The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-09-24
OUR MAUMEE CITY LETTER.
FoRT MIAMI, MAUMEE CRY, Ohio,
August 20, 1859.

| August ~, 1899
Mr.. EDIroR:- Many thanks for your
kindly thought to remember your old friend
by sending both the monthly and weekly
Anglo-African." The latter seems to my
mind Just the thing needed to fill a great
want of the people of color in the United
States, both bond and nominally free. May
your enterprise meet with a just apprecia-
ton by the people for whose defence you
purpose to devote your energies, both
physical and mental. Located up here in
the northwest corner of the Buckeye State,
| may not be able at any time to furnish
you with much news in regard to the peo-
pie of color in this section yet, as branch
of the underground railroad passes within
eight miles of my present home, and hav-
ing frequent occasions to visit the city of
Toledo-the residence Of some few hundred
colored people originally brought to this
point in pursuit of employment on Lake
Erie, the public hotels located here, or in
the adjoining State of Michigan may
be able to furnish your excellent paper
with few items of interest to the cause
you advocate.
Justice to myself and the cause of uni
versal freedom-for which every one who
admits the brotherhood Of mankind, regard
less of color, must labor and wait, compels
me to say that seven additional years Of
observation of men and the motievs of &C
ton that guide them in their intercourse
with each other in everyday life, deepens
the conviction in my mind that the only
way successfully to battle with oppression,
of whatever kind or degree, is to assume
the position that " the worlds our country,
our countrymen all mankind Hence our
right'to claim their sympathy in our be-
half, as well as every other portion of OPP
pressed humanity throughout the world not
more on account Of color than Of caste. |
know very many among us maintain the
notion that our position in the United
States is mainly attributed to color, and not
condition. Yet it remains to be seen how
far the former is true, after each and all of
us shall have bent our whole souls to the
accomplishment of our entire liberty from
the shackles that have so long manacled
both mind and body. Educate our sons in
the notion that the whole world is their
country, and their countrymen all man.
kind. Teach them to study Geography
with the design to make them familiar with
the condition, climate, produce, and soil of
this glorious earth from centre to circum-
ference, rather than to have them content
to grow up in this Egypt of oppression as
the hewers of wood and drawers of water
for the Anglo-Saxon. Teach them still
further, to study navigation, with a view
to familiarize them with the pathway on
the mighty ocean, whose waves encircle the
earth, bearing upon their bosom the wealth
of every land. Thus taught, thus prepar-
ed, bid them God speed, and let them go
forth to the battle of life in other lands,
where character, and not color, is the only
test of manhood.
But, Mr. Editor, am admonished to
bring my letter to close. Much remains
to be said about the future of our youth.
The old, like the Israelites, for and on &C
count of our sins, must wander and die to
man, perhaps, in this wilderness of oppres-
sion. May our children find the promised
land through some Joshua in their midst.
MIAMI.