Huntsville gazette., 1885-06-06

OCnof shoulders or lotC TO Otner
hands,"
Continuing he said
"You are now on their vantage ground.
You are the inheritors Of their civilization.
1t is your time. your turn, your day and
your opportunity. The day when from the
ranks of these 100000 school children,
these $4,000 teachers, these $4,000 advanc
ed students and from these hundred
million dollars of tax lists and these 5, ,00O,>
900 acre owners shall come forth the Pea
bodys and the Tulanes OF your race and the
men like Livingston and Moffat, who shall
render service and lay down life for those
who dwell in this thick darkness
And if you answer as you should, thro'
your offered resources and your consecra-
ted and representative men and women,
who, with the Christlike spirit and the
Christianlike love shall come forth from
the ranks of your 2 100000 church men,
bers missionaries to be sent by you to bear
to your ancestral kindred across the sea the
benefits and blessings of that civilization.
physical and material. mental, moral and
spiritual that has blessed and elevated you,
it will be an application OF your education.
use of yonr attainments and advances
ments that will approve and exalt you
among men and get tor you the commen-
1otiop oud haro];ok;,n
And if thus true to your day and time
you do this, looking through the years we
may forecast day when ia another land
and perhaps under warmer sky there shall
arise another temple of the industries and
arts, beneath whose arches beside the 9TH
sr fav bred nations, a new banner shall be
unfurled, bearing upon its folds the names
of nations now dwelling III darkness, but
then living in the light in a land through
your iustrumentality redeemed. regener-
ated and disentnrailed.
DIR. Palmer encouraged race pride,
describing the condition of the race
to-day as being upon an elevated
platform before all the Nations of
mankind" placed thus by that high
Providence which rules over all Ma
tions as we'll as individuals, brought
out Of state of dependence upon the
will of other men, and made to de
selop before all man, to work before
the Nations of the earth "your own
history and distinction Said he, Il
congratulate you upon that event. l
say, from the depths of my breast, a
hearty amen to it all. -
MUST RISE BY SELF ENDEAvoRs.
"But now mark. If you are to be his
toric people, you must make yourselves
ooorthy Of an history, for it is law of nature
in all Of her departments that everything
must grow from its own roots. There are
parasitic plants that climb about the trees
upon which they live. and that sometimes
even put forth little flowers Of their own,
but they have no root Of their own, and
therefore no strength and no glcry. 1t is
an ordinance of Him who has made nature
= man. and it is as true of races as Of
plants-that every thing must grow from its
own root. And am here to-day in ac-
cordance with your own wishes to emphs-
size that thought. You are to be in hsto,
ry just as you ars worthy to be, neither
more nor less, and am here to exhort yon
all. go that your roots may take hold in
time"
The TSmes-Democrat concludes it's
account of the occasion by the follow
ing complimentary reference to the
able address of DR.. Alberts, talen-
ted, young colored orator
''Dr. Alberts. young and enterprising
divine. graduate of Straight University.
New Orleans who stood as the ''brother in
black" and addressed that distinguished
audience did justice to the occasion, and
his powerful words nre fitting illustration
Of the capacity and capability Of the
American Negro. Let us thank God and
take courage"