The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-11-05
R., it will be poured into the expansive lap
of the Atlantic cities.

OF the Atlantic cities.
Our county elections are over, and the
returns give quite large Republican ma
jority. Heretofore certain admixture of
Saxon with Anglo-African blood, gave GER
tain colored men right to vote; but the
"unterrifed Democracy" finding that the
proclivities of said colored men, as a gener.
al thing, rather leaned to the Republican
side, went to work in the Legislature last
winter, and passed law to prevent all
persons from voting in whose veins a SIN
gle drop of African blood could be traced.
AS might be expected, some warm contests
took place in certain districts where colored
men had heretofore voted, the Democracy
being of course warm sticklers for the law,
more especially where the voter was known
to favor the opposition side. They (the
Democrats however, were badly beaten
in this county, and the Republicans have
pledged their candidate to the next Legis-
lature that he shall go for repeating the OBJ
noxious law in toto, or at least to restore
it as at first.
This state of things, probably, has led
since the election, to call for convention
of the colored citizens of Toledo, to take
into consideration their DISTINGUISHED con,
dition, &c. So the world wags. Every
where the Anglo-African, having no rights
that white men are bound to respect, are
yet mixed up with the elements that are
shaping the future destiny of this entire
nation.
was pleased to see in your last issue
a very interesting account of 1.-The First
Colored Convention held in the city Of
Philadelphia in 1880 This is as it should
be, and I hope that your paperm be the
means of placing on record every important
event in the past history Of the people OF
color, in New York in particular, and all
other places in and out of the United States
in general-wherever black men have stri-
ven fer liberty, and whenever he may be
found striving to elevate his race in the
scale of intelligence and moral grandeur.
Let impartial history find a page on which
to record name or spread before the
world deathless deed
Speaking of New York suggests the
thought that enc or more of our old benev-
client societies, whose organization did
much towards uniting and concentrating
the minds of the deep thinkers of a past
generation III whatever looked in the direc.
ton of their children's future elevation
must, or should, have written minutes Of
many transactions in past days, that, on an
examination now, would show conclusively
what grand results have grown out of small
beginnings, in the way of elevating the SO.
cial, moral, and intellectual condition OF
our people. Surely the arena in which
such men as Teasman Hamilton, Sipkins
and their coadjutors battled for the right
and labored for the good of their country
men, must have some record Of the impress
of those pioneers of the past, along the
thorny path of which their children are
coming in the present, with a glorious flu
ture in prospective.
But, Mr.. Editor, l find l have trespassed
on what should be the limit of an ordinary
letter, and must close shortly, or l might
be tempted to suggest the formation of a
historical society among you, having fol
its primary object the collecting, safe keep
ing, and arranging of all manuscripts, &c.
relating to the early history of the colored
people in the United States in particular
and the same people elsewhere from the
first dawn of freedom among them down tc
the present day, in general But [ must
leave that thought to be better matured by
some one of the many young intellectual
giants among you.
Bless us have just at this moment re-
ceived a copy of the Independent" of Oct
20, containing an account of an attempted
instruction of slaves at Harper's Ferry
All (! well, away up here in the sharp cor
ner of Northern Ohio, 1 had began to doubt
but | must believe, after all, that the world
does move! "Nmf ced!,' MIAMI.
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.