Huntsville gazette., 1892-01-23

years, that which 1t took others
c-n'ury or century and a halt to be.
| The progress that our people have
made since peace and order has been
re tored in this country, surpasses
that of any race or people upon the
globe. / don't deny that there have
been uncalled for suff+rings and even
death among us, but we may not
expect to rise to a ny note or consid
eration in this country or any other
without meeting with some hard
ships.
| / entertain no fear Of ever being a
slave again, as was born; and be-
lieve that any effort to euslave our
people again, wo I'D be opposed by
thousands Of ex slave holders them
selves.
Many of our people have accumu-
lated much property, and some are
now quarter million aires, and to
lpull up now and leave this entire
COZ tinent through fear Of being en-
sl,vad again, or to evade hardships
common to all emancipated people,
I fear, would not better our condi-
ton to great extent.
| Though, born belonging to almost
or quite parental owners in treats
ment, l have learned long since, that
there is nothing equal to freedom
| Freedom of self, freedom of speech,
and freedom of self government.
Slavery in worse than death. I would
go to any portion Of the globe to
evade slavery, and should recon-
mend my people to do the same-if
entertained any fear of a future
attemppt to reenslave. slavery is
forever at an end in this country
and war of races, so much dreaded
among some of our pc ,ple. and talked
of by others will never be.
When l look at the hardships un-
dergone by the pilgrim fathers, the
children of Quakers, who were sold
as slaves in sixteen hundred and
thirty here in America, feel to ad
wise any people to follow their ex>
ample who did not retura to Europe,
but remained until the tide of oppo
sition ran down. Slavery is not of
American birth, but it was
encouraged, fostered and even forced
upon American colonies by English
Parliament, which ought to have
: given some aid in pecuniary WY to
the four millions of slaves as soon
: as they were freed.
2 A thirst for the blood of slavery,
: [ don't believe, now exists In the
$ breast ofany true hearted American,
Of whatever race he may be. flour
+. people want to and will emigrate,
r why not go west and distribute our
e selves out in New Mexico, Colorado.
f Oaklahcma. California and other
! states and territories where we may
f be of service to others as well as to
ourselves,
There are two things our peolple
, need to fear. They are generally
: farmers in the south, and seem at
: tracted to raise nothing but cotton.
This they cannot remedy by them
Z selves, but it must take both the la
borer and the land owner, white and
t colored to rectify this mistake, that
has been for years encroaching upon
s the interest of the land lord and la
$ borer. ] consider that it ought tc
0 take just as much to feed this coun'
f try how as it did before the war
: Then no free man was called sue
e cessful farmer, unless he raised all
his meat and bread, except wheat
f Many Of the things the farmer used
8 to carry to town to sell our farmers
60 to town to buy.
Our young people, many Of them
t are fast growing into the snpersti
f ton of fortune telling, such as led
our ancestors to degradation and
. ruin. We find these things even
! making their way to school desks and
, pulpits, the very places where such
/ should be contended against with 10
, form of compromise.
: To return to my subject, | see no
f cause to encourage our people t.