National Baptist world., 1894-10-19

nlenC, as all IruInS are ana ever nave
been, in various branches of science.
1t was so with the principles an
nounced by Galileo--it was so with
Adam Smith and his principles of
political economy-it was so with
Harvey and his theory of the circu-
lation of the bloOd.n Abraham Lin
coin was elected President of the
United States in November, 1860.
Eleven Southern States whose con-
stitutional foundations were Anglo
Saxon supremacy, and African in
feriority, had seeded. Coercion was
a failure, and conservatism "a vision;
legal steps were imperative to resist
the Southern insurrectiOn. War
was inevita BILE. Practically, there
were two distinct governments un-
der one flag, two nations sitting in
one chariOt--natious illtempered,
confused, mad at each other. The
president issued call for $4,000 vol
unteers. Could Henry Clay have
ting upon the safety valve of the Ma
tiOnal fulcrum; the braWny sons and
sagic fathers of the North, the en-
pOrium of the arts and sciences, meet
the equally brave and daring sons of
| Southern chivalry in the arena OF
| battle; could he have seen shoulder
ing cities in the recluse of decay and
strength, yesterday palaces, to-day
masses of rubbish; could he have
seen 500, 900 men in blue meet 500, 900
men in gray, tearing each other into
pieces; could he have seen the dead
and dying in the streets Of Gettys-
burg, Appomattox Sherman's march
from Atlanta to the sea, he would,
no doubt, mourned the day when he
offered the Missouri Compromise
Bill in Congress,
THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER.
am especially proud of the Negro
Americans record as a soldier. The
blessings and civilities attending the
| y
triotic register, which has couched
the names of the sainted dead who
fell in the first skirmishes Of the
Revolutionary war, would lose their
gist and glare, if the record Of Girls
pus Attacks, who shed the first
blood in the streets of Boston, March
5, ITO, were not handed down to us.
5000 Negroes fell in that war. In
the war of 1912, 100, 600 Negroes rem
dered invaluable services to the gov
ernment. Andrew Jackson compll-
ments the Negro contingent upon
their bravery and aggressiveness in
his New Orleans campaign with
Pakenham, the British commander
George w. Williams History says
1856, 900 Negros were enlisted in the
late Civil war, Other competent au-
thority places the number at 2OO, 600.
IG General Grants memoirs and
General Buffers History, many pa
triotic expressions of the Negroes
fidelity to the Union, and aptness OF
discipline in battle are prominently
mentioned. Authorities are rich
and abundant. Ours is race OF
brave men-men who love cOnse-
Grafton and loyalty, and in whose
bosOms are ineXhaustible streams Of
heroism and increment devotion.
NJ lou n H.
rem Of Lincoln and Grant!
AS A CITIZEN.
The Negro American took his
place at the close of the war with
others. Though freedom was bott
: the fruitage of his prayers and The
consummation of his faith, am no
disposed to share the opinion of some
that he anticipated the discovery o
l fountain which would invite tn
agility of youth, or one eternal sum
mer of celebration; indeed nothing
. is farther from the truth. He is al
abnormal being. His metaphysics
t constitution, no doubt, was an irwin
ClDlo SnIelu dSdlASU UuO OhNA""OA
+ ments of the slavic dispensation ,an'
/, the inherent reservoir into which
q the spiritual powers of civilization
y would be emptied; therefore nj
: iocund nature is very much mlsun
:. derstood. The Spring of 1866 foun
a 1000, 900 new made citizens withou
|. homes, schools, churches and trades
It For his intellectual and spiritual dc
: yelopment, the American Baptls
r Home Mission Society has give
: nearly So, 100000; the NJ. E. churc
e North and South, $4,000, 600; tn
II Presbyterians, $4,000, 900; the Cor
< gregationalist, ,$12 900, 900; the Episc'
l. palians, $500, 900, and by special dor
ts ors $6,OOO,O 900. After thirty yeal
70 experience, we find the followin
at result: 100000 Christians anon
+ the 5000, 600 Negroes; they own $4z
al 600, 900 of church property, worsh
a. in 11.OOO church edifices, provit
s. for so 900 ministers of the Gospe
r controls 72 high schools, seminar
and colleges; support 3 dlstln