The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-06-16
From the Anti-Slavery Standard.
Emancipation in the Danish West In
dies.

emancipation in the Danish West In
dies.
The following is an extract of lette
from one of the Rev. Theodore Parker
low-travelers, dated
SANTA CRuz. w. l., April 3, 1859
After giving a full and highly en-
couraging account of Mr.. Parker's health
speaking particularly Of his increased
strength and ability to bear fatigue, will
other favorable symptoms, the write
thus proceeds
% often think how delighted 20,
would be with the results of. emancipa
tion as we see them all around US, and
have abundant opportunity to examine
them not, as with us, some individuals
or family set free, and earning a hard
subsistence, under painful circumstances
in an ungenial climate but twenty thou.
sand people raised at once from the con
dition of cattle to that of responsible
beings protected (and assisted if need
be) by the government 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 re-
muneration for their voluntary work
but so few are their artificial wants, and
so easily and cheaply are all their neces-
saries obtained in this perpetual Sum-
mer, that the thrifty and industrious al
ready succeed in laying up enough to
put themselves forward in the world,
build comfortable little home in town.
and bring up their children to trades
They do not, like persons of some ma
tons, lie fiat down upon you, if you
lend them helping hand. On the con-
trary, they have great pride in being in
dependent. Of course it is not all ccu-
teur de rose. The profitable vice for the
masters gain, which has always been
encouraged among them, carries its poi
son among them yet, though they are
gradually acquiring pride of matri-
mony. We are panied with hearing Of
the whipping of children-but what have
they known of better means Of correc.
tion
"There is a noble young man here,
an Episcopal minister, who is laboring
most wisely, unweariedly. and much at
his own expense, for the moral and in
tellectual elevation of the colored people.
Born in Tortola. educated in episcopacy,
losing his patrimony by the emancipa-
ton, he has risen above all this, and. al
most unaided by the whites, who look
coldly upon his labors and his projects,
he devotes his energies and his talents to
this one cause institutes schools and
takes charge of them establishes hu-
name and improving societies among the
colored people, and is a constant bene-
factor 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 scoIching sun to attend. He
has established day school for the chill
dren of his parish, and l was never so
pleased with any school have ever Wis
tied. 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 Grip
Piled of hand, by rheumatism, the other
blind from infancy. The Government
will not aid him, he not being Lutheran,
and his own purse has to supply most Of
the expenses