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Show l~G TilE GOLDEN HOUR. man to act for that country at Washington. I cannot believe that tho Pret'ident of lla'iLi coul<l so far degrade his country before tlw worl<l as to nu"tke ~uch an appointn1ent; but if thoro arc any such influences at work, it behooYos every friend of freedo1n to protet-t loudly and strongly against it. If II a'iLi cannot be represented hero by her blackest Negro, lot her be unrepresented ; this nation already perceives that we necu her 1noro than she needs us. Bnt n1oro than all the fruit , spice , an<l ·wealth sl1c can bring u , \Ve need her black minister in \V ashi ngton. 'Vo need him there as the touchstone of our civilization ; we need hitn as the n1agic mantle to reveal every sham and every itnpurity in tho Republican Court. " I ostcetn," says En1er on, " the occasion of this jubilee (West Indian Etnancipation) to be tho proud di covery that tho black race can contend with the white; that, in tho groat anthen1 which vvo call IIi 'tory, a piece of n1any parts and vast con1pa , after playing a long tin1o a very low and ~ubducd accon1pani1ncnt, they perceive the tin10 arrived. when they can strike in with effect, ancl take a 1uas tor' part in tho n1u~ic. Tho ciYility of tho vvorld has roached that pitch, that their n1ore moral genius i beco1ning inui pen ·alJle, and tho quality of this race is to Lo honored for itself. For this they have boon pre ervod in sandy de erts, in rice swan1ps, in kitchens and shoe-shop , so long; now lot thcn1 on1ergo, clothed atHl in their own fo1~n1." ~HE NEGRO. 127 No danger from the Southern Confederacy threatens us so nuteh as this cry of our rulc1· · r0 . L1 1 · li 1 10 CO OlllZa-tion of freed N ogroes. A 1uillion L·rp1ar·o ·1 f Q , ll 1111 OS 0 Ull-tillcd lan<ls to which their ~inows arc hy the laws of N aturo c~nsecrated, arc chunoring for thc1n, and yet n1.ad~en 111 power arc talking of exiling the1n ! lla'iti, L1bcna, and now tho Danish govenuneut, are all in-triguillg to got . these laborer·s fro1n us ,· and no tl n· og but the resoluL1on of the NcoeT oes , that tl 1e y w 1·1 1 not go unless forcou, save· u · from thi fearful lo ·s. A1ncrica will one day kneel, and thank that people· that they held out against the stupidity and ignorance of the colonizationists, who e projects would blight one half of our territory. If, by any unfortunate 1neans, America shall Lo robbed of this race, po 'tcriLy will know the President under who1n the exodus occurs only Ly the na1no of FooL. What arc we to do with the Negro ? Is the Analo-b Saxon brain on this hon1i ·phore softening ? If so, son1c day in tho mid 't of wasted fields and de olatc lands, 'vc may be buruened ·with the que ·tion, What can we d.o ·without hin1 ? No ! this race is to ro1nain with us ; it has brought fro1n the remote past and fervid Ea t a sacred strcan1 of vitality, by it alone now represented upon earth, which it is appointed to 1ningle with the current of lnnnanity, and 'vithout which 1nan in the New World could never fill out the outlines sketched for him by the Supre1ne Artist. |
