The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-03-10
GONE Gorrssponbente.
OUR ALBANY LETTER.
ALBANY, March 5, 1860.

ALBANY, March D, 1860.
Mr.. EDIroR:-The eulogy of VIM. III.
johnson, Esq, on John Brown, was well
written production, and well delivered.
The audience was much smaller, though,
than it ought to have been, or would have
been had it been delivered two months
since, in the heat of the popular enthusi-
asm. Mr.. j. is an old resident of this city,
and made his debut as an orator very &C
ceptably.
The interest in Rev Mr.. Miller's course
of lectures on "The Heart of Man" inereas-
es weekly, Judging by the continually in
creasing attendance-so much so that he
has been requested to change their delivery
to Sabbath afternoon in the church instead
of Wednesday evening in the lecture-room.
The eighth lecture was delivered last
Wednesday evening, Rev. Mr.. Lott, mis-
sionary, of Canada, assisting in the open
ing services. The lectures are founded on
the words of Solomon, Prov. A :23-"Keep
thy heart with all diligence, for out of it
are the issues of life" and their immediate
subjects have been as follows: First-"The
charge and motive;" second-"What it
supposes and Includes" third Reasons
why it is the main business of the Chris
tian's life" fourth-Conclusion of same :;
fifth-Special Seasons: "Season of pros
perity;" sixth--"Season of adversely"
seventh-"Season of lions trouble;"
eighth-"Season of danger and public ex-
element" in which last John Brown and
his brave and undaunted Christianity until
the last hour was wildly shown, and made
to take his position in the train of the Sa-
vior and the noble martyrs. The course
is not yet completed. Mr.. M. will proba-
bly, yield to the request to deliver his lee
ture on ''Woman-her position and inhu-
ence," although he has this season delivered
none but his religious course.
Nothing of special interest has trans
pired in the Legislature, save the presen-
tation of minority report of the special
committee on the personal liberty bill. We
are not quite sure, but we think and hope
they and their report will b, far in the mi
nority when the question comes up.
l send you, for the benefit of the people
prepared by Mr.. Miller with considera-
Bile labor-the speech of the day ON the
property qualification, delivered in the AS
sembly by the Hon. Mr. Maxson, of ALE
ghany, which was not given in the previ-
Gus report, owing to want of time to pre-
pare it:
Mr.. Speaker have earnestly sought,
here and elsewhere, during the last fifteen
years, for a substantial reason why man
with large amount of coloring matter in
the under layer of the cuticle should not
exercise the elective franchise on the same
terms as those not distinguished by this Gu
taneous peculiarly. But have, thus far,
sought in vain. 1t is true these negro hat
ers always parade sundry excuses for their
warfare on the rights of man; but when
these excuses are brought to the.test of I'M
prejudiced and candid inquiry, they alldis-
appear. | have endeavored to study man
in his general character, independent of
all accidental surroundings, and l find my
self compelled to acquiese in the divinely
appointed order of nature, and recognize a
brother in every creature on whose spiritu-
al nature my Father in Heaven has stamp
ed His image. He is none the less man
because, by the accident of birth under a
tropical sun, his skin is more highly en-
dowed with coloring matter than my own.
Whether he reclines under his own beauti-
full banana, on the banks of the Niger, or
wanders among the splendid ruins of Me-
roa, the once proud capital of ancient Eth
opia, he has all the characteristics of
nun, anu HouCO, Wy du iHO'itdolo iOSiC,
conclude he has all the rights Of a man.
\ y Our forefathers assure us in
definite language that the rights for which
they fought were the rights of human ma
ture. They incorporated this bold doc
trine into the cornerstone of our govern
ment, and affirmed the grand automatic
truth that "all men are created equal, and
that they are endowed by their Creator
with the inalienable rights of life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness" 1t was to
secure these rights that they instituted our
government, which differes from the des-
potisms of the old world in nothing more
than in the fact that it derives its "just
powers from the consent of the governed"
1t is in the name of these great fundamental
principles of our government that l demand
the equal rights of suffrage for the colored