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2R5ttkIn ^nglo-^frifjnt.
NEW YORK. MAY 5, 1860.
ICy Advertisements f*r this paper must be ac-
companied by the cash.
L#~ Copies of this paper ran be purchased of the
nexes-dealers everywhere.
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'And Satan C«
• Also.**
Never was the language which forma
the caption of this article more appro) ri-
ately applied than in tho case of the Rev.
Mr. Kettell, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North. This Rev., or very Rev.,
or Right Rev., Kettell, belongs to and
made his appearance in the New York
Conference, which held its session in New
York city a few days since, and therein
most cheerfully freed his mind and venti-
lated his brain upou tho great question be-
fore tho Conference and before the Ameri-
can people—viz: the black man and his
status in this country.
We have from time to time kept our
readers informed as to the opinions—espe-
cially the adverse ones—relative to us, ex-
pressed throughout the country. We have
felt this to be a duty. A people should
not only know themselves, but know also
how others regard them. Thus may they
be enabled to repel all approaches to
wrongs attempted upon them, or hurl back
foul aspersions heaped upon them, or pur-
sue the even tenor of a right way, disre-
garding all and every cowardly attempt to
drive them from their path with impunity.
To hinder us, to drive us, to discourage,
to dishearten, to weaken us, and to utterly
break us down, we had had, we thought,
every species of being, and every kind of
effort that Anglo-American ingenuity could
devise or malignity bring to bear. The
legislative force, the judicial powers, the
venal press, and the yet more venal pas-
sions of base men, have all been pressed
into the service. The pulpit and the the-
ology of the land, too,have furnished more
than their quota of the work. So far in
the business of grinding down a fellow be-
ing have these last gono that they them-
selves have become completely perverted
—their own streams so riled and impure
that bitter waters only flow from them.
They intoxicate, they stupify, they bruti-
fy, but, alas! accomplish nothing more.
We had thought, however, that these An-
glo-Americans, in thus pressing down the
"nigger," had touched bottom. We find
that we wore wholly mistaken- We had
felt that these men might continue, each
in his own humor, in the slough made for
him, hut that they could 'get any farther
down was an impossibility. Alas for tho
fallibility of human reason and human con-
clusions !
And these earnest ami faithful workers
were at their work of infamy, and it wm
high noon, "and Satan came also"—came
in the person of the Rev. Mr. Kettell, and
in tho pretence of them all descended to a
depth so far below anything we had thought
or conceived of, that it amazed and bewil-
dered us. It even staggers his co-workers;
it backs down his friends. This descentis
even lower than that of the arch-angel who
was whirled out of heaven, for we doubt if
liis (Kettell's) friends could have found
him but for his shrieks of "Negro !'' "Ne-
gri)' !" as lie went down,which rent and pol-
luted the very air about him.
This clerical devil, like his prototype of
old, having but the lust of the world
before his eyes, appeals most fervidly to
the basest passions of the wicked, and*%riee
"bravo !" to tLoir assent. Ilis very breath
is corrupt—it stinketh in his own nostrils.
Hear him before aconferonce of Christians
—"I am a man to be turned out of church
because of my connection with negro slave-
ry "slavery is not sinful"the Romans
used to cut their slaves to pieces to (feed
there fishes on, and the young men of Ath-
ens cut them up for amusement, leaving
them in the streets !"
After these elogaut and classical allu-
sions, surely we Americans can but agree
to the justness and beauty of slave-hold-
ing, and not only whip, but occasionally
"cut up" a "nigger" for amusement. But
hoar him shriek again, as he passes on
downward: "The slaves are four millions
of paupers; they won't work, and can't
take care of themselves, and we must do it
for them." They aro lazy and good for
nothing. There aro more members of the
Christian church, good Christians, among
the slaves in this country than among any
other people in tho world. "They (the
slaves) aro barbarians.'' "Tho negro sinks
in morality. Ho is a degraded being."
These three lost elegancies we have been
much puzzled to string together. Rut
hear him again: "We Christians have a
right to make the negroes work and raise
cotton." "When we stanc np here and
vote that slavery is a sin, we ought to
know what wo are talking about." At
tli is we opino the Conference conclu-
ded that Mr. Kettell did not kuow what
lie himself was talking about, for the whole
convention burst into laughter. "Breth-
ren," said he, "may laugh, but they had
bettor inform themselves of the fact before
they laugh." Hero the Conference laugh-
ed again. "Was not the wealth pouring
out ot the cotton-fields of the South, and
was slavery a sin ?" This loud cry against
slavery by a great many brethren did not
touch a particularly tender spot—their
pockots. What are we to gain by setting
these four millions of slaves free? Did
not brethren love their sugar, and their
coffee, and their tobacco ?" Here the revv
erend gentleman smacked his lip*. "Are
we to blight all the interests of this glori-
ns land by an improper action on the
slavery question ? When John Wesley
said that American slavery was a vile sys-
tem, he must have been blinded by preju
dice."
But we deem it scarcely necessary to
follow farther this Rev. Mr. Kettell in his
downward flight. We have quoted enough
to show this clerical devil's rapid downward
tendencies—tendencies that will sink him
so low that the dark waves of oblivion will
bury him, we hope, forevermore. If the
church Is to contain within its bosom snch
beings, what hope can there be for it ? H
such pestilential creatures are to find shel-
ter and have word there, who that is hon-
est would wish to be found there in the
same company? Who that has any re-
spect for God or man would desire to
breathe the same atmosphere ?
Whero did this Rev. Kettell come from?
What church has had the sure misfortune
to receive his ministrations? What man-
ner of people must they be? It would be
a matter of history at some future day in
teresting, to have these interrogatories ans-
wered and accurately recorded. Let it by
all means be done.
The Troy Rescue.
Our brethren in the good city of Troy
have been doihg a good business there the
past week. They had quite a lively time
of it on Tuesday last. The circumstances
were simply these: A man came there
from the South—a colored man—and some
meddlesome chap took it upon himself to
meddle, and some other fools from the
haunts of oppression came up to Troy and
audaciously attempted to drag this man
back to Southern purgatory. But in this
they were agregiously mistaken,for the bojfs
(we would they would do alike work when
an occasion presents itself, in every village,
town, and city in the land,) rallied strong
and gloriously, and triumphantly escorted
the man out of town, and he is now paying
a visit in Her British Majesty's dominion
known as Canada. We hope this will be a
lesson to both toady Northern officers and
Southern brutes and kidnappers generally.
In the absence of a statement from our
own correspondent, we publish a graphic
account from the New York "Tribune:"
T*ot, April 27, 1860.
Charles Nalle, Mr. Gilbert's coachman,
was arrested to-day at 12| o'clock, by a
Deputy Marshal, Uolmc9, who is also an
employee in the post office, and two Vir-
ginians, through the action of a fellow, as
informer, named H. F. Averill, who was
formerly a resident of Sandlake, and a few
months ago connected with the publication
of the "Troy Budget"—a very appropriate
sphere for him ! This fellow, it appears,
has been for some time very diligent in
his inquiries, as agent of the claimant, to
fasten upon Charles Nalle. lie *a» uu a
barnyard scent for poor Nalle half an hour
before the kidnapping process, digging
through the alleys where he best belongs,
so that he might spring the trap for his
game, and thus secure a reward for his in-
famy. But may God help him if he shall
ever again be caught under this portion of
the blue firmament of freedom ! whether in
the stable alleys of Mr. Gilbert, or the
slums of the "Budget" office. For, a feel-
ing mixed with heart, soul, sympathies,
physical and moral courage, both among
men and women, pecuniary and time-sav-
ing sacrifices, loud denunciations, and
every demonstration calculated to elevate
and adorn the human character, was this
day exhibited, such as the Trojans may
well be proud of, in contradistinction to
the bloated excrescences of boasting Democ-
racy, that is sown like poisonous weeds,
<£nd revels in majorities throughout the
beautiful walks and dwellings of this city.
This man was hand-cuffed and literally
dragged to the office of Mr. Miles Beach,
a Fugitive Slave Law Commissioner. The
two Virginians claimed the man to be their
property. The father of the Slave Com-
missioner acted as counsel for the claimant.
(They were having a good time of it 1)
And thus secretly and privately, a certifi-
cate and judgment were made out by the
Court. At this point of time a colored
man, Henry, was advised of the case. The
aid of the Messrs. Townsend was obtain-
ed, and while Mr. Townsend, at three
o'clock, was preparing the documents, upon
his own presentation, preliminary to a
httbetis corjrns, the claimant, with his ruf-
fians, and a man named Til man, the Post-
Master, and two or three constables, were
seeking an escape from the building with
the alleged fugitive.
Nalle had no counsel, was not advised
of his rights to counsel, nor a friend by
him. There he stood, the picture of a for-
lorn hope, manacled, adjudged a chattel, a
brute, a slave, and transferred almost in-
stantaneously to the stars and stripes of
the sin-beclouded South.
Mr. Townsend asked to look at th* evi-
dence, which ran thus: "I swear that to be
my man." Mr. T., not being quite satis-
fied with the terseness of the thing, left,
while Baltim&e and Hawkins, two colored
men, raised a crowd, who stood sentry that
the fugitive should not escape their vigi-
lance. At that interim of time Nalle was
advised by some one of the ten or a dozen,
iu the select office of the father and son, to
let himself out of the window, which is
flush with the floor. It was suddenly
opened, when the manacled threw his
whole body out, and as he was about to
drop, and be caught by his friends below
to break the fall, the father of the Commis-
sioner, and this Tilman—the volunteer—
drew him back. A few moments after
that, Mr. Townsend, accompanied by the
Sheriff, rushed up with a writ to bring the
body of Nalle before Judge Gould of the
Supreme Court. Nalle was brought in-
to the street. The tussle for supremacy
then commenced. There was evidently
no disposition to injure the Deputy Sheriff,
(his principal finding it convenient to take
a wagon and drive out of town) who stuck
to his man like a leech, though a number
of sharp-hitting side-fights amid the im-
mense pressure of the crowd that swayed
to and fro fortwo squares to Judge Gould's
ofiee, the
on the diabolical proceedings. At that
point the rescuers thought the Judge too
'good looking," and they couldn't come in
After mousing and hanging about for ten
minutes, Nalle was rushed to the river
front, two squares more. There
another stoppage, and a parley of about
five minutes more, when there was the
most decided and spasmodic "pitching in'
to the officers probably ever witnessed,
They were laid out, and levelled off as if
stricken, simultaneously, by a galvanic
battery. Off went the man. The crowd
pressed on; a quarter heat was run at
about 2:40. Nalle jumped into a row-boat,
and another followed who pulled him to
the opposite shore, a quarter of a mile be-
low the ferry. Upon their landing Nalle
was seized by Becker, a West Troy Con-
stable, and taken to a Justice's office. The
friends of Nalle made for the ferry boat,
and crossing over, reached the office of the
Justice, where they attempted an entrance,
and were fired upon by Becker and Brown,
Constables, and Grstton, the Postmaster of
West Troy. They were driven down the
stairway, and rallying, returned with stones
and brick-bats, again ascended, and were
forced back by missiles of every descrip-
tion, bars of iron, sticks of wood, &c., when
a barber at the Troy House, a colored
man, was fired upon by the Postmaster, the
ball passing* through the rim of his hat
Again retreating, again they charged, led
on by one heroic colored woman, who,
"facing the cannon's mouth," rushed fran-
tically on, pressed upward by the surging
billows below. Enemies were driven aside,
the door was forced, Nalle seized, and
down they came amid screams and shouts,
like the pent-up winds in the Cave of
J!olus, all roaring together.
Then was this distracted man driven
along for a mile, with his month frothing
from thirst,, and blood streaming from his
face, which the brutes, in demoniacal ea-
gerness to secure their prey, thought it
manly to batter, while the shackles upon
his arms were grating blood upon his hands.
Near the Arsenal he was lifted into a
wagon, where a young man was sitting,
who refused to go on. Some colored men
jumped in. The man was forced to drive
on, or be thrown out, and thus a quarter of
a mile was made, when the wagon broke
down. In the meanwhile, a dashing fast
horse, before a buggy wagon, was driven
up by a leliable colored man and procured
for the purpose. Another man jumped in,
and Nalle was placed between them, and
all vanished, not to be seen here again.
Throughout the whole of these excite-
ments, and after the victory had been won,
there was an outspoken and emphatic
expression that paralyzes the pimps and
ponderers to such infamous proceedings.
An indignation meeting upon the conduct
of the Beaches will be held on Monday
evening. c. o. p.
Mr. John W. William's Lecture
Before the Young Men's Literary Society
on the evening of the 18th ult., at Rev.
Mr. Wilson's Church, was listened to by a
very large and intelligent audience. His
subject was: "The position of the colored
people of Nsrth America." After briefly
reviewing the policy of this government in
regard to our people, the lecturer said:
Fei.i,ow CmzEXs—I now invite your at-
tention to the colored people of the city of
New York. In the New York "Herald"
of the 10th of April, appeared an article
headed "The Negro in Town." 1 need
not have said the "Herald," for no New
Yorker would have looked in any other
paper for an article of that character—for
this paper has a large circulation among
the class that governs this city, and of the
ten thousand rum shops, you cannot go in-
to one where the "Herald" is not found.
The "Tribune/" "Times,'' "Post" nor "Com-
mercial" can he found there, they are re-
spectable, and would be out of place; but
there you will find the "Herald" with its
own people and they with it. It has the
interest of this class at head—supporting
the rum mills, the law breakers, the Sun-
day theatres, the Dead Rabbits, and stand-
ing in the defense of everything mean and
contemptible, from Lord Mayor Wood
down to James Buchanan, the double shuf-
fle letter-writer. Its object in the publica-
tion of the article was to prejudice the vo-
ters of New York against the proposition
to extend the suffrage to our people, which
will be voted on next November, when I
hope that the people will show by their
votes that they disregard the teachings of
the "Herald." I shall labor to that end,
and hope that every one of you will do
the same. The article commences with a
misrepresentation in regard to our popula-
tion, setting it down at lesss than 11,000,
when it is about 18,000, and says that one
third of it are dependent upon the charity
of the whites, and another third are with-
out any visible means of support. The
tongue of the man that uttered such false-
hoods should rot in his mouth. It is true
that the latter class is large, but it is made
np principally of persons from other places.
The writer says that there are few burglars
or forgers among them, owing to the absence
of a "high intellectual development," but I
think that if Wall street and Broadway
should throw their doors open to them, they
might find as many giving evidence of
that "high intellectual development" as
among the corresponding class of the whites.
In the said article the number of births dur-
ing the post year is set down at sixty-
two; now, I will venture to assert that
there is scarcely one in this audience that
could not eount that number among his
own circle of acquaintances. Now, a word
in regard to the charitable institutions sus-
tained by public funds. The "Herald"
places the inmates of the Colored Home
and Orphan Asylum in that class which it
claims is dependant on the whites for
maintenance, when it is well known that
the colored people contribute more, compa-
ratively to the support of those and simi-
lar institutions, than the whites
a large portion of the inmates of die
aforesaid institutions are from out of the
city of New York. I visited the Colored
Home a few days ago, and, with the assis-
tance of the Clerk, (a polite and gentle-
manly white man) canvassed it with the
following result: The whole number of
inmates is 349, of which 294 are of the
State of New York; 12 from Virginia; 10
from Maryland; 8 from Pennsylvania; 5
from Kentucky; 5 from Lousiana; 5 from
Cuba; 2 from New Jersey; 2 from Rhode
Island; 5 from the West Indies; 1 from
France. At the Orphan Asylum, which I
visited also, I could learn nothing more
definite than that a large number were
from out of the State. I found many
there from Baltimore. As half orphans
are admitted, many a father or mother
places his or her children there with the
view of giving them a good education and
having them well cared for. The assc
tion that the colored people do not con-
tribute liberally towards the support of
this institution, is false, for it is only a few
days ago that a committee of colored ladies
placed in the hands of the managers eleven
hundred doRars, the result of an effort in
its behalf, and very many of the colored
people make a contribution annually. In
regard to the poor, the ''Herald's" state-
ment takes in the reports for two or three
years, and of course will go for what it is
worth. That the bulk of the colored peo-
ple reside in West Broadway and intersect
ing streets, is ridiculously false, for there
are more found on the Fifth Avenue, Four-
teenth street, and similar streets, than there
are in the aforesaid locality. One word in
regard to colored tax-payers. The "Her.
aid" stated on the 1st of April (All-Fool's
Day) that there were about twenty tax-
payers among the colored people, but re-
turning to its senses about three days af-
terwards, discovered that the number did
not exceed six. Now, I am prepared to
prove that this lie has the capacity to swal
low all the rest. I will read from a re-
port from the N. Y. Society for the edu-
cation of colored children, to the Governor
of this State, so much as relates to taxes:
"Mr. Kiddle, the Superintendent, at a
general examination of colored schools held
in July last, declared the reading and
spelling equal to that of any schools in the
city. The undersigned enter their solemn
protest against this unjust treatment of col-
ored children. They believe with the ex-
perience of Massachusetts, and especially
the recent experience of Boston before
them, there is no sound reason why color-
ed children shall be excluded from any of
the common schools supported by taxes
levied alike on whites and blacks, and gov-
erned by officers elected by the vote of
colored as well as white voters. No pro-
position can be more reasonable than that
they who pay taxes for schools and school
houses, should be provided with schools
and school houses. The colored popul*
tion oc tkia city, an proportion to their
numbers, pay their fall share of general,
and therefore of the school taxes. There
are about nine thousand adults of both
sexes, and most of them are householders
and rent-payers; and therefore they are
tax-payers in that sense of the word in
which owners make tax-payers of their
poor tenants. The colored laboring mass,
with an income of $200 per year, who pay
$72 a year for a room, is really, in propor-
tion to his means, a larger tax-payer than
the millionaire, whose taxes amonnt to
thousands of dollars. But the colored
people pay taxes directly as well. From
an examination carefully made, the under-
signed affirm that there is in the city at
least 1,000 colored persons who own and
pay taxes on real estate.
Taxed real estate in the city of New
York owned by colored persons, $1,400,000
Untaxed property owned by colored
Churches, 25O,000
Personal estate, 710,000
Money in saving banks, 1,121,000
Total, $3,481,000
We furthermore learn that the amount
of real estate in New York state o* ned by
colored persons is $3,000,995, and the to-
tal of money in banks and estate is $7,190r
300.
This will speak for itself—it needs no
comment of mine, and I will therefore
leave the almighty Bennett.
CaGfotnta Corrtsponbtntt.
More Slave-Hnntiuf in New Ifoi
We had supposed that the last arrest in
this city under the infamous fugitive slave
act %ad been made—that the dealer in hu-
man flesh, from the great change in public
opinion at the North, had become more
cautious in the pursuit of his victims, and
that the unprincipled slave-catcher, finding
that it no longer paid, bad turned his at-
tention to other dirty work; but in all this
wo were mistaken, for in the dailies of last
Wednesday appealed the startling an-
nouncement that two fugitives had been
returned to slavery. We can this week
only give briefly the following particulars:
The names of the men are Allen Groffand
Josiah Hoy, the former claimed by Absa-
lom Cline, and the latter by C. A. Law-
rence, of Liberty (!) District, Maryland.
The arrest was made in a quiet manner,
(which is very significant,) the examina-
tion had before Commissioner Betts, their
identity made dear, and the men returned
to slavery. We will only add that until
slave-catching is made dangerous—yea,
fatal—to thoae engaged in it, we may look
for the recurrence of such transactions.
A subscription has been commenced in
Troy for the purchase of NaRe, the fugi-
tive slave, who was rescued the other day.
One thousand dollars is wanted, and five
hundred has already been subscribed.
Mr. W. W. Story, the celebrated sculp-
tor, is making a bust of the Rev. Theodore
Parker.
meisco Letter.
Su Francisco, April &, I860.
Mr. Editor:—A duel was expected to
have come off near this city at an early
hour on the morning of t* ■» 26th ult., be-
tween two of our very useful young men,
for a trivial cause. One of the parties was
J. W., ot Sacramento, who has recently
returned from a visit to the Atlantic States,
and the other R. W s, of Sierra coun-
ty. The friends of each partyin this city,
however, succeeded in effecting a compro-
mise between them before the time ap-
pointed for the meeting, and on the 27th
they both returned to Sacramento on the
same boat.
A large meeting was held in Zion
Church on Monday evening, the 26th ult.,
by the parents of children attending the
public schools, and of those friendly to ed-
ucation. The committee appointed at a
previous meeting made the following re-
port:
At a meeting of the colored citizens
held on Monday evening, Feb. 29th, in the
public school room, to consider the condi-
tion and wants of the school and what
should be done to promote its welfare, the
undersigned were appointed a committee
to confer with parents and guardians of the
pupils, and with the friends of the school
and teachers, and to recommend such a
course as they shall deem for the best good
of the school.
For nearly six years this school has
been establiarad, and we remember that it
was not without considerable effort that
we were able to secure it. As at first there
were those who opposed it, so now there
are those who would be glad to see it abol-
ished. A proposition has been made to
abolish the Chinese school, and it has been
plainly intimated that there is a lack of in
terest in the colored public schools among
our own people, as shown by the fact that
many parents have taken their children
from it and sent them to private schools,
leaving it but thinly attended. Now, if"
this state of things continues, the Board
will regard it as truth that we care but
little about the school, and as furnishing
them with just reasons for withholding the
appropriations by which it is sustained,
and letting us pay wholly for the school-
ing of our children. The school is now a
fixed fact—one of the public institutions
of the city—and it would be deplorable if,
in consequence of neglect or indifference
on our part, the Board should withdraw
their support from it.
Your committee do earnestly declare
that it is the duty of parents and guardi-
ans to visit our public schools freely, to per-
sonally acquaint themselves with teacher
and scholars,, with the forms of govern-
ment and method of instructing, the de-
portment and improvement of the latter,
and the wants of the school; that they
co-operate with the teacher in his efforts to
carry it on, and to raise its character to a
higher standard; and to send their child-
ren and see to it that they attend punctu-
ally and regularly. It is desirable that,
during the next four months, the school
should be filled to its utmost capacity. Be-
fore the close of the next summer term, we
hope to see the school so full that it may
be necessary to petition the Board of Edu-
cation to employ an assistant teacher. We
are confident that when they shall see the
school filled—that we are earnestly inter-
ested in its permanence and character, and
that it requires more special care and at-
tention at their hands, they will not only
give us an assistant, but furnish such oth-
er accommodations as the school may re-
quire. To ask now for an assistant, in
view of the present average attendance,
would be a premature movement.
There are between two and three hun-
dred colored children in San Francisco,
probably not more than one half of which
are in school, public and private. If an
objection to sending a larger number to
the public school has been that one teach-
er could not attend faithfully to them, let
us ask for an assistant; but let not your
children grow up without schooling. Cre-
ate the necessity for an assistant, and then
petition for one. In the meantime, your
committee recommend that something be
done immediately for the comfort and bet-
ter convenience of the scholars and teach-
er as they are. The school ought to be
furnished with a good set of maps, black-
boards, and a globe, all of which articles
are needed by the scholars for reference
and the illustration of those subjects taught
in the school.
When it is remembered that pupils pass
four hours a day for five days of each
week in the school room, it should be a
matter of some interest to us to make it
comfortable and attractive to them. Your
committee propose that a piano or melode-
on be purchased and placed in the school
for the use of pupils. . H. B. Janes, Esq.,
ex-superintendant of public schools, pro-
posed this very thing only a few months
since. At the same time he suggested that
the scholars might give an exhibition at
the close of the term, and from the pro-
ceeds furnish themselves with an instru-
ment. This course has been pursued by
other schools, so that in recommending it
here we have the example of other schools.
Your committee cannot close without
again recommending to the parents and
guardians of the pupils, and the friends of
the school generally, to freely visit the
We are informed that the best time
for visiting is from 11 to 12 in the fore-
noon, and from 1 to 3 J in the afternoon.
Bespectfully nubrnitted,
hex by m. collins,
PETER ANDERSOX,
BERNARD FLETCHER,
J. B. SANHEBSOX,
GEO. w. DENNIS,
D. W. RtTGGLES.
After considerable discussion the report
was adopted, and the meeting adjourned
to the 9th inst. to transact their unfinished
business.
A festival was given on Thursday even-
ing, the 29th ult., by some of the mem-
bers of Pilgrim A. M. E. Church, at Bar-
ton's Hall, complimentary to and for the
benefit of Rev. T. M. D. Ward, previous
to his departure from this State. A simi-
lar entertainment was tendered him in
Sacramento. The reverend gentleman
leaves aa by the steamer of to-day, to at-
tend the General Conference to be held by
the Connexion to which he^ is attached.
For the past six years he has labored as-
siduously in the interior of this State, as
well as in this city, for the spiritual wel-
fare of his church, and has been eminently
successful in planting the seeds of that de-
nomination in many of our mountain towns
and mining localities. I was present at
the delivery of his farewell sermon on Sun-
day evening the 1st inst, after which he
administered the eucharist. His natura
eloquence in the portrayal of the life,death
and resurrection of our Savior, was truly
sublime. He leaves with the good wil
and best wishes of all denominations oi'
our people here.
Since my last letter I was informed
the death at Marysville on the 22d ult.
Mrs. Rosetta Robinson Mayo, formerly of
Philadelphia. This lady, previous to com-
ing to this State, was for several years at-
tached to Wesley Church, in the latter
city, and was a prominent member of its
choir; but for the past six or seven years
she has resided in this State, and has been
one of the most zealous female members of
the church at Marysville.
tall son of penn.
ome Correspondence
Onr Philadelphia Letter.
Philadelphia, April 30, I860.
Mr. Editor:—On Tuesday evening last
Mr. U. B. Vidal lectured before the Phila
delphia Library Company in the lecturo-
room of St. Thomas' Church, but, owing
to pressing engagements in another direc-
tion, I was unable to attend, which I very
much regret.
I have for some years past been very
seriously considering the propriety of giv-
ing money to purchase the God-given
rights of humanity. Case after case has
come nnder my observation within a few
years past in churches and other public
meetings, and in all cases have I refusec
to place money in the coffers of slavehold
ers. I came to this conclusion long since
by reasoning out the matter in my own
mind. Several years ago I happened to
be at a lecture, and when the regular ex-
ercises were over, a stalwart individua
came forward and desired to speak; per-
mission being given, he stated that he had
a wife in slavery whom he loved, that he
loved that audience, and loved the God of
heaven, and if there was anybody present
who would not give him something where-
by to purchase that wife, he would not like
to be that person. He pressed his case
with so much warmth that all present, no
doubt, sympathized with the man, and no
one more than I did; but they were gov-
erned by different impulses from myself,
for a good collection -was taken. Ait 1 sat
and revolved the matter in my mind, two
very pertinent questions presented them
selves: First—Suppose I had a wife and
dear little children in the hell of American
slavery, how would I discharge my duty
toward them and toward my God ? Sec-
ond—In what way could I contribute to
the support of slavery better than by pur-
chasing slaves? To the first question my
sonl responded. I know no obligation
which compels mc to submit to outrage,
wrong and contumely, and before I would
suffer myself or my posterity to contribute
by years of unpaid toil, to the support of
slaveholders, I would consent to be sacri-
ficed with them upon the altar of freedom.
To the second I was no less sudden in
coming to a conclusion—so long as slave-
holders can find Northerners willing to
purchase their stolen property, just so long
will they endeavor to hold them and con-
sider their claims as just. These were my
conclusions then. Recent events in our
city and in Troy, have made me feel a
sublime contempt for those who do not
love liberty enough to die for it. Life is
dear,and so is liberty—but sometimes it is
necessary to sacrifice the former for the
latter. A few weeks ago Moses Horner
was brought to this city, tried before a
partial judge, and delivered to the blood-
hounds of the South. Several generous-
hearted men attempted his rescue, but fail-
ed. One day last week intelligence reach-
ed us from Troy, stating that a man bear-
ing the image of his Maker, was arrested,
claimed as a chattel personal, that a crowd
of about 1,000 persons assembled, princi-
pally negroes, and rescued him and sent
him across the water, but on the other side
he was arrested and again rescued. When
I read the facts, my heart was glad within
me to think of such heroic conduct on the
part of an oppressed people. So far as the
rectitude of slavery is concerned, it is de-
fended by the Old Testament, but it teach-
es me, "He that stealeth a man, and sell-
eth him, or if he be found in his hand, he
shall surely be put to death." Exodus21st
chapter, 16th verse. It is our duty to
give the fleeing bondman protection by
every means in our power, but to give our
money to purchase those whom we believe
to be unjustly held, is equivalent to buy-
ing stolen goods.
I am very happy in being able to state
that several of our churches are rapidly
increasing in membership, of which may
be mentioned the Pearl street Baptist
Church, Rev. James Underdue pastor, and
the First Presbyterian Church, Seventh
street, below Shippen, under the pastoral
charge of Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs. The
latter church has a rapidly increasing Sab-
bath school connected with it, which will
celebrate its twenty-fifth 'anniversary on
Thursday evening, May 10. The exer.
cises will consist of speeches and singing
by the members of the school. The piec^
are well selected, and very appropriate to
the occasion.
Mr. Wm. Still, as is pretty generally
known, has fallen into a difficulty in ^
conscientious discharge of his duty. ja
the first trial it seems there was a Haw jn
the bill of indictment, and the case was
lost, but by an amended bill the case was
brought up, or would have been brougl,t
up,and in order to get in certain testimony
Mr. Still acknowledged writing the letter'
but did not plead guilty, as was stated ia
some of the papers. Mr. Still was sen.
tenced to ten days imprisonment and fined
one hundred dollars; he was not, however
permitted to remain in prison, and now
the tried friend of the fugitive is at his
post, ready and willing to labor for the
abolition of slavery and to asssist the fle«.
ing bondman. Tho following call Las
been issued for a public meeting for Wed
nesday evening, 2d of May, to
sympathy for him:
The friends of Wm. Still, and the public, aro
invited to meet at the Israel Church, corner u!
Fifth and Cask ill street, on Wednesday evening
May 2, in order to give a proper and puldic
presaion of aympathy to Mr. Still, for the rec-nt
persecution to which he lias l»cen subjected for
conscientiously discharging his duty, and to gjv,.
him satisfactory assurance of the unshaken coofi.
dene* reposed in him by the friends of humanity
and particularly the unabated respect of his co]
ored brethren.
The call is signed by Jonathan 0
Gibbs, Stephen Smith, and others.
The number of deaths reported to th«
Board of Health last week was lfc9, n nf
express
which were colored.
BAHNFKFR.
Onr
Albany Letter.
Albany, April JO, 16C0
Dear Akglo:—Pursuant to call, the tit.
isens of Albany assembled on Monday
evening, April 23, in the basement of the
A. M. E. Church, for the purpose, of form-
ing a Suffrage Clnb. Mr. James J. John-
son was chosen Chairman and Mr. Louis
Williams Secretary. Rev. Mr. killer,from
the committee to prepare a constitution for
the club, presented the report of the com.
mittee, which, after amendments and con-
siderable discussion, was adopted. The
club is to be known as tho "Albany City
and County Suffrage Club." Messrs. Wm
A. Deitz, Wm. P. Mclntyre and J. .S
Lekins, were appointed a committee to
nominate officero for the club. They re.
tired for a while, and returned, presenting
the following report: For President,Thoe
M. Voglesang, Esq;, for Vico Presidents,
Jacob Mason, Francis Van Epps, John
Chambers; for Recording Secretary,
Smith; for Corresponding Secretary, Rich-
ard C.Wright; for Treasurer, Primus Rob-
inson. Mr. J. Cutter moved to amend,by
substituting Rev. T. Doughty Miller as
the most appropriate person. Mr. M. de-
clined, when Stephen Myers, Esq., moved
further to amend by substituting James I'.
Johnson, Esq. Agreed to. The rest of
the report was adopted by separate vote,
just as received by tho committe. Messrs
Mclntyre and Wright were appointed n
committee to appropriately place the J'resi-
dent in his seat, the President replying in
a neat speech, thanking them for the un-
expected honor.
Resolved,That these proceedings be publinhcd
in the "Anglo-African," (the people's paper) with
notice appended for "Frederick Doaglaea Pa-
per" to copy the same.
Resolved, That the Secretary present a copy of
these proceedings to the Kev. Mr. Miller, ngdit of
that paper, for that purpose.
A violent and warm discussion ensued
on the introduction of these resolutions, re-
ative to the merits of tho "colored papers"
and the general lack of intelligence of the
Northern colored people, occupying some
considerable time, and in which many par-
ticipated, and it was midnight before the
meeting adjourned; yet the resolutions
were passed docisely, the majority of tbe
meeting believing that Northern colored
men are and do know something, and, in
the words of Mr. Lekins, one of the deba-
ters, "it is their dnty to honor anywhere
and everywhere the productions of the col-
ored men." The meeting then adjourned,
to meet this evening in the lecture room of
the Baptist Church, to discuss the question,
'Is the colored man, under the present
aw of tho State of New York, justified in
voting at tbe coming election ?"
Among recent visitors to our city have
been Mr. T. S. Boston, the eminent mu
sician of your city, Rev. J. W. Loguen, of
Syracuse, and several others. Watkins,
the "New York Anglo-African Statesman,"
is expected to drop some of his impressive
"Notes by the Way" here, on his way to
the New York State Suffrage Convention
There is much rejoicing among our peo-
ple here, to see that the Trojans have
proved themselves men indeed, equal to
any emergency, as evinced in the late
rescue of Charles Nalle, the particulars of
which will doubtless reach you from that
city. Let the colored men of the State of
New York everywhere but show a similar
spirit, and the fact will be demonstrated
beyond a doubt that the African is a man,
with all the feelings and sympathies of a
man, and is determined to assert his rights,
looking unto Jesus, the author of the great
enduring Higher Law, for protection, uot
to James Buchanan, nor to the slave boun
Supreme Court, whose laws will one day
lie groveling in the dust, as they alrea J
figuratively are in the eyes of every re
spectable nation on tbe face of tho
All honor to the colored men of Troy
!
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