New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-17
denco and to imPOyeSrisnTinnssc was assasslnated'

su Sno ,' nm mat Mr.. Lincoln was taken away she
sSp,e Se n nI longer But the c5aor OF Abraham Lin
had nope NOT been taken away and ia fact Is
Sotfn whether IL Mr. lincoln haf lived, he could have
Sone iO Nav il Is exceedingly doubtful whether so
NH as has been done them would have been uoio
,o them il Mr. Ilneoln had lived But. at any rate, the
idea OF this poor that the wellbeng oil etnca
race depended the life OF any one MAN wa. ~. "a
rnlnons mistakea mistake which done Injury to That
race aud Ia other races.
HOW 10 THRIVE.
1t was said the colored people OF the South s'ooa
around for year or after the emanoipaton LOOMING
fer acres of land and mule which tho Governmen'
as ay supposed had been told, was about TO oeso"
upon them Now, that poor Government has had a
heavier load TO shoulder than they had, and IL wouo
have been very far out OF its power, as IL would nave
been out OF its way endeavOr 10 bestow upon any per
son 10 acres OF land and mue. Nay u'theSthah 'a''
II the Government had been able and ii 1t had been per
focy proper make such gift consider tnat ne
profted by that bounty; sat once VITA PITT PITT
smith IN the great African Church a IN E KISa
these vague ideas of some great nenen. 70 tb pe
achieved from the Government were csTaeans ,is
fashion: "You told colored men OF Nfglhla, 'nse
the Government ought 10 give you lad, ana you Yo9
ought 10 have land, admit Now, here arc two OF US
lpOlnting mel who have used no liquor ana no .opaoo
Tor 80 years II you will just do without liquor OF @
for 80 years to come promise you you wln Own az
MI smiths ideas of the mode of providing these people
with The 40 acres of land and mule an q9te sure
have been half beneficial as this way 10 teach 'hcn
how to save and secure il for themselves. -, ..,
Dr. Franklin, whose merits as ateacher OF ms i
men have yet been half appreciated spent topo
many years in intoxicating lessons OF fTngay ana tnd
half SO much should have done We sec every CAV
spectacles of OBSERVATIONS ana OF war @sS W.
Franllm's advice had been GUY hecucu Vho
M his maxms that has made its mark The ages is the
statement that penny saved is two pennies earneG;
think better and truer way OF statnS t.e same
truth is that one dollar earned is better Tor man
than tive dollars begged or Inherited" lApplause.l
Show me young who i'll the five or six years Ioi,
lowing his attaining his majority has saved thousand
dollars from his honest earnings ana nave no
fear whatever that he viii in any future stage OF his
career to want don't apprehend for MN either
bankruptcy, or ncapaeity, or lhaDihty 10 earn vi
20 save. / would rather he had mat thousa adS
dollars, squarey earned ana honestly k e CO..
out the fruits OF his cxerton, than any SlQoOo
drawn in lottery or mat ms atneT eo1a NM
Better 900 than $1,000 that came to HIM other
wise than through his own faithful aud honest exerto
state these truths. trite as they may SEEM DeGasc
think the colOred people of this country eniHenty Ioeu
to treasure them ana to Ieel their force. ~.
used some ulne ago 70 give Goi%r & faiycT
the black man who said nc was luStVe IRON slavery
half the money given TO frauds-men who made
a business of running away from slavery sometimes
ming AT the time If the overthrow OF slavery
which spoiled their business, and l am glad u did-
lapplausel from that time to this have gwen dollars
very sparingly black men, il at all, because lett
deeply that tne best possible argument ior hn man
slavery was emancipated person gong around peg
ng. 1t stronger argument than any apostle, any
made ior savery-tnat of an unsacll, trying TO
live on the bounty OF others. have said harsh things
once been slaves but were now fieemen meant how
ever only in them that spirit Of scorh Tor he
life OF tho idle anG the vagIant which 1olt ana "heh
seemed to me desirable that they also should feel
BEGGING An EDUCATION.
This spirit of beggaryit is hard word TO use, nut
use it-ts disposition to be benefited by other abors
than orr own seems to me, to-day, of the chief
obstacles advancement OF the eOlored to the
position which think they ought 10 occupy, and which
they may occupy. 1t comes, Also III the shape OF
begging for an education, which is seductive and
IS TO my mind, more dangerous than begging
bread Yes, 1 would not beg an education. L
frlst do honestly honor my father and my mother
the Scriptures command. and vet there is no one thing
which honor them profoundly as FOR the et that
when a child Of 10 years, and was supposed CT re-
puted to 9e rather apt and forward pupil in school,
they waited upon by the clergyman and the lawyer
hood, and offered that should be taken
of their hands and sent TO school and academy
and college, and perhaps to a the0logical seminary;
and 50 through the mill aud turned out a finished
scholar ready for work in any capacity without one cent
ofcos TO them, and they duly considered the proposition
and after quiet consultation between themselves they
returned for answer that they would give eaoh
of their children as good an education as
their means would allow. ,,ed, do ,, not know
that decision, but am profoundly gS6fal now that
they ev=5 ~ do what was i'll their power for their
children and not have anything done for them by
of charity quite certain that it was better on the
whole that should rough it through with such an edu
cation q Ncw-England common Sch0Ol could Afford me
than that l should go through lie with
humiliating sense of dependency, through having
missionary association. should have felt under
kind of obligation to the creed of the men to whom
should believe ana teach whatever
seemed to me the ruth, as 1 do now on a good many
OF the topics among Christians. For this ought to
be, and / trust | am, grateful am grateful
also Tor TINS mat dn owe no xoo,l person
parents. and l have just such their scauty
means were able 20 afford me.
THE EXAMPLE OF JEWS.
Letme illustrate by example the conspicuous and
table example of the Jewish Hebrew This peo
pie has more than twenty centuries been the special
object OF persecution and oppression. They have been
hunted from place to place. denied the right 10
land, to follow any creditabe profession, and
then cursed and scorned because they practced usuy
which perhaps was the only thrifty trade that they
were allowed TO practice at all. They have been sub
jeced to suffering than the cOlOred people
were in civilized cOuntryto torture. to confscation,
sumption or pretext rather that they were somehow
responsible for the crucxon of the Savior OF mankind
told Of incident that occurred in California
only few years ago where a Jew and a
heathen Chinee" came into collision about some
traffic bargain In which tried To ovcrreach The
other When the Chinese could think Of no other cpl
Ioe e Prehaby All he had heard Of the ChTjsan re-
hglon in ten years was that the Jews had, somehow,
centuries have been the object of special obloquy COR
there is bitterness anywhere equal to theological
rancor So the afflicted, scourged, wronged, outcast
Hebrews have lived they might through all these
weary centuries; but, sinners as they wereand they
never in the hour OF their darkest and deepest
degradation failed 10 cherish faith in God and
trust IN themselves lapplansel and these traits
have always characterized them. No matter what
their faults, or what their wees, the Hebrews
have held TO their belief in God and trusted In their
powers. Even the urd smoke of the inquisitOn
Obscured TO the goodness Of God, never made
unaithflh 70 their religion themselves; at
last We see the Hebrew taking his seat in senates
and In the councils Of kings / wish l could
infuse African among these character
iscs. Why, in the times when the Jews were the most
desOate and the most oppressed, thinl; they
failed, in the first place. to take OF all their poor
and then they paid then fun share toward supporting
the pauIeisu OF other people than their own. / bring
thee people beI0fe You as an exape and as an cncOnr