The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-10-12
fHE NEGRO.


Aid Society, recently held at Laneas-
ter, Ohio, attracted q very large au-
dienee, and the remarks Of DR.. Ian
sing, OF Atlanta, Georgia, were alb
sor5ingly interesting, and which at
this juneture form q very influential
and effective speech for the cause Of
the Republican party. He spoke in
substance as follows:
"WhAt shall We believe in reference
to the South, about which we are
hearing so much Nowadays? So
/ many are the reports that we can
hardly determine the true situation.
Neither Congressional committees
nor travelling merchants know the
facts. To go South and ignore politics
and the niger one can get along
pleasantly enough. This is the dee
laration of that people. No half
1 truths nor exaggerati0ns will be stat
| ed Ia my remarks this evening. The
eolored people need our help more
than ever. Their condition is worse
than At any time since the rebellion.
The FFeedman's Bureau is gone, and
their old masters are less pacific aud
mere relentless than ever before. The
eOlored people are oppressed with
OVercharges for the actual necessities
of life, aud no eoloIed mans word Is
received against the statement Of
thsir former masters, who are con-
stAntly swearing them in debt, when
in almost every case they owe the
Jark:e. The eolOred man can not
reckon In figures, but their way is
strange and answers every purpose 10
the South. With the white men they
say ::
"a naughts a naught,
A ngger's 1gger,
All for the white man,
None for the niger"
"When the darkie Ia paid for his
laLur he is earnest and honest They
are not by any means a lazy people,
and not nearly so idle and shiftless as
the whites. They are very Ignorant
thousands of them being unable to
read But for this they are blameless.
What makes Ohio different from
Georgia The pioneers OF Ohio
planted school houses, and compelled
their children 10 go 10 school, while
at the same time the statutes OF GeOr-
gia made it q penal Offense to teach
the cOlOred people. There are no
schools In the South like ours in the
North. The State School COmmis-
siOner Of Georgia recommended, in
his last report, that the State should
not hereafter employ any OF the col
Ored pupils educated in our mission
schools, because they learned perni-
cIous habits there. The cOlOred peO-
pie have been made a vicious people,
schOOled in vice In the school OF sla-
very. Such vices, the growth Of slS-
very, sre nameless.
"They have no rights OF their own
their very souls are hardly theirs.
Why are they vicious ? Why are
their fRces blanched ? Because they
live In 3 reign Of terror, under con-
slant threat and the Wickedest Oppres-
sion. They are murdered In cold
blood in the midnight hour for dar-
ing to have q thought that does not
harmonic with that Of the laWless
and tyrannical whites. The men are
hunted and driven from their homes,
ths women insulted and debauched.
Is this not enough TO make them
vicious and revengeful. And, furth-
or, / might 60 on and lead you
through such scenes-black, helli8h
seenes-at which you would even be
afraid TO gaze. But let US turn anOth-
er page, and look upon less wOeful
picture. The cOlOred people have ex-
csllent natural qualities. They are
ambitious, remarkably so, for high
er and better life than this, and will
the great Methodist Church let the
opportunity pass to lift these down.
trodden people from their awful con-
dition ? The opportunity referred to
can only be the opportunity that the
ballot. box affords at the coming elec-
ton, and that, too, by voting for
HAyes.) There Is q notion prevailing
especially among the bigOted and
ignorant class OF whites, both in the
South and North, regret to say, that
the darkie can not learn. This is the
hight of absurdity. In thousands OF
instances the black man far surpasses
his white competitor, where be has
the chance, in Intellectual and edncs-
tiOnal advancement. The line that
bounds their intelligence Is an imRgi-
nary one, or the promptinRs of q
malevolent and remOrseless heart
The dsrkies have great aptitude, and
are q very religious people, and almost
invariably Protestant. Northern
people generally think their religion
comedy. This is another fsilsey.
Their religion is deep, heartfelt, en-
thuslastic, beautiful, touching. AL
our students are religiOusly inclined,
and this is why the Freedman's Aid
Society cOmmends itself to the
Church. They show their piety in
their every day acts, their staging
and their conversation. 1t Is our
duty to help these people. We should
help them as patriots. They have
the love of freedom flaming in their
souls, and no Nation can ever bind
them In chains again, but there are
those ready to il once the chance Oe-
ours. Beware of this. In the boast
inRs OF this great Centennial year let
us stop q moment. Is every citizen
protected I? Look to the South for
your answer. What q story is there"
In thrilling sentences the reverend
gentleman continued setting forth
the awful status Of affairs in the
south. But 1t Is impossible to do him
justice In a synOpsis-tO do justice to
the eloquent appeal for the freedmen
OF the south. His address will do
great good up here just at this time.
The exercises OF the evening clnsed
with song by DR.. McCabe, and the
benedletion by DR.. Payne.