The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-09-17

have. The daughter of the New York
millionaire sings Old Folks at Home" in
her fathers gilded saloon, to the music Of a
thousand-dollar piano; and "Oh carry
me back to Ole Virginny" and My Old
Kentucky Home" are heard at eventide in
many happy cottage beyond the Missis-
sippi, when the labors of the day are over.
Not only has the negro engrafted his min
strelsy upon the taste of the American peo-
pie, but he has given his dialect to his OPP
pressors In other instances, the conquer
er enstamps his style of speech upon the
conquered, as was the case with the Nor
man and the Saxon. But here it is just
the reverse. The Southern members of
Congress, if they were blackened and dis
guised like the performers in Sandford's
troupe, might pass for improved specimens
of their own negroes, SO African is their
dialect and mode of pronunciation. We
are far from intending this as an affront to
our Southern brethren, for, as Chyrsotom
was not the first, SO was he not the last of
| the gol0e1-nsOutlled Africans. And no.
where in all the land are there such dis
plays of native oratory as among the plan
tations of the South Keitt's only model
of fine speaking was probably Old Ben"
the negro preacher on his fathers
farm in South Carolina; and Senator
Toombs owes his characteristics to similar
cause 1t is not the climate of the South
so much as the negro that gives the South
ron his afablemanners, his softness of voice,
and his eloquence.
| What name has attracted more attention
in courts, legislatures, governors messages,
and on the stump, than that of bred Scott,
the negro of Missouri? What parsonage
has become so worldwide and renowned in
literature as "Uncle Tom," the negro !?
He is now speaking the language of the
Magyar, the Pole, and the Russian, rousing
the sympathies of those distant people in
behalf of the down-trodden race in Ame~i-
ca. He has even mastered the uncouth
language Of the Welsh, and is now plead
ing the cause of his brethren before that
fiery people, waking up the thunder of
their Indignation at the wrongs they en-
dure All over America, all over Europe,
and in far-off Asia the negroes lament is
heard in the plaintive language of Uncle
Tom; and humanity is gathering together
the elements of one vast storm, which will
soon burst upon the head of the oppressor,
and give him in his turn a taste of sor-
row. @I-
1t was negro that formed the rock up
on which the Methodist Episcopal Church
split Bishop Andrews had married gang
of negroes with wife annexed, and wished,
like other patriarchs, to drive slaves and to
be considered a good Christian too. But
Sambo invoked the shade of Wesley and
of Freeborn Garretson, and the church d.
vided; and because the line of separation
did not suit him, and the church North did
not break the yoke, every Conference, An
nual end General, is converted into de-
batting society, to discuss questions which
will never end until his claims as man
and brother are recognized.
1t is negro that has stained the glory
of the American Tract Society, and forced
its managers to herd, in opinion, policy,
and taste, with the New York " Herald"
journal of Commerce." and such like.
Processing a care of souls, including the
whole world, they nevertheless ignore the
case of four millions of American citizens,
represented in the halls of the National
Legislature, only because they were negro
slaves Teaching the doctrine ON mil
lion of pages that fiery hell awaits all
those who died ignorant of Jesus Christ
and His gospel, and assured by whole pres
byteries and synods in the South that alb
iect heathenism was the real condition of
| the slave, they look on and see this NIGH
ty stream of souls piunging, like the wa
tiers of Niagara, into the lake which burn
eth with fire and birthstone, yet never ut
ter one word OF sympathy for their lost
spirits, nor one word of rebuke against the
system that has ruined them.
I 1t is a negro that constitutes the capped
volcano on which reposes the false peace of
the American Board Of Missions. To ne
gro, as the occasion, will the people of
Pennsylvania be indebted for bringing up
again the whole question of the habeas cor
pas, and fixing on frmer foundations than
ever, as we hope, the rights and the privi-
leges of the citizen 1t was negro who
occasioned the1 late schism in the New
School Presbyterian Church, and it is
negro who holds in his hand the match,
ready and waiting to produce an explosion
in the Old School, when the sign in the &c
clesiastical zodiac is in the right place. p
A United States Senator from the State
of Kentucky, while making political
speech in the city of New York some time
since, suddenly took i'll in the midst of his
harangue. 81 am sick p exclaimed he
"What lis the matter, my dear sir-apo-
plexy or rupture of blood-vesselr ~
am sick Of the negro question !" Another
Senator, still more recently, on his way
from Illinois to the seat of government, via
Memphis, New Orleans, |. Havana, New
York, and Philadelphia theshrtest roatte'
addressed his friends at the latter place,
and he too complained of sickness. ] am
sick and tired said he, " of the negro sub
iect." And well he might be, for it has
been as fatal to him as hemlock or deadly
nightshade.
n IStranoe indeed it ia TO see the ubiouity