The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-03
DIR. FRlSSELL'S ADDRESS.
AN INTER ESTING DISCO URSE AT
 UNITED CHURCH LAST EVENING.

How the Negro and Indian Arc Reing
 Taught to be eself-supporting at Hamp-
 ton Instituto-Work EnIarging by
 Graduates,
 Last night was Hampton Institute
 night at the United church and the edi-
 flee was thronged to the doors. Dr. H..
 B. Frissell, principal of the school, de- | livered an address appertatning to the
 work being done for the negro and In-
 dian races at that institution. General 1 Armstrong was it's founder and it's Ob- | iect is to enable the colored race to be-
 come self-supporting by teaching them
 the rudlmentary principles of education and giving them practical knowledge 1 of farming and the auxiliary crafts, such as wheelwrighting, blacksmithing,
 etc. Its purpose was to stop the black
 man from going to the cities and keep | him in the country, to stop him from going to the north and keep him In the
 south. It is a center around which ! many small colonies of graduates have sprung up and by example and precept | have imbued other members of their race to a desire to become property owners, cultivate the soil and become 1 independent and respected citizens. { Booker T. Washington is one of the graduates and the school at Tuskegee
 was modelled after the school at Hamp- ton. There are besides. a thousand
 other graduates over 60 per cent. of whom are teachers. Hundreds are liv- ing upright lives in obscure country places and such examples as these are sorely needed. There has been recently
 started at St. Helena, Va, an experi-
 ment station. the outgrowth of Hamp-
 ton, where hundreds of colored youth are taught to live decently and work
 intelligently Twenty years ago there
 were counties in Virginia where the jails were filled with negro thieves, but as result of the grand work initiated by General Armstrong there are no negro jails In that state to-day, and the amount of land owned by negroes alone has increased one-third.
 Besides the negro, the disinherited Indian is also taken care of at the in- stitute. It is now twenty-fv years since the first Indians were brought there. There were forty of them sent by the government to St. Augustine, Fla. They were prisoners. Their hands were stained with the blood of the white man and they were to be punished. Three years afterwards sev- enteen were sent to Hampton to be taught the handicrafts and agriculture. Miss Mallory, formerly of this city and ,v.a1I 4a ] Miss Sperry were in charge of them. They were taught to work and were also taught the religion of Jesus Christ At first when they We're put to bed at the institute instead of getting into it they would crawl under 1t, and when finally induced to sleep on their mat tresses they would roll the sheets up and put them under their heads instead of putting the same over them. But they were taught how to make their beds, how to sleep comfortably, how to keep clean, how to dress and finally become proficient in many of the arts of civilization. Neverthless, the strug-s gle against old traditions and barbar- ous ideas was tremendous. To-day out in the Indian country two-thirds are
 
 be seen a church, a school room, shop, a home and like the negro the Indian | has learned to cultivate his land More has been accomplished within the last twenty years than in the one hundred years previous. Instead of supporting | soldiers to keep the red man within | bounds the Government now appropri- | ates $2,5000,000 each year to sustain h. | dian schools. Through these schools he | ahs become less of burden to the gov | 
 Some of the most successful negro | farmers in Virginia have been girls | who have gone out of the Hampton in- | stitute. No girl Is allowed to graduate | unless she can cook a decent meal and | make the dress she graduates in. The | cost os tuition is SEQ a year. the stu dents earning their own board by ap- plying the proceeds of the trades they | learn to that object. There are several New Haven residents who contribute several scholarships each year The corps of instructors is so large, how ever that 1t requires $SO,O00 a year to ,arry out the work
 In concluding pr. Frissell said that ve ought to aid all races, but none so much as the red and black races. We z nave taken his liberty from the negro md from the Indian we have taken ,way his land.''
 Rev. Dr. Munger concluded the exer- ises by an urgent plea for contributions o further aid the work being carried m by Dr. Frissell.
 The exercises were interspersed by lymns which were sung by the Hamp- on quartette. which consisted of the our following young colored men from he Hampton institute: F. w. Craw- ey, J. A. Bailey, A. D. Watson and A. 1. Meeks Their singing was greatly