Washington telegraph., 1865-08-02

are more p2SSlondIe IMAM the WHlte men
but rarely vindictive, as we are. The
smallest injury excites their eager wrath
but no injury produces sustained haired
In the same way, they are seldom CRATE
full, though often very thankful They
are covctous of notice as is a child or a
dog; but they have little idea of earning
continual respect They best love him
who is most unlike themselves, and they
despise the colored man who approaches
them in breed. When they have once
recognized man as their master, they
will be faithful to him; but the more hey
fear that master, the more they will re-
spect him. They have no care for to-
morrow. but they delight in being gaudy
for to-day. Their crimes are those of
momentary impulse, as are also their vir
tues They fear death; but if they can
lie in the sun without pain for the hour
they will hardly drag themselves to the
hospital, though their disease be mortal.
They love their offspring, but in their
rage will i'll tse them fearfully. They
are proud of them when they are praised,
but will sell their daughters virtue for a
dollar. They are greedy of food, but
generally Indifferent as to it's quality.
They rejoice in fnery, and have in many
cases begun to understand the benefit of
comparative cleanliness; but they are
rarely tidy. A little makes them happy.
and nothing makes them permanently
wretched. On the whole, they laugh and
sing and sleep through lfe; and if life
Were all, they would not have SO bad a
time of it. .. -
These, think, are the qualities of
the negro. Many of them are in their
way good; but are they not such as We
have generally seen in the lower spheres
of lifel
much of this is strongly opposed to
the idea of the Creole negro which has
lately become prevalent in England. He
has been praised for his piety, and es-
pecially praised for his consistent graft
tuie to his benefactors and faithful ad-
herence to his masters interests.
"On such subjects our greatest difficult
ty is perhaps that of avoiding on opinion
formed by exceptional ca<es That there
are and have been pious negroes | do
not doubt. That many are strongly tine
tured with the language and outward
bearing of pietv ! am well aware. know
that they love the Bihle-love il as the
Roman Catholic girl loves the doll of a
Madonna which she dresses with muslin
aud ribbons In certain sense this is
piety, and such piety they often po sess.
"And | do not deny their f,mily at
tsrlments; but it is th attachment of a
dog We have all had dogs whom we
have we'll used, and have prided ourselves
on their fidelity We have seen them to
be wrrtched when they lose us for mo-
mpnt, and have smiled at their Joy when
they again discover us. We have noted
their patience as they wait for food from
the hand they know vii feed them We
have seen with delight how their love for
us glistens in their eyes. We trust them
with our children as the safest playmates,
and teach them in mocking sport he
tricks OF humaniv Y. In return for this,
the dear brutes give us all their hearts,
abstain with all their power from injury
and offence, but they do not abstain from
Judgment. Let his master il use his dog
ever so cruelty, yet the animal has no
anger against him when the pain is over
Let stranger save him from such i'll
usage. and he has no thankfulness after
the moment. Affection and fidelity are
things Of custom wi b ,im.
Il know how deep will be the indigna-
tion shall draw upon my head by this
picture of fellow-creature and a fellow
Christian Mans philanthropy would
wish to look OH all men IA walking in a
quick path towards the perfection of civ
iiization. And men are not happy in
their good efforts unless they themselves
can See their effects They are not con-
tent to fight for the well-being of a race,
and to think that the victory shall not
come till the victors shall for centuries
have been mingled with the dust The
friend of The negro, when he puts his
sh oulder 70 the wheel, and tries TO rescue
his black brother from the degradation
of an inferior species. hopes 10 see his
client rise mp at once with all the glDres
of civilization round his head There;
behold my work; how good it is" That
is the reward to which he looks But
what If the work be not as vet good2
What if it be Gods pleasure that more
time be required before the work be good
go d in our finite sense of the word
in onr sense, which requires the show OF
an immediate effectl
ave arc always in such hurry; al
though, as regards the progress of races,
history so plainly tells us how vain such
hurry is! At thirty, man devotes him.
self to proselytizing people; and if the
people be not proseiytized when he has
reached forty, he retires in disgust. In
early life we have aspirations for the
freedom of an ill-used nation; but in mid
die life we abandon our protege to yran-
ny and the internal gods. The process
has been too long The nation snould
have arisen free, at once, upon the in.
stant 1t is hard for man to work without
hope of seeing that for which he labors.
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"I shall now be asked, having saidsc
much, whether think that emancipation
was wrong. By no means. think that
emancipation was clearly right; but
think that we expected far too great and
far too quick result from emanc' patton
"These people are servile race, fitted
by nature for the hardest physical work