Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-21
INDIANS AND rRrEpmEr.


 The Meeting At Center Church Last
 Evening In The Interest of Philan"
 fhropic Educational Eaort-AbIe Ad- |
 dresses-Eolantat1on Melodies By Coll l
 Ored Graduates.
 A large and deeply interested audience | was present in Center church last evening at I the meeting in behalf of negro and Indian 1 education and the work of Hampton Normal ] and Agricultural Institute They heard plantation melodies sung by a quartette of colored graduates, speeches by students, General Armstrong and others. The school is situated in Hampton, Va. It was incor- porated in 1870 and has had a remarkable success. Its aim is the practical Christian education of the negro and Indian races of our country. The institute has some 600 acres of land, which, with it's improvements, | are valued at $4O0, ,OO0. Under it's care are now 496 negroes and 1855 Indians, half of the l latter being girls Colored boys and girls pay for their own board and clothing by manual labor in the household, in the indus 1 trial departments and on the farm, there be- ing thirteen different shops for trades. The expense of the Indians is in part paid by the | United States government. Fifty thousand dollars year is needed to defray expenses of the institute, part being supplied by | funds, but most dependent on private con I tributions.
 Mir. William H. Daygo, a recent colored | graduate, made very pleasing address. He was born slave in 1858 and had checkered l career in the South and North as table-waiter and bootblack, but always was longing for an education. He entered Hampton in 1875 and worked his way through, ana after graduation he taught among his people. He 1 gave an interesting sketch of the difficulties and vicissitudes of a colored teachers life. His school, like two-thirds of those provided for negroes in the South, was dilapidated and small; his salary $25 month, which he was compelled to trade out with the coun- l ty treasurer at exorbitant prices. He ap- pealed for intelligent and Christian teachers l consecrated to earnest work to elevate his | degraded race
 Noah La F1esche, an Omaha Indian, talked briefly, saying: '1 come from Omaha tribe. When we saw white man work we thought it good. We now work and are doing well. Some of my people raise 5O0 bushels of corn, others 400 bushels of wheat, besides l learn of God. There are very few schools and missionaries among us, but we want l them. We want to know about God. He has put it into your heart to help us I thank you for that help.'
 George Bushotter, Sioux Indian, in broken English said: 'tMy dear friends, I stand here as repr esentative of the Sioux tribe. Some people have no faith in us and say we cannot be civilized. In 1878 we lived in the woods Now we live in log houses and dress in citizens clothes plant and raise vegetables. My people are poor and cannot | do without government aid. They want to buy land and work steadily. A few years ago the chief of my tribe asked me to write for them to the Great Chief at Washington to stop sending us whiskey. They want schools. The boys in Hampton work in the shops and learn trades. Let me say another thing, my friends, we want to come up and be something. 1 Some are out of patience with us. Be | patient, we are growing towards the right. l Flowers have ugly roots but beautiful flow CTS. You must support us till we grow to 1 the flowers. You have the key of knowl- l edge. Lend it to us so that we may be pre- 1 1 Hamilton: colored graduate, delivered a manly speech. The negro has come to stay 1 as an American citizen there is no doubt. Great harm is often done by giving to peo- | pie what they want, without adapting it to them. The negro cannot at once conform l to his new conditions of freedom. We need l industrial teaching. The negro question will 1 be solved by teaching him self dependence. Before the war the negro was a machine, | with little of thinking faculty. Hampton institute comes to the rescue and develops
 both brain and hand The Rev. Mr. Fri selle, chaplain of the institute, related his
 trip recently among colored graduates in the South and described the good work they are | doing teachers and workmen. It is 6 unanimous testimony that in the locality o1
 Hampton teachers and preachers crime and | vagrancy has decreased.
 General Armstrong forcibly put forward the aims and needs of the school. The last 1 census shows that in Q few years in seven o1 eight southern States the negroes will be il the majority. A better manhood and pure1 type of civilization must be wrought there 1 The movement of immigration is twenty | miles year west. The Indian cannot hold l his reservation. Speedy action should be taken in his behalf by legislation, if the race | is not to be crushed out. For the Indians 1 extinction this nation will pay terrible pen 1 atty as sure as there is an everything provi- I dence. He urged New Haven people tc work by influence and organization in be- l half of the Indian. Contributions in aid of the l work of the Hampton Institute will be re- l ceived by MT. Justus Hotchkiss, 238 Church 1 street.