Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-01-06

morrow night in the vestry OF the church
There is Il fine display OF articles, and the re-
reshments are superb.
EMANCIPATIoN JUBILEE.-Hass Meeting of
CoofeG itoFte.-Last night, the colOred people
celebrated the anniversary of the emancipation
proclaim atom of President Lincoln by a meet
ing at the rooms OF the Union League A large
crowd was in attendance, not only of coIored
people, {male and female but of mem bers of
the Union League; while few ladies were
sprlnkitd here and there. In the early part of
the evening, the whites as they came in took
the seats on the right hand side of the hall, and
the colored people those the left; but long
before the meeting commenced the races bagan
10 mix considerably, and before the meeting
intermingled.
Eight O'clock arrived, and no speakers ap-
pearing, MIR. }. ). Brown, the superintendent
OF the hail, announced that they would be there
IN few moments.
The audience waited W lille longer, and then
by stamping eyinced their Impotence, when
L. II. q. Hinton (coloTed) arose, and announced
that the speakers would be present in few
moments. One OF them, he said, waiting
on :; lady, and she had great many chicken
hxens" 10 get or, which probably occasioned
the delay. Laughter
Louu calls were made for Hinton, but he an.
nounced that LATTER awhile ne would say
something.
The colored side then struck up the hymn,
IS My country it's of thee" &c. but was inter-
rupted by stamping and clapping OF hands,
which announced the arrival Of the speakers
After order had been restored MIR. Hinton
introduced the orator the evening follows:
Ladies and gentlemen. please give me your
attention. L ought TO nave sail fello W citizens
that is a large pill to swallow, but Brother
Jonathan has said it must be so. [Applausel
1t is not necessary to enter iuto preliminary re-
marks in introducing the speaker. Charles
Lenox RGmUnd, the bright plank IL the anti
slavery platform and champion of human
rights, will now address the meeting APP
plause.
mr.. Remond, who is a colored lawyer of
Salem, Mass, OF good education and fair,
natural abilities. arose, and after some pre-
hmlnary remarks, said he had always be-
lieved In the great moral truth that God was
the Father OF u all, and that we were all
brethren without rs ference to accidents or in.
cIdents, W bite face or black face, white hair or
black hair, and he trusted the time was fast
approa ching when we shall not have poiiti-
cal standard by which mans work is to be
measured, EoT q local position by which a
mans virtues are to be known, and when
American citizens shall be known and honorsd
according to their merits, and without regard
to the station In which they move. Station is
accidents tall like the colored man s com ole xiOn-
nc merit or demerit in the individual that has
1t. TIE 'cdr, therefore, has not been with black
men, but with 9 cd and his creatures. Hence
the sad mistake. A man might as well call
upon leopard to change his spots as to call
upon the speaker TO change his color. Com
plexion has been made Il crime, and hence we
are gathered here to- night, an exception to the
general rule: for. the colored people are in the
great re diving wheel OF CUR country for good
or evil.
The speaker touched in rapid succession
upon the causes OF the present rebellion, and
then 1emarked that their prayers from the be-
ginning had been s. Let Justice be done though
the heavens fall The cure for the evil of
slavery had been Abolition, and it was reject
ed. There was q time when the cry am
Roman citizen" would have commanded re-
spect and protection from one end of the world
to the other, and upon the same ground he held
that the cry am an American citizen, shoul
entItle all 10 the same respect. But this could
not be go long as Democrats shall be seen slave.
holders, while Republicans and protesting
Christians should so be seen. He trusted that
the day " as not far coming when a man should
not be tissraced because he demanded Justice,
The cclored man had answered the cali OF his
country in the hour of its trial, and therefore
he hoped that those who shared this peril and
sacrificed their lives should be rewarded by
the rig MT OF political suffrage, equal with the
white man. The evil OF slavery was wide
spread as our wide extended country, and the
speaker believed that when the black man was
made man III every sense OF the word, slavery
would meet its death blow, and not iii! then
And he believed this would occur, for he be-
lieYeu GOO matted the prayer OF the humblest
black man.
The speaker then sat down, amid much an
plause; and after the audience had suor the
''Slar- spangled Banner" Mr. Thos H. q Hin
ton arose and addressed the meeting He was
10th TO follow so great A speaker as he who had
precedsd him, "fOr his eloquence had gone
broadcast rs one of the peerless orators of the
anti.siayery platform He Mr. Remond1
''had addressed us generally, and whatever
elocutionary fireworks may choose TO DISPLAY
(said Er. Hinton) would probably not produce
a sensation He stood there as Tnos. H. c.
Hinton, not only as who sang the Star.
spangied Banner, but one who believed in il
and loved IT, and at its back stands good old
Father Abraham. [Applausel Mr.. Hinton
did not believe that il was necessary for bino
10 quote a 'sm ulupIicty of theologic II maxims
of jurisprudence TO determine whether the bja *
man was a man He would say 10 brother
Chief .iustlce fancy iGpplause1 and his other
noble brothers that they asked nothing of this
Government except restoration to their rights
He argued that the black man was willing to
shonldef ms Inusket to help crush the hydra
head OF me reptile slavery; and he belle we'd
slavery was about TO kick its last GAppIause
Mr.. Hinton then announced that a collection
would he taken up to detray expenses. TIE
sum was realized.
Another coiored man, who was announced
as a Dir. Smith, Of Boston, Mass, then arose
and addressed the maetiZg. Mr. Sui,h an
nounced himself as Virginian BY birt6. but
that he had left that State years ago becausr II
became TOO hot for him. The point he sfrova
to make N his speech was that The colorad
people should accept nothing less than rsooa
milton as men they should never 60 to a chureh
where they would be colonized-neyer In y
thsater X here they would be crammed in tho
third story, and never occupy position where
they would not be recognized as equals if they
behave themselves He urged the people OF
Warrington 10 work. and never cease worsing
until they were treated as equals, and uritil
their children were placed in schools on n
footing with white children.
MT - D Brown, WHITE the superln tenGent
OF the hail. then took the stand, and announced
that Oh Sunday a de legation Of colofed men
came 10 him and asked him for the Union
League hall wherein TO hold this meeting.
They represented that they had never been a bic
TO ohtatn hall III this city for such a meeting
and he tMr Brown Informed them that time
was passed, and he gave them the Union League
nail tApFleusr.J In conclusion, Mr.. Bro gn
oHoreG thr following resolutions; which Uers
unanimously adopted:
RtScircd, That we recognize more than ever
moi
ta.neh III the Declaration OF IEdepend IN .e sthat
d Ire are born tree and equal and are entitled
10 Ger a'n iLaieEable rights, among which are
Ne, Liberty ana the pursuit OF happiness"
Res ted, That the emancipation prociama.
ion OF President lincoln is eminenfiy in hgr.
moDy with this doctrine, and we half it as an
Country. - N"'
Tie soiored PEOPLE present then adopted