The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-15

under the government renders it a delicate
matter for me to answer these questions as
they should be answered, but I'll tell you
what to do: they should be answered, and
by the best legal talent of the land; do
you go to Philadelphia, and present my
name to Horace Binney, and he will give
you an answer satisfactory to you, and
which will command the greatest respect
throughout the land" Mr. Grice went to
Philadelphia, and presented the questions
and request to Horace Binney. This gen.
tleman pleaded age and poor eye-sight
but told Mr.. Grice that if he would call on
John Sargent, he would get answers Of
requisite character and weight. He called
on John Sargent, who promptly agreed to
answer the questions if Mr.. Binney would
allow his name to be associated as an au.
thority in the replies. Mr.. Binney again
declined, and so the matter fell through
This is what Mr. Grice terms his Dred
Scott caSe"-and so it was.
He attended the Convention of 1882
but by some informality, or a want of ere.
dentials, was not permitted to sit as full
member Saul elected from among the
prophets Yet he was heard on the sub
ject of rights, and the doctrine of "our
rights" as well as the first colored conven-
ton, are due to the same man.
In 1882, chagrined at the colored people
of the United States, he migrated to Hayti,
where, until 1843, he pursued the business
of carver and glider. In the latter year
he was appointed Director of Public Works
in Port-au-P Prince, which Office he held I'M
til two years ago. He is also engaged in,
and has wide knowledge of, machinery and
engineering Every two or three years he
visits New York, and is welcomed to the
arcana ofsuch men as James ). Mapes, the
Bensons, Dunhams, and at the various works,
where steam and iron obey human ingenuity
in our city. He is at present in thiscity, lodg.
ing at the house of the widow of his old friend
and coadjuter Thomas L. Jinnings, 133
Reade street We have awaited ourselves Of
his presence among us to CLEAN from him the
- al ,,,,&
together in this arrIuau. ~
We cannot dismiss this subject without
the remark, of peculiar pertinence at this
moment, that it would have been better for
our people had Mr.. Grice never left these
United States. The twenty-seven years
he has passed in Hayti, although not with.
out their mark on the fortunes of that
island, are yet without such mark as he
would have made in the land and upon
the institutions among which he was born.
So early as his thirty-second year, before
he had reached his intellectual prime, he
had inaugurated two of the leading ideas
on which our people have since acted, con-
ventions to consider and alleviate their
grievances, and the struggle for legal
rights. If he did such things in early
youth, what might he not have done with
the full force and bent of his matured in
tellect2 And where, in the wide world,
in what region, or under what sun, could
he so effectually have labored to elevate
the black man, as on this soil and under
American institutions
So profoundly are we opposed to the ia
vorite doctrine of the Puritans and their
co-workers, the colonizationists- U6a Lab
ertaS, i6i Patria-that we could almost be-
seech Divine Providence to reverse some
past events, and to fling back into the
heart of Virginia and Maryland their Sam.
Wards, Highland Garnets, j. W. Penning-
tons, Frederick Douglasses, and the twenty
thousand who now shout hosannas in Can
ada--and we would soon see some stirring
in the direction of U5i Patria, i6i La6ertas'