COLLEGE FOR COLORED YOUTH. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW-HAVEN CITY MEETING AND RESOLUTIONS, WITH RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COLLEGE, AND STRIC¬ TURES UPON THE DOINGS OF NEW-HAVEN, NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTSS. 1831. New-York, Oct. 12th, 1831. Mr. S. S. Jocelyn, Dear Sir—We are desirous of having you give as your views on the subject of the proposed College for colored youth together with any facts and circumstances that have come to your knowledge, which in your opinion are calculated to remove prejudice and awaken an interest in the public mind in favor of this enterprise. We are, very respectfully, your friends and obedient servants, Peter Willtams, "j Q0mmittc,e for superintend- Thomas Downing, I . ^ tppliJtion for Peter Vogelsang, £ f(jr £ c()jlje for Boston Cromwell, \j Soiored Youth Philip A. Bell, J Gentlemen—It would afford me the highest pleasure, could I present you with such views or facts as would promote the establishment of u College for colored youth in our country. It is a source of the richest gratification tome, thatl may be engaged in any labor for the happiness of my colored countrymen. You will therefore know with what feelings I regard your communication of the 12th i 11 s t a 111. I have recently furnished for the Advertiser of this city, a brief sketch of the contemplated College, which I now send to you, together with the opinions of many noble-minded men in different parts of our country, whose sentiments will awaken a deeper interest in this enterprise. Opposition to this enterprise will but speed its progress. Its friends will more deeply feel its necessity, and act more vigorously. Nothing will tend more to unite the people of color for the general educalion of their children. If stressful, nothing will so quickly remove prejudice and jealousy in the community, tind lead to mtotual respect and confidence between our white and colored population. The education of the people of color of the United States will be regarded as one of the signs of glory which shall fill the earth in Messiah's glorious day. Let us lay the stone for a foundation in prayer and faith. I am persua¬ ded that the College will be built, though it may be in " troublous times. " I am, gentlemen, with much respect, your obedient servant, SIMEON S. JOCELYN. New-Haven, Oct. 15,1831. To Rev. Peter Williams, Messrs. Thomas Downing, Peter Vogelsang, Boston Cromwell and Philip A.Bell, Committee for superintending the appli¬ cation for funds for the College for colored youth. COLLEGE FOR COLORED YOUTH. From the Philadelphia Chronicle. EDUCATION—AN APPEAL TO THE BENEVOLENT. The undersigned committee appointed by a general convention held in this city, to direct and assist the Conventional Agent, the Rev. Samuel E. Cornish, in soliciting funds for the establishment of a Collegiate School, on the Manual Labor system, beg leave to call the attention of the enlightened and benevo¬ lent citizens of Philadelphia and its vicinity to the important subject. In doing which, they deem it unnecessary in this enlightened country, and at this en¬ terprising era, to adduce arguments, or multiply words by way of appeal. The contrast between enlightened and barbarous nations—between the educated and the vulgar, is the plainest demonstration of the utility of their plan and importance of their appeal. The colored citizens of the United States, assem¬ bled by delegation in this city, June last, alive to the interests of their brethren and community generally, resolved at whatever Labor or Expense, to estab¬ lish, and maintain an institution, in which their sons of the present and future generations may obtain a classical education, and the mechanic arts in general. Believing"that all who know the difficult admission of our youths into seminaries of learning and establishments of mechanism—all who know the efficient influence of education in cultivating the heart, and restraining the passions and improving the manners, all who wish to see our colored popula¬ tion more prudent, virtuous and useful, will lend us their patronage, both' in money and prayers. The committee, in conclusion, would respectfully stale, that the amount of money required to erect buildings, secure apparatus and mechanical instruments, is $20,000; of this sum the colored people in¬ tend to contribute as largely as God hath given them ability, and for the residue they look to the christian community, who know their wants, their oppression and wrongs—and more particularly to the inhabitants of this city, celebrated for its benevolence, and in which so many preceding steps, taken for the ad¬ vancement of our oppressed people, have had their origin. They would farther state, t|iat all monies collected by the principal agent, Rev. Samuel E. Cornish, who is now in this city, and whom they recommend to the confi¬ dence of all to whom he may appeal, will be deposited in the United States Bank, subject to the order of Arthur Tappan, Esq. of New York, their gene¬ rous patron and friend; and in the event of the institution not going into ope¬ ration, to be faithfully returned to the several donors. The contemplated Seminary will be located at New-Haven, Conn, and established on the self supporting system, so that the student may cultivate habits of industry and obtain a useful mechanical or agricultural profession, while pursuing classical studies. Signed in behalf of the Convention, by JAMES FORTEN, JOSEPH CASSEY, ROBERT DOUGLASS, ROBERT SURVIS, FREDERICK A. HINTON, Provisional Committee of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Sept. 5,1831. 4 Philadelphia, Sept. 7,1831. I wish success to every judicious measure for the improving of the minds «f the rising generation of the colored people in literature. WM. WHITE. H. U. ONDERDONK. I do most cordially approve of the foregoing plan for meliorating the condi¬ tion of the colored youth of our country; and being fully persuaded that the Manual Labor system is well adapted to the habits, wants, and peculiar situa¬ tion of colored young men, I am of the opinion that liberal aid will be well and wisely bestowed on the proposed institution. THOMAS McAULEY. My own views are entirely expressed in the above favorable notices of Bishops White and Onderdonk, and Dr. McAuley. G. T. BEDELL. I cheerfully commend the Rev. S. E. Cornish and the object of his applica¬ tion to my Christian friends; particularly because I feel confidence in the wisdom of Arthur Tappan, Esq. in his efforts to piomote the welfare of our colored brethren. EZRA STILES ELY. To either of (he Sherifs of the City of New-Haven— Greeting. You are hereby required to warn the Freemen of said City, to meet at tins City Hall in said City, on Saturday the 10th day of Sept. i 831, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to take into consideration a scheme (said to be in progress) for the establishment, in this City, of" a College for the education of Colored Youth" and to adopt such measures as may be deemed expedient relative to the same. And to do any other business proper for said meeting. Hereof fail not, and due return make. Given under my hand, bv advice of the Aldermen, in the City of New-lla- ven, this 8th day of September, 1831. DENNIS KIMBERLY, Mayor. The foregoiDg is a true copy of the original warrant. Attest, JUSTIN REDFIELD,. City Sherif, The meeting above warned was held in the City Hall on the 10th of Sep¬ tember. The editor of the Advertiser remarks, " so great was the interest to hear the discussions,, that, notwithstanding the excessive heat and the al¬ most irrespirable atmosphere of the room, the hall was crowded through the afternoon. The meeting was addressed, in favor of the resolutions below, by I. H. Townsend, R. I. lngersoll, Nathan Smith, and David Daggett, Esqfs. and by Rev. S. S. Jocelyn in opposition.The resolutions were adopted en¬ tire. A respectable minority voted in favor of'actihg on the resolutions sepa¬ rately ; and it is said by many that more than one hundred freemen of the city did not vote at all; when the final question on the resolutions was put, it was openly opposed by jfire or six. At a City Meeting, duly warned, and held at the City Hall in the city of New- Haven, on Saturday the 10th day of September, 1831, to take into considera¬ tion a project for the establishment in this city of a College for the education of Colored Youth; the following preambles and resolutions were by said meeting adopted, viz:— Whereas endeavors are now making to establish a College in this city for tiie education of the colored population of the United States, the West Indies, and other countries adjacent; and in connection with this establishment, the immediate, abolition, of slavery in the United States is not only recommended and encouraged, by the advocates of the proposed College, but demanded as a right; and whereas an omission to notice these measures may be. construed as ijnplying either indifference to, or approbation of the same,-- 5 Resolved, That it is expedient that the sentiments of our citizens should be* expressed on these subjects, and that the calling of this meeting by the Mayor- and Aldermen is warmly approved by the citizens of this place. Resolved, That in as much as slavery does not exist in Connecticut, and' wherever permitted in other States depends on the municipal laws of the State which allows it, and over which neither any other State, nor the Congress of the United States has any control, that the propaga'ion of sentiments favora¬ ble to the immediate emancipation of slaves in disregard of the civil instiiu- tions of the States in which they belong, and as auxiliary thereto the contem¬ poraneous founding of Colleges for educating colored people, is an unwarranta¬ ble and dangerous interference with the internal concerns of other States, and ought to be discouraged. And whereas in the opinion of this meeting, Yale College, the institutions for the education of females, and the other schools, already existing in this ci¬ ty, are important to the community and the general interests of science, and' as such have been deservedly patronized by the public, and the establishment of a College in the same place to educate the colored population is incompati¬ ble with the prosperity, if not the existence of the present institutions of learning, and will be destructive of the best interests of the city:—And be¬ lieving as we do, that if the establishment of such a College in any part cf, the country were deemed expedient, it should never be imposed on any com¬ munity without their consent.—Therefore, Resolved—by the Mayor, Alder¬ men, Common Council and Freemen of the City of JVew-Haven, in City Meeting assembled, That we will resist the establishment of the proposed, College in this place, by every lawful means.. DENNIS KIMBERLY, Mayor., Elisha Monson, Clerk. From the New-Ilaven Advertiser, October 4. In a recent communication, I intimated an intention of giving a more particular account of the College for colored youth, proposed to be established''in this city. With its true object before the mind, which has been again, and again publicly stated, it appears impossible that any candid person should say ought against the design and exis¬ tence of such an institution. Those who have wantonly at¬ tributed every unholy and inhuman object to the projectors- of the college, probably are not to be affected by evidence, in this case. In the following remarks, I express my own views, in con¬ nection with those of a few individuals early associated with, me in this, enterprise. Two years ago, the subject of a school of a high order for colored youth, to be located in this city„ was presented to a body of our literary men, who were, from their peculiar situation, supposed to be better able to judge of its effect upon Yale College and the female schools, than, any other persons in the city. No opposition was made at the time, and the design was cordially approved by most of the gentlemen present. Various circumstances prevented our going forward with the plan, until May last, when we commenced making efforts to establish the institution. At. 6 Nevv'York, we found that a number of colored men of much respectabil ty had formed an association, preparatory to the establishment of a high school in that city, for the education of colored youth. About this time, we received information of several young men of color who were preparing for col¬ lege ; but no college was then known, excepting Bowdoin College, in Maine, that would receive persons of color to the enjoyment of their privileges. We proposed to the peo¬ ple of color in New-York, to establish a college on the ma¬ nual labor system, connecting agriculture, horticulture and the mechanic arts, with the study of literature and the sci¬ ences, at New-Haven. Our object and plan were popular, and the intelligent people of color, whom we saw at that time, determined to turn their attention to that object, rath¬ er than to prosecute their intended enterprise. We were earnestly requested to visit Philadelphia, and lay the subject before the Convention of the colored people of the United States, which was to meet there in a few days. We met the Convention on the 8th of June last, at the Wes¬ ley Church in Philadelphia, and were requested to state our object to the Convention. This we did, and gave our rea¬ sons for the establishment of the institution, and also why New-Haven might be selected as the place of its location. Our object was most cordially embraced, and a committee was appointed, which reported decisively in favor of making an effort, in unison with their white friends, to raise $20,000, to commence the college. The doings of this highly res¬ pectable body, we are informed, will be soon before the pub¬ lic. The necessity of a college, we ascertained, was felt in various cities. In Boston, the people of color had consulted on the subject; also in Baltimore—and the Friends, ever devoted to the cause of the oppressed, were contemplating a school of a high order, for colored youth, in Philadelphia. Designing, as we were, to establish a primary school, (which is now in operation in New-Haven,) and a high school or academy preparatory to the college, so as to present a com¬ plete system of training from a very early age, we saw the great importance of establishing the college, for the benefit of those who were desirous of every advantage in literature and the pursuits of extensive usefulness. Gentlemen of the first standing in Philadelphia, and of various denominations, gave their decided approbation of our object. The city of brotherly love abhors the doctrine of " ignorant blessedness." and she will give us the lead in the great work of raising up 7 the colored people. Many philanthropists, in other places have received our object with favor, and we are happy to say that their number is increasing, notwithstanding the opposi¬ tion which we have received. -The Rev. S. E. Cornish, as agent for the Convention in behalf of the college, has refu¬ ted the charges made by many against the institution. We add our testimony. The college has no necessary connex¬ ion with the subject of slavery. Its friends are some of them slave-holders, who feel in some degree their obligations to give education to those who may be, as they view the case, profitably employed by them in teaching their slaves, previ¬ ous to emancipation. One gentleman of this description a few days since promised one hundred dollars to the college, saying, at the same time, that the New-Haven people had altogether misjudged on the utility of educating the people of color. This gentleman has returned to his home, and in a few days will probably be surrounded with his slaves, whose situation he is so desirous to improve. Such persons are well convinced that it is the want of thorough knowledge that leads the slaves on to the destruction of the whites, and in the end to their own ruin. Some of the friends of this college are in favor of immediate emancipation, and some of them are opposed to it. Some of them are opposed to the Colonization Society, and some of them are its advo¬ cates. When we see that its object is simply education in literature, the sciences arid the arts, without respect to pe¬ culiar denomination, we are not surprised that liberal mind¬ ed men, of different views on other subjects, should heartily unite in this. New-Haven was regarded as a good location for the college, and would still be such, were it not for the very unexpected excitement which has been got up against it, through the influence of prejudice and a slavery-accom¬ modating spirit. It was supposed that men of influence and literature here would favor the undertaking, as worthy of their protection and support. There was reason to believe that many persons who had to a good degree, and in some instances with peculiar zeal, assisted in the improvement of the colored people, by means of Sabbath and common schools, and in the means of pub¬ lic worship, would go still farther in the cultivation of this af¬ flicted people. We are happy to state, that, although many estimable persons, and even professing Christians, were hur¬ ried by excited popular feeling to join in all the resolutions of the New-Haven city meeting, some of them, at Jeast, re- ,"gret the couise taken. Tried friends continue their efforts for the colored people, and are daily gaining strength, to come out and meet the tide of persecution which is flowing against the too long oppressed and neglected race for whom they labor. The soberness and reputed refinement of New- Haven gave assurance of better things than we have expe¬ rienced. If indeed we have overrated the liberal and friend¬ ly feeling of the citizens, when addressing the friends of this ■institution abroad, and especially the people of color, they will, we trust, believe us at least as much disappointed as ■themselves, and excuse the fondness and respect of one for his native city, and for which he will yet hope, though he dafe not on that hope suspend any vital interest of the peo¬ ple of color. The mild atmosphere of New-Haven, and its healthy cli- >mate, rendered it desirable for the location of such an insti¬ tution. It combines the country with the city, and while it is easy to secure land for agricultural purposes, the variety of manufacturing business pursaed promised the means of in¬ struction in almost every department, when the workshops should be erected. The advantages arising from viewing every species of art, as may be seen in such a place, are great—such advantages are not often obtained in country villages. Another important reason given for its location in this place, is the benefit which arises from its literary character. A greater variety of instruction can be secured in literature ;and the sciences, than in country villages, and at less ex¬ pense. Fewer professors would be necessary at the com- "inencement of the institution, as persons versed in almost •every department of education, are residing here, and might be employed to teach in the classes—and lecturers on every subject of interest, who visit our city, could be secured to lecture to the students. Believing that the age in which we live peculiarly demands not only thorough knowledge of fun¬ damental literary studies, but the knowledge of men and things, gained by observation and intercourse, it was regard¬ ed as important that the students should grow up in the midst of circumstances favorable to the attainment of such knowledge; and although it may not be desirable to locate the college in a large city, it is important that it be where well regulated and respectable society, to a moderate extent, may be by them enjoyed. Peculiar difficulties might arise on this point, in many places, where there were no thrifty, 9 respectable or pious people of color. Such society, as much as would be useful, may be enjoyed in New-Haven. The moral character of the people has greatly Improved, and a large number are industrious, honest and pious, and deserv¬ ing of respect. We are aware of the illiberal spirit which condemns all this people alike, the good and the wicked; those who know them, know that the same distinctions of moral character exist among them, as among the whites. Another reason why New-Haven was preferred, was, that its commercial business is principally with the West Indies. Desiring to promote education in the West India Islands, it was natural that we should, for the reason stated, select New- Haven. Facts require us to believe that those islands are soon to be freed from slavery. The exertions of Clarkson, Wilberforce, Lughington, O'Connell, and hundreds of thou¬ sands in Great Britain, are already telling as they did before on the question of the slave trade—and now, as a first step, we learn that Parliament has decided the freedom of slaves owned by the British government. Already the free people of color are gaining the business ground in some of the isl¬ ands, and are admitted to all the privileges of free citizens, and some are in offices of trust and great responsibility. When we reflect upon the immense wealth of the free peo¬ ple of color in some of those islands—owning, as they do in Jamaica alone, property valued at thirty millions of dollars— equal to the entire capital of the United States Bank; it becomes a question, not whether we shall encourage a " lazy and abandoned set of men," by such an institution as has been proposed here, but whether the friendly intercourse which would exist between us and those islands, in conse¬ quence of favoring the education of their people, would not be exceedingly beneficial to us in a commercial point of view. If business considerations are pre-eminently to weigh in this matter, our citizens may yet turn this thought in their minds, as their business interests may suggest. Let any oth¬ er city, well situated for trade with the West Indies, and with Mexico and South America, cherish such an institu¬ tion, and they will show us what we lose in business, resour¬ ces and favors. To a superficial observer, all this may ap¬ pear to be of no account; but those who have studied the political situation of the West Indies particnlarly, and the rising character of the people of color, together with the increasing determination of the British people to make their people of color now in slavery free, will see that it is no im¬ probable result which we anticipate. Aside from the bene- C> 10 volence of multitudes in Great Britain, the people all know that it is madness to attempt-to hold them longer in slavery, when there are, on an average, nine colored persons to one white in their islands. We have citizens who can inform this community of the increasing power of the colored peo¬ ple in the islands, in business and wealth. It may be said, that favors are not to be expected in trade. This is proved untrue in many instances. We know a man of wealth in this State, who, through peculiar favor from a colored man of influence, an officer in one of those islands, made one hundred per cent, on one or more cargoes. This gentleman speaks of the favor with mingled respect and gratitude to¬ wards the officer who generously caused his advantage. It will be peculiarly unfortunate, in every point of light, for us to be received as the persecutors of the injured, but rising race of colored men in those islands, and in other parts of the world. So long we shall be regarded as such, while our city resolutions of the 10th ult. remain against us, especially the second resolution, so full of hostility to their dearest rights and privileges. To a pious mind, the good to be promoted by such an institution outweighs all other considerations. To be instru¬ mental in educating men to be useful to a population in the West Indies exceeding eight hundred thousand souls—to millions, it may be, in Mexico and South America, and at least, to do good to three hundred thousand free colored people in the United States, who need and must have intelligent teachers in literature, in the arts, and in the Religion of our Lord Jesus Christ, is a privilege too rich to be refused. And when we cast our eye towards benighted Africa, and re¬ member that death is the early portion of the white man there—and that colored men only can go to her coast, with hope of life, and preach the gospel of salvation, introduce the arts of civilized life and sustain institutions of govern¬ ment, what mind with this subject fairly before it can fail to bid God speed to the enterprise connected with so much blessing. If indeed the sons of Yale are supposed no more gallant than to abuse colored youth, or if the colored youth would not, from the nature of their circumstances and through prin¬ ciple, be docile and respectful in their conduct, it might be well to place the college for colored youth elsewhere, for the benefit of all parties. We confess the fear that most of the youth of Yale College and the colored youth have been too severely adjudged by the feelings of men of riper years. If 11 also the ridiculous plea of the necessity of amalgamation as the certain result of such an institution in our city, is suffi¬ cient to prevent this laudable enterprise, we shall have the credit justly of refusing a good through fear of a shadow. If it be feared that an institution of this kind would increase the degraded and vicious population of colored people here, I appeal to facts to prevent such impressions. This object¬ ion has met us every step we have taken for the improvement of this people in education, morality, industry and religion during the last six years. But what are the facts in this case ? Why, according to the late census, we have nearly 100 fewer people of color than formerly. We do not hesitate to say, that we have not half the number of the vicious and aban¬ doned which we had then. Many have become pious and industrious, and those who come to our city are usually vir¬ tuous and respectable. I inquire—has this been owing to any particular strictness on the part of the city authorities respecting their moral conduct. Had as much spirit been evinced to put down vice in our city as there has been to put down the college for colored youth, still greater improve¬ ment would have been observable among the people. Vi¬ cious people love such places as the five points in New York, and some places among us, licensed and unlicensed, which are too notorious to require comment at this time.— Were duty done in these cases, we might hope to retain the character and blessings of a moral community. That the friends of liberty and of the universal education of mankind in other places should express their disappoint¬ ment at the conduct of our city, is to express themselves in moderate terms indeed. The censures of generous and no¬ ble minded men throughout the country, turn upon us through many a public channel. The second resolution is almost universally regarded as a slavery resolution. When 1 state an evident reason of opposition to the insti¬ tution, I blush for the weakness of the strong, and the folly of the wise, as well as regret the rashness of the unreflecting. While contemplating it as a school, no man, acquainted with the fact, met us with open .opposition ; but when, from pe¬ culiar circumstances, it was determined to establish, a college for the education of colored persons, the heart, the voice, the city rose against us. And why ? Simply because that, by this one word, we declared more than could have been written in a hundred pages, our assurance of the equal right of the colored man to literature, in common with other citizens. We have unwittingly touched the hidden springs 12 of prejudice and oppression by a word. We have pressed the weakness of the great. We have excited the spirit of the unthinking, and discovered to the Christian something of the vast amount of unsanctified nature in us all, which must be purified before we gain the celestial city. Henceforth we know the spirit \vh ch trifles with the in¬ terest of the oppressed, and which " makes a man an offen¬ der for a word j'1 and henceforward we cherish the word which has pierced the unsuspected retreat of despotism, and through his cries has awakened a host—to deliver the captive—to protect the defenseless, and to " raise up the foundations of many generations.'' SIMEON S. JOCELYN. New Haven, Oct. 1st, 1831. N. B. Those persons who have expressed honest scruples respecting the use of the word College, but who are friendly to the enterprise here or else¬ where, are not embraced in these remarks. From the Religious Intelligencer, September 17. CITY MEETING. We record with mortification and sorrow the proceedings of the city meeting held on Saturday last. Not out of re¬ gard for the African School, or College, as it has been call¬ ed, for its location is a matter of policy, and our citizens have a right to say whether they will have it here or not; but on account of the spirit with which we have seen a sober and christian community, (or one so reputed,) rush together to blot out t"he first ray of hope for the blacks. Where was the necessity, or where is the apology, for those resolutions drafted by the committee and supported by the speakers, so entirely gratuitous and alien to the business of the meeting ? Was it not humiliating enough for us to acknowledge, that the unrighteous prejudices of the country constrained us to deny the poor blacks a place of education. Do not princi¬ ple, and virtue, and republican equality, bow down low enough, when we own publicly, that it is prejudice, the companion of weak and stingy minds—a prejudice too which is the fruit of our own cruelty and crime, that compelled us to cut off a portion of our fellow beings from knowledge and intelligence and the blessings which follow in the train of those gifts ? No, our citizens have run hotly and imprudently together on this occasion, and framed other causes of shame and re¬ proach which are entirely gratuitous; and some of our pub¬ lic speakers, who rank high ordinarily for wisdom and discre¬ tion, have stept forward, we think, rashly, wantonly and 13 cruelly in this matter. We hold the reputation of all of {net. in too high esteem, to take part in telling it abroad. Are we unnecessarily d sturbed, or grieved without a cause, when those whose business it was fearlessly to stand up and stem this oppressive, inexorable prejudice—to show that it is but a limb of that accursed system of bondage which we all execrate and lament, and as such ought to be disowned by us—when such men, we say, join in and fan the flame, do we lament without a cause. What is the purport of these resolutions and these speech¬ es? What end can they .subserve, other than to pass the wink to the slave holder and the slave dealer, and say to them. " Screw on your fetters and put on the lash in your own way. You shall receive no molestation from this quarter. 'We will see to it that any risings of liberty here, ' any senti- 'ment favorable to the immediate emancipation of slaves' shall be put down, until y6u shall see fit, in your own way, and in your own good time, to do it." Are these the " tender mer¬ cies" to which the poor black is to be commended? From whom, in the name of all that is merciful and just, are sen¬ timents favorable to immediate emancipation to emanate? The " municipal laws" of our slave holding States are daily putting the day farther off, and tending to make bonds and stripes perpetual. Who shall be found then to preach the way of duty ? Whose province is it to importune f. r mercy ? Surely, "judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth hath fallen in the streets, and equity cannot enter." It has not been our purpose to be reproachful, but rather to point out to our fellow citizens, reasons for self-reproach. For if every sober-minded and humane man, who witness¬ ed the spirit of that meeting and listened to the cruel and hope-extinguishing tone of its addresses, does not by this time heartily regret it, then are our boasted gifts of to'era- tion, equality and freedom blessings just skin-deep, and no more. To bear us out in these remarks, we beg our readers to compare the proceedings here recorded, with the doings of an assemblage in England, published in last week's paper. Let them weigh the authority of the names there quoted, and compare the spirit of the addresses there delivered, with the spirit which ruled the meeting on Saturday. Five thousand petitions have been lodged in Parliament, unequivocally de¬ claring the voice of the British people, in favor of complete .and immediate emancipation. *" In defiance of the threat 14 ri .jeing deemed an enthusiast," says one of the speakers at this meeting, "disregarding the imputation of imprudence, and want of regard for the lives and liberties of the white population—I profess myself the advocate of the speedy and entire emancipation of every slave. I am not content to wait till it pleases the good judgment of their masters—until they, who, almost up to the present moment have defended the system itself, and who contend that on the continuation of that system is embarked their own earthly prosperity—I am not content to wait until they shall grant us that boon. Well I know that if we depend on their exertions—if we re¬ ly upon their good will—if we trust to their promises—not one of the vast assembly whom I now address will live to see the happy day, when England shall be able to boast that sla¬ very no longer prevails in any of her dominions. I verily and in my conscience believe, that the time is now come, when with prudent precautions as to the manner, every slave may receive his freedom without the minutest chance of in¬ jury to the rights and properties of the other inhabitants. Nay, I go infinitely farther; I believe, as far as relates to the property of the white inhabitants, their interest will be most materially improved. Instead of living as now in perpetual fear and agitation; instead of exacting an unwilling preca¬ rious labor under the influence of the lash, they would then have a body of laborers, who, if paid but a very small pro¬ portion in the way of hire, would discharge a double duty with satisfaction to themselves, and a benefit to their pro¬ prietors." From the Vermont Telegraph, September 27. COLLEGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF COLOR. It is known to our readers that the establishment of a col¬ lege for the education of colored youth has for some time been in contemplation, and that the philanthropic individu¬ als engaged in the enterprise had at length concluded upon New-Haven, Ct. as the most advantageous place for its loca¬ tion. In consequence of this conclusion, we learn that a most singular excitement has taken place in that city. Some of the inhabitants, of " nobler blood" than the rest of their fellow men, having taken offense at the projected measure, it seems that a meeting was called on the 1 Oth instant, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city, for the purpose of op¬ posing the enterprise. Accordingly resolutions were passed, as the sentiment of the Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council and Freemen (it is said about 700 were present) of the city 15 of New-Haven, discountenancing the proposed college, a, declaring their determination to resist its establishment by every lawful means! We must look to the dark ages for the pattern of a selfish¬ ness and narrow minded policy like this. It was to have been expected that whatever place should be selected for the location of the college, the inhabitants would not only not oppose the object, but would hail it as a most noble and worthy enterprise of benevolence, and lend it every assist¬ ance in their power. Who would have supposed that there could be found in our own free and happy New England a city, town or village, which would not be proud to locate within itself an establishment thus calculated to elevate the character, and repay the wrongs of a degraded and injured race? To the shame of New England, that spot has been found. The founding of an institution for the education of color¬ ed youth, is, in our estimation, a most elevated and praise¬ worthy object. What an amount of salutary influence might a few worthy and educated men of color exert upon the character of the ignorant and vicious portion of our black population ? What untold benefits might result from preparing and sending forth among them, pious and devo¬ ted ministers of their own color 1 But more than all, who can estimate the blessings which a band of colored mission¬ aries might bear to their benighted brethren of Africa ? The claims which such an institution presents to christian phi¬ lanthropy must, we should judge, be sufficient to ensure the hearty co-operation of every good man. But what is the pretext for this extraordinary hostility to so benevolent an object? " In connection with this estab¬ lishment,'' says the preamble to the resolutions, " the imme¬ diate abolition of slavery in the United States is not only re¬ commended and encouraged by the advocates of the propo¬ sed college, but demanded as a right." What evidence the citizens of New Haven may possess, that the college will " propagate sentiments favorable to the immediate emanci¬ pation of the slaves," we do not pretend to know ; but we should esteem it strange if enlightened people of color should hold or advocate a different sentiment. And what is the evidence that the founders of the institution intend to have the doctrine of immediate abolition taught there ? Why, simply the fact that Arthur Tappan. Esq. offered $1000 towards the institution, and he is opposed to slavery. Be¬ cause Mr. Garrison approves of the institution, and he is 16 » advocate of immediate emancipation. This miserable pretext, that emancipation sentiments are to be propagated in the college, is made the foundation of the following reso¬ lution. " Resolved, That inasmuch as slavery does not exist in Connecticut, and wherever permitted in other states depends on the municipal laws of the state which allows it, and over which neither any other state, nor the congress of the United States, has any control'; that the propagation of sentiments favorable to the immediate emancipation of slaves, in disre¬ gard of the civil institutions of the states in which they be¬ long, and, as auxiliary thereto, the contemporaneous found¬ ing of colleges for educating colored people, is an unwarran¬ table and dangerous interference with the internal concerns of other states, and ought to be discouraged." That is the good people of New Haven, fearing that the blacks, if enlightened, would adopt sentiments of hostility to the system of slave-holding, have determined to take the bu¬ siness into their own hands, and " resist the establishment of the college by every lawiul means!" Lest the southern slaveholders should in some way or other be brought into difficulty, the northern blacks must be bound to silence ! Be¬ cause slavery does not exist in Connecticut, therefore within the boundaries of Connecticut it must not be spoken against! Because the holding of slaves is agreeable to the civil in¬ stitutions of the states where they belong, therefore we may not propagate the sentiment that it is wrong ! Because nei¬ ther Connecticut nor congress has any control over the laws of South Carolina, therefore the free people of color at the north must be doomed to perpetual ignorance and degrada¬ tion ! Such is the logic by which founding of colleges for educating colored people is made out to bean " interference with the internal concerns of other states." We hope the institution will be located elsewhere than at New Haven. We presume it will not be forced upon any community which is hostile to the improvement of the peo¬ ple of color. "The friends of the college," says the New York Genius of Temperance, "will do well to look to Vir¬ ginia or Kentucky for a location. They could not find moret and would probably meet less, narrow prejudice and opposi¬ tion." We are happy to be able to state the Rev. S. S. Jocelyn, and several other philanthropic individuals belonging to New Haven opposed and voted against these most extraor¬ dinary resolutions. 17 From the New-Yol k Journabof Commerce, Sept. 15. EDUCATION OF AFRICANS. The enterprise of providing an institution for the education of free per¬ sons of color, it might well be supposed, would meet witli no opposition from any unprejudiced mind. If the resolutions adopted at the meeting in New- Haven, were designed to defeat this laudable object, we shall avail ourselves of the same freedom of opinion there expressed, to say that we should not have expected the developement of sucli a doctrine in that enlightened city. If, on the other hand, they were intended simply to oppoSe the establishment of such an institution in New-Hacen, as being an injudicious location, we are much inclined to tin; same opinion. There are many objections which might be urged against the establishment of any College in a large town, unless inten¬ ded principally for the education of young men there residing, and still more against the selection of such a site for the education of persons of color. There are other objections which apply to New-Haven particularly, as a place for the establishment of such a College, arising principally from the number of literary institutions in that city for the education of whites. So far, then, we go with the New-Haven meeting. But was this all which the resolutions were designed to purport! We are afraid not. We are afraid that just at that moment, a little of the leaven of Old Adam crept into the sentiments of the meeting, and that in their anxiety to protect themselves from the disgrace of having an African College in their city, they forgot that a mere difference in color does not exclude any portion of mankind from the privileges of human beings. Men complain of the ignorance and vice o{ the colored population, and yet when a project is presented to rescue them, or a part Of them, from their deep degradation, the same men are round at once to the highest pitch of opposition. After all, we are unwilling to believe that such can be the sentiments of any respectable citizens of New Haven ; and lest we should be guilty of misinterpreting their views, we only add. that af¬ ter the resolutions of the meeting aforesaid, no reasonable man will any lon¬ ger think of that city as a suitable site for the. contemplated Institution. In our humble opinion, it ought to be placed in some country town, at a consider¬ able distance from any of our cities, and among a people (we presume not difficult to be found) who will give it a welcome reception. From the Philadelphia United States Gazette, of Sept. 17. ANOMALY IN NATURE. The undersigned, agent of a convention of delegates, representing jthe free colored people of the United States, held in this city, June last, conceives it his duly, and holds it as his privilege, in the name of said convention, and in his capacity as agent, to contradict the misrepresentations, and deny the prin¬ ciples, propagated through the several papers, by an extraordinary public meeting, held at the City Hall, in the city of New-Haven, on Saturday, 11th instant. By what motives the Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council, and Freemen of New-Haven, could have been influenced, or by what means excited to such extraordinary measures, we cannot conceive ! We are not accustomed to being opposed to such dignitaries; heretofore the rabble, and they only. have thrown themselves in the way of our lawful and praiseworthy undertakings, nor can we account for this great combat, with a man of straw, and that too of their own creating, by these men learned in Jaw, and high in authority. Such a formidable array, since the days of antiquity, has not been seen, nor did wo believe would be, until the end of time, against a cause so feeble and so unassuming. The facts are simply these—the above named convention appointed a com¬ mittee of their own body, to take into consideration the situation of the free colored people of this country, and to report such measures as in their wis¬ dom they deemed most prudent and advisable, for the melioration of their condition, carefully guarding against any interference whatever with the 3 IB staves. The committee reported as among the most efficient means the es¬ tablishment of a manual labor college, in which habits of industry might be inculcated, and a mechanical or agricultural profession obtained, while pursu¬ ing classical studies. These were the simple unvarnished views of the Convention, in reference to the college^ and how our infatuated fel.ow citizens of New-Haven can couple thein with " immediate emancipation, insurrection, or interference with the internal concerns and laws of the South," we are at a loss to conceive. We utterly deny having connected any such ideas with the establishment of our college. Whatever independent views individuals of the Convention or friends of the college may entertain, we do not pretend to say, nor do we intend to account for. Our object is to ask the patronage of the wise and good, in behalf of the contemplated institution. An institution whose object and plan, we think, need only be known, to se¬ cure the good wishes and prayers of this enlightened community. We hope the opposition of our opponents and slanderers, whose hearts we trust are right, while their heads are very wrong, will deter none of our friends and fellow citizens, in this place or elsewhere, from lending us their liberal pat¬ ronage. We shall wait in person on the citizens of this place, during a few weeks to come, to receive their expression of good wishes and friendship to our brethren of color, and the institution in which they are engaged. Confident that the authorities of New-Haven have no rights nor powers by which they can lawfully pievent the location of the college in that place, yet as friends to peace and good order, being authorized, we have altered our subscription book, 30 as to read New-Haven or elsewhere; for if the princi¬ ples and doings of the meethig of the 10th inst. be a tiue sample of that'city, which, by the way, we cannot believe, we rejoice in being delivered from such a community. In conclusion, we think the dignitaries of this seat of science have descen¬ ded below themselves. It is beneath the gentleman, the patriot, or the chris¬ tian, to endeavor to crush a feeble institution in its infant state, and an insti¬ tution, too, got up for the very best of purposes. Let the citizens of New- Haven inform themselves on the subject of our college, and atone for the in¬ jury they have done us, by liberally patronising the institution. SAMUEL E. CORNISH, Jlgentofthe Convention. From the Massachusetts Journal, September 17. COLLEGE FOR COLORED PEOPLE. While we regret sincerely the disgrace which the government and inhabi¬ tants of New-Haven have brought upon themselves, by their late ridiculous act, and more ridiculous reasons, we are glad of one consequence of their conduct, which is that Boston itself may have the glory of the first establish¬ ment of a seminary for the instruction of a much wronged race of men. Boston had the first printing press, the first canal, the first railroad, and the first fighting for Independence in America. She will be happy and proud to add to this list of honors that of having been the first to turn back into Africa the streams of science, which origina¬ ting there, fertilized ancient Greece and Rome, and modern Europe. The ancient Egyptians were negroes, and were the fathers of European civiliza¬ tion and learning. For a liberal and honorable view of this subject, we refer our readers to a work entitled 'America,' by A. H. Everett. We trust that some plan at concert and co-operation will immediately be adopted to secure to Boston the honor and advantage of this important institution. We know many who will give, as soon as they know to whom to give. From the Massachusetts Journal. COLLEGE FOR COLORED PEOPLE. We have expressed our approbation of this proposed institution. New-Ha¬ ven was mentioned as the probable location. But it seems that the careful 19 Mayor, Aldermen and Freemen, ('All men are bom free and equal,' except the blackskins and redskins,) have held a meeting and resolved to resist the planting of such a seminary there. We appi ehend that it is not in their pow¬ er to prevent it except by club law, but it would be better to go elsewhere. There are towns and cities which would be glad to have it. From the Boston Patriot. COLLEGE FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR. I was very much disgusted by reading an account of the proceedings at a late public meeting in New-Haven, in relation to the establishment of a Col¬ lege for peopl« of color in that place, and the comments of the New-Haven Advertiser, upon those proceedings. I have never thought that city the most eligible situation for the pioposed institution, on account of the probability of jealousy and quarrels between its pupils and those of Yale College. I had supposed that this and other reasons might have rendered the people of New- Haven unwilling to have the new seminary among them. But, sir, I confess, I was not prepared for the ebullition of vulgar and unmanly prejudice which is exhibited in the proceedings and the editorial comments. Every word seems to me to be dictated by that cruel and unreasonable contempt of the African race, which is too prevalent among persons of a different complexion. It is intimated in the resolutions, that the college is intended as an engine to inculcate the doctrine of the right of the slaves to immediate emancipa¬ tion, and therefore that its establishment would be an unwarrantable interfe¬ rence with the internal concerns of other States. Though admitting the pre¬ mises to be true, the conclusion would by ho means follow, yet I must say that the object of the proposed institution is very much misrepresented. The object of the college would not be to inculcate any particular opinions upon the subject of slavery, but would be, like other seminaries, to instruct the pu¬ pils in literature and sciencp. The free people of color in this country, be¬ lieve that their children cannot be educated at the colleges at present in exis¬ tence in this country. They and their friends are therefore desirous of estab¬ lishing a seminary where they-can obtain a complete education without in¬ convenience. Is not the object a good one ? Is not the scheme creditable to its projectors? It has no connexion with the rights of the slaves. The free people of color are at presfent generally ignorant and degraded They are now exerting themselves to remove their ignorance and degradation, and by education to make the rising generation better men and better citizens. Ought their efforts for this object to be repressed, or encouraged ? I hope that there is not another town in New-England which would be so barbarous and inhospitable as New-Haven, which would refuse to become the seat of a seminary of learning, and deny its shelter to a few children of an oppressed and persecuted race. There are in the United States more than three hundred thousand free people of color, and in the West Indies a much larger number; among them are many persons cf wealth and intelligence. Would any town be injured by having the children of such persons educated among them ? On the contrary, would not a college established in any place for the education of young persons of this description, increase its wealth and importance? Everyone knows that an academy or college always benefits the place in which it is established, more or less in proportion to its number of pupils and other circumstances. If a college for the education of young men of African descent were once put in operation under tolerably judicious management, I have no doubt that it would soon attract a large number of pupils, and rival some of our flourishing institutions. So far fi;om wishing ta discourage such a college, I should be very glad to have it in thi3 town. And I believe that t.:e citizens of this place, with their usual liberality and feinji feeling, so far from opposing its establishment here, would welcome it with good wishes and pecuniary aid, 20 From the Boston Courier, September 30. CQLLEPE FOR BLACKS. The late proceedings at New-Haren relative to the establishment of a Col¬ lege for free peopfe of color, have, both in matter and form, shocked the sense and humanity of many among us. The real objection to the college appears to have been the apprehension of giving offense to the Southern pat¬ rons of Yale College. I wish this had been frankly avowed as the true and only ground of opposition. It seems not a very magnanimous one. Few, I hope, would sympathize in it here, however we might pardon or extenuate it. But there is something disingenuous in attempting to connect the design of " instigating insurrection" and " emancipation by blood" with the institu¬ tion of a literary and religious seminary. There i9 something cruel and un¬ just in combining and concentrating the selfish prejudices of a whole commu¬ nity, and turning them with a power tremendous and irresistible upon a de¬ voted and oppressed class engaged in a laudable and lawful undertaking. To which of the nobler ends of freedom are the blacks free in New-England, if they are to be virtually prohibited from educating their children at a school or college of their own education ? What a mockery are equal rights in the dead letter of our statute book, if, by force, or terror, or influence, or ridicule, we deaden in the breasts of thousands the quickening spirit of freedom, or withhold the light of knowledge. I trust that if a similar project should be started in Boston, we shall be found true to our long-professed principles and best interests. I should blush to hear it urged among us, that to let the free blacks of New-England exer¬ cise their lawful right of educating their children, with their own money, in their own way, is to infringe the privileges of a Southern slave-holder. I hope the right of universal education will be forever paramount and sacred in the land of free schools,—and that we shall leave it to tyrants, whether of the old world or new, to identify education with revolution, and to dread the pio- gress of intelligence and truth. I scorn the mean fear that the blacks, if ed¬ ucated, might become our rivals or associates. Is our respectability so fragile and factitious as to be destroyed by such intercourse? Ts it superficial as the distinction of color ? Will such narrow and unreasoning aristocracy be al¬ lowed here to raise its voice against one of the great rights of humanity ? I shall indeed grieve for my country's honor, if I read in some foreign jour¬ nal, that in this land of the fiee and equal, there is not a single spot where the black man is allowed to use the common means for the common blessing of education. I hope the free people of color will look to Boston as a favorable seat for their college. I believe if they do, our citizens will welcome and sustain it, because First, Such a college would be for their own interest. The free people of color whom it would intioduce from Brazil, the West Indies and other parts of the world, being of precisely the most desirable class, namely, the weal¬ thy, respectable, and well-informed, would be of no small advantage to our city, not only in the money spent during their residence among us, but in the establishment of business connexions of direct and equally certain benefit. Secondly, Because such a college would render important aid to the bene¬ volent and judicious labors of the Colonization Society, by furnishing the talents and acquirements wanted at the Colony of Liberia. Thirdly, Because a college for people of color would, more than any thing else, tend to redeem the present degraded condition of our black population, —and, Lastly, and chiefly, because it would be a lasting honor to Boston to be the first in sacrificing a vulgar and unjust prejudice to rectitude of purpose and consistency of principle. E. G. L. From the, Boston Christian Soldier, September 28. Some benevolent individuals have recently been making efforts to establish a College for the education of the Blacks. New-Haven was fixed upon as a 21 proper location for the institution. But it if with deep shame and mortifica¬ tion. that we notice the proceedings of a public meeting in that city, of which the Mayor was chairman. Several resolutions were adopted, which would have come with a far better grace from an assemblage of slave-holders. We should suppose that every patriot and Christian would heartily rejoice at the establishment of such an institution ; and it seems to us unaccountable, that the citizens of New-Haven should manifest such reckless opposition to it. We are glad to perceive that the Religious Intelligencer has borne testimony ugainst the violent proceedings of the meeting. From the Norwich (Ct.) Courier, September 21. COLLEGE FOR COLORED PERSONS. Some benevolent individuals have proposed to establish a College, for the education of colored youth, to be located at New-Haven, in this State—a pro¬ ject which does not seem to be altogether agreeable to the inhabitanls'of that city ; as they recently held a meeting and passed resolutions denouncing the undertaking, and concluded by a vote to resist the establishment of such an institution, by all the means in their power. Although land has been pur¬ chased, and other incipient measures have been adopted, preparatory to the commencement of the enterprise, we presume it will be abandoned as far as that city is concerned—as no one would think of forcing any literary institu¬ tion upon the inhabitants of a town against their wishes. Yet, such a College is absolutely needed, and we trust that its philanthropic projectors will not be discouraged, but go on and place it in some suitable situation where the inhabi¬ tants are less fastidious. We are fully persuaded that something cannot be too soon attempted to ameliorate the condition of the immense colored popu¬ lation araorg us, and which is rapidly increasing. The idea that, they are al¬ ways to remain in a slate of ignorance, and of course in a state of servile de¬ gradation, is futile and preposterous. We are glad to see the attention of the wise and good aroused and drawn towards this subject. Education and de¬ portation to Africa appear, at present, to be the only feasible means of reliev¬ ing the country from the evils under which it literally groans from the burden of slavery. Yet prudence and extreme caution is necessary in conducting the details, lest we rush forward into a course which it will be exceeding dif¬ ficult to retrace, when we have discovered our error. Unity of feeling and purpose among the whites, would seem to b« an essential pre-requisito. Some- years since, we cast our eyes over a small Tract, with-the running Utle, "The Negro equaled by few Europeans." A gentleman who read the pamphlet at¬ tentively, characterised it, by saying that it was one of the most interesting publications lie ever perused. We believe that it was never printed sepa¬ rately, but is included among the pages of a Magazine, of some forty years' standing. It has occurred to us, that if some suitable person would take the trouble to look up this work, and if found worthy, would issue an edition with notes, and a statement of such facts as the lapse of time has furnished, it would be the means of doing a great deal of good. From the Genius of Temperance. A most singular excitement has taken place at New-Haven worthy the dark ages. Some enlightened Philanthropists had conceived the idea of establish¬ ing a college there, for the education of colored persons. A public meeting- has been called to oppose the measure. The preamble and resolutions express great alarm lest the measure should tend to the Abolition of Slavery, which *' does not exist in Connecticut,"—over -which " Congress has no control," and would therefore be a " dangerous interference with the concerns of other States." All this in Connecticut! The friends of the college will do well to look to Virginia or Kentucky for a location. They could not find more, and would probably meet less narrow prejudice and opposition. New-York, 21st Sept., 1831. Ftom the New- York Whig, October 5. . The pi inciplo asserted in one of the New-Haven resolutions, against the vstuhlishment of the African College in that city, and copied with approba lion into some of the public papers, is not in our judgmont woithy of the city of New-Haven, or of the spirit of freemen. If it be "an unwarrantable in¬ terference with the internal concerns of other Stales," as the resolution as¬ serts, to propagate sentiments favorable to the emancipation of men in bond- Age, without entire submission, to the civil institutions of those regions where the bondmen live, this country is a great offender in reg:ird to the whole world, and especially so in regard to Turkey and to Russia. We should never have sent flour to Greece, or standards to Poland. The education of the poor and despised, is an act of charity so little liable to base imputations, that none may fear to engage in it. Time and circumstances may affect the expediency of the case, but cannot alter the essential principles of the Declaration of In¬ dependence, and of the divine law. From the New-Haven Register. Mr. Printer—It is a singular feature in our natuie that we often condemn in others what we will do ourselves. When our own private interest is not particularly concerned, we can descant largely on the value of self-denial, patriotism, jnd philanthropy. Bring the subject before us so that there is a prospect of its affecting our own purses and convenience, it is surprising what a transformation it will effect in our views of men and things. If you will insert the lollowing dialogue, illustrating this fact, you will oblige one of the minority. J. W. B. A DIALOGUE,i IN TWO ACTS. ACT FIRST. Friend A. and Public Spirit. Friend A. Have you hoard how the Georgians are driving off the Indians? Public Spirit. Yes ! and my blood boils with indignation at the deed ! What, must the sacred principles of justice be violated, our solemn treaties broken, and we become a reproach to every civilized nation under heaven, merely to gratify the avarice of the Georgians? It is astonishing that in this •christian countiy, the piecepts of religion and humanity are so grossly viola¬ ted. As a people we ought to fear the wrath of Heaven ! Whut reasons do tjie Georgians give for this outrageous act? A. Reasons ! Why ask a body of men governed by self-interest for rea¬ sons? The Indians have a ,good tract of land, and the Georgians want it; another Land Lottery is, wanted ; these are all the reasons I know of. P. Spirit. Alas ! my heart bleeds for the poor Indian, who, just begun to taste the blessings of Christianity and civilization, to be compelled by tne op¬ eration of arbitrary and unequal laws, to abandon the ' home of their fathers.' Let us call meetings, and as freemen and christians, protest against these high acts of oppression. My creed is that 'all men are created equal; that they •are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' We are bound to do as we would be done "by. Let our country be an asylum for the oppressed of all nations. Let Eastern despots talk of the danger of enlightening the common people; we know their motives and detest their creed. No ! we Americans glory in the light and intelligence of all classes of our countrymen. Let us send the gos¬ pel and the light of science to the Hindoo, to the islands of the South Sea, and to the Hottentot of South Africa, and burst the fetters of ignorance from every nation under Heaven ! Let us declare in the face of the world that we wage eternal war against ignorance and oppression. Our religion bids us to deny ourselves. We will cheerfully devote of our substance to the holy cause of freedom ; we will send relief to the suffering Greek and Pole, and help them to break the chains of despotism. Let us forget our narrow pre¬ judices, and embrace the oppressed af all nations as brethren, and swear like our fathers to devote our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, to the holy cause of civil and religious liberty ! My heart swells with emotion, when I consider that I am privileged to unite in this sacred cause ! 23 A. I approve of your creed and sentiments, and hope you will ever net accordingly. P. Spirit. Never fear on thatground—vou will ever find me despising the narrow prejudices of mankind, and acting'upon the broad principles of Truth, Justice and Liberty. [The curtain fails. Delightful music is heard :—'Hail Columbia, happy land, Land of the free,' &c. The voice often millions of lreetnen proclaim¬ ing eternal war against ignorance and tyranny! Shouts of 'Liberty and Equality,' &c. are reverberated from pole to pole.] ACT SECOND. Friend A. Public Spirit, and Georgian. A. Well, friend Public Spirit, have you heard of the proposition to estab-' lish a College in this place for the improvement of the colored youlh ? I hope that men of your enlarged views of justice and philanthropy, who feel for the oppiessed and degraded colored man, will at least give countenance to hi# efforts to enlighten and raise himself among his white brethren-, and we hope that the low prejudice against him on account of color will soon die away. P. Spirit. Colored youth! what do you mear>r Nigger College in tliia place ! Why, friend A. you have lost your senses ! A. I mean an institution for the improvement of the colored1 man. Oughti • we not to endeavor to improve him ? Is not this his native country ? Ought he not to have the same rights as a white man ? P. Spirit. Rights ! I don't know much about his righis ! Nigger College* in this place, ha ! We've got niggers enough in this place already. You get- a gang of negroes here, and you would soon find that the value of real estate- would fall in this place at least twenty-five per cent. A. Come, come ! Sir. Public Spirit, stick to the point; ought not the black: man to have the same privileges as a while man ? If science tends to ele¬ vate the white man, why not also the black ? P. Spirit. Give a liberal education to a black man ! Look at the conse¬ quence ! Why the first thing he will do when educated, will be to run right off and cut the throats of our Southern brethren ; or if he should stay among us, he will soon get to feel himself almost equal to the whites. A. Why not equal? Does not our Declaration of Independence declare that all men are free and equal ? I thought that you fully approved of thaij declaration. P. Spirit. Free and equal, ha ! I'll ask you one question, friend A. Do, you want to have your daughters marry black husbands 9 A. Come, come ! stick to the point. We are on the question of sight and^ wrong. P. Spirit. Right or wrong, I want none of your Nigger Colleges about me., Tell about the blacks born here—this being their native country—of having; the same rights as the whites, and all such contemptible nonsense ! I want to hear none of it. Send them off to Africa, their native'country, where they belong. Georgian. You hypocritical turncoats ! Here you have been about half