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nstitution when this question has not, in one shape or another, been a disturbing element, a deep-rooted cancer, upon the body of our society, frequent

9, was the beginning of an agitation, a problem, the solution of which no man

ranny and dragging at his heels the African savage, bound in servile chains; praying to a just God for freedom, and at the same time riveting upon his fellow

na" as "sons of freedom," who were "called upon to defend our most inestimable blessing," the right to be free and sovereign, and to "rally around the standard of the eagle, to defend all which is dear in existence;" it did not matter that in each of these memorable struggles the black man was called upon, and responded nobly, to the call for volunteers to drive out the minions of the British tyrant. When the smoke of battle had dissolved into thin air; when the precious right to be free and sovereign had been stubbornly fought for and reluctantly conceded; when the bloody memories of Yorktown and New Orleans had passed into glorious history, the black man, who had assisted by his courage to establish the free and independent States of Am

n's Notes on Virginia, down to the present time, the same key has been struck, the same song as been sung, with here and there a rare exception-as in the case of Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Judge Tourgée's A Fool's Errand, Dr. Haygood's Our Brother in Black, and some others of less note. The white man's

rjecting extenuating, often irrelevant circumstances, the ferocity and insatiate lust of greed of his race. He has been unable t

liaths, any one of which was willing and anxious to serve the cause of the devil by crushing the little angel in the service of the Lord. So it is to-day. The great newspapers, which should plead the cause of the oppressed and the down-trodden, which should be the palladiums of the people's rights, are all on the si

ry politicians and the helpless victims of sharpers and thieves, are wantonly misrepresented-held up to the eyes of the world as beings incapable of imbibing the distort

e William Lloyd Garrisons have nearly al

ered, crawled in the dust or mounted the house-top, as occasion served, from Gregory to the Smiths and Joneses of the present time. So that it has passed into a proverb, that the ministers of the gospel may be always counted upon to take sides with the strongest party-always seeking to conciliate "King Cotton," "King Corporation," "King Monopoly," and all the other "Kings" of modern growth-swaying, like the reed in the wind, to the powers that be, whether of tyranny reared upon a thousand y

ation of the black man since the rebellion, the ministry have largely furthered the work, they have done so because there were hundreds and thousands of brave men and women ready to give their time and money to the upbuilding of outraged humanity and the cause of Christ. They have simply put in operation movements conceived and nurtured by the genius and philanthropy of others,

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