at this time is of such vital importance." Mr.rature of Great Britain that made her so emiConway observed that he knew part of Africa nent amongst the nations, as the spirit of where Mrs. Moseley had lived and lab ured benevolence, that led her to seek out and to aforetime and felt assured that her renewed succour the needy of every clime. The exwork there would be successful. It seemed ample now set before them, proved that this to him that the negro, wherever he was found noble spirit still animated the people of E gwas a remarkably hopeful subject and that land, and it would be seen that when the there never existed a more favourable opening aims of Mrs. Moseley and of this Society were in the providence of God, for their being edu- generally known and fully understood that cated and elevated, and never was there a help would be given. more delicate nature than the negro nature, The resolution was cordially adopted. T. or one more susceptible of kindness. He (Mr. A. BURR, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the Conway) had been brought up in their arms chairman, the resolution was seconded by Dr. and had known them all his life and they had Tomkins and passed unanimously. After a a contribution to give for social developement few interesting remarks from DR. SCHWARTZ, not to be found elsewhere. Only the other Mr French gave the benediction and at the day an exquisite piece of statuary had been ex-close of the meeting many ladies retired with ecuted in Brazil, by a negro for the French Exhibition which carried off the prize, a fact which shows that in this too long despised race there are latent powers and refined tastes that need only proper conditions for their culture, to secure for them a patent of nobility among the more favoured races.

Mrs. Moseley into the committee room to converse freely on the subject of the Bazaar. The feeling of all seemed to be, that interest was growing and would still increase. A desire was expressed for a little more time The Ladies' Committee will be guided by the report of their friends. It is believed that The HON. W. YOUNG, Chief Justice of Nova the report of the meeting will excite many to Scotia in a brilliant and telling speech seconded personal effort and correspondence. More the resolution. He said that in Nova Scotia will depend on the individual exertion than the negroes had been admitted to their schools on any other influence. The cause is advancand to their franchise, but they were noting, let every hand be put forth to impel it adapted for their cold climate and their pro- onward, the work will then bring a rich and gress was not in consequence particularly full reward. marked. But on carefully enquiring as to their condition in some parts of the West NORTH CAROLINA.· Persons just arrived Indies where a fair chance was given, they from North Carolina report a new crusade were found to be equal in commercial life against the negroes. Every conceivable charge and in professional pursuits to the white is brought against them; and whipping and people. They possessed undoubtedly the selling into slavery of the Freed-men is resame moral susceptibili ies and intellectual ported as quite general. One planter near faculties. He was specially interested in the Wilmington boasts that he has lately purchased noble humane and Christian spirit that ani- hands enough to re-stock his plantation. mated the negro settlements in Canada, re- State law, a man convicted of crime, and presented by Mr. Jones; they were worthy of punished at the whipping-post, is for ever help and encouragement. The course of disfranchised. Many hope by such an enterMra. Moseley was most interesting. Here prising movement to thwart the action of was a lady of education, of aristocratic relations, with ample means, tur..ing from the best English society, to the work of the truest philanthropy. They were accustomed in the British provinces to turn with pride and satisfaction to the mother country, but it was not so much the power, the wealth, or the lite-ington Corr. N. Y. Tribune.

By

Congress looking to negro suffrage. Letters received here report the turnpike roads of Western North Carolina thronged with emi. grants, white and black, fleeing from the vindictive cruelty and injustice oppressing them, to find new homes elsewhere.—Wash

COPY OF MEMORIAL TO EARL
CARNARVON,

Presented January 23rd, 1867.

To the Right Honourable the Earl Carnarvon, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.

is really sickening. The whole Protectorate is losing faith in the English Government through their representative, and now believe that the recommendations of the Parlia mentary Committee for the Gold Coast mean nothing of the kind, or else their authorities here could not act so much against reason and My lord, The Committee of the British and good sense. It seems that the very beasts in Foreign Freed-Men's Aid Society have had England are much more cared for than the various communications from the Cape Coast people of this country by the British autho. (Africa) brought under their anxious consi-rities hero, for there is a cattle-law to protect deration relative to the arbitrary and and see that they are cared for. Colonel oppressive course pursued by the British Conran is making preparation to attack the authorities in that region. They receive this king for giving him notice that he will comintelligence with unfeigned concern, because plain to Earl Carnarvon, per this mail, of the serious obstruction to the intellectual respecting his conduct in disturbing the town and moral improvement occasioned by the of Cape Coast so much, making men, women, want of confidence in the equity of the British and children so unhappy." rule, and the irritation and alarm caused by the harsh proceedings of the "Administrator." The Committee do not at present enter into the details which have occupied their attention-for they are satisfied that your lordship must be in possession of the facts from more direct sources of information. There is one case, however, in which the Committee feel constrained to refer to your lordship, as awakening peculiar solicitude in the minds of those, who, for a long time, sought, in the most disinterested and self-denying manner, to ameliorate the condition of the natives-send by the present mail instructions that will that of the African king recently taken prisoner by Colonel Conran. The Committee cannot divest themselves of the apprehension that, without some timely check from your lordship, some violent course will be taken on the spot against the helpless king that will admit of no subsequent opportunity of

redress.

The Commit ee learn subsequently to the date of the letter just quoted, that the African king has been taken prisoner, put in irons, and carried to Sierra Leone. The Committee regret to say to your lordship, that they can have no kind of confidence in the Supreme Council as recently constituted, and therefore feel that the life of the African king may be in jeopardy.

The Committee submit this statement to your lordship, in entire confidence that with the knowledge of the facts, your lordship will

fairly meet the exigencies of the case. The policy of the Parliament, as expressed in the Committee on the Jamaica question, is that of fostering in all the colonies equitable selfgovernment. We are satisfied from the sentiments expressed by your lordship in connection with this view, that Her Majesty's Government will not fail to protect the life of a native ruler against the arbitrary violence of any representative of British authority.

With sentiments of respect, we have ventured therefore to submit this communication to your lordship.

Signed on behalf of the Committee of the British and Foreign Freed-Men's Aid Society, ALFRED S. CHURCHILL, President FRED. TOMKINS, M.A., D.C.L. JOHN WADDINGTON. Secretaries.

SOUTHERN MINISTERS "WAKING UP." Providence is on the side of the Freed-men We find in the English press great unwilling. ness to advocate their cause, and even to receive information. The Southern Presbyterian Assembly recently attempted by a resolu ion to close the door against every black or coloured minister and to send delegates to England to obtain sanction and support in their decided course of action. But events are too strong for them. The Freed-men will not remain serfs under these reverend masters. Some of the ministers begin to see that the adoption of the resolution was anachronism, and that they might as well have proposed to restore the auction block. The light is coming in through the chinks and it cannot be shut out. The Rev. J. M. P Atkinson, D.D., is writing a series of letters in the Central Presbyterian of Richmond, in which he says he did not vote for the excluding resolutions, not being pre. sent when they were adopted, and that the final paper "was presented on the night previous to the adjournment of the Assembly, when members were worn out by a protracted and most busy session." This, he thinks, accounts for the apparent unanimity on its adoption. He says:

nothing if they persistently refuse to attend the church, and the Sabbath schools, and to bow at the family altar. All would be about as effective in securing their spiritual nourishmens and growth in grace, as food. placed in reach of a man infl xibly resolved to starve himself to death, would be to support and strengthen his fainting body. You may enhance the guilt of the moral suicide, as with the suicide of the body, by your benevolent efforts, but real good you bestow upon neither. Now you wish to save, not to destroy: you must inquire, then, if there be no means of removing this aversion to receiv ing the offer of the gospel at our hands, which now causes them to turn from our worship. For one, I am persuaded it may be removed in great part, if not altogether, by simply admitting communicants of this race to all the privileges of church members. Among these is eligibility to the divinely appointed offices of the house of God-the offices of deacon, elder, and minister of the Word. No particle of warrant indeed can be found in the tandards of the church for the inhibition to men of any race of any of these offices; but it is undeniable that prejudice is extensively felt to the admission of coloured persons to the "A letter recently received from North discharge of their sacred functions. It would Carolina informs me that some 1,500 coloured be idle to deny that such a prejudice was manicommunicants in that State and South Caro-fested on the floor of the General Assembly lina-nearly all of whom, it is presumed, had Now it is believed belonged to our own communion-have placed that this feeling is rapidly passing away; but themselves under the care of the ministers of while it continues to exist-at least while it the newly organized Presbytery of Catawba. continues to exclude all coloured men from That Presbytery, as your readers probably every grade of ecclesiastical office, and thus know, is in connection with the Northern to debar every coloured congregation from the Assembly, and has coloured men among its ministers. The same letter also states that of the remaining coloured people once connected with ou church, a number have left us to join denominations which they have lately learned to prefer to the Presbyterian Church.

lately held in Memphis.

privilege of securing a pastor, or elder, or deacon of their own blood, I am persuaded that it will be impossible for us to extend our church among the Freed-men, or even to retain in our connection those now belonging to her communion. To think otherwise would "Now surely while this continues the be to ignore the first principles of human natemper of the blacks, it is nearly useless for ture. We may, indeed, stigmatize as pride, us to offer them the means of grace. They or ambition, or vanity, the feeling which imwill not receive them at our hands. Let minis- pels these people to seek a church where men ters be sent them by the score. Let Sabbath of their own race n'ay have a part in their schools be established for them in every government and instruction. Whatever the neighbourhood. Let every Christian master character of the feeling, it is one in which we invite them to family worship.. All will avail and with us all mankind participate. Con.

April 1, 1867.

THE FREED-MAN.

FREEDOM IN BLEEDING KANSAS.

In 1859 we spent a few pleasant hours in the house of Mr. Knight, an English minister settled at Hadley Falls, in Connecticut. An interesting child was in the pastor's study sadly crippled. On inquiring the cause of this affliction Mr. Knight gave us a most thrilling account of his pilgrimage with a band of two hundred of his people, who left their friends in New England and went Mr. 1,500 miles to help to form an anti-slavery population in Kansas. Knight lost his wife and part of his family in the self-denying struggle. They sunk from privation and fever in the swamps-far from their beautiful state of Connecticut, and surrounded by the ruffians of Missouri, who did not suffer them to rest by day or by night. There was no prospect in 1859 that the slave power would be broken, but our friend and fellow-countrymen even then had the sustaining assurance that the sufferings borne in meek submission by his wife and friends for freedom would prove not to have been in vain. Now all is changed. Missouri itself is a free state, and greatly advanced in consequence of the transition. We read therefore the following extract from Mr. Hepworth Dixon's book on America, with special interest, in remembrance of the story we heard in the pastor's library, but apart from personal associations we think all our readers will welcome the narration, as one of the episodes in the great American conflict that should have a place in the "FREED-MAN."

"Well Sam," say I to a blithe young negro of thirty-five years, a boy with quick eye and delicate razor-hand, as he powders my face and dabs the rose-water on my hair, in the shaving-room of Planter's House, Leavenworth, "where were you raised ?"

"Me riz in Missouri, sar."

"You were born a slave then ?"

"Yes, sar, me slave in Weston: very bad boss, always drunk and kicking poor nigger boy." "And how did you get your freedom, Sam-did you go and fight?"

"No sar; me no fight; tink fighting big sin; me swim."

"Swim! Oh, yes; you mean you swam across the Missouri into Kansas, from a Slave State into a Free State ?"

"Dat true sar.

One bery dark night me slip away from Weston; rund through the wood