said What has he done?' the answer was that Depass had shot him; they took him from the tree, and one of the soldiers went and made his old mother come and stand over him. "4760, Did the soldiers or volunteers do anything to you?-Nothing at all; they did nothing to me, only to my husband, and they burnt my house and left me in distress. "4761, What became of you afterwards: where did you go after you returned and found your house burnt?-I left the body. I could not get anybody at all to come and bury him, so I went to a man, by the name of Phillips, a carpenter, and said I had no man to bury him and asked him to let a person come and bury his body. I followed him all the way. They left him naked; I wrapped him in calico and carried him to the wharf. "4766, Did you bury him in the sea ?--Yes. "4767, Did the carpenter take his body in the sea?-It was Corporal Phillips; he was the one; he was a special constable. He was left at the station, and he took my husband to the pier and threw him in the sea. "4774, You went to him and got him to come?-Yes, he sent a person to come and dig the hole, but at the time of martial law everybody near was afrai to come, and I wanted somebody who was not of the neighbourhood. "4775, Was that your reason for going down to Port Morant and getting Phillips?-Yes." We might give extracts to show the condition of the black population in the outlying districts of Jamaica-isolated from the towns, unvisited in many places by the white people, left without instruction, and sinking too often into a state of vice, crime and misery. The heart may well sicken at the spectacle presented. We could show the strong delusions to which they are subject in their state of ignorance, and the corrupt examples set before them by the white. population, leading to wild excitement, the fear of being enslaved, and to consequent recklessness, but we forbear. We want attention to be fixed on the three poor women-the wife, the mother and the mother-in-law-leaving the murdered man in the sea, having lost the two houses provided for by his honest labour and secking shelter in the bush, removed from the English' civilization which might help and guide them, but from which they have suffered wrongs so deep and so cruel. The guilty no doubt there are, but we do not find them in the thousands of poor desolate women and children for whom we have so often asked timely succour and some proofs of practical sympathy. We have not yet seen the extent of the oppression and of the woe that exists, but this story of calamity is surely enough. If it could be read in our English homes without moving the heart to pity and the hand to help, then indeed we should tremble for our country. But we have a very different expectation. The resources of the British and Foreign Freed-men's Aid Society are exceedingly limited; our advocacy is too foolla; babae have the fall assurance that hop will cone, Let no one inclined to dishesh, this lead of sorrow wait a oment longer; however small the tribute, let it come. fairly with us, the producers of the Mr. Brydson says that the ALL orders and enquiries concerning Advertisements, or other business connected with crops. this Magazine, are to be addressed to Island is as capable as ever of yieldARLISS ANDREWS, 7, Duke St., Bloomsbury. ing large quantities of cotton, sugar, The Freed-Man. AUGUST, 1866. logwood, rum, coffee, ginger, and other staples. It is prepared to take in return our textile manufactures, salt, salt fish, salt meat, butter, lard, tobacco, ironmongery and crockery. If it be "I have observed with satisfaction that the United States, after terminating successfully affirmed that the negro is so lazy the severe struggle in which they were so long that he will not work, and therefore engaged, are wisely repairing the ravages of that the promised Island crops will civil war. The abolition of slavery is an not be forthcoming to pay for the goods event calling forth the cordial sympathics and we should be ready to export from congratulations of this country, which has always been foremost in showing its ablorence England, Mr. Brydson and his friends of an institution repugnant to every feeling of reply, that the assertion is utterly false. justice and humanity.-QUEEN VICTORIA. The black man is the man that clears the land for cultivation, he is the man DEPUTATION FROM JAMAICA that plants, he is the man that manuWe have been favoured with an in- factures the produce he chips the logterview with three coloured gentlemen, wood, he carries the freight to the who have arrived in England from Ja- wharves for shipment, he labours on maica with a view to promote the ma- the wharves, he works in the boats terial interests of the negro population. which bear the produce to the ships, The Rev. S. W. Holt is a Baptist he stows the ships, he works on the Minister from the Black River: C. roads, he is the chief man on the proPlummer, Esq., comes from May Hill, perties (and is called the head-man,) and W. Brydson, Esq., who is a Justice he also carries Her Majesty's mails of the Peace, comes also from the Black through the Island by day and by River, in the island of Jamaica. These night, he grows the ground provisions gentlemen-for gentlemen they are in to supply the markets, the daily food character and behaviour-have been of the bulk of the population; in short, specially sent to England as a deputa- he is the man that does most of all tion from their brethren in Jamaica, which is done to produce money. not at the suggestion of friends in negro pays the bulk of the taxes. The England, but mero proprio motu, with a week when the negro on the estate is view to promote the peaceful arts of paid, the market of the district is commerce. The negroes of Jamaica thronged, every one expecting to derive The some good from the money he spends. the Missionary field of Surinam. The What better proofs are required to Ladies' Committee has for ten years show that the negroes do work? Black supported these missionary efforts, and people moreover sent this deputation to contributed in different ways about England at their own expense, to pro- 12,000 florins (£1,000). mote their interests and the general The original impulse to anti-slavery interests of the Island. There is scope effort in Holland was given by the in Jamaica for ten times the present highly esteemed Mrs Elizabeth Fry population, and the beautiful Island and Mr Chamerovzow. At his sugmay be made a very storehouse of gestion, Miss A. A. Bergendahl assemwealth for all who are prepared to bled several ladies favourable to abolitake an interest, and to labour for its tion, and constituted an Anti-Slavery development. I thi Society, under the designation of the "Amsterdam Ladies' Anti-Slavery SoThe Ladies' Committee are ciety.", j** * THE FREED-MEN OF THE DUTCH COLONY OF SURINAM. happy to say, that their endeavours The Amsterdam Ladies' Freed-men's have met in Holland with favourable Aid Committee are desirous of awaken- responses, from the Christian commuing the sympathy of the friends of the freedmen, and particularly of Dutch citizens in London, in behalf of the liberated slaves in Surinam. In the year 1863, on the 1st July, Slavery was abolished by an act of Government, whereby 45,000 slaves were liberated. This event took place not only without the least disturbance, but the most affecting scenes of thankful gratitude to God and man were witnessed. J1 nity as well as from members of the Royal family. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands and the Royal Princesses have made many presents to the bazaars, and also donations in money. Since abolition every obstacle is remoyed to furnish the plantations and all parts of Surinam with schools and places of worship, and means of assistance for the aged and the helpless, and it is calculated by credible and highly esteemed persons in Surinam that not much Abolition has proved a blessing to short of £2000 will be annually wanted the negro population. This result may besides what has been already done to be attributed, in a great measure, to the meet the expenses. For this reason, faithful missionary labours of the Mor- Miss Bergendahl, being on a short visit avian brethren who have for more than to England and Scotland, wishes to avail a century exerted themselves to estab- herself of the opportunity to enlist the lish schools and places of worship, and sympathy of the Dutch residents and of have been so successful, that now about the Christian friends of the negroes, and 24,000 slaves are members of the Mor- freed-men in their behalf. She is happy avian church, and 15,000 children attend to state that the Secretary of the "Britheir schools. A seminary also exists, tish and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society" in which native assistants are educated, will give information on the subject, and and many are now useful labourers in receive donations or subscriptions. FREED-MEN'S BUREAU. An attentive reader of the FREED-MAN has called our attention to paragraphs in English newspapers, denouncing the Freed-Men's Bureau. One of them says: "As contributions have been solicited in England on more than one occasion for the benefit of the negroes who have lately been released from slavery in the United States, it may be as well to mention that the organization through which those contributions are distributed is the notorious Freed-Men's Bureau,' and recent disclosures have proved that that department is in reality a mere engine for the benefit of Northern speculators." It is somewhat curious that the recent advocates for the fugitive slave law, should take upon themselves the office of protectors of the Freed-men, but doubtful as we have reason to be of their sincerity, we are bound to meet their objections with a plain statement of facts. No better answer can be desired than that furnished by Rev. Horace James, a Christian minister personally known to us, and whose self-denying devotedness to the cause of the Freed men has been exceeded by none. them, and calls to its aid a large number of individuals. Very likely there will be found those unworthy-those whose judgments are not to be sustained by righteousness or common sense; but on the whole, the influence of that institution has been unquestionably beneficial to a very large and unexpected extent. The coloured people have confidence in its officers trust us, believe in us, come to us, as their friends, and they look upon us as those who wield the authority of the government in their behalf, and are to be their personal protectors. The Freed-Men's Bureau is so well known that I do not stand here in its advocacy. It is not necessary to do so. "Pass to the schools; for the Bureau is to come to an end, and schools and education are the main and grand influences on which we must rely to do this work in the South. And I am proud now to be a little personal, and say that from the old city of Boston I took the first teachers that went into North Carolina, and established schools there by permission of the Major General commanding in the summer of 1863; and those teachers did nobly, and that beginning has grown up into schools to the number of 160 to 170, with 40,000 children under instruction. Multitudes are able to read the Word of God and the newspapers, who knew not the alphabet of learning before. And that work cannot be stopped; it is going ou splendidly. We must give these people education, whatever else we do not give them, Nothing but learning will make them men, The Emperor of Russia came near to being a sassinated the other day; a peasant saved his life, and the Emperor created him a nobleman. That he might have that wherewith to appear with all the paraphernalia of a noble. man, they subscribed many thousand dollars, Money would not make him a nobleman; he needs something more; and so the Emperor "What are these instrumentalities on which sends his best engineer to superintend his we rely. One of them is, unquestionably, the education." He understands that education Freed-Men's Bureau, much spoken against of makes the man, So in regard to these relate one which is, by the acknowledgement | deemed serfs-these slaves coming up into even of its enemies-even of those who think freemen; and the whites as well catch the that now it ought to be done away with- -con- inspiration from them, and rise with them into fessed to have been of great importance and a higher life. value in previous times. It is an institution The schools are coming more into a system which combines large resources and wields of plantation schools, and again it was my At a meeting of the American Missionary Association in Boston, United States, Mr. James said: "The war has ended-thank God for that! And the question is, how to carry on the same kind of influence, and re; produce it in magnificent proportions over a larger extent under peace: and in counsel upon that question you are convened to-day. "The officers of this society are endeavouring to work out that solution. They are doing it nobly and beautifully, similar organizations are doing it. God is giving them success, and the work is bound to be done, if only the Christian people of this nation shall uphold them in it and feel the importance of this work and carry it out. good fortune to be the pioneer in that matter. Did you ever know of a race of people being I took one of the most excellent ladies handed brought out from bondage harder than Egypover to me by your president; I started out to tian bondage that had deported themselves so superintend and organize a labour system, and grandly? And the best of it is, they don't did so successfully. I carried two teachers know it themselves! In their simplicity they one of this Society and one of the National are unaware that they have done anything Freed-men's Association. The schools have been established with the greatest success; and by day and night, old men, young men, women and children, with their spelling-books and Testaments, are going forward up the steeps of science and of knowledge. How they enjoy it, how they delight in it, you can have no conception; and all this goes on as harmoniously and as pleasantly as a summer morning, and there is not a breath of discon-platform, and in connection with religious tent on our plantation or the neighbouring ones where Northern people have gone their prayers, and a blessing directly from nothing whatsoever. "Yet I think I see incredulity on your faces because you have seen in the papers that your old friend has turned negro catcher, and has chased negroes. Never in my life have I laid the weight of a finger of violence upon the negroes of North Carolina or anywhere else, whatever newspapers may say, or official reports may aver. Never have I even uttered an angry or harsh word to a coloured person, but through the five years of my intercourse with them in North Carolina have been to them like a father and a friend. I don't mean on social equality as a father or friend, but a shield, comfort, support, and defence. great. I am astonished and delighted when I see the dignity with which they accept their new situation-with which they come up into it and perform its duties. It is wonderful. I see in it the hand of God and the power of his goodness and grace. I have heard the songs they sing, and the prayers they have been uttering these many years. They have come up into this new state upon a religious "It is objected again that there is no use in doing anything at the South, because the negro is incapable of elevation. All the facts show that this is not so. They are capable of education, they can and do receive impressions, and are as susceptible of influence as we ourselves. When everybody declared that the negro would not work, I said I believed he was sufficiently human, that if you treated him well and paid him fair wages, he would be just as willing to work as a white man. It is proved so now. Even their foes confess there is no difficulty in getting labourers; that they receive impressions is equally plain; that they are good fighters is abundantly proved. I have conversed with southern officers who have met them and felt their steel on the battle field. Where have they disappointed us? views, and they accept it as a fulfilment of God. How touching are some of the refrains The winter will soon be over, The winter will soon be over, Children, Yes, my Lord. "That is the whole: and they breathe it ont again and again; but Oh! that winter, that was soon to be over in the coming spring, connected with the dread they have for tho frost and the snow, and associated with their terrible trials, has a meaning you don't know unless you know them intimately. They are grateful for this blessing and this boon. I said to them what shall I tell them about you? Express to them our thanks for this great delivery. Tell them we bless the Yankees and shall always bless them for what they have done for us. And, Captain, while you are gone, your work will go on just the same. We'll take care of your interest-be sure of that.' "If I were to speak of the analogies in favour of this mode of working out the problem, I should say it was the Divine method seen in history to found a new and superior civilization. God brought Abraham out of Chaldea, and sent him among the children of Heth, that he might, as a living man, breathe new impulses. Moses and the children of Israel were educated in Egypt, and then carried out into |