The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-04-21
Neurology. MiSceseEatiOn
Philanthropy.

Wendell Phillips, like the orators of La
puta, described by CULVER, who, in the
place of words, carry with them discourses
made up of things-in one of his late har-
argues before the elect of Boston. brought
upon the platform young saddle-colored
female, who he introduced, as 1.-The type OF
the future American women" The hub
ties, it is said, were vastly delighted with
this new notion of their favorite saint. gree
ted the type" and the promised antityE
with multitudinous applause, and did o
crowd and hustle to kiss and caress the
former, that there was scarcely spot on
her whole body which escaped their salu-
tons.
A recent legal examination before an
United States Commissioner in New York,
a report of which is contained in late
number of the Times, evolved glimpse Of
the biography of a coIored clergyman, for
merly of Charleston, S. C. whose extraor-
binary powers and fervent piety have given
him a reputation. which some of his white
brethren might envy. Leaving wife and
several children at Charleston, he came on
TO Baltimore. where he took t. himself
second spouse. Departing thence for New
York. nc married third, and within a
brief period fourth: all u whom at the
call of duty, he abandoned: going out
missionary to Liberia, where he is now
supposed to be, sewing. somewhat at
broadcast, the seed of the Gospel--and
his own.
A page in a late number of the New
York Tribune is devoted to history of
the circumstances and results of one of
those brilliant efforts at elcvating and
ameliorating the colored race-uadertaken
under the patronage of the Administration
for which our age and country are about
to be SO gloriously distinguished. The
Tribune heads the report: "Return of the
Haytian Co,onists: Terrible suffering and
loss Of life from Exposure, Deprivation and
Disease; The African Slave Trade Revived
in America" Five hundred and sixty-sx
'contrabands,' as they are called, we're
shipped from Alexandria and Fortress
Monroe. to the island Of A'Vache one Of
the Haytain group, under a contract be-
tween the Government and Messrs. Forbes
and Tuckerman, OF New York
Upon paper the promises are exceeding
thrOpy: The contrabands were aiken to an
uniDhabitcI uacultivAtci and housclcss
island, upon which they were east, and
where, without clothes. or shelter. or a;tcn-
dance in sickness, with Insufficient and
unwholcsome food, and under negro dr;-
vcrs. they were compelled to wcrk 1t
clearing land, until, by starvation. expo
sure, hardships. abuse, and disease, their
numbers were in about five months. reduc-
ci to four hundred and seven. At the
end Of that time, the colonial enterprise
fell through, and the contrabands were
left to shift for themselves on
an inhospitable island, where they would
have all persisted in time, if
it had not been for the interpostion of the
American Consul on the main land, who
and sent them back at the public
expense.
he pictures given by the Tribune of
the sufferings and condition of the victims
of our philanthropy, it is not necessary to
reproduce. They contain a full inventory
Of all the ills that humanity can be brought
to suffer, and all these to the most ghostly |
degree. And now comes the ingratitude, |
which We give in the words of the Tribune
With unanimous and emphatic exclaim,
they say they would rather be returned TO
the hardest Of American masters, tSan to
be sent back under any auspices to the
Haytian Island" In spite ofthis, howev-
er, it is easy to be seen that the philan-
thropic mind, so far from being discour-
aged, is still in labor for their welfare, for
1T is thought that two full companies OF
soldiers could readily be enlisted from their
number. = Cincinnati Enquirer.