The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
OUR BALTIMORE LETTER.

OUR BALTIMORE LETTER.
First Of Augwst at Harr1sbwg-Reus.
Messys. GARDENERS and Gar7,etS Ad-
dresses-Colored People Of Harrisburg
York, Pa, and Our PeopIe-P'c-
N5cs IN Baltimaore-Aaamiversaaycf the
Mental and Moral improvement Socie-
h-Missionary Meeting at Bethel
Church. VaSit from Rev. Mr.. Russell,
of Cumberland.
BALTIMORE, Md, August s, 1859
The morn of the First of August dawned
upon us gloriously. Never did all nature
seem to enter into sympathy with glori-
GUS dav more than on the beautiful morn
ing of the first day of August. Others may
question the propriety of celebrating that
day, but it is not questionable with me.
Right well do remember the morn when
EIGHT hundred thousand immortal beings
stood up freemen. / was spending the
summer in your city-New York. There
was meeting lat Zion Church, and the
Rev. Laroy Sunderland conducted the SER
vices by reading the 58th Chapter of lsa-
iah / was quite young, but l shall never
forget the day, nor the impression then
made upon my mind There sat the ven
erable Christopher Rush and other aged
sires, whose hearts overhowed with Joy, for
oft would they exclaim, in the good old
style, "Amenp p amen p and not doubt
rests upon my mind but that angelic
throngs mingled with the exercises of that
day. Blessed morn God-given day !!
MAY our hearts ever exultant be when we
remember what God has wrought for eight
hundred thousand of our brethren in the
Antilles Thus influenced, many Balti-
morian left his home to mingle with our
brethren of Harrisburg in the celebration
of the First of August, 1859.
They were drawn here to hea-' their ell
oquent countryman, the Rev. Henry High
land Garnet. They heard him, and felt as
did very ancient queen, when she heard
Solomon discourse that the half had not
been told. Colored Marylanders are justly
proud of Douglass, Pennington, Ward and
Garnet. On this occasion, thought that
Mr.. G.. excelled himself He has the pow
er to fire up his auditors in such way as
to make every man feel like daring TO do
Rev. Charles w. Gardiner, who spoke just
before Mr.. Garnet, although nearly eighty
wears of age, seemed to have lost none of
his pristine eloquence. He is truly the
old man eloquent" The way he poured
his invectives upon the whites for denying
colored men the right of franchise, equal
school privileges, and equal car privileges
in Pennsylvania, was telling. l did not
hear Messrs Cole and White, but am told
they did we'll Upon the whole, the peo-
pie of Harrisburg appear to have an inHu-
ence, and are using it with effect.
A few of us, as we returned, stopped
over at York, Pa A more thrifty class of
colored people than reside here is not to
be found Many of them are quite intelli-
gent, and own respectable property. Mr..
Goodridge was at one time said to be worth
one hundred thousand dollars, but, like
many others, the money pressure did him
no good. His son, Mr.. G.. j. Goodridge
does an excellent business as an ambro.
typist, etc.
On our return home we found that our
friends had been having generally good
time at pic-nics. The Odd Fellows had
one, and presented fine china set to Past
Grand Master, Mr.. Jos. L. jackson.
The ladies' sewing circle of Bethel Church
had one a little more select and not quite
so large. The BARRIERS Association came
in for large share of public favor, and
they received it, too. Not less than one
Thousand of the brothers of the strap, and
their friends, were present. They really
thought that they had exceled everybody,
but when the family picnic, composed
mainly of families, came off, that is said
to have excelled all of its predecessors in