Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-04-13
HUMANITY AND HOUSES WANTED.
In morning paper of day or two since
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In morning paper Of day or two since
VIC find the following.
SN ANTED TO RENT. BY the Rev.
w Henry Highland Garnet, pastor Of the Shiloh
Presbyterian Church, colorcd gentleman SMALL gen
cc house at \ rent " more than $500 This gentle.
man has called at fifteen houses having bills on them,
and has been invariably assured not for niggcrs col
orcd people The subscriber desires to know II there is
sufccn, religion, humanity and courtesy in New York
to answer flyoraby at No. p Iaurcns ST.
The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet differs
from most others of his fellow creatures of
this city who live in houses renting for $500
and upwards in several particulars. lie is by
nature quite as intelligent, and by education
good deal more cultivated than large ma
jorty of those who pay those handsome sums
for the rent of their dwellings, In his walk
and conversation he is quite equal to the lar
ger proportion Of that class, in his manners
much their superior. He is an ordinary clcr-
gyman, whose business is to save souls, more
or less eiIcctually TO which duty he is I'M
doubtcdly aithlul--and his life. we are quite
sure, without taking it for granted that pro-
iession and practice in that calling are always
in accordance, illustrates the work to which
he is devoted. lie differs from them also in
this, that the colorng matter beneath his cpl
dennis is Of a sound, pure black, without any
admixturc Of diatyish white. But though
black, he is comcly - though black he is
learncd-though black he is gifted with olo-
though black. he is well bred 49,
though black, he is moral-though black, he
is pious-though black-black as the ace of
spadcs-ho is altogether a man who, had he
in his carly infancy been thoroughly skinned
down TO rimitiyc granucs and covered with
a new cutclc of another hue, would long ere
this have lived in a house three parlors deep,
at rent not penny under 81 200 a year
have had the bronchitis and been sent to Eu-
rope with an addition of 50 900 to his salary
to pay his expenses. As it is his bronchial
tubes are in perfect condition-no pious old
ladies Of either sex are concerned lest the dol
orous wheoze of his drowsy piston, which
may become of fat, is caused by inflammation
his salary for the cure Of souls is probably
less than he could earn as a white man. by
the cure of bacon-his talents are naught--
his eloquence is naught-his picty naught-
his morals, his manners, his mauliness, his
culture, his faithiulncss are all naught, and un.
like the fox spoken of in the Scripture, he
has no hole into which to put his head. The
immaculate wisdom of our constitutional pa
rents may have so arranged our social and
political institutions that " the black man has
no rights which the white man is bound to
respect, but we nevertheless can not help a
feeling that this particular black man-thc
Rev. Mr. Garnet-has some reason for feeling
that the rule. in his case, calls for the exer-
else Of more patience and forbcarancc than
can be reasonably looked for even in one OF
that sclf-donying and humble profession to
which he belongs -7 Tribune.