The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-08
ADVERTISEMENTS.

and everything calculated to elevate and emancl-
pate the colored race, meets our warmest sympa-
thies The hand of God is in it. Ethiopia is soon
to stretch forth her hands to God.' Friends
handEin your names, enclose 81 to MIR. Hamilton,
48 Beekman-st.-GoldenR Rule (New York;
This is a new Magazine, but, as its name i'm
ports it is to fill an existing void and circulate in
a sphere peculiarly its own. 1t is to be the organ
of the colored race. 1t has been projected by col
ored men, and, in the main, will be conducted by
them. The initial number appears well. Its
leading articles are of high order and give evil
denee that if " negroes have no rights which white
men are bound to respect" they at least WELD
pens which, one day, shall work out the redemp-
ton of their race, and extort from the proud and
domineering Anglo Saxon the justice now so per-
sistently denied them.
The opening article is an Introductory one by
the publisher, Mr.. Thomas Hamilton, who sue
cinetly states the objects he has in view, and the
work which he and his fellow laborers undertake
to do. There are paragraphs somewhat caustic
we refer to those comparing colored and white
scholars, one comparison being between scholars
in the City of New York, and another between
students in French colleges.
The main article, Z" Civilization-its Dependence
on Physical Circumstances" is by Dr. James NJ
Cune Smith, a gentleman of liberal education,
though for it he is not indebted to his own coun-
try, having been obliged to obtain it in Europe,
where the tigerferocousness of caste of color is un-
known. 1t is an able paper, and conclusively dis
proves the current philosophy which predicates
human advancement, or, in other words, civiliza-
ton, on the innate superiority of q race but, on
the contrary shows that it is due rather to eli
mate and geographical position. The paper is
learned, pregnant with facts, skilfully handled
that the deductions are beyond the possibility of
L.. 1
GRITTY of race is scattered to the winds This cen
tury-nursed lie, which has been made the excuse
for slavery, with all its horrors and barbarities,
which to-day, in these nominally free States,
brushes the colored man-beneath a remorseless
prejudice and fendish spirit of caste, command
ing him to quench the fires of aspiration as he
feels them burning in his SOUL to be a newer of
wood and drawer of water mental, feeling no
manhood, to keep shut the windows of his soul,
never opening them to let in the sunlight of
knowledge, is evseerated, and shown to be but the
invention of the oppressor, as an excuse for his
dark and damning deeds and crimes. When the
despised negro ply such artillery this, it
time to pause, and ask what we are to gain by at
tempting longer to hold him down. The time is
approaching when the black race now in this
country will be fearful power, unless we relax
the hand Of oppression. They are under the tenn
perate parallels, where all circumstances conspire
to give them physical and mental power. In
each decade, the census figures show that they in
crease in a ratio which, ere long, will reach that
point when the red right hand of revolution will
be raised, elenching a sword, beneath whose heavy
blade letters will be but faxen strings, and OPP
pressors but as men of clay. The negro is natur-
ally patient and Enthusiastically he abhOrs blood
and strife; but there are examples which emphat-
ically warn us that, in the school of slavery and
under the treatment he receives when he is looked
upon as he is now, by large portion of this peo-
pie, he aptly learns the aphorsm of Jefferson, and
which we profess to believe God-ordained one
Z" Resistance TO TyrdntS is obedience to God ~ St
Domingo thunders in our ears, Beware! Take
your hands from your victims throat, or meet the
retributive Justice ready to pour upon your heads
wrath more terrible than the seven walls of the
Apocalypse y
Such are some of the thoughts which have sug
gested themselves while we have been writing this
notice. Others there are which come thronging
around our pen, but this is time for their utter
ance. In conclusion, we would say, we glad
this Magazine has been established. Conducted
as there is every reason to believe it will be, it
will demonstrate that Anglo-Africans stand on the
plane of progress and not those british beings
they have been represented to be. 1t is calm and
dignifed, manful in its tone, counseling the col
ored man to toll on and vindicate his race, by be-
ing true to the instincts of his nature notwith-
standing the other races proudly affect SUPERIOR
ty, and look down with scorn and contempt.
The Magazine is published by Thomas Hamil-
ton at 48 Beekman street. New York, at 81 a
year. We mention the terms because we hope
there will be many who will subscribe, if for no
other purpose, to see what good can come out
of Narragansett ''-Pendulum (Greenleich, K. ~