Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-22
THE A. M. A.


 [coNTINUED FROM FOURTH PAGE Evening The Southern Blacks = A Problem Felicitous Remarks by President Dw1ght-General Hawley Speaks.
 I The evening session opened with | overfowing house and proved one of the
 most interesting of the series. The Dwight Place church quartette rendered the twenty
 third Psalm, after which the assembly was I led in prayer by one of the delegates who is | just from active missionary service in India. Rev. A. H. Bradford was then introduced
 and delivered an address from the manu-
 script upon the subject, ''The true factor in | the southern problem" He said in sub | stance: England strives to infuse all her distant colonies with British blood and make | London their great center. How shall it 1 be with the whites and blacks of the United
 States? When the blacks of the South were
 set free they numbered 100000. Now
 they number 8,00O,000. The rate of in-
 crease exceeds that of the whites by IA per
 cent. At this rate the time is not far dis
 tant when they will predominate. Especial ly bitter is the hatred of the mulattoes, who
 have the burden of illigitimacy added to | their other grievances and who are spurned by their white fathers and brethren. About ninety per cent. of the whole color 1 ed population is illiterate. Charles Sumner | once said that by giving the ballot to the ] freedmen we had chained him to the chariot I wheel of American progress, but how slowly l moves the chariot. The school buildings l of the city of Denver alone exceed those of the l whole State of Georgia.
 1 There is more illiteracy at the South now 1 f. fhn rd nf fhGx for Ina | reason that education has not kept pace with 1 reproduction. How long, under favorable l conditions, must it take to moralize this masss They have natural obstaclea in their \ very nature, which is notoriously animal in ] its passions. They have a strong thievish | tendency. They were born morally deform- ed. They will soar to heights of religious l ecstacy that would make an archangel dizzy, l and at the same time their feet muddy 1 with the sloughs of sin and even crime. They lack the ethical element in their relig l ion, it is entirely emotional
 Education without morality is not a safe- guard. Not more than one per cent. of the | colored race has had any moral training. Their degeneracy is in the blood. I can't blame them and don't believe God planes l them. New elements are soon to enter into 1 the problem. Socialism and the doctrines of | anarchy are marching southward and must l sooner or later infect them, and if once these poisons infame their natural ignorance | second French revolution must ensue. All | the problems with which the old world are graphing are social in nature and the ques | tion here in America, where the people never can be dethroned is, how shall they be fitted | to rule. Then followed an appeal for means l to carry morality to these needy objects, closing what seemed to be considered 8 rath- CT gloomy and unpromising aspect of the southern problem.
 MT. Bradford was followed by President Dwight whose remarks were most happy and l pertinent and somewhat relieved the feeling of depression which his predecessor had caused. He said: This is an age of investigation especially one in which we are disposed to critically investigate the conduct of associa- tions and their officers. I have been inves- tigating the record of Dr. Powell and I am surprised that after all his long years of ex- perience he has made the greatest mistake of his life in asking me to speak to you Qaughter.) But since he has insisted upon my presence I have been quite curious to l see what he would do with me now that ! am here; have also been curious to see what l should do myself Qaughter.) Dr. Powell | told me on my urging that was not pub- ! lie speaker, that would do nothing but l show myself and pronounce the benedic- ! ton (continued laughter.) Now I find my self in a difficult position, for certainly l cannot pronounce the benediction while Gen. Hawley is upon the platform (applause !
 
 word for Yale college, and just believe | thatt here is no nobler body of men than | that composed of our Congregational minis | ters; so I believe that among colleges there is | no nobler institution than Yale college, (ap- | plause,) and whatever there is of fitness in | the present incumbent of it's presidential | chair is due to Yale college. (Applause) |
 Upon the conclusion of President Dwight's | remarks General Hawley was introduced to | the audience. He said: "I had something of self depreciation in mind when I took my seat on the platform, but since President l Dwight's remarks I have abandoned it. Among our forefathers the preacher occupied | an important position. He about the only educated man in the community and to him all turned as to 8 fountain of wisdom and judgment, even in political matters Now. however, the pull pit is good deal fur ther removed from politics than then; not religion. but the pulpit. Since then education ! had been allowed to others who could de- vote themselves to politics, and the pulpit is relieved of its former responsibility. An times has been caused by the de- velopment of the press. It doesn't occupy the pulpit, but it occupies 1 every other place, even on Sunday. Among these newspapers there is sentiment of re- spect for religion. I believe that the last thirty-fve years have been glorious ones to live In, and that those to come will mark still greater progress. I felt the depression of the address to which we have listened but with President Dwight reacted and now say that think don't it is as bad as 1t was pictured. According to the census of 1880 the number of those who could read and write was 23 per cent.
 There is another source of anxiety than that at the South. Every ship from across The sea brings to our shores men who either can't read or are the worse for the little they can, men who were brought up by their nd tn hat tha If | government. We must hear less about "rights" and more about duty. Someone l { has said that liberty is not release but @ 1 burden. The senator paid an eloquent trib ute to the work of the association and said l it was only through such agencies that the country could be made really free country. After short address by the moderator a vote of thanks was passed to the churches and people of New Haven for their hospitable treatment, which was responded to in fitting terms by Dr. Smyth. The congregation then united in singing the Doxology and after the benedition by Rev. Dr. Todd the most successful annual meeting of the Amer can Missionary association was at an end.
 Russell-Moore.
 MT. Aaron A.. Russell, of Chicago, and Miss Elizabeth A. Moore, of this city, were lnited in marriage yesterday afternoon at 49 Winchester avenue. The Rev. H. H. Johnson of the Emmanuel Baptist church performed the ceremony. The bride is a lister -in-law of the Rev. NIT. Abbott of the Zion M E. church. The newly married couple will take up their residence in Chi ago.
 Post Surgeons Appointed. Orders issued from the office of the adjH ant general make appointments of post sur