Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-11-08
Tho Negro Question.

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We last week gave some account OF the
late annual meeting Of the American Mis-
s.onary Association. This organization Is
so intimately concerned with the negro
question, not merely in respect to its many
and ycxed complications at home but in its
more remote bearings upon the future oi
Africa, that we copy the following from the
correspondenccofth the Springfield Repu6hcan'
The present condition of the SOUTH as
affected by the color line aud the seething
mixture Of discordant elements in the polit
ical situation were pretty darkly drawn, and
vet without single token Of dependency CON
corning the final success Of time and patience
and earnest efforts to spread the growing
area of enlightenment and goodwill There
is even now no special friction in the upper
uerof Southern states The Hampton negro |
institute in Virginia, and Fisk university IN |
Tennessee, which has recently completed its |
beautiful building, Jubilee Hall, at a cost of |
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars |
are highly appreciated by both races, and
the polls in these states are rs unmolested as
in Massachusetts,
Aud so the leayen spreads. Wherever |
thi. association has fair chance and gets a
, foothold, and plants ITS Institutions no more
4 need of United States troops There Is no
, other way Of eluating this troublesome fac
tor and uncertain quantty-the color-line-
in the final and happy solution Of our ma
tional problem, but by letting time and pa
thence and goodwill in the very line of work
e which This association is attempting. have
their perfect work. Thomas Jefferson said
that the two races cannot in the long future
live together. That is The very question, as
was argued 10y Hon. Il. ). Tobey president
: of the association, IN his speech ON taking
the chair, for Christianity to answer Can
different races and religions live together
Mr. Tobey spoke of his old pastor, DIR.
Kirk who met Catholic priest in his east
ern travels, and shared with him many per-
lis, especially of sickness in strange lands in
" which they ministcred TO each other; when
90 they returned together and met for the last
ms ,;,,. a, ,hoir hotel in Paris. DIR. Kirk pro-
''' posed to kneel in prayer and thanksgiving to
God for their delivcrance and safe return
and mutual help, and, when they arose from
%" praying. the priest embraced him. Mr.. Tobey
~, smoke of the DAYS when he stood in the Bos-
ton exchange and received money for the
VIC Christian or sanitary commission, that
ny flowed in faster than he could count it, and
Of n,., 60 t,;rL If ,ba ricoardliness that no,,
lu' witbholds in this vast exigency of our ma
W tional reconstruction, and can furnish onl,
SIS two hundred and fifty teachers to help pen
ICY citrate and scatter the density of this appall
III, ing ignorance and degradation of four mil
reu lions of people whom we have undertaken
ms. to incorporate into our body polite Wher
Yea there's a will. there's way. We can't &c
.! any more money into our treasury than W
'r"I have pietv if we could 'twould be demo
II alizinc. In reply to the query why il is tina
an there is such a lack of the true spirit, pro
rus rressive and devoted, in our churches, whic
her he mt. the other day, to a sturdy Scotc
leir friend. as they walked together in the street
on of Brooelyn. his friend stopped and sal
ach With signi6ooncv of emnbasis; Il thin
ms the churches have AS much Of the Holy Spir
pe- as they want What mean You by that
iiul Il mean to say that they are afraid that an
for moro win Interfere with their worldly mn
nee roses,
pro- "If one Of the papers was correct in i
has statements. one hundred Young Romi,
ible ,r;ests verc recently seen aboard n sing
our train. en- route for their posts of religio
all dutv in the southern states. and of the s.
are ters of Mercy not less than two thousar
tets, arc now going about among the colored pc
d in pe. The color line is absolutely ABOLISH
who in their churches. and schools are large
!. nrovided free of exnense. In respect of {
utter color.line in schools and churches all tho
one Of this association are lust as free from
our Rnt in the old original religious denomir
peo- tions of the South. it is a yexing and di
unity s;ve oues,ior The neoro mnst still worsb