their way to market. The imports for home the situation and make the best of it-for consumption too are increased. We do not deny the laziness and profligacy of the negro, but we believe that other influences may stimulate him to industry and virtue besides the lash and branding iron. We do not deny his propensity to lie and steal, but consider these rather as faults common to our fallen humanity, unchecked by religious teaching, and encouraged by fear and cruelty. Slavery and not emancipation is responsible for the present degraded condition of the negro, while to the negro himself, and the faithful efforts of the missionary, belong the credit of his improvement and his efforts for further advancement. The ruin of Jamaica has been caused not by the freeing of the slave, but by the efforts on the part of the planter to retain the freed-men | in ignorance and servitude, and the neglect on the part of the government to protect and support the Freed-men in their rights. For these views Mr. Hubbard is responsible We place them before our readers as indicating the necessity of combining all classes in the work of gradual improvement, there should or be no jealousy between white, black coloured, nor strife between planters or la bourers. What is right in the end will lead to the advantage of all. The people Mr. Hubbard calls the "second class" in Jamaica, are ready and anxious in every way to cooperate with intelligent and right minded friends of Jamaica in this country, and they are extremely solicitous that the British and Foreign Freed-Men's Aid Society should be well sustained. themselves. For we now see strong indications of an attempt to control the negro vote in the interest of those who were active in the rebelThe Southerners, at least the more lion. intelligent portion, argue that they can and will show to the black man that they are his true friends, and that their interest will be best promoted by using their newly acquired rights of citizenship according to their dicta tion. A meeting of the citizens of Columbia, S. C., irrespective of color, held a few days since, has great significance in its bearing on the progress of opinions at the South. The rebel Gen. Wade Hampton and other promi nent Southerners were present and made addresses, and there was good feeling, and what a little time ago would have been considered a strange fraternization of races; and this was so marked that it may well cause as to awake to the fact that the ex-rebels may secure no mean proportion of negro votes at The Richmond Times coming elections. remarks in the course of a long editorial: "We have very unwisely, not to say foolishly, assumed that the emancipated and now en franchised blacks would, under the malign influence of that very class of white men whom the negro, as a slave, held in undisguised contempt, array themselves against those whom it is to their interest to propitiate. Forgetting all which centuries of slavery should have taught us of the nature, temperament and prejudices of the blacks, we have for two years left the negro at the those who have impressed upon his plastic and unthinking mind the belief that there were good grounds for violent antagonism between capital and labour, and that while white gen. tlemen were his enemies, white rascals and vagabonds were his only friends and defenders. mercy NEW FRIENDS FOR THE NEGRO. Fighting the inevitable has always proved unprofitable business. The South has found it so in opposing the political and sociable ele-When emancipation ruptured the old ties of vation of the negro; the leading men clung to and fought for caste and colour to the bitter end, and then only to ascertain that all was in vain. The decree of the nation went forth and the negro was made a man. There was, and there still is grumbling, and some, whose foolishness has not wholly left them, would fain show a little resistance, but we think that the manifest tendency is to accept master and slave, we should have taken im mediate steps to convince the Freed-men that their old masters were still their best and only friends." And the same paper reaches the sage conclusion that "it is not yet too late to deliver them (the freed-men) from those false and malignant influences to which we have so often alluded." Thus it is that our rebel friends are determined that of "The curse a blessing shall be found." Negro snffrage was the terrible evil that hung over them, and now that it has come to be a reality, they are endeavouring to use it to their advantage. Very natural, to be sure, but we have little fear that the negro will forget who are his true friends. Friendship by compulsion has few elements of strength.-Boston Congregationalist. REPORT OF LEVI COFFIN. The labours of this Commission have been steady and onward the past year, though the amount expended is not equal to last year. But education of clothing and other goods; mostly new and Prs. Boots and Shoes... We are happy to say that the demand for physical relief is much lessened, except at certain points were crops were short, and where the Freed-men were not paid for their labour; leaving them without the means of self-support. The camps or Freed-mens' homes have all been broken up by order of government. Homes have been provided for a large number of the orphan children, yet there are many cases of extreme destitution among the Freed-men that require our continued exertions to relieve. is the great work before us. ing our expenditures have not last year, our schools have not diminished, but increased in number. We have more teachers in the field than we had last year. The schools have been supported in part by the Freed-men themselves. Our receipts have been less, both of goods and money the past year, in consequence of denominational action. The Methodists, Old School Presbyterians, United Presbyterians, Friends, and some other denominations have established schools in connection with their Mis sionary labours among the Freed-men. Hence our collecting field is divided and our receipts lessened. Although many of the members of these religious denominations believing as we do, that undenominational Prs. Hose......... labour is the most effectual among the Freedmen, as far as educational and physical relief is concerned, still sustain us and contribute to both. Our friends in England and Ireland have kindly remembered us again the past year, and have contributed largely to our supplies Pocket Handkerchiefs 3,693 2,521 1,447 289 511 1,146 2,426 606 101 2,946 168 3,016 5,460 384 12 1,870 Pencils...... Thimbles. Prs. Shears Spools Thread. 600 mulatto gentleman, who in the dark days d 1,684 slavery had been obliged to go to Europe ir 1,184 a first-class education-and yet this mac 2,448 would not be the social equal of the stupides 1,837 and meanest of white men! Nothing in 11 pressed us more favourably than these schools, If they are supported and continued, the indeed is the redemption of the coloured re and the South together a certain thing." About the first of November we formed a union and co-operation in our field of labour, with the American Missionary Association, and have been labouring jointly together since that time, having but one office and one set of Agents, thus saving much expense. The receipts of goods and clothing, received and distributed by the joint Commissions, are not included in the above report. We have received from our home field, 137 boxes and barrels of clothing and other good since the union of the Commissions, which have been forwarded and distributed among the freedmen, without opening and counting the articles at this office. This would largely swell the report, both in the number of articles and estimated value. The goods have mostly been distributed by our teachers and Agents, in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi to the most destitute. We feel comforted in believing that the Lord has blessed our labors, and that much suffering has been relieved. LEVI COFFIN. JOSEPH E. DAVIS, brother of Jeffers having received from the President his possessions on the Mississippi, has just let the "Hurricane" and "Briarfield" plantation in Warren County, to B. T. Montgomery, fr a term of years. Mr. Montgemery, who is colored man, and "one of the business managers" of the aforesaid Joseph, has projected a community of his own people, whom b expects, 'by the pursuit of agricultar, horticulture, and manufacturing and mechar cal arts, as well as the raising of stock, attain as much prosperity and happiness are consistent with human nature." quote from the advertisement, in a paper which coloured people used to figure cheify as head peices, and rarely enough as "the undersigned" or as original contributors. probably pays much better to advertise col oured enterprise in agriculture than coloured enterprise in running away.-Nation SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIANS AND THE NE GROES.-The vote of the late General As of FREED-MEN'S SCHOOLS AT CHARLESTON.Mr. Rand, Publisher of Zion's Herald, Boston, having attended the late meeting of the Southsembly, held at Memphis, is resolutely Carolina Mission Conference of the Methodist Church, gives the following account of the schools for Freed-men:-"The Freed-men's schools are a marvel to behold. The Military Hall,' a large building directly opposite the Wentworth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, is now occupied exclusively by a dozen or twenty of these schools, of all grades from 'Letters' to Latin. The teachers are in part coloured, but mostly ladies from the North, and all are capable and enthusiastic; the scholars are bright and docile; the recitations encouraging, and the singing enchanting. The average daily attendance in this single building is seven or eight hundred. The whole is under the superintendence of a justified at the south. Dr. John H. Rue says, Printed by ARLISS ANDREWS, of No. 7, Duke THE time is come when many are prepared to look more dispassionately into the case of Mr. Gordon than they were able to do during the excitement of the Eyre prosecution. Epithets, however strong and bitter, cannot be accepted in the place of facts. Malignant scandals having no shadow of foundation only shew the weakness and the wickedness of the case they are intended to support. The "Personal recollections" of Mr. Gordon just published by the Rev. Duncan Fletcher, supply some important data by which to estimate his character. We avail ourselves of them in the continuation of the sketch commenced in a former number of the FREED-MAN. Mr. Fletcher has unconsciously given a picture of himself and of Mr. Gordon that will suggest to many of his readers an idea of their religious course in Jamica more vivid and complete than that of the formal record. Mr. Gordon seems to have been an intense, active, and most sanguine "Revivalist." "On one occasion being visiting his estates in St. Thomas-in-the East, and staying over Sabbath at a town called Bath, he was sorry to find the people there had no early prayer meetings, such as he was accustomed to attend on the morning of the Lord's day, so getting up at 'break of day' and standing in the centre of the town, Mr. Gordon shouted Fire! fire!! fire!!!' at the highest pitch of his voice; the inhabitants were startled from their slumbers, and in great alarm sprang from their beds, and rushed to the street eagerly scanning their own premises first, and next glancing wildly around the houses of their neighbours, with buckets and cans ready to pour water on the devouring element; but neither flame nor smoke could be seen in Bath or anywhere in the vicinity; yet Mr. Gordon continued crying Fire! fire! fire!' until an immense assembly had gathered around him, some of whom ventured to ask the question; Where is the fire, Mr. Gordon? Laying his broad brawny hand on his swelling bosom, and accommodating the words of the * Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, p. 195. 6 Psalmist to the occasion, Mr. Gordon replied My heart was hot within m while I was musing the fire of devotion burned. The fire is here in my hear and now, dear friends, come, let us have a prayer meeting." A glorica prayer meeting, Mr. Fletcher says they had, and a gracious outpouring of th spirit was enjoyed, while a wonderful work of revival commenced that morning in Bath, when hundreds were converted, including one of the ministers in t neighbourhood, whom I knew well." "I shall never forget a Sabbath which I spent with him in his own peculi 'work of faith and labour of love' accompanied by Mr. Gordon and Mr. Vinen. W started on horseback, after attending an early prayer meeting, and had near twenty miles to ride to the station at which I was engaged to preach, but the whole intervening range was studded with intermediate stations which require. hasty visits. We galloped our horses on at almost Jehu speed, from station station, alighting at some of them for a few minutes while Mr. Gordon inspect his Sabbath schools, &c.; and after several abrupt but kind enquiries as attendance and other matters, he would address a few words of approbation some, encouragement or perhaps reproof to others, and then we rode off: another and another station, till at length dear Mr. Gordon's attendants kept "the even tenor of their way" and allowed him to canter over his by-path alone, through rivers and rocks and mud and jungle, to his sub-stations, but made up to us before we reached the end of our journey, for he was by habi and repute the fleetest rider in Jamaica. The day was now far spent; and oh! the terrible heat of the sun! I felt more fit for lying down to rest than f preaching to that sweltering congregation. But after having preached a dismissed the large assembly, the work of the day was not nearly finished. "Mr. Gordon had his Bethesda pools to visit, where impotent folk, hal withered, aged, sick, bereaved, destitute, dying ones, were anxiously awaiting his angelic visits to trouble the waters of charity, patience, resignation, and comfort. His head, his heart, his hands and his purse were there harmoniously united in the Christ-like mission of alleviating human woe," Mr. Gordon was as active in correspondence as in his visits and preaching. From a large number of letters Mr. Fletcher gives the following as a specimen "My dear brother, "Rhine Estate, St. Thomas-in-the East "May 23rd, 1862. "Although here, I am busy and have but a few moments to spare; grandma and Mr. Vinen are also with me-we all unite in kindest love and remembrances to you all, our dear brother and sister, and two dear boys. Our visit here is twofold: first, to open a mission station at Bath and Spring, both of which have been done, thanks be to God, under circumstances which call for devout thankfulness. "On Sunday, the 18th, services were held at the Missionary Bethel, temporary place of worship, and it was indeed a refreshing season. At five |