The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-11-26

experimentation much regret, would
they spare usl The colored people re-
quire now, more than at any other time,
wise counsel. They want men in whom
they can place confidence. Where can
we look and find man in whom the peo-
pie repose the utmost confidence. Here,
in this city, those men who have been lead
ing the people for the last fifteen or twenty
years have lost all influence | will guar
antee to say that the host who have ham
died the contributions of the people cannot
successfully advance any scheme that in
wolves the payment, on the part of the
people, of single dollar. These so-called
leaders have been advocating impracticable
schemes, making great promises, collecting
large sums of money that, in many in
stances have not been accounted for. Thus
their efforts have brought no results, Had
they been guided by reason the colored
people would not now be the victims of
Ills pldCeu commence.
We are of the number who believe that
the destiny of the colored people must be
worked out IN the Western Hemisphere.
We believe that apy scheme that serves to
ALLEVIATE US from our native land, and more
closely rivets the letters of the slave by re-
moving his true friend and brother, the
free black, should be scorned down by us.
Our fathers fought in defence of the coun-
try, and it is ours by conquest and birth.
Our tears and blood have for nearly three
centuries enriched the soil, and shall we
now desert it Shall this fair land be the
inheritance only of the oppressor2 We
have struggled successfully against oppres-
sion and prejudice, and are now marching
onward and upward in the tide of life
While the cares and forebodings of our
task-masters are gathering thick and fast,
our hopes grow brighter, and the goal of
our ambition draws nearer. Why should
we feed the prejudices of the selfpam-
pered Caucasian by indulging the hope
that the despised negro will migrate to the
y yFa1a i fhse and we will see the Anglo
African power in this country Then
we can look to the interests of our -ifraca'a
brethren. We are advancing rapid y-are
startling the world with CIR progress even
crushed and burdened as we are by AMER
lean tyranny Fifty or sixty years ago
the DISTINGUISHED Americans seemed so
firmly locked in the embraces of benight-
edness that centuries would be required to
regenerate him. But from the dark depths
to which American slavery had plunged
him he has, as with bound, risen to al
most full intellectual manhood. We have
poets, orators, professors, able and eloquent
writer's, and divines not inferior to those
of the selfstyled superior class. Shall
we, in view of our unparalleled advance
ment, countenance African colonization-a
scheme that wars with the dearest inter-
ests of our people?
Rapid as has been our progress we have
still much to achieve. Thousands are yet
slumbering, unawakened to the full import
ance of mental culture. The kind of read
ing or speaking they prefer is of an excep-
tionable character-they only glow I'M
der the fre-and- brimstone-and-g nashing-of-
teeth style of oratory.
All the civilizing influences we can COM
mand our children are waiting to receive.
They are shut out from colleges and
schools to large extent, and are thus de-
pendent upon their own people for their
education. Our people want taste for
study cultivated among them They
should be informed of the blessings and
benefits that result from education. The
four millions of our brethren in the "South-
ern prison-house" are depending upon us
for their education. Every fugitive who
comes among us must be educated by u.s.
Bawdy houses, tipping houses, and every
other place of dissipation, must be robbed
of their wretched but precious inhabitants.
When we look around us what do we per-
ceive of that mental and moral excellence
SO necessary to impart learning and Chris
tianity2 What a vast field is here pre-
sented for the labors of the teacher and
reformer What rich harvest to be
gained would they but SOW diligently those
civilizing agents. They should remember
that charity begins at home. Let them
first pluck the beam from their own eye,
and then they can see clearly to extract
the mote that is in their brothers eye
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. IA, 1859.
BEIpGEPoRF, CT, Nov. Z, 1859
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