The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-05

Hotter than the faggots smoking
Round the martyrs dropping head,
When the flames the life blood cbolng,
Ere the spirit form has fed.
Like the cloud-cappeG glazie1 mountain
Floating IN the Poar sea,
When the moonbearn's silver fountain
Sheds q sparkling radon-y,
Such is halred-chIl December,
Freezing up the streams 0f he
And thon charging Ike On ember,
rams the rising ilame Of st,ife.
Low
sTeeter than the eohan harp
That ravishes the sadlened soul.
ia loves rich incense to the heart,
Wahenng Joy beyond controN.
Purer than the sparllng dcws,
Gentler than the twilight hour.
Brighter than the rainl oU's hles
That deck at morn The summer showe.s.
Heavenly cs the angel iair
That snatched our Saviour from tue tomb,
Holy as the ardent prayer
rhat rises from the Car.st.au's nome.
such Is love with y.r.ue's rear,
lluoncbing every spark Of hate.
E0bDInr earth Of every f1ac.
Bidding al! OF bliss part.he
aLTEEA.
HaI;ford Nov. 15th 1873.
fas years before .he war >.ss Nyrtilla
liner began q school D Washington tor the
education Of colorad Youth. 9bomet with fierce
opposition. iicv scaOni was as5aied, and her
lie and property endangered. Sic vas tdreat-
ened V.-h mob v,olol,,,s unless she desisted
from .er nefai!o,.s ara ridiculous project Of
educating colored g.ra, ~ size had 20 far con-
tined herself TO female scholars and strange
as it seems in This day, the Mayor CT Washing
ton counscled her 20 close her school, saying
lie should be unable to plotec. her from facD
which seemed then inevitable. THIS mayor was,
as the world then run in the capital Of our
" Free Republic most worthy, pubic-spirit-
ed, and benevolent man But few residents Of
Washington, Of course. cared or dared to sus-
tam Miss Miner. tInlG al the opposition she,
nevertheless, carried on her school with varied
fortunes and frequent interruptions Her
great am was to fit girls TO become teachers,
The public schools in Washington to-day attest
the success OF her labors in this direction.
LEI ideas OF education expanded with expe-
renee. The work before her enlarged. She
appealed to friends in the North to assist her.
Liberal people responded, and some four thous-
and dollars we're contributed to her cause. This
sum she invested in trust,b by the purchase OF a
square o. ground near Twentieth and p streets
on which WIS small frame building, in which
she kept her school. nth within year or two
past this location was in q distant and secluded
part OF tae city.
The war came on, her health broke down and
her school was suspended She vislred Califor-
MIA in the vain hope OF improving her condi-
ton. Her great desire was to gam strength to
pursue her vocation again as IN educator Of
coiored youth in Washington. During her ab-
sence, Congress incorporated the institution
tor the Education OF Colorel Youth" OF which
Miss Iiner was made one ci the corporators.
lli- waa in 1863 nc @as not successful IN
hc. visit to tho Pacific coast End returned to
Washington 30 die. in 1905 t'.e institution
created by Donsres. succeeded TO her trust
Tho Hul. property -Hc bad endowedit WITH had
increased in vauo other schools had been
opened for colored children. and emancipation
had been effected il the District OF Columbia.
Ihe rcmoinlng corporators had &c ormincd to
devote the income OF the property TO the edu
cation OF colored teachers. The piece OF ground
bought by Miss Miner doubled, trebled, quad
rupled in value until tie coTporators sold it for
ten times the price she paid for 1t. THIS plac
ed fund of over forty thousand dollars in the
possession Of the institution. Various plans
were discussed for utilizing the income OF this
fund.- 20 that the object OF the founder may
best be obtained the education OF colored
youth for teachers. At present the income is
devoted to the payment OF the salaries Of two
professors in the normal department OF the
Howard University. This arrangement is ex-
pected to furnish large number of competent
teachers and supply the increasing demand
among the schools springing up III the recent
land of slavery. The trustees OF Howard Uni
versity have named one of their largest build
ings - Miner Hall" and the professors IN the
normal department are called - the Miner pro-
fessors" Thus the work of n single woman,
begun amid trials and poverty, has come to be
q benifcent and successful institution. To the
heroic Efforts Of Miss Miner we may also, to
some extent, ascribe the prosperous and meri-
torious character Of tho public colored schools
of Washington. fho same people who n fow
years ago secuted the idoa Of educating negro
now soc thousands Of coored youth in this
city acquiring tine same education that the chill
dlcn cl the mos. favored whites receive.
Mrs. Harriet T.. Noble. one Of the pioneer
women Of Michigan. died OF Elk Rapids Noy
H. Sine was the vito Of NATHANIEL Noble. who
settled at Dexter in 1924. The pouinsular
Couuer says she was the first white woman who
settled west q, Ann Arbor IN thia state. She
walked from Detroit to Ypsilanti. the wagons
being 100 heavily loaded to permit her to ride
yiyd narrative Of her trip to Michigan and
Of her experience at that time. wilton by her
self, may be found in a work entitled 4" Pioneer
Women OF the West" published in 1854 by
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