Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-07-17
The Question of the Day.

Rev, DIR. Bartol concludes his late
Fast Day sermon as follows We copy
from the Register:
The way out of this evil, then, is the
question, and give it three-fold and
very simple answer. The slaves must
be instructed, enlisted and employed.
First instructed. In the Port Royal
experiment, the education Of the African
TO freedom has taken its start. He has
never in the South been educated to
freedom before, but only TO subserviercy
and the basest selfdisparagement, as
well as depreciation by others, even in
his prayers. What could he be pru-
IDENTIFY suffered to learn of the object of
lis existence, of the image of God in his
own breast, of the natural and inaliena-
BILE rights of man? Alas in our inhu-
man prejudice, bis color has been his
crime, as if q ten-fold share of the total
depravity theologians impute to man
kind were beneath the features which
seem but deep and permanent shadow
cast by the shining of long ages of trop-
ic sun. Many decry efforts for bis ele-
walton by saying they prefer their own
race, as if the glory of the highest race
were not lis care and compassion for the
lowest, as great David's great Son. the
consummate flower Of the Hebrew and
all human blood, that taught US. We
are infidel to our Master, if we do not
instruct this African tribe.
We have not proceeded with others
as with it. The poorest and dullest
Irish or German immigrant at the North
is taught to read, that he may learn
something, and TIE highest things the
Scripture teaches of his own manhood,
the Constitution of the United States in
some little volume, the Declaration of
Independence, Washington's Farewell
Address, the Sermon on the Mount, the
Lords Prayer, the best sentences Of pc
iitical and religious wisdom to inspire
and encourage him, perhaps pathetically
printed on a placard or pocket-handker-
chief But what would it be but can
die in magazine to carry such torch
of knowledge into a slave-region and the
slave mind? Now, however, that the
human chattels are leaving that Egyp-I
tian territory, or the light Of liberty be-
ginning to dispel its gloom, it will be no
more safe than right to hold or let them
60 empty Of knowledge. We talk of
savage nature in them that opportunity
or temptation might awake. Well,
there is savage nature in US all which
would show itself but for the cultivation
Of mind and heart, from Which, for alike
their sake and our own, they should not
be excluded. Thank God, we cannot
wholly shut out from any quarter the
sunlight of truth So much we owe TO
our institutions. Information spreads or
springs up within by under ground rail
roads more secret than captives made
their escape by.
1t is sometimes said, the black is inca
pable Of any intellectual proficiency, and
that, bright as his children at first ap-
pear to be, they 60 only little way and
then stop. But many facts warrant II
different conclusion. 1t were impious to
suppose God had created any tribe, of
all those be has made of one blood, to
loom it to hopeless ignorance and it
will not do to affirm this fate for race
hat has produced so many specimens of
Intellectual superiority-such as BEN
IAMIN BANNEKER, pure A fr can,
whose name as an astronomer THOMAS
JEFFERSON sent to the Academy of Sci
snce at Paris, certainly worthy to be
more than the representative of three.
ilths of a vote owned by another man
better qualified than niDe-tenlhs Of the
white population for the elective fran
,hlse himself ToUssAINT LOWER
rURE, the negro chief of St. Domingo,
md grandson of King Ardra, one of the
most powerful monarchs on the West
African coast; CRISPUs ATTUcKs, ex-
cited by patriotic eloquence against I'M
ust taxation, in yonder streets first to
esist what lie esteemed British oppres-
ion, and, called by some leader in a riot, {
y others martyr TO principle, at least G
man, for his capacity and spirit, never c
n Boston to be forgotten ALEXANDRA r
DUMAS, the most celebrated romancer '
{ France; NAT TURNER and DEN /
lark VEslE, with their single talent for
ombination of revolt against tyranny,
hough put down by overwhelming odds;
FREDERIC DOUGLAS, whose eIoquence
many esteem to be the most thrilling of
his ace. RORERT SuAJI who carto;p U