The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-16
Office Of the Indian aid Association, No. 80
BroGdioay, Neao York, May "a, 1859.
EMANCIPATION IN THE DANISH WEST
INDIES.

A@'''"' " " A%ceooI from one " HcU' A"0V"O'C
Parker's Fellop- Travellers, dated,
SANTA CRUZ, W. l., Aprl 3, 1859.
After giving full and highly encouraging
account of Mr.. Parker's health, speaking partic-
ularly of his increased strength and ability to
bear fatigue, with other favorable symptoms
the writer thus proceeds i
I" often think how delighted you would be
with the results of emancipation as we see them
all around US, and have abundant opportunity
to examine them; not, as with us, some indi-
viduals, or a family, set free, and earning a
! hard subsistence, under painful circumstances
| In an uncongenlal climate; but twenty thou
sand people raised at once from the condition
of cattle to that of responsible beings-protect-
ed land assisted, if need bel by the Govern
ment; and all this in the tropical climate suited
| to their nature, and in the very houses where
| they once lived the miserable life of slave.
| The pay sounds very low which the Danish
Government has fixed as the settled remunera
ton for their voluntary work; but so few are
| their artificial wants, and so easily and cheapy
are all their necessaries obtained in this perpet
ual summer, that the thrifty and Industrious
| already succeed in laying up enough to put
themselves forward in the world, build COM
Portable little home in town, and bring up their
children to trades. They do not, like persons of
some nations, lie fat down upon you, if you
lend them helping hand. On the contrary,
they have great pride in being independent Of
course, it is not all cOuie,u' de rose. The prof
liable vice, for the masters gain, which has
always been encouraged among them, carries
its poison among them yet, though they are
gradually acquiring pride of matrmony We
are panied with hearing of the whipping of
children; but what have they known Of better
means of correction When see a coal-black
woman sitting in the market, neatly dressed,
behind her tray of bread which she has made,
or Of bananas her husband and children have
raised, or of fowls which she has reared, and of
which she is to receive the price for her familys
support, then my heart leaps up with gratitude
to the Father of black and white who has given
such great deliverance to his people in this
house of bondage.
There Is noble young man here, an Epis-
copal minister, who is laboring most wisely,
unweariedly, and much at his own expense, for
the moral and intellectual elevation of the col
ored people. Born in Tortoa, educated in
eplscopacy, losing his patrimony by the eman-
clpation, he has risen above all this, and almost
unaided by the whites, who look coldly upon
his labors and his projects, he devotes his ener-
gles and talents to this one cause-institutes
schools and takes the charge of them, estab.
fishes humane and improving societies among
the colored people, and is a constant benefactor
! to them. The tears would have been in your
eyes this morning to see his Sunday morning
school for adults, many of whom had walked
| FIVE miles under this scOrching sun to attend.
! He has established day school for the children
of his parish, and was never SO pleased with
any school / have ever visited. He thinks the
blacks capable of receiving as much instruction
as the whites, judging from the two years of
trial in this school. The progress has been
surprising, indeed. And yet, for teachers he
has only two men-one crippled of hand by
rheumatism, the other blind from infancy. The
! Government will not aid him, he not being Lu.
theran, and his own purse has to supply most
of the expenses"
The Washington States is responsible for the
following!
GAS an incident of his travels in Europe,
friend related to US, some time ago, that as he
was once going up from Southampton to Lon
don, person at the Winchester station, ele-
gantly apparelled in black, with an exquisitely
beautiful bouquet in his hand entered the first
class car in which he was sitting, and took an
| adjoining chair. A casual conversation COM
menced between them, which lasted until they
arrived at a junction station, when the person
arose, made a low bow, and remarked, that as
he had professional engagement in distant
| shire, he was compelled to descend at that
point, AS soon as he got out a passenger
asked our friend if he knew the person with
| whom he had been oonversng He replied
that he did not. $50 | supposed" said he,
and therefore l took the liberty of inuuiring.
That, sir, is Calcraf, the present Jack Ketch
of England He hung a man at Winchester
this morning, and is on his way to hang anoth-
| er tomorrow at -
| A Rich INCIBENT.-A short time since. a
! young fellow went to see minister's daughter,
whose fathers house was near a mill-dam.
| 1t being the spring of the year, the waters
made considerable OF a roar as they tumbled
over the dam. The modest young gentleman
tapped lightly at the door at first, and received
no answer. He tapped again-still no answer.
Again and again he repeated his knock, but
still unheard. Mastering up courage, he pro-
coed to infict some severe thumps on the door,
which brought the said old gentleman out
81 suppose" said the youngster, who had by
this time become slightly savage from being
compelled TO wait so long, ~ suppose you could
not hear me knocking for the dam roaring"
"The dam roaring What do you mean, sir :?
| How dare you speak in this way?" said the
divine, somewhat angry at hearing the young
man swear in his presence.
81 mean to say, sir that Tsuppose you could
not hear my knocking OH account of the dam
roaring"
dam roaring again You scoundrel Have
you the impudence to insult me with repeti-
ton of those words? Begone, sir!"
"My dear sir" quoth the now bewildered
| youth, Il" / intended to say that / presumed
| could not be heard on account of the dam roar
ing" laying particular emphasis on the last two
words.
| "Insult on INSULT" shouted the infatuated
man, and he rushed at the poor fellow with the
evident intention of ejecting him, but was re-
strained by the voice of his daughter, exclaim.
ing:
Papa, suppose the young man intended to
say that he could not be heard on account of
the roaring of the dam"
"Oh-l beg your pardon, sir beg your par
don; walk in, walk in, really; ah, WE'LL de-
clare The dam roaring Capital Come in.
That is really rich"
1t is needless to add that the youngster went
in, and, in the excellent society of the young
lady, soon forgot the dam roaring"
Beecher on Coffee
Henry Ward Beecher has " realizing
sense " of what good coffee is. He writes
thus:
/" Breakfast is ready. A most useful
and salutary custom is that of breakfast.
One may work with the hand without
breakfast, but not with the head-the ma
chine must be wound up. The blue must
be taken out Of your spirits, and the gray