Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

Trinity church by number of distinguished Boston citizens who have fully satisfied themselves of the excellence of that estab- lishment and of the high character of it's principal, MT. Booker T. Washington. The church was crowded with friends of the colored people, and the big audience had the pleasure of hearing from the gov ernor of the commonwealth, Hon. Frederic T. Greenhalge, Rev, E. Winchester Don- aid, Rev. Percy Browne, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Sherman Hoar, Rev. George 4. Gordon and Principal B. T. Washing ton. During the proceedings quartette of the Tuskegee students sang, with striking effect, a number of plantation songs.
 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was the next speaker. She believed in the solidily of the human family, as expressed in the scriptural saying that God made of one blood all the nations of the world.
 Among all the races to which we had to pay the debts of the past, what race was so largely our creditor as the African race? While our forefathers took the Indians land, we had deprived the negro not only of his country, but of himself. They were met to assist in paying our debt to the col ored race, and they had9their part 10 do in giving that race a higher education, an uplifting hope, an outlook of equal and united citizenship. The enforced ignorance of the past must be now met by q full be- stowal of the good so long withheld. The training school, the grammar school and the college must be thrown open to the colored people.
 Mrs. Howe here gave an interesting sketch of visit recently paid by her to 1uskegee. She found cleanliness, order, thrift and industry, as well as good man. ners and good taste. The colored people there were studious, intelligent and cnlti- vaied.
 The speaker alluded to influences of prejudice against the negro that were still keeping him as slavsh in mind as he once was in person. But she had seen among the colored people desire to elevate their own race. She had seen ats the Tuskegee institute an assem blaze of men and women redeemed froInlhe waste of ignorance and idleness and preparing for the intelligent work of the world.
 In closing Mrs. Howe made an eloquent appeal for aid in the work of the institute.
 Hon. Sherman Hoar remarked that such an institution showed what the colored people could do for themselves. It was q standing lesson to their white brothers of the south of the capacities of the race.
 A colored southernman once said to him :Your white people do very well. But they go either too fast or too slow for us. Oar coored men know us. Give us lot of young colored men and women ip our col- ored schools, and we shall be in little while able to turn out thousands With at least a common school education, and with capacity to do work in the various walks of life. '
 That was the work which Tuskegee was undertaking and carrying on with such tremendous success.
 Booker T. Washington, the prin ci pal Of the school, next spoke. What we need to do is to furnish a lever by which the masses of our people can be reached and lifted ups That is what Tuskegee is doing-educatiug 700 or 500 young men and women in order 10 send them out as levers among the coll ored people. This kind of work has 1 already been done, and the results have been most encouraging.
 Tue speaker here mentioned the remarks able work done by one of his pupils in raising the life of colored com muniiy. | The colored people needed to be taught tp save their money instead of spending~it, aud to set rid of the accursed mortgage | system. They did not need to have charity | stamped upon them, but they needed to De | helped and encouraged until they could | get on their feet. When a colored man had house and a bank account he had | got religion and could be depended upon seven days in the week.
 We do not, added the speaker, ask for | money to be scattered msoellaneously, but simply to be used in preparing more of these missionaries, who will go out and |
 A collection having been here taken up, l the last speaker, Rev. George A. Gordon, 1 urged that two great educational forces the appeal that came through the industry and the appeal that came through religion were at work in Tuskegee.
 The school, said he, is founded upon the | right principle, and we believe in the man first, last and all the time.
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