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have compassion on his mother, and not
break her heart. Let us send him back to
tell the English what sort of people we
are, and to advise them not to come here
to bring slavery again upon us.”
The Tllechly Bnglo-African,
NEW YORK, JULY 14, 1860.
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Close of the First Volume.
This number of our paper closes its first
year—a year to us of untold trials, pleas
ures, and experiences, such as are calculat
ed to make us, if not in many respects bet
ter, certainly wiser. We have issued our
sheet promptly, and with our best ability.
We have endeavored to meet, and trust
have succeeded in fulfilling, the expecta
tions of our patrons and the public gener
ally, in that we have aimed to present the
cause of the Anglo-Africanin all its true
hearings.
In the future we shall endeavor to ex
cel the past. The substantial evidence of
the appreciation of our paper found in the
present list of our subscribers,and the pros
pect of an increase, encourage us to this
end. May we not be disappointed. Will
not our patrons relieve any doubt by as
sisting us to swell our list, and thus en
large our sphere of usefulness and forward
the cause of liberty and justice? Thank
ing our friends for the past, we look for
ward to a continuance of their favorsin the
brighter future.
Capital States— Laboyr States.
If Mr. Seward’s speech at Rochester
won to the Republican party the great bo
dy of Anti-Slavery votes in the State of
New York, and thus saved the party, it is
equally true that his speech in the Senate,
based upon the terms “Capital States” and
“Labor States,” alienated from him, per
sonally, Anti-Slavery sympathy and sup
port, and thus, indirectly, baulked his nom
ination at Chicago, and-—cost him the Pre
sidency. We say indirectly baulked his
nomination at Chicago, for while his defeat
in the convention was the result of other
combinations, it was on this Senate specch
that these combinations mainly rested their
foothold.
The speech in the Senale was, in the
general belief, a retrocession or “backing
down” from the speech at Rochester, and
in this view men regarded the speaker as
awanting in the firmness of character re
quired by the head and front of the party,
and the “‘backing-down” was regarded as a
bid for tho prosidemoy. It was like tha fa.
mous Raleigh letter of Henry Clay. It was
the trumpet giving an uncertain sound on
the eve—nay, in the midst—of the bat
tle.
No part of the speech in the Senate pro
duced a wider hostile ecriticism than the
terms ‘“‘capital States” for “slave States,”
and “labor States” for “free States.” It
was at once taken for granted that Mr.
Seward substituted the term “capital States”
for “slave States” out of tender regard for
the feelings of the South, where, in like
manner, the word “servant” is used in placé
of the harsher word “slave.” The public
at once concluded that if Mr. Seward, in
prospect of office, became so deferential to
the South, then Mr. Seward in office would
probably have been one more added to the
ignoble list of Northern doughfaces. Even
the best-edited, the fairest and best-inform
ed of the Republican newspapers—the N. |
Y. “Evening Post”—went along with the
popular current in this uncharitable eriti- |
cism, and even spoke of the term as a new
and not felicitous invention of the distin
guished Senator.
Now, it so happens that the terms were
neither new nor an invention of Mr. Sew
ard’s. They were used by publicists ma
ny years ago, and the fault lay not in the
recalcitration, or,as the Bowery boys would
say, the “backing-down,” of Senator Sew
ard, but in the ignorance of his critics.
In the “North American Review” for
July, 1860, is a learned and able article
on “Slavery Among the Romans,” being a
review of the “Historie de 'Esclavage dans
’Antiquite, par H. Wallon—Paris, 1847,”
and in part of Mommsen’s “Rimische Ge
schichte.” =~ From the latter work, pub
lished before Wallon’s, the reviewermakes
the following quotation: “Then began
the second campaign of capital against la
bor, or what in antiquity is essentially the
same, against peasant husbandry. * * *
The capitalists no longer lent on interest,
as this process in itself ceased to be prac
ticable, since the small proprietor had now
no need of any consideraole surplus, and
besides was not simple and radical enough;
but they bought up the peasant home
steads, and changed them at best to farms
cultivated by slaves. This was still called
agriculture; it was, in point of fact, essen
tially the employment of capital in the
production of the fruits of the earth.—
[Mommsen at supra., vol. 1, p. 832.]
“Time only made the condition of things
worse; capital waged war upon labor.”—
[lbid] .
" This quotation places the terms in a
clearer light than we find them in Senator
Seward’s speech. Both the works, and es
pecially that of Wallon, must be of very
great interest. ‘We regret that their scare
ity and high price place them beyond our
vcarh. Yet,as it has been recently an
noenced that Count Gurowski, now of this
city, is writing a bistory of slavery, we
suppose his work will contain the gist of
both treatises on this absorbing topic.
—By the way, do we not need a great
Anti. Slavery library—a library whichshall
contain all that has ever been written upon
slavery? Our esteemed friend, Lewis
Tappan, Esq., has the best nucleus ex
tant for sach a collection of books. Will
he not complete the debt which the past
and the future owe him by organizing such
a library ?
ey A D
White
Is a mongrel color. It is neither primary,
simple, nor homogeneous, but like the white
race, is composed of other primary colors—
in physics, of red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, and violet; in the human skin, of red,
yellow, brown, and black (which, by the
way, is not a color, but color-less.) Such
being the truth, we marvel that such dis
tinguished men as Victor Hugo and Wil
liam Goodell bow their knee to the white
Baal.
This they do. Victor Hugo, author of
“The Hunchback,” and of certain Anti-
Slavery letters whose zalvanic style have
won for him an Anti-Slavery reputation of
more glitter than gold—Victor Hugo com
placently informs the benighted Haytiens
that “in the sight of God, all souls are
white ! which is reducing the Almighty
to the level of the directors of the Sixth
avenue railroad—preferring white before
colored, the mixed before the pure—say
ing that “colored persons are allowed” in
His bosom, the bosom of God. But
they must scem to be white to Him. —
While the idea that color could affect
the Supreme Being is supremely ridiculous,
yet admitting it for a moment, black,
which drinks in all His light, should be
dearer to Him than white, which rejects all
His light. There is more light in the bo
dy of the negro than in the body of the
white man.
William Goodell, who is all logic, sui
cidally admits to the columns of the “Prin
cipia” an essay on “T'he White Embryo
Caste of Slaves,” with the view, if it means
‘anything, that it is something more dread
ful, heinous, aund sinful--a particularly
damnable feature of slavery, that it is about
to, or has, reduced men and women almost
or altogether white into chattel slavery.
We ask brother Goodell, in the name of
reason, of conscience, of justice, and of
God, who is “no respector of persons,” how
can he pander to the idolatrous barbarism
of American caste by printing such essays
in a newspaper bearing the name of “Prin
cipia?” It is about as reasoanble an actas
if Newton had admitted into his “Princi
pia,” as a piece of scientific information, the
old myth that the earth was a plane and
rested on a turtle’s back, &c.
A —
A New Lecturer in the Field.
We had the pleasure of listening to a
lecture by the Rev. E. J. Adams, on Tues
day evening, in the Siloam Church, Brook
lyn, on “The Native and the Anglo-Afri
can—-his Civilization, Education, and Chris
tianity.” The audience, though not large,
was nevertheless intelligent, and fully ap
preciated the able and instructive lecture
of Mr. Adams. His theme was one that
requires to be thoroughly understood by
our people, and cannot be too frequently
or too clearly brought before us. Hence
we heartily wish Mr. Adams entire success
in his new field. It was well calculated
to elicit the attention it received from the
‘audience. As a lecturer, Mr. Adams has
‘every qualification necessary for success
A clear thinker, a forcible writer, and a
fluent speaker, added to an untiring love
for research, what is there to check his
progress to the highest round of the lec
turer’s ladder and prevent him from ac
complishing great good among us?
No department among us, at present, so
much needs laborers-—able, faithful labor
ers—men thoroughly posted and fully up
to to-day. We again wish Mr. Adams
success, and hope he may yet be joined by
others equally competent; and we bespeak
for him whereever he goes a cheerful hear
ing and the fullest encouragement.
Tue Instirute vor CovLoren Yours, Phil
adelphia, closed its session for the summer
vacation cn Friday, the Gth inst. - A pre
sentation was made to each teacher, ex
pressize of the feelings entertained by the
pupils, and to the eloquent presentation
speeches brief replies were made by the
several recipients. ~Subsequently all par
took of quite a refreshing collation, and
separated with the hope of meeting again
on the first Monday in next September
The graduates of the last term were ad
dressed on behalf of the pupils by John Q.
Allen and Miss Smiah A. Thomas. Ray
‘mond J. Burr and Miss Sarah L. Daffin
replied on behalf of the graduates. The
‘occasion was a very interesting one.
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} Love axp Crariry.—By reference to our
‘advertising colums, it will be seen that the
'W. B. Smith Tabernacle, No. 2, have ar
ranged for a pic-nic on the 24th, on a very
‘extensive scale. If the weather should
prove favorable, it will, no doubt, be one
of the finest festivals ever held in the vi
cinity of New York.
——— P> —
Tue ExcursioN oF TEE Beraer Cutrcn
Saspara Scaoor took place on last Monday.
It was a delightful affair; an aceount of it
will appear in next weeks paper. ;
Letter from Edinburgh. 1
GranGe Viira, Epiverren, June 15, 1860.
Dzar Smr:—We, in this country, ha.ve%
a special field of labor in the struggle fori
freedom, which is going on in your land.
With you the churches are the “bulwark
of elavery,” and we can strengthen or
weaken that stronghold, as we associate or
stand apart from the christian (7) bodiemi
who foster the system. It is a sad fact,
that hitherto, to a great measure from ig
norance, the Christian public of this country
have bound themselves in brotherly bonds,
and co-operate with the men who bolster
slavery The poison has est into the vitals
of{;;.—.{#inciples, and the deadly contagion !
haseautiously penetrated deep in our midst.
But the ery of your “Cheevers” has reached
us, and is stirring in our hearts.
Dr. Pomroy did not leave this country
till he was unmasked. Baron Stow’s true
character was likewise proven, although
unfortunately too late, and Dr. Murray has
received similar treatment in this city and
elsewhere.
But these are but out-skirmishes with
the enemy; a greater struggle is at hand.
We are about to celebrate in the month
of August, the tricentenary of the Refor
mation in this country, and it will be a
lasting blot on Scotland’s renown if she
allows a slavery apologist to stand on her
platform.
The committee of arrangements for the
tricentenary meetings have divided on this
subject, and have finally agree to leave it
to a public meeting for decision. This is
our hope, and we earnestly work for that
“consummation devoutly tobe wished.” But
we require the assistance of the true
hearted in America. Men may come over
here, as they have often done, and assert
that they hate slavery, that they do not
support it; they may be received, and the
evil done before we are aware of it. Unless
we know the character of the men who
come over, we cannot stop them. You see,
then, what we require. Keep watch on
the movements of the different bodies, min
isters especially, and of all who turn their
footsteps hitherward, furnish us with their
character. Some friends have already
done good service in this way. But at
this time and on this occasion, the work
is urgent and worthy of every effort. We
ask, however, of men of whom we know
that we will not ask in vain.
With liberty to do whatsoever seems
best to you with this letter.
I am, yours, very sincercly,
WILLIAM STEPHENSON,
Seeretary to the Edinburgh Yeung Men's Auti Slavery
Society.
The above letter was addressed to a col
ored gentleman of this city, with a request
that he shall publish it, so that it might
reach the eyes of Mr. Still, of Philadelphia,
Mr. Nell of Boston, and othor calorad gen.
tlemen.
If the letter means anything, it is a re
quest to the parties to whom it is addressed,
that they shall spy out and ‘spot’ all Ameri
cans of pro-slavery proclivities, who may
intend to take part in the three hundredth
auniversary of Reformation in Scotland.
The business of ‘spy’ or ‘spotter’ is a low
one at best: we do not see that the present
instance elevates its character. We do
not see anything other than pharisaical
cant in this attempt to exclude American
slave-holding Christians from an assembly
of Scottish Reform celebrationists: for,
1. The Scottish Reformers preached and
struggled against popery, not against sla
very. Serfdom was never denounced by
John Knox nor his followers: serfdom,
which was the slavery of Scotland, was
left untouched by the Scottish reformation,
and lived, at least, two hundred years after
the overthrow of popery in Scotland.
2. Scottish Presbyterianism, the offshoot
of the Scottish Reformation, has done more,
through its ministers and members, to
establish negro slavery, than any other in
fluence on earth. One need only pass
through the streets of the commercial marts
of Scotland, and glance at the sign-boards,
bearing the names of the various West
India Islands, and then look at the stately
churches whieh have grown up in those
streets, in order to see whence the wealth
and piety of those great cities have come.
3. A very large proportion of the busi
ness, the wealth, and, therefore, the religi
ous instruction of Scotland, depends, at this
moment, on cotton; that is to say, on
American Slavery and its great product.
There will not be one in ten of the Scot
tish celebrators of the tricentennial anniver
sary of Scottish Reformation, who will not
carry upon his person, in the shape of shirt,
handkerchief, vest, or what not, evidence of
his actual collusion with American slavery,
{. How inconsistent, not to say ridicu
lous, in these cotton-bearers, who directly
sapport American slavery with material
aid; how ridiculous for them to shut out
from their conclave American clergymen
and others, cotton.bearers also, simply be
cause the latter speak out a sympathy
which the former act out.
5. This whole doctrine of “stand apart,
for I am holier than thou,” bears the rebuke
two thousand years old. The Pontius
Pilatism which would seek to wash the
hands from slavery, while the wrists are
ruffled with the very gore of the slave,
stinks to heaven.
Whenever there shall come up in Seot
land a rebellion against slavery, like the
old rebellion against Rome, whenever men
shall be found to gather and march upon
the cotton mills and tear them down, be
‘cause they are consecrated to the idol of
slavery, even as they of old tore down
abbeys and ecathedrals, because they were
the home of Roman idolatry, then or may
three hundred years after, the celebrators
of the cotton clasts may, with reason, reject
from their festive folds, the upholders of
American slavery-—not till then.
We doubt, nay, we deny the right of
sinful human men to exclude their fellow
humans from feast or celebration of any
description. Let the light shine, and the
good things be free to all. Who can tell
what stray crumb, falling from the master’s
table, may afford nourishment, and light,
and life, and even salvation to one poor
sinner, over whose safety, the angels wounld
rejoice.
A Tree and Bannuer Raising.
‘ Hereditary bondsmen know ye not,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the
blow.”
Thursday, June 28, was truly a gala
day in the eastern district of Brooklyn.
The colored voters of that city turned out
in force, for the purpose of erecting a tree
and banner, painted by Mr. David A.
Morse, in honor of the Republican candi
dates.
The tree raising was to have taken
place at 4 o'clock, as per advertisement,
tut on account of many unavoidable acci
dents, this was not finally effected until
7in the evening, when an ear-splitting
shout went up from the assembled multi
tude, with three times three for Lincoln
and Hamlin, and the first political banner
ever raised in the United Stutes by colored
men, was flung to the breeze, there to re
main until the state of New York shall ex
tend the right of free suffrage to all, irre
spective of complexion, and until Abraham
Lincolu shall have taken his seat as chief
magistrate of this Union.
At B o'clock a meeting was held at the
head-quarters of the Colored Men’s Repub
lican Club, by whose exertions the tree
and banner had heen procurred.
After the meeting bhad been called to
order, Mr. Wm. J. Hodges was introduced
to the audience, and spoke as follows:--
We are in the midst of a great crisis. I'his
campaign will be one of the most closely
contested and exciting, that this country
has ever witnessed.
“If the colored voters of this state desire
to show themselves men, worthy of the
elective franchise without property qualifi
cation, now i 8 the time to show it, by using
all the efforts in their power, to effect the
election of the republican nominees.” He
urged upon his fellow citizens, to vote for
the republican ticket, and for free suffrage
to colored men, and also to influence all
their friends and acquaintances, both black
and white to do the same.” After reiterat
ing these ideas in strong and forcible lan
guago, he brought hiz remarks to a close,
with a high sounding peroration, and sat
down.
Loud calls were then made for Dr. Ellis,
who responded in a few remarks, urging
upon the colored voters present that it was
their duty especially to vote for free suf
frage, so as to give all their brethren the
privilege which they enjoyed.
He was followed by Mr. D. A. Morse in
one of his characteristic, witty speeches.
In the course of his remarks, he stated that
as our forefathers fought in the revolution
toachieve the independence of this country,
that we, their descendants should follow
the glorious example of such noble sires,
and work and fight also, if need there be,
to free ourselves from the galling yoke of
property qualifications. Whilst speaking
of the democratic party in terms more true
than polite, he was interrupted by a deme
crat, who was probable acquainted with
him, with the exclamation of “easy, Dave,
easy.” Mr. Morse then, in words of
loathing condemnation, reviewed the histo
ry of the democratic party from the begin
ning of the Mexican war until the present
day, and then turning to his interlocutor,
asked him, with a’smile of commiseration,
“if he had been easy enough.” Shortly
after, we saw the individual making a bee
line for the door, leaving the hall with a
celerity only equalled by Caleb Cushing,
when he left the democratic convention to
join that of the seceders
The remarks of Mr. Morse were received
with continued applause. After he had
concluded, the meeting adjourned to Thurs
day evening, July 2d, at the same place.
BALDWIN
Tue Lare Dr. J.J. G. Bias.—Thefune
ral of the lamented Dr. Bias took place on
Thursday, the sth inst., in Philadelphia,
and was attended by a host of his personal
friends. The exercises were heldin Beth
el Church, which was crowded to its ut
most capacity. Revs. J. P. Campbell, J.
Woodlin, and other ministers of the A. M.
E. Church took part in the ceremonies.
He was interred in the Lebanon Cemetery.
'The death of this eminently usefal man
has deprived the colored community of
Philadelphia of one of its most energetie
and self-sacrificing advocates, and left a
void which cannot be easily filled.
Tue Surrrace MEeTING IIN BROOKLYN on
last Monday evening was a glorious effair.
It was gotten up under the auspices of the
Elective Franchise Club, and was attend
ed by large representations from the Col
ored Men’s Republican Club and the
Young Men’s Elective Franchise Club, of
Williamsburg. Able’addresses were made
by Rev. Jas. Underdue, Rev. Henry A.
Thompson, and Jeremiah Powers.
Obituary. '
A great man has fallen in our midst,
after a protracted illness, which he bore
with resignation and Christian fortitude
The demise of Dr. J. J. G. Bias, who
expired on Saturday, June 30, at 12 M.,
has made a void in our midst, not to be
replaced. In his death, the community has l
lost one of its most active members and
brightest ornaments. He was identified
(while able) with all the movements for the
elevation and improvement of his people.
Like many of us, he was deprived in early
life of the advantages of education, but
since he obtained manhood, by patience
perseverance, and study, he acquired a
great deal of useful knowledge, which
qualified him to participate in almost every
subject that presented itself to the consid
eration of our people. Inhim the fugitive
slave law has lost a valued and benevo
lent friend. Hundreds in Canada could
attest the fact if necessary, who, doubtless,
will mourn his decease. It was my privi
lege to know from experience (having been
a daily visitor at his house for years,) that
that his door was always open, and his bed
freely given up for their accommodation,
without money and without price. Cour
age and bravery were his characteristics.
Frequently has he gone to hotels, on board
of vessels and steamboats, and taken there
from men, women, and children, who were
slaves, placed them safely on the under
ground railroad, and consigned them to a
land of freedom, where, doubtless, many
are to-day enjoying liberty in its purity,
“with none to molest or make them afraid.”
He was a kind-hearted and benevolent
man, who loved his friends, and was recip
rocated on their part. Doubtless he has
gone from labor to reward, to those blissful
realms of immortality, where sorrow and
sighing are not known, and where all tears
will be wiped away from his eyes.
8B
PuiLaverruia, July 2, 1860.
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Appointinents.
j The following is a list of the appoint
‘ments made by the New kngland Con
ference of the A. M. E. Zion Connexion,
‘ June 28th, 1860:
| STATIONS.
- Brudgeport and New Milford—Gabriel
Rice.
- New Haven—Joseph G. Smith.
Middletor n—Geo. A. Spywood.
Hartford-—Geo. H. Washington.
Springfield—Robt. R. Morris.
Worcester —Joseph Hicks.
New Bedford—S. M. Giles.
Nantucket—'T'o be supplied.
Boston--Sampson Talbot.
MISSIONS.
Halifar, Nova Scotia—Jno. Williams.
Cormwallis -J. W. Hood.
Loch Lomond, N. B.—William H.
Martin.
Demarara, W. I.—Robert C. Hender
son, with a supply.
Solomon I'. Scott, transferred to the Al
legheny Conference.
Clinton Leonard, transferred to the New
York Distriet.
James Simmons, left without an ap
| pointment.
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Zion Connexion in Willinmsburg.
‘ Drar Axcro:—We should feel that we
‘have done a great injustice to a large por
‘tion of your subscribers, who are deeply
interested in this branch of the Zion con
nexrion, not to send you an item, so that
such persons may know how we get along
in Williamsburg. Yesterday was our
quarterly meeting Sabbath, and a joyful
time it was. The church was densely
crowded by white and colored during the
day. Present were the Rt. Rev. ex-Bishop ‘
C. Rusb, Rev. J. Tappan, Rev. H. Mat
thews, Rev. brother Jones and others. At
8 A. M, our love feast was a fore-taste of
the visitation of the Holy Spirit, prepara
tory to the Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup
per, which was administered and consecrated
by the Rev. brother Tappan and others.
Several attached themselves to the church
during the day. After evening services
the baptism was most solemly performed
by the pastor in charge, Rev. Moses Man
ning, of Boston, who admonished the
brethren with words suitable to the occa
sion:
Lord, how secure and blest are they
Who feel the joys of pardoned sin? |
Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea,
Their minds have heaven and peace within.
A MEMBER.
WiLLianssura, L. L July 9, 1860.
——eetl) -GN B
pointment
PERSONAL.
Rev. H. H. Garnet will not go to Geneva,
as we announced in our last paper, but
will deliver an address on the evening of
the first of August at Saratoga Springs.
_ Messrs. J. C. White, Jr., and Octavius
V. Catto have favored us with a visit
during the week. They were on their
way to “the land of steady habits” where
they purpose spending several days.
Mr. Simon Spencer will probably sail
to-day for Port au Prince, to remain there
several months.
Prof. Wm. F. Johnson is not lecturing
in Maine. |
AceNowLEDGEMENT.— We gratefully ac
knowledge the receipt of twenty-five cents,
from Mrs. Rhoda Moore, of Philadelphia,
towards placing the Magazine in public
likraries.
Foreign @orrespondence,
LETTER FROM ST. DOMINGO.
] NUMBER ONF.
From New York to Puerto de Plata
~ «Is John departed, and is Lilbura gone?
. Farewell to both, to Lilburn and to John.”
—Hudibras.
It was a mild, showery morning on the
14th of May, 1860, that the brig John
Butler, on board of which we were, left
her dock at New York and anchored off
the Jersey Flats. I"rom this point we en
joyed the pleasantest and decidedly most
satisfactory view of the great commercial‘
city and its environs. The many white
sailed vessels and finely painted steamers
plying in and out the North and East Riv
ers and between the bright green undulat
ing slopes of Staten and Long Islands, pre
sented a picturesque and animated scene,
quite in contrast with the dark walls and
stately steeples of the city which arose be
yond.
More delightfully refreshing nothing
could have been. In fact, the fine air and
characteristic secenes of New York Bay
amply repaid the inconvenience of remain
ing all day in sight of the great metropo
lis, without being jostled in its streets or
snuffing the peculiar atmosphere that per
vades it.
On the morning of the 20th we sailed
out of the Bay, passed Sandy Hook, and
were at sea. The sky was clear, and the
ocean calm. Betwixt the novelty of being
at sea for the first time and the dread of
that sickness which all landsmen fear but
know to be inevitable, I was kept in a state
of moderate excitement, which effectually
annihilated those sentimental sorrows which
one is expected at such times to entertain.
The first vessel we met coming in was the
Porto Plato, from this city, and owned by
a (German firm on the corner of Broadway
and Wall street, New York. Her cargo, 1
have since learned, consisted principally of
mahogany and hides.
Our mornings were passed mostly in
studying the Dominican language, which,
as nearly as I can analyze it, is a compound
of Spanish, French, English, [Congo, and
Carribbean—but, of course, principally
Spanish. The afternoons were spent in
fishing and catching sea-weed, watching
the flying-fish, or in looking simply and si
lently on the ever-bounding sea, yhich was
in itself' an infinite and unwearying source
of irrepressible delight. A comparatively
quiet sameness characterized the voyage,
with bright clouds pencilling the sunset
sky, a fresh breeze stiffening the sail, and
the ship gliding siloothly over the buoy
ant waves, the sensations were at times
exceedingly exhilerating, and even su
premely delicious. But there were no
dead calms, no terrific storms. To.day
was the pale blue sky above, and the deep
blue ocean rolling everywhere around ; and
to-morrow the sky was equally as fine,and
the same dark, heaving ocean as boundless
ly sublime. Had there been a storm, if
only for description sake !
But the poetry ceased. We were now
in the latitude of the regular trade-winds,
with which every man is supposed to be
as certainly familiar as he is with a school
book or the way to church. Wihere were
the winds? Wanting-—from the south
and east when they should have been from
the west, and vice versa. As for their re
puted regularity, they were no more regu
lar than a sinner at prayers. Four succes.
sive days we averaged about one mile an
hour, and this was in the trade-winds! For
the honor of all concerned, however, 1 will
say (on the point-blank oath of our cap
tain) that such a thing never occurred be
fore, and, as he expressed it, “mightn’t be
again in a thousand years.” I thought of
! an old man who once went traveling, and
‘when he returned he was asked what he
had learned. He said, simply, “I was a
fool before, but by traveling I found it out.”
The astounding thunder-storms you hear
about in the West Indies were all gone be
fors we got here; so were the whirl
winds.
After a sail of twelve days, a long, dim,
‘blueish outline, as of a cloud four hundred
‘miles in length, stcod out above the waves.
Soon, with a glass, could be distinguished
the regularly rising table-lands and lovely
green valleys, the dark mountains standing
in the background. I was at once agitat
ed with all the anxieties of hope and fear.
We were approaching the eventful shores
of Santa Domingo, embracing as it does
the Dominican and Haytien republics.
But, however thrillingly interesting its
past history may have been, the practical
question was whether the present state of
affairs here would not be found unsatisfac
tory, and the climate hotter and less heal
thy than. was desirable, or whether the
luxuriant indications of opulence and ease
I now beheld might not prove to be more
captivating than expected, and the climate
even more delightfully salubrions than I
had dared to anticipate. I watched the
lingering sunlight, wrapping the clouds,
the mountains, and the sky into cne glow
ing and refulgent scene, with all the en
thusiasm of which my soul was capable;
but the sun went quietly down, and the
supper-bell reminded me of a fresh macke
rel. The sun and the land will come
again to-morrow, but the mackerel disap
peared forever.
Morning did ¢ me, and with it came the
pilot (black.) We entered the “port of
silver” (Puerto del Plata.) The barbor is|
a poor one, but if there be one tbing‘g;
earth deserving the description, its sy
rounding scemery is sublime. W, an.
chored, and there awaited the coming o
the custom-house officers. The officers
came—some white, some colored—ypg
with them Mr. Collins, an American gen.
tleman to whom I was addressed. He
ceived me liberally, invited me to stop
with him, showed me around the country
introduced me to the Greneral, (black,) 45
did a variety of other things decidedly yp.
American, but very gentlemanly indeeg.
It was Saturday afternoon wkhey We
went ashore, and it so happened thers Was
to be a government proclamation. [y due
time the drum struck up, and dowy came
the standing army, looking for all the world
like a parcel of ragamuffin boys playing
militia. 1 counted them,and I thinkther:
were four drummers, two fifers, ang two
lines of soldiers—thirteen in a line. Some
were barefooted, others wore shoes; some
of their guns had bayonets, and othey
none. The manner in which they bore
them compared with the foregoing sugges.
tion, and so on to the end of this ridiey|oy,
scene. There is no more a government iy
Dominica than T am an emperor.
In passing through the streets ope is
compelled to observe the nou-progressiye
appearance of everything around L,
There lie the unturned stones, Just asthey
were lain a centary ago. The houges a;e
generally built one story high, with conjey]
‘shaped roofs, for no other reason than thy
‘that is the way this generation found they,
Mr. Collins, who is a bachelor, lives in gz
1’ airy two-story house, with a charming ve.
‘ randah running its whole length, cool ang
‘delicious, and surrounded by the sweetest
fruit trees outside of Eden. [ found my.
self perpetually exclaiming, “Oh ! Wh.a;
beautiful, bright roses!” what this, au
what that, until I felt shamefully convict.
od of my own enthusiastic ignorance. |
‘need not repeat the traveler’s story, for the
‘certainty of finding it out is a dead one
; Look at a wood-cut and say that you have
‘seen Niagara, but don’t read Harper's pic.
‘ture book and suppose you have any ide
of Haytien® floral beauty.
Ot course I have not been here long
enough to know whether it isa fit place
for a man to live, or for a number to colo.
‘nize, and 1 am well aware, when the ques
‘tion of politics comes up, it turns on a very
different pivot; but by all that is magni
ficent, lovely, exquisite, and delicious in
its vegetable productions, I do set it down
one ejaculative paradise. H.
N. B - The supposition of the govemn
‘ment is that any one not an escaped criai
‘nal can produce a passport. Let it be is
tictly understood, therefore, that util
‘there is a different arrangement made with
‘the government i/ is not best to come e
without one.
* When the island was discovered by Colum
bus, it received from him the name of lispanolia
—=“Little Spain.” It was afterwarls called Santo
Domingo ; but the original name given it by the
natives, and revived by Dessalines, i 3 said to be
Hayti. The Haytien territory, however, is buf
about two-fifths of the island, the greater part bej
ing owned by the Dominieans.
Home Correspondence.
Our Philadelphia Leitter.
PHiLapeLpHIA, July 9, 1860.
Mg. Eptror:—The Eighty-Fourth Anui
versary of the Declaration of American lu
dependence was celebrated in a becoming
manner, at the Philadelphia Jnstitute, on
the 4th inst., at half past three o'clock,
P. M., under the auspices of the Banneker
Institute. "The President, Mr. J. Wesley
Simpson, being absent from the city, Mr.
Parker I'. Smith, the Vice-President, calia
the meeting to order, and after a few it
ductory remarks, in whtch he referred to
the colored patriots of the revolution, to
‘the declaration of independence, and to the
policy of the United States Governmont,
he introduced Mr. Octavius V. Catto, who,
with voice and manner corresponding, read
in beautiful style, the ever memorable
declaration of independence. This being
finished, the chairman said: “In 1776,
when this instrument came up for adoption
before the convention, there were speeches
made in favor of its adoption, and among
them was one by John Adams, in which
the following sentence occurs: ‘publish it
from the pulpit, religion will approveit!
and to show that they were sincere in their
pretensions, they appealed to the God of
heaven for the rectitude of their intentions.
I now tuke pleasure in introducing to you:
ladies and gentlemen, the Rev. Jonathan
C. Gibbs, who will deliver the oration.”
Mr. Gibbs stepped forward, and poured
into the ears of his delighted auditors, the
essence of true eloquence, doubly enhanc
ing by being truthful and striking. He
looked upon the occasion as a most fitting
one for the masses of our people to assemble
and enter their protest against the strang®
anomalous position which we occupy in
this country. He was not there to delive
an oration merely to charm the ear, bit ¥
enter a protest against the wrongs which
we suffer in this country, beneath the wing?
of the American eagle. He deplored that
state of things, which tended to make U 5
regard the fourth of July as a day of -
slavement, rather than one wherein liberty
was proclaimed throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Mr. Gibbs estered
into the su.bject with much zest,ard demot.)-'
strated to bis hearers, that althongh. his
vocation is to minister to the spiritis)
wants of his fellow-men, yet be recoguised