The colored American., 1866-01-13
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tons that other hsye7 Are there any difference ii our
ate men nssger that question better than as And go far =
they w Cannot s We pts g susceptible Of Improvement
MAKE 1t crime to be found teaching negro for it was nenep
ay act Ht State though unlawful to teach horse tc
ana Bat the whites not only refused learn them
selves but refused to let learn they ond prevent it, at
least law was against it. which argument enough They to
ogon that they were shutting up darkness By refusing
intellectual development that immortal spirit chat nndv1o
pe that spark of Deity which created with exhaustess re-
sources With mind though minute present will one dv swa
low down. comprehend the mysteries Of the universe Oh
slavery thou hOrrid monster TEy days are numbered bon
@ curse to this nation but far the distance hear the last
rumDng gone forever gone
had the white people treated slavery trust from It Tond
nave ended ina terrible It would have gone on until
social burden It would have passed away SO mper
cePaby that would have felt the shock more like weary
man gcirg to sleep But the way treated and the ends to
was appropriated God And nothing less
tnan Hoods Of his burning ire and the thund Of bis athiDg dc
menu poured out upon the guilty heads the vors Of this law
sands could satisfy divine Justice and make Slavery
Inc eyes OF country which had loved dearly nurtured il
50 long Men of every rank and become
to the true status of manhood worldly gain 7 at
the bottom Of all his moral considerations 7's1
M those that should have taught the people equity exhausted
NE anSackng history that the
upon Canaan legitimate assignment the cood race to per-
Peua ervtude And when history failed to support that abomin
was worth anything at all (which emphacay denyt does not
effect us people, because through the lineage Of Cush
ana we have to do with Noh maeicton uDon the
OF Canaan than we have with Iaac blessing upon po
of Jacobhen all these visionary theories we're blown to the
resored the
'ne world They built air Kingdoms of slavery the servants
Abraham not knowing that Abraham was king or
patriarch and these socled subjects and ob
nce to the orders Of the chn the age as it was
for centuries afterwards Others nay anathematze Ham
and his whole poste and assign them place among chates
but let 1t be remembered henceorh forever that tey er the
t great men the world They founded the first cities and form
the first empires they generals the great
he mathematical problems Of Euclid et puzzle tie world besd
Te count three hundssd black bishops Primitive Church
nanhood go to the bloody that have been rdened "a
VI the richest blood that coued way the
a ASK those bleaching bones which lie Petersburg
uu OF ny own brave regiment then Port Hudson
OFT and hundred other scenes of carnage where b
r0pS fought Ded and died why you here and the answer
n come ioud as thunder GVe Liberty ge me- s,
Ehat was all they wanted ane is all zoe want Unlike the b;
have no desire to enaEe them deprive them Of their
ah d!sanchse them or to them All we want Is our
go IN common with other and let them have theirs When
ne nation first called upon the coed men to rav isAa
~ @nne was raised North and South that, If You arm
negroes you can never discipline them they will be cannbals
Ill all the women and children them into the
g ae negroes were armed and Ethiopia stretched forth her
anos 20 dod with muske them. Twelve hundred Of ne we
laced on bend of the James River known as WILSON, rd
norty Gen F Hugh Lee down upon na With
hundred men, AS he drove in our nckets
nag OF truce was sent in to demand surrender Of the
ouid take it, and death should be the penalty of our W.
usnenae n m army s 50 ne opened the contest which ragged
mes and finally left leaving three hundred dead and mnded ~
g ned Ihe sego cannba o Twas one out took M bis
tstts man. sho0 better heart = - J"-'
The fact IS we have better heart than the white people We
ant tnm ee and invested with all their rights We want tra
lem kindly and live in friendship yet I must say as believe
lat as ool as OLD things be forgotten things become
that the Southern people viii take by the hand and a
TO their respect and regard look forward to the dav when AZ
hte people fhe South will not exhibit one half the
they know and know them but at present y
peevsh because they think themselves subuoated Will; AZ
orer class never did ike best Ii was also said that the
cred people contemplated cold boode
nrassas lody and several Of white friends learn had "
ave apprehensons about its possibility knew then a kno
that II was ala piece of nonsensica fudge What have a m
surre FOR Are We not free and etcfnal free and do I
owtf Away with such hallucinaonl We never
len We had something to insnrrect for
was also said and Southern fanatics rode that hobby
lere That you free the negro he want to marry
and SISTERS that another foolish dream What do ~ &
sner daughters and ssterG We have much beatv -
y LOOK e our ladies' DO you beauty than that
Az zoe az Of tbe cste ses ooae. and tbev
Cd not feafu u.s. The difficulty has heretofore bcen or ~ sgs
but We have met N day the purpose Of mngng our coneu
ions ana rendering gratitude to the DDoser o events
have day feCkoned ID the catalogue Of anniversaries I
lca We can assemblies rejoice and feel unhoOd
every day belonged 70 those who claimed Our bodies but na
We meet % celebrate the day Of our great eiyerane
rec years ago. Abraham to the black man
Oaln she night IS God and The f0os of II
np0aenee AseK e bah e liberty fabric Of slavrg -
il vanished eaYng only it. wreck which hss
sy sept away by the amendment Slavery 81 no
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