Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-02
TRANSCRIPTION CELEBRATION.
West India Emancipation under the
Auspices of the RFeedmen's Eduea-
tiOnaI SOesety-5usie, Songs and Es-
S~ays-AddresS of J. n. LnnEstOn,
ESQ. Of Oberl;n-Viands, dc.

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says-Address of J. n. LnngstOn,
Esq. Of OberIin-Viands, dc.
The Freedmen's Educational Society OF
this city celebrated the anniversary of the
abolition of slavery in the West India Isles
by a grand festival at CARROTS Hall last
evening. The programme was long and
varied, consisting of songs, choruses, essays,
and an able address by J.. n. Langston, Esq,
of Oberlin. Little Johnny Van Epps re-
cited in a very FIRE spirit and manner T.
Buchanan Reeds famous poem, "Sheridanis
Ride" The programme has already been
given, and needs not here to be repeated.
The hall was well filled with q respeeta-
BILE and highly appreciative audience and
the celebration cannot but be called a splen-
did success in every respect. Some of the
essays were decidedly meritoriOus, and the
singing was good. There was beauty there,
too-rivals of many city bellies.
At the close of Mr.. Langston's address he
was elected an honorary member of the
Freedmen's Educational Society. After the
conclusion of the exercises refreshments
were served to those who saw ft 10 remain.
We append a few brief extracts from Mr..
Langston's address, regretting exceedingly
our inability TO present it entire.
He said no one ought to make more than
one speech in "a hours and had he known
that he would have been so i%mprudent as
to make SO long a speech at Warren as he
had done, he would not have promised tc
speak here, as he found himself in the poor
est conceivable condition for speeeh-mak'
ing.
The time is come in the history Of the
colored people OF this country when no one
ought to make a speech simply for the sake
of speaking. The work before US is of very
great import. The work of the colored
people of tbs North is to educate and ele-
Yate the colOred people of the South. The
colored people of the South, and indeed Of
the North, need q very peculiar education
Just as boys and girls are taught in our
South need to be taught what is meant by
possession-what is meant by being the
owner ofoneselE.
God has made US once and he expects us
to remake urselves-make ourselves honest
industrious and intelligent. Heaven never
spoke into existance 3 Daniel Webster-a
Henry Clay-a Demosthenes-or an
Eschines. Ii you would be a Daniel Web
ster, a Clay or q Demosthenes, exert your
selves. If you would thunder like Cicero,
stand up aud let your words come forth
hot from your heart. God never spoke a
Russia. an England, an America or a grand
and glorious negro nation into existence.
As the white man comes up-advances on
and still on-so the black must rise in the
scale of intelligence, education and power.
This is the education that the negroes of
| the South want TO understand; and they
look to the colored people of the North for
examples. The difference between great
men and little men is that the former pos
sess individuality-haye thoughts but the
! latter are everybody else in the world but
themselves. Abraham Lincoln made his
own fortune. He possessed thought. He
said it is in me, and by the help of God III
make it come out, and if did come.
The first thing the colored people of the
South have to learn is Acknowledgment
merely ownership but the meaning of self
making, and they look for examples to the
colored people OF Ohio, New York and all
the Northern States. The black man ofthe
North mi prepare the path for the South.
The people of the South must next be e /
ucated. Having taugft them the value
and meaning of sell ownership, they must
be taught that their destiny is in their own
hands. They must be taught the avlue of
time. No man can innoeently throw away
a moment, q minute, an hour, a day, or a
month. They must also be taught the value
o mOneY, but how can we teach this which
we do not ourselves properly understand ?
We, too, mnst learn it; and they must learn
from our example. Money is a moral. as
well as material power. IL raises lis Dos
SCISSOR, and its want is often the cause of
degradation. Tae representative of dollars
and cents is always the most influential in
q community. There is not in the North
or in the South one cslO-ed man who can
afford to waste one cent ior drink or friyo-
l6us amusemsnts. l remember standing
on the bank ofyour lake in this city some
years ago and begging a young man who
had Just heired $500, 600 by the death of a
good father, not TO drink Intoxicating liquor.
He promised, but violated his word. a few
DAYS ago l stood by his grave in Lcavon-
worth, Kansas, 10 which he had boon
brought by drunkenness aud gambling.
If you have money it is your business to
employ it for the education and elevation
Of The eolOred people North and South. I
am glad l have the honor of addressing a
society whose object is the enlightenment
and aid of the people North as well "a
South. Teach our people character, aud
teach them to shun Intoxicating liquors.
There was q young man whom l knew.
lie came into the possession Of a large for
tune. He gave me fifty cents, and some
times q d5liar, for b~lacking his boots. But
he commenced drinking and gaming, and l
rave lived to see him willing to black nv
boots for ten cents had l asked him. When
yO1 get money dc no. squander it.
The eolored people must also be taught
the value of character. We want to under
stand that we are no longer co!orcG people,
but Americans. We have been called all
manner o. names. ! have always called
ourselves Negroes. Perhaps you don't like
it. l DO. | want it to become synony-
nous with character.
We are no longer negroes simply-no
longer colored people simply. but 4 part of
the great whole of the great American peo-
pie. The Democrats have been saying
q On, how ignorant they ars!7 And the
Conservative Republicans have also been
"0h, how ignorant they arelv If
you would ever become President Senator or !
Member of the Legislature, make your
selves worthy, and the trust tho people
TO discover your worth; and then the Dem
ocrats and Conservative Republicans will
no more go around, saying how ignorant"
Every man is the moulder and builder of
his own destiny. God Almighty set the
man here. and the black man at his
side, to live together, and labor together
their destinies have become interwo-
ven.
I glory first that I am a black man; sec
md that am a white man third that I
I'M a negro; fourth that I am an American
and fifth thatI may boldly speak
lnder the protection of this great and noble
.Iepublic.
Mr.. Langston closed his address, Of which
We have presented but a very imporfectsy y
iopsis, amid enthusiastic cheering.
SALES IF RIAL EsrATE.-As an item of
interest to real estate owners we append 2
ist Of transfers of real estate entered on
ne Recorders books during the past week
n. C Baldwin to N. ( E. McAIahon sub
OF l2S, block F Buffalo Company's pur-
base, Cleveland city consideration $50.
y. C. Baldwin 10 P. < c. Clancy sub-lot
p, block F Buffalo OomPany's purchase,
city; consideration $3.50. ,
s. * H Callahan to VIM. Congden lot 333
Il W~illeyville allotment, Cleveland city
consideration $500.
George Fell to Daniel NJ. B. Mclean lot
Il Cheshire street, Cleveland city; consider [
ton S1,4O0.
J. P. Bishop 70 Joseph II. Melsher parts of
I and 9 in Seymour q Raldwin's
lb-division Of l0-acre lots 81 and So, in !
lock Of S subdivision, Cleveland cityI
onsideration $4,000. /
c. Cutter to wm. Kerr sub-lot I3s and !