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CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST
ANNIVERSARY OF FREEDOM.
According to announcement, notwith
standing tue unpropitious appearance
|Ot the elements and the abominable dirty
- condition ot the streets, the above Cele
bration took place in Springfield Baptist’
Church. It may not be out of piace
here to state why it is that this Celebra
tion is called the fust Anniversary of
Freedom. On January Ist, 1863, the
celebrated Emancipation Proclamation of
Abraham Lincoln, the late lamented
President, took eficct having been an
nounced throughout the whole Union for
the space ot oue hundred days previous,
and from that day, Slavery ceased to
exist wherever the United States armies
caried the Stars and Stripes. This
January Ist, 1866, being the first new
years day since that memorable date, on
which our race find themselves fully
secured in the liberty guaranteed by
that Proclamation, and forever free from
the bondage of slavery, we deemed it
but right and proper, that, that day
should be celebrated in an appropiate
manner, for it is to us the Anniver
sary of Freedom.
Long before the appointed hour the
building crowded from floor to roof
with an eager and altogether a happy and
a decorous audience.
Shortly after the appointed hour the
chair was occupied by Mr.-Robert Kent,
and the exercises of the day commenced
by the Choir singing in masterly style
the sacred chorus ‘Blow ye the trumpet,
Mr. Robert A. Harper, presiding at the
organ.
At the conclusion of that spirited
piece, the Rev. John Bryan engagedin
prayer, and was followed with a few •ap
propriate introduction remarks by Rev.
Samuel Drayton, following which, the
reading of the Emancipation Proclama
tion by Simeon W. Beard,
■ Being again refreshed and re-annima
ted by some delicious music, Chaplain
Henry M. Turner, arose for the oration
of the day.
We regret exceedingly that we were
unable to get a full report of the speech,
■from the tact that it was delivered
tempore, but we shall present in our
next weekly,issue a short outline of
the principle features of it which will
enable our readers to recall to memory
many <f its subiimest beauties and finest
conceptions. At the conclusion of the
Oration, Captain Bryant, Agent Freed
men’s Bureau made a few remarks. He
advised the freedmen to make contracts
immediately. He told them that no
lands would be given them by govern--
meat, but that ail must earn an honest
living; that as they would live at the
South, it wa • not only for their interest,
but it was their duty to cultivate friendly
relations if possible with those who we e
formerly their masters. He farther ad
vised them to be honest, industrious and
peaceable and in every respect, conduct
themselves like good citizens.
Mr J. N. Eds, editor of the Daily
Transcript followed Captain Bryant in a
few short and pointed remarks. He said
be concurred in the advice given by his
‘friend from a distant State,’ that he was
a Georgian by birth, and as a Georgian
be told them that the Southern men were
their best friends.
The proceedings were brought to a
close by the Rev, Mr. Eaves expressing
his unbounded pleasure at snaring in
such a glorious Jubilee. He had beer,
laboring for the last thirtj r years for the
good of the colored people and had been
a participator in many a joyous demon
stration by them, but he had never seen
nor participate in one like the pres
ent.
Dr. West, then pronounced the bene
diction, when the immense concourse dis
persed in an orderly and respectable
manner; all heartily satisfied that the
First Anniversary of Freedom had been
a perfect success.
Thad. Stevens and the radicals in Con
gross have concluded that they can not
defeat the President’s plan of reconstruc
tion, and are about to introduce a new
programme, intended to* circumvent the
President. A committee of Congress are
to make a trip South and report upon
the condition of affairs as they shall find
them. Thad, Stevens will appoint the
sub committee, so that the character of
its report may be easily anticipated. The
object is to delay the reconstruction of
the South on the President’s plan.
There are heavy rises of water in both
the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers,
and bridges are all swept away on the
latter stream.
It is rumored the House committee
will report in favor of negro' sufferagc in
District of Columbia.
Dry goods are very low in Galveston
on account of the market being over
stocked, and specie currency is the only
money used.
Tne Great Eastern will sail in June,
1866, to lay the new cable and take up
the old one, which is ascertained to be
entirely perfect.
It is reported that Minister Adams
will return home in the spring.
The cholera is raging on the island of
Guadaloupe.
FREEDMEN’S CONVENTION.
As the time is rapidly approaching,
when the delegates from the different
citiesand counties for this Convention
will take their seats ia solemn conclave,
it may not-ye out of place in us to throw
out a few suggestions that may aid them ■
in their future deliberations. There will
be some of the most important questions
brought before the consideration of that
body, that has ever been brought before
any such a like constituted body of men;
questions, the proper decisions of which
will make an indelible impression upon
the future of our race. Let these ques
tions be considered and debated with the
spirit ot men, not with the high swellinf*
tones of the braggart, nor with the snevel
ing, mercy-beseeching language of the
menial, but with the dignified energy uf
men determined to show to both friend
and ice that -freedom has yet some sons
worthy of her benefits. And in our
judgment the must important cf these
questions is that of Our Rights. First,
What arc our rights? and second; ‘How
are they Io be obtained?
The first question may bo easily an
swered, and soon disposed of, from the
fact thato/rr rights are the rights of aIP
freedman, whatever these may be. We
may not have them all accorded to us by
tho. c e who have it in their power to do so
but that in no way effaces the fact, that
they are our rights. But let us not, in the
broad gLre of new-born freedom, be led
away by its resplendent glories into ex 4?
travagant ideas as in what they really do
consist. Man generally, in opposing
wrong or maintaining right sees it magnify
in proportion as his mind lingers in the
contemplation of the wrong perpretrated
or the right demanded, until he finds
himself combating or defending what in
calmer moments he might acknowledge
was far from his m-igiaal Intention. Let
us learn from the experience of others
so that we might escape the quagmires of
honest delusion. The second question.
‘How to obtain our rights?’ will be the
most difficult to manage and the most
important of the two. But let us not be
afraid of its importance nor its difiicul-*
ties. Let us meet them like men pre
pared, and willing to overcome. Con
sider well the source from whence they
are to be obtained ; diliberate calmly upon
the relationship that source now holds
to us and wbat it held so lately, and Jet
our demands be in accordance with tk«
most reasonable expectations. We coun
cil no fawning nor bowing because of for
mer associations, neither do we call for
bluster nor bragg, because of new rela
tions, but let us remember that the firm,
bold, conscientious and just demand, has
the willing ear of every brave and honest
heart. We have many w r arm, true heart
ed friends in this city and State, let them
not be appalled at our extravagance nor
pained at our slavishness. Let the manly
expression of our sister aS late, be our
expressions, and we lecl certain that
good shall follow in the footsteps of our
formly asserted rights. In the Conven
tion lately held in South Carolina our
brethren asked for ‘the establishment of
law and order, the securing of life and
property; and freedom to sell labor as a
merchant to dispose of any of his como
di ties; far a fair and impartial const rim
tion of the pledges of the government on
the land question, that the school, the
pulpit and the press be as secure in that
State as in Massachusetts, that equal
suffrage be conferred in common with
white men, as a protection
by their known faithfulness to their
country’s flag during the rebellion, and
btcause al! free governments drive their
power from the consent of the governed ;
thev being in majority in the State,
bearing for a long time the burden of an
odious taxation without a just represecta
tion ; that colored men shall not in every
instance be tried by white men ; and that
neither by custom or enactment shad
they be excluded from the jury-box,
Such as this let us demand, and let
the righteousness of the demand come
home to hearts of those whose prerogative
it is to say, yes or no to our just re
quest.
A TRIBUTE.
Hear what our Governor says about
us in his Inaugural Address :
w
At this time I propose only a reference
to prominent points demanding atten
tion, and general principles which should
govern our action. And first. I present
to you a well merited plea in behalf of
the emancipated African. Hitherto the
faithful bondsman of the lace from whose
personal dominion he has just been dis
enthraled, but upon whose benignity and
justice he still depends for protection and
advancement, he stands before you an
object of peculiar interest. Happy in
this past bondage, which lightly taxed bis
physical energies, abundantly supplied i
his wants, as well in infancy and in old ,
old age as in vigorous manhood—as well
in sickness as in health—and which leaves :
him at its close immeasurably elevated
above the co temporary native of Africa,
descended from the same ancestry, he
looks anxiously to his future, and feels
that it is still measurably in the hands
of the proprietary race. It is undenia
bly true, that during all the years of his
enslavement, he has been marvellously
quiet, profoundly content with his con
dition. And what shall be said of his
deportment during the last half decade
of sad memories? Whilst your strong
men were in the tented field, far away
from unprotected wives and children, he
cultivated their lands, tended their house
holds, and rendered a'l servile obser
vances us when surrounded by the usual
controlling agencies. And since the
first of emancipation, which he neither
forced nor implored, although sometimes
unsettled in his purposes, and inconsis
tent in bis service by contract (the natu
ral lesult of a transition so sudden and
so thorough,) I take you all to witness
that, in the main, his conduct has been
praiseworthy, beyond all rational expecta
tion. Tell me not of instances of in
subordination as a slave, and of indeco
rum as a freedman, that have transpired
in certain localities, or characterized
particular individuals. These are excep
tional cases, the general race being quite
otherwise. Do our own race render un
varying obedience to the mandates of
law. Are our own offspring, through
years of minority always subordinate to
parental authority ? Shall, then, the less
cultivated African be held to a stricter
accountably or be judged by a higher
standard of moral rectitude ? Tell me
not the race is ungratful. The asser
tion is against the truth of tradition and
experience. J here declare that, in my
judgment, their fidelity iu the past, and
their decorum under the distressing in
fluences of the present, are without a
parallel in history, and establish for them
a strong claim upon our favoring patron
age. As the governing class, individu
ally and collectively, we owe them un
bounded kind rnss, thorouji protection,
incentives by moral sua.-ion, by appeals
to their interest, and by just legal re
straint, to do right that they may do
well. Their rights of person and pro
perty should be made perfectly secure—
so secure that they may realize their free
dom and its benefits; and of it they
should be encouraged and stimulated to
make benefit. To this end the courts
must be opened to them, ana they must
be allowed, in the assertion and defence
therein of their rights, ia civil and crimi
nal cases, the testimony of their own
race. As essential to their wall being,
they should be guarded, on the one hand
against the crafty machinations of the
designing, and on the other against the
fatal delusion of social and political
equality.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
o
The gold quartz vein lately discovered
in Green county, Penn., is found to ex
tend into West Virginia. A petroleum
company, in sinking an oil well, struck
the rock at the depth cf 519 feet.
The Roman Catholic churches in Balti
more have just contributed over slslp
900, for the benefit of the poor in the
South.
Mrs. Samuel L. El my, Providence
R. 1., pricked her fingers, with a needle,
a few days since, and afterwards scoured
a brass knocker. The hand soon began
to swell, and she died from the effects cl
the wound.
A Havana letter says that Ex-Emper
or Sculouque, ot Hayti, had arrived at
Santiago, Cuba, en-route for St. Thomas,
having been expected from Jamaica.
Cape Haytien was bombarded by two
English men of war and reduced to ash
es. Jtffrard s troops took possession of
the ruins.
Peace is declared iu Peru, the Revo
lutionists having triumphed.
The arrests in Washington for the last
three months number 9,000. t
Brigham Young has fifty children liv
ing and has lost ten.
The original will of George M ashing
ten has been once more placed in the
archives of the State of Virginia.
There is a man in Wayne county, Pa.,
who is the father of thirty-one children,
thirty of whom are living and in good
health.
Sarah J. Holmes, aged sixty four, and
Esquire Larkin, ag .1 eighty eight, resid
ing near Belfair, M try laud, recently ran
away and got married. They ran away
from their children, who opposed the
match.
The casualties i;» Alexandria during
the riots were o.fly estimated. Que per
son was killed, and two negroes seriously
injured.
It is stated that there is great distress
anel suffering among the citizens of Ar
kansas,
The census returns show that the to
tal number of Indians in the United
States is throe hundred and seven thou
sand.
Belle Boyd Mrs. Harding-—has been
studying for the st: ge, and. will seen ap
pear at one of the Liverpool theatres.
Three new oil strikes are reported in
Kentucky. O.ie fl swing lifxen or twen
ty barrels a day ha , been opened near
Owtn-horo’, Davies county. The others
lie iu Adaiuaud Bar en counties.
General Washington breathed out his
spirit in the last hon« on the last day of
the week, in the 1 month of the year
and in the last year < f the last century.
He died at 12 o’clock, December 31.
1779.
Something a Luu* dim:.---The “Cham
pagne Trials’ m San Francisco brought
out the facts that the entire product of
genuine champagne v.ine exceeds twelve
trillions of boU.h-s per annum of which
more than three trillions are sent to the
United States.
We find the above credited’ to the
Richmond Republic of a late date.
Now we are not much of an arithnia
tician, but bad and ail as we are it is iiiH
possible fur the Richm md Republic or
any other Republic to make us believe
that these figures are correct. We have
always heard it sai l that a billion was
more than Ahum co \l comfortably count
iu six hundred years, but according to
the above, these San Francisco chaps
can beat Adam all hollow, for they have
discovered that no less than twelve tril
lion bottles of wino are handled in the
course of a s/yiplc year. This is at the
rate of one trillion every mouth. Now
we understood that a trillion, according
to European calculators is a bilUxn times
billion, and if it would take six thou,
sand years to count a single billion, how
Lmg must it require to count one. multi
pled by itself, let alone twelve times that
sum. We cannot swallow that R pub
lic no more than the Republic can swallow
his share of the wine in these twelv
trillion bottles, which would be the nice
little sum of ten million billion bottles
If the Republic could,not go on a burst
and burst, with that it would by folly for
us to try it.
A FATHER’S ADVICE TO HIS
DAUGHTER ON HER
MARRIAGE. •
Lot not my dan Miter, now a wife,
Bid all her adieu;
Comforts there are in married life,
And there are crosses too.
I do not wish to damp your mirth,
With an ungrateful sound,
But yet remember, bliss on earth
No mortal ever found.
Your prospects and hopes are great,
May heaven those hopes fulfil;
But you will find in every state
Some difficulty still,
A. friendship founded on esteem
Life’s stormy blast endures;
It will not vanish like a dream—
And such I trust is yours.
Though you have left a father’s wing,
No longer need his care— •
! It is but seldom husbands bring
A lighter yoke to wear.
They have their humors and their
faults ;
So mutable is> man:
Excuse Lis foibles iu thy thoughts,
And hide them when you can.
Nor anger nor resentment koe?»,
Whatever he amiss—
Be reconciled before you sleep,
And seal it with a kiss.
Or. if there’s cause to reprehend,
Do it with mild address;
Remember he’s your dearest friend,
And love him ne’er the less.
Mutual attempts to serve and please,
Each other will endear;
Thus may you draw your yoke with
ease,
Nor discord interfere.
Since you must both resign your breath
And God alone knows whefa,
So live that you may part at death,
To meet with joy again.