Year: 1859

friend and we'll wisher Of ours,- who does not
agree with US in our politics, but who respects in
us that adherence to honest conviction by which
his own life is characterized, com planned to us
lately of the tone in which the colorea population
of the country were spoken of in the Courier
Whatever inference may have been drawn, Justly
or unjusAy, from any particular expressions which
may have dropped from the pen in the hurry Of
composition, we here take occasion to cay, that
anybody docs us injustice who thinks or says that
we are Indifferent to the welfare of the coiored
people, or disposed. through wantonness,to to wound
their feelings. Such is not the case We feel
ton of our population, and wtuld never knowing
ly forego any opportunity to serve them, or help
them serve themselves. The colored population Of
Boston, during the last twenty-five years, has
made very distinct and decided progress, and
such progress is most honorable to them. They
lead more moral and reputable lives they are pos
sessed of more property and live more comfortably
they are more anxious to improve their own minds,
and to educate their ildren-ndeed their ankle.
ty to have their people well educated, and the
honest pains and sacrifices they are at, TO have





These ,hings show that they were entirely worthy
of the boon which has been bestowed upon them
now, in every town and city in the State, of has'
ing their children educated at the same schools
with the whites.


We are glad of this progress and We are also
glad of the gradual melting away of the preju-
dices once entertained by their white brethren to-
wards them. Certainly, there never was anything
more unchristan than the spectacle which we can
remember in the parish churches Of New Eng,
land, of few colored worsbipers stuck up in q
sort of swallows nest pew under the caves, as if
they were lcpers or pariahs The man whose de.
votions are disturbed by having family of we'll
behaved and decently dressed coored persons in
the pew next to him, may know much of the doc
triues of Christianity, but is very little imbuei
with its spirit We think Massachusetts, is honor
ably distinguished by its bearings towards its coll
ored population, not merely y giving them equal
political privileges with the whites, but by
the increasing willingness of Its people to recog
nize their social rights, and to deal with them in
spirit of humanity and Christianity.


In this feeling we do most distinctly share. We
feel no prejudice against them. We DO prefer
white face to black one; but we have no
objections to meet coored man in any
Of the relations Of life. provided that his manRers
appearance, conversation, dress, are such that
were they possessed by a white man, it would be
comfortable to meet him in similar relation
We don't like to come very near man who is
filthy or noisome, be he black or white. But by
the color merely, We nre not repelled ; and we
think no man ought to be.


And yet we suppose there are many who will
say that this is all afectation and pretence,
because we are not abolitionists or free soilers,
and don't believe 10 slavery agitation, political or
pon,political. We cannot help this. Fanaticism
never can lock except through its own loop-holes,
or rather gimblet'holes it never sees but one
side Of anything, and what does not come within
its line of observ alton, it mover can see at ALL
Boston Courier.


ANTICIPATED INsuRREorIoN.-The editor OF this
paper, and the agents of the Western Book Con-
cern, are indicted in one of the counties OF Virgin
ia; for publishing and circulating matter calculated
to produce an insurrection among The slaves The