
CWork on then, my young country
men-~work, work, without trusting to
your natural geniqs-without stopping to
consider the measure of your abilities
Re very sure that ardent and Well-dlrect-
ed tabor can never cease to be fruitful,
Ppd viii always end in triumph.
Go on, therefore, without cessation, with