The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-04
Yumt CorrtsgonSente.
LETTER FROM SARATOGA.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Jan. 22, 1860.

. African Indignation Meeting at which
my esteemed friend, the Rev. Henry
Highland Garnet presided. Looking over
the resolutions passed at that meeting, l
observe that the second one reads as fol-
lows:
Resolred That in case the said Charles O'Con-
or, Esq, shall consent to deliver such lecture or
lectures, we pledge ourselves to procure for him
very large audience in the Academy of Music or
the Cooper Institute and that in case he makes
out his case even to his own satisfaction, we will
give him our recommendation to the President of
the United States as a fit candidate for the ap-
preaching vacancy on the bench of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Pray, Mr.. Editor, can you inform your
numerous readers whether Mr.. Charles
OConor is Roman Catholic or Prot
estant in matters of religious belief? If
he belongs to the former, l commend to
his careful perusal an article in that ex-
treme Roman Catholic paper, ~ 'Univers,"
and if he be protestant would entreat
simply like careful reading of that most
equitable and Christ-like comment upon
the chattel slavery of the United States,
and of Virginia slave-breeding in particu-
lar. Really, sir, I am afraid my friend, the
Rev Mr.. Garnet, has this time "reckoned
without his host" for much / fear he will
find that Mr.. Charles O'Conor is at no loss
to prove "to his own satisfaction" that ne
gro slavery is "not unjust" I, for one, re-
fuse to accede to the last clause in the
above resolution, unless an addendum to
this effect be appended in the form Of reso-
luton No. 8: "That when Mr. Charles
OConor shall be, in consequence of his
having proved to his own satisfaction that
negro slavery is not unjust, promoted to
the office which Judge Taney shall va
cate, that our friend, the Rev. Henry
Highland Garnet, shall be appointed to the
Office of Chaplain of that body" When
Mr. OConor shall succeed Judge Taney,
my opinion is, sir, that "the abomination
that maketh desolate' (see Daniel II, 18th
verse will be set up, and then we shall
want such man as our beloved brother to
stand between the living and the dead, and
pray for all such men as Mr.. Charles
OConor, and was going to say for those
who put him there. That, however, is a
dilemma I do not know how to overcome,
and SO will leave it to our respected broth
er and his co-resolvers TO elucidate.
Seriously speaking, sir, l think these
gentlemen have spoken "ill advisedly with
their lips" Do they not see that these are
the days when men are given up to "be-
lieve lie" and to ''glory in their shame ?"
Do they not see the re-opening of the slave
trader Have they not seen the judicial
murder of man for the most unselfsh act,
as it strikes my mind, since-with rever-
ence be it spoken-the Lord of Life and
Glory offered up himself for the salvation
of world? Where, sir, can you show
parallel to that martyrdom which we have
lust witnessed in this nineteenth century,
Not in any history, sacred or profane,
which have ever seen or read. | repeat
that, next to that tremendous sacrifice on
Calvary, 1 hold that this man whom it is
the fashion to call ''mad" seems to exhibit
the nearest approach that have ever heard
of his Divine Master, both in precept and
practice. All Mr.. Editor, would to God
there were among our own peoplea "John
Brown! Would to God we could find un-
der the dark skin the heroic energy, the
unselfsh love, the glowing spirit of mar
tyrdom that consumed that loving and un-
selfish spirit I look around among our
people, and what do see? Young men
with gold chains, perfumed hair, and gloved
hands, and young women with that upon
their heads which is alike unbecoming to
their compilations and unworthy of their
adornment as women and professors of
Godliness. Not by such men and women
as these is our race to take its stand among
the nations of the earth. May God bap-
tie our people with something of the self
denying and, as do think, holy fervor
which seems to pervade the Italian people |
at this time, whose women are giving up
their ornaments and their dress to support
the holy cause of freedom. Then shall /
have hope that Ethiopia shall no longer
stretch forth her hands in smppzication to
Sod and man, but that the long night of
sorrow and of anguish unutterable to our
brethren shall draw to an end, |
and adoring praise shall take the place of |
yroaning supplication.
write as one of your people, and when |
hat brave man offered up his life /. re-
mine to your cause, and wrote |