New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-07
THE ANNIVERSARIES.

The present Is anniversary Weeh-d DITCH stu
son in which, through scores OF benehcent OF
carnations the Christian year reviews ITSELF
But few societies have thus lar heid SESSIONS
One Of these reports Gs3 women and children
cbaritably sheltered and 1853 as the number OF
benefcaries of industrial home and schools FOR
the friendlcss Another tells us how the friends
of the seaman had converted him to book
reading so that row they have on shipboard
not less than 10000 volumes which reach more
than 100000 seamen. Still another spreads out
before us the remote and fearless ways OF per-
sistent missionary enterprise. Many more are 10
come the general character Of whose good
work and purpose is in harmony with all these
The week will be crowded with anniversaries,
according to -honored habit, and there will
be full outcropping of religious harvests.
We see no reason to fear that the result of
the present years labors will prove in any
essential respect inferior to its predecessors
We think it probable that at no other time
has philanthropy found itself more benevolent
or moral reform interested itself more earnestly
and successfully The number of we'll
doing societies is greater than ever, and
the quantity and quality of the good
work done is, we doubt not, in proper
ton. The nation has clearly and surely
advanced in the way of freedom and righteous
ness, and religion. practical charity, and social
reform. cannot have failed to improve the
moral serenity of that golden leisure which
has been won only after dreadful contest OF
good and evil. Ii was necessary to reconstruct
the South with intelligence and truth, and
this to a good extent has already been done.
The real cnfranchiscmcnt of the cOlOred peo-
pie dates with the establishment of freed
mems schools in which enterprise the anti
Slavery people of the North have been patient
and pains taking missionaries. Education Is
now as widely spread and as solidly founded
in all the Southern States rs religion. In their
GOO wooden school-houses the colored men of
the South have citadel which oppression
cannot shake. and an armory for ali the weapons
needed for the franchise. Northern anniyersa-
RES have built and armed all these block
houses in the wilderness of Southern life and
so contributed TO command the tariy but
glorious result of Embarrassment. Freedom
finds the black with his hands not only un-
manacled but weap0ned and our missionary
organizations are 10 be thanked for ii. We
hear of one society whose teachers among the
freedmen are over 40, their scholars upward
of $1,000; and this is but one among many.
Evidently. all our good reapers have been busy.
The field of active charity Is an inexhaustiblc
one. No enterprise of this kind can ever be
so vain of its wOrl, ~ TO think that it is ever
done but there is browning cOnsoa
ton in the fact of duty done, and that
results have been in every way pro-
portiOnate to expenditure. The anniversary
reports will teach us once again that il is more
blessed to give than to receive-that although
the benefit performed appears but small COM
pared to the good that remains to be done, it
is wen that good men and women do their
work faithfully. They have their reward-in
the doing if in nothing else.
OF the many societies which will come to-
gether this week it is impossible to speak fully;
but they will all exhibit the product Of some
high principle The Anti-Slavery Society
perhaps most noteworthy Of all, will meet
to-day. The interest in its proceedings will
be commensurate with the degree of wrong and
outrage which may be supposed to prevail
in the country; and we leave the reader to
make the calculation. The country has never
more prOpitously hailed its anniversaries.