The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-01-19

fell upon the tesselated pavement -
a whole heaven of rainbows. And
so we have come to come inside.
That is what we have come to do
i have been north this summer, |
have attended a great many Of these
temperance meetings, and your love
has been to my darkened life what 1
did not suppose could ey,r come
there again, and wanted my South
ern sisters to come and know you,
and then knew they would love you
as 1 do, with all my heart
"No North, no South" We have
a South, and we have a problem at
the South. Temperance at the South
is peculiar thing. You know a cloud
coming between the sun and us causes
the mercury to sink in the thermome-
ter. Well, last summer, week after
week, accompanied by Bishop Ste
vens, of the Episcopal Church, we
went to the colored churches, we got
thousands of names signed to a peti-
ton for prohibition, and we thought
everything was going on well. The
colored people are naturally religious.
They we're so before the war. Their
plantation melodies were full Of halle
lujahs, and they would have been so
yet if it had not been for the sedi-
ment that settled down among US af,
ter the war Now they are demoral-
lied; taught by bar-room teachings
they speak fippantly of sacred things,
and say they want whisky and more
Of it.
A minister of the gospel told me
that he heard, only a few days ago,
a corner shop rumseller say to a wes-
tern distiller, that the barrel of whis-
ky he had bought from him, doctor
ed, had turned out twelve barrels Of
whisky for the colored people that
he had bought it for.-Now, what
kind of liquor doyou suppose that was?
And that is the kind Of liquor that is
being sold to these newly enfranchis-
ed people, and they are drinking It'll
Do you call them free? All, they
are in far more abject slavery than
we ever held them in. You have
done only half of your duty.
You have got to have prohibi-
ton, prohibition. Instead of wor.
Shipping their GOD they worship their
party. tell you it is time for hon
est people to come out from parties;
they have had their way. Slavery is
dead, forever dead. 1t is not among
the current issues of the day any long
er, and, although ! cannot truthful
ly say think it was exactly fair for
US who had nothing to do with bring
ing it here to have to bear all the ex-
pense Of getting it away, we would
not have these people put into slave
ry again, not upon any considera-
ton. To Christian owners they were
a responsibility greater than children
Who is responsible for them now?
They have been aHenated from US.
Who is responsible? They are the
wards of the nation What is the ma
ton doing for them? Licensing bad
men to sell them burning, fiery poi
son; that is what it is doing, and they
cannot brag of enfranchising them
until they do it. They ought to take
care Of them, as they do ofthe Indian
and the soldier. Before the war it
was an ofense punished by law to
sell liquor to a slave; then you never
saw slave drunk; now the best of
them get drunk, and the religious
among them deplore it deeply 1t is
the duty Of the nation to give us pro-
hibition, that is it. We could work
together in a prohibition movement.
Concluded next week.