The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-06
ADVERTISEMENTS.

increase of useful knowledge and decrease of ln-
generous and unreasonable prejudices. | COM
| mend it to Reading Roems, and to every pri-
vate family, as work of decided merit, for only
one dollar year.-Rcr II. H. Conkfin, in Tribune
| (ProUidcnce, X. ~
8 This monthly, published at New York, by
| Thomas Hamilton, is edited and written by col
ored people. 1t is an able Magazine. Some sta
tstica articles on the colored population of the
United States, eynce great deal of research, and
are valuable. ."-Zion's Herald Boston, Ms.)
1--WE have the third number of this work before
| u.s. and have perused it. 1t is certainly an able
work. The Prospect Charlestolca, Lad)
ANGLO AFRICAN MAGAzIsE-A new monthly in
| the pamphlet form, issued at 48 Beekman-st, New
York, at one dollar per annum, by our trlend
| Thomas Hamilton, promises good things, soiid
things noble elevating. The first number exhibits
tact talent, erudition scientific Investigations, the
pen of ready writer. The contributions are OF
| the highest order The narratives, sufferings and
irbreadth escapes of fugitives from the land OF
Egypt and Pharaohs host, are truly marvellous,
wonderful No romance can equal them, and yet
they are solid facts These narratives will grace
| every number of this new monthly, and will
doubtless give it wide circulation. Anything
and everything calculated to elevate and emanci-
| 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 Cod" Friends
| hand in your names, enclose 81 to Mr.. Hamilton,
| 4S Beekman-st-G Golden Rule Men York.)
This is Magazine, but. as its name inn
ports it is to fill existing void and circulate in
a sphere peculiarly its 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 of high order, and give evi-
dence 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-
tion of their race, and extort from the proud and
domineering Anglo-Saxon the justice now per-
sistently denied them
The opening article is Introductory one by
the publisher Mr.. Thomas Hamilton, who sue
cincty 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, comparison being between scholars
in the City of New York, and another between
students in French colleges.
The main article, Civilizaton-its Dependence
on Physical Circumstances is by DR.. James NJ
Cune Smith, gentleman of liberal education,
though for it he is not indebted to his
try, having been obliged to obtain it in Europe,
where the tiger-ferocousness of caste of color is
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 race but on
the contrary, shows that it is due rather to eli
mate and geographical position. The paper is
learned, pregnant with facts so skifully handled,
that the deductions are beyond the possibility of
being overthrow. The doctrine of innate superb
ority of race is scattered to the winds This cen
| fury -nursed he, which has been made the excuse
for slavery, with all its horrors and barbarities,
| IL l. 1nr- a11r C%aEo
crushes 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, menial, feeling no
manhood to keep shut the windows of his soul,
never opening them to let in the sunlight of
knowledge is eyiscerated, and shown to be but the
| invention of the oppressor, as excuse for his
| dark and danning deeds and crimes When the
despised negro ply such artillery this, it is
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 conspre
to give them physical and mental power. In
each decade, the census figures show that they IN
crease in ratio which, ere long, will reach that
point when the red right hand of revolution will
be raised, cenching sword, beneath whose heavy
blade fetters will be but faxen strings, and OPP
pressors but men of clay. The negro is natur-
ally patient and docile-naturally he abhors blood
and strife but there 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 apty learns the aphorsm of Jefferson, and
which profess to believe a God-ordained one
Resistance to IyrantS is obedience to God p st.
| Domingo thunders in 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! ~
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 no time for their utter
ance. In conclusion, we would say, we are 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, counseing the col
ored man to toll and vindicate his race, by be-
ing true to the instincts of his nature, notwith-
standing the other races proudly affect superiori-
ty, and look down with scorn and contempt.
The Magazine is published by Thomas Hamil-
ton, at 4S Beekman street. New York, at 81
year. We mention the terms because we hope
there viii be many who will subscribe if for no
other purpose, to see "what good can come out
of NaTagansett ~ Pendulum (Creeneick, X. ~