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VOL. XI.
THE DAILY SUN.
r j no: t>l WOU. TIH'3. aiIBIBT. ■; K OOM.ADJi.
TIIOS, GILBERT & CO„
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at the rate of $1 per mouth, in adviuco.
ArivtßTiessiENis Inserted at tbo old rate of $1
l>er square for the brat insertion, and 5) coots per
square for each subs l qucut insertion.
Trom the Slecon Telegraph.
Weiallona of Mootora oud Fieedmeo.
ADDREB? OF DR.FRENCH,
Ok rUE IFEBUMAH’S BVBEAU, PtJ.IVF.BEP
Ai AIBANY, 0A . AUO 18 1865
After a few intiuducloij ternarac tu the
cit!*aua pmeut, Dr. Fiuuoh began bie
address to the freed men, as folicr.e :
This day and this hour uiy colored
f fieri Js, you aud your fathers have long
looked aud prayed for Your junyeis
are answered, and now l atu happy to
announce to you, iu the tarn?, and iu
lidialf of tho goveramnat, lb tt you are
free, and free for ever mure. Your free
tlom is the gift o! God, proclaimed to you
Dy the President of tho Tailed Svumo,
Abraham Liucolu, and Drought to you by
tha brave union &re , .y. If your freedom
wcro the gilt of man, man might take it
awtiy from you ; but being the gift of
God, there is uo earthly power that can
rob you of it. Your Hsaveuiy Father,
and the government of the United elates,
will henceforth aland between you and
slavery.
Gome of you think that iu order to
make your freedom a reality, you must
loavo tho plantation, or ffco home iu
which you have boon living—must, ohnnga
your place of residence. Tufa is not ae
t-essavy. V»;i ureas really free on the
plantation. where you were born, or where
your freedoia came to you, iu the family
where you are living, or i*i your cabins,
us if you store to go out of the State of
Ueorgia.
Rome ol you fear that you may bo re
turned to slavery again. There are gome
former slave owners that, say you will be
slaves again. You need uot (oar this.—
Having snuffed the air of freedom, and
tasted of its sweet waters, you could ao
more ba put back into the prisou house
of slavery tkau a chicken three months
old could be put back again iatoils ebell.
SKl.** SUPFOKT
Tac. first duty that meets you, as you
enter upon the bread table, lands of free
doro, is your support and tho. support of
your families Many of your inner mas
ter.s said, and soroo honestly feared, no
doubt, that you would uot. be able to sup
port yourselves Some of your Northern
friends have had doubts also. From
i.eajy four years knowledge of your
iirefueru on the sea islands, where free
labor lias been tried, I am happy to say
to you that all my doubts sad fears as (o
your self-support are gone Thousands
of your friends, who have watched, most
jealousy, that experiment, are confident
of your success. The government lissif
is well assured that the freedman can do
Letter for himself and far the country, in
freedom, than he ever has dona or ever
could do, iu gisvviry. Had not. (he gov
ernment, been persuaded of this fact, it
wouid not, have taken the responsibility of
setting yen free. Without, asking (he
consent of your mssU-re, or nonsuiting
you. the government dissolved your
claims, set you an fryo, declared yon
to be citizens of tho United States.
Have you, yourselveo, any fears in re
gard tr, the support of yourselves and faro
iliee and even the whole race" You, that
ore strong, of course eau ruppor! your
selves: but what are theaged, tiie infirm
and the orphans to do ? You may fed that
the aged and the infirm, who have given
ihostungth of their lives to their mastert,
have a iuet olaitn up u theta for their
support. A moral claim, all the claims,
indeed, of humanity, do test oa their
masters, At the come time, (be covet la
ment in freeing the entire rase, excused
tho masters from all legal obligations,
after order shell be restored, for the tm-
T oft of ,;7tu the aged arid the orphans
V. hen Modes led Israel out ol Egyptian
bondage, Pharaoh proposed that the able
bodied men should go, leasing the women
aud children behind. Muses said, no. we
will go, and our wives and our little ones
shall go also; uur flocks aud our herds;
not a hoof shall be left behind Moses
claimed hie entire race or none. Ho took
■ho burden of tbs whole people. I always
thought highly of Mosea tor this, ©.>
you now fool clrong in your bcs.rts? do
you feel willing, yea anxious to bring
with y-.-u :.ato freedom your aged fathers
sin-s inothotti, with ail the little once, to
eharo with you its joys and its eurrovrs?
Can you consent to erjoy the Met singe <f
freedom alone, aud leave them behind?
Or will you, in the spirit of Motet 1 , take
the. burden of the support of your whole
rn.ee? Thiuk of it, consider tt, L=t every
man and woman who thus feel raise their
hanafl. (A [west of hands suddenly rose,
with exultant shouts of amen and I will
fromaUparts ) Not. that 1 think all who
come into freedom will nmke atuocesa , f
it. Thousands and thousands and thou
sands of those who cause cut of Egypt, by
their follies, idleness, jealousy, murmur
ing under restraint., and their idolatrous
propensities, provoked God to destroy
them ; siili (ho great majority of them
reached the land oi Oauaeu aud obtained
tv good inheritance. T shall not be dis
appointed if one out of livoof yon in your
ignorance, love of oin and disliko of la
nor, and ibe wholesome restraints of law
and good society, make a muerable failure
of vonr freedom • still if the reel cucoacd,
as 1 have no doubt they will, the experi
ment will pay, the government will bo
justified and our whole nation Heaved.
Ho not bo alarmed then, when you poo
ere failiog here and another there; or if
suine of your tret hern who haveuo spirit,
no enterprise, g 0 and whine avcuod their
ti.d masters hcggi c? them to take them
.if 0 * into slavery again and take care of
them. Jorae of the children of Israel be
».,re they bad even crossed the Red Rea,
proposed to go back again , nto the brick
yards and bondage of F.gypt. Lct evetT
failure pat new rife into you. If tby
COLUMBUS, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 18(35.
brother faiuf under his burdens, be thou |
| more of * man tbyeolf; ami let. none of j
your own little blunders ov mistakes tUc- j
courage you. When you fall and atom bio, i
up and try again and again, and be <ie j
teriained to succeed anyhow
DIVISIONS OF TEE IANO.
You aak me how muck will your friends
help you, nud how muoii wilt the Govern
ment do f.r you? b.sne of you have very
high expcotalioaß, and I am eorry to tay
some expectations that cannot bo lealiz
ed. lam told by acme of your former
uiasidfa hat you are expecting the Gov
ernment to give you a portion of the land
and of the stock on. their plantations
Iu different plates same of your brethren
have asked mo if this were not so, and
eestasd sadly disappointed when I told
them this could not be do am Yksar mae
teis tried very hard, making great aud
uob'.o saaiifioes, to establish a separate in
dependence. They pourad out ifaolr
meuey like water, luey gave their brave,
sons by thousands. The groat amuuat of
labors cud sscriiiors of youMaaV.ers aud
laUlresßßß for this bfceri'obcd object, ra-'
dounde to their bonoi; yet, they have
tailed cf their object, and after losing
their money and thousands of their os- i
loved suns, the Government has cow da- !
ptived them of alt of their slaves, but
. iso s- is it with you ? What have you Ion?
Only your chiina. What have you gam
ed? Blessed bs God, you have g-aiaod
your freedom, and ihe freedom of all
y<m» ii.ee hcnicetorth and forever. {Loud
bursts of applju.se and many hallelujahs. )
Ail that is left to your masters, is
their plantations and their manly oharaa
ter. They have their lands, but no sans
or knowledge of their awn to work them
So you see, they are dependent'on you to
cultivate their fields fur limit own sup
port, and you sis dependent on theta for
the use of ibsit lands to raise a support
for y ou aud your families.
Soma of you may thick that Provi
dence flat! .droit ««a—'eusly with
thou) Ilian VtHli you. Bur look ot it, aj .a
They have lost their independence, (hey
have loot their money, they have loot all
their negroes, and more than all, more
than a hundred thousand graves are Ailed
1 with beloved fathers, sous and brothers;
and they would gladly give all that is left
to thorn by the Government, if tha graves
would only give back their treasure
while you, having lost nothing,absolutely
nothing worth naming, have gained a
treasure iu your freedom, worth a life of
(t il and aaoiifioo. Whose condition is
lasi ? "Who would i sotuvop places with
them ? List every man sad woman who
feel that Providence has given them the
beet, end cf tho bargain raise their hands
(7b this both men and women joyfully
threw up their hands )
You f-.ee, then, that tho Government,
ou the one hand, ieaveo the laud and iho
stock with your masters; while to you it
simply gives your freedom.
This soems to place you out iu the cold;
but be uni discouraged ; the Government
lias really c.oropluuenNd you ia this. It
has faith in you too, that > r r>u will moke
your freedot« a success, eo far as your
support is coueerued. To encourage yon
I will tell yon bow ihs old beu maneges
with her family. As soon as the little
chioka are batched, sho gels them on thou
feet and shows them how to scratch -
When ebe has fully learned them ibn
trade of soratohiog, without one grain of
Coro, or one bog laid up for (heir cost
dmaer, the lakes a last look of thorn, and
off sho runs, clocking as obe goes Now,
little chicks, scratch or die! (Peals of
Isughler and display? <f ivory.) Did yon
ever seo a little obic-k that did not sera fob
out a living ? While ihe ayy;-; ■“*
no Linda to give you. it wW, through th
froeiin»»» , '> bureau, furnith you protection
—schools lor your ohiiilren, and us far
an possible, make provision lor tho aged
and tho infirm, aud will exereuo a gone
ral care over you. until you can tails care
of yourselves, when Uncle Sam will say
to all bis block chickens, “now. scratch
or die, ( Sensation and approbation )
I10J1&5.
flumes for your families you must have.
AU ohric-tiau families have homes. IVlitre
and how will you get homes for your
selves ? If you refuse to work, or are
idle, you will near have a home; but, jf
industrious *•• uoomioal and disposed to
improve yur time, miking yourselves
useful, uu tho plantations, or ia the bla : k
sioifh, ours enter ci wagon shops of oth
ers, vi of your ovru Betting up, if you are
women, and will make yourselves useful
as nurses, eeainslteiaes, cooks, laundress
es, and in the field, there will bo lull de
mand and good pay for your labor. It in
addition tu this, you will be ord-.rljr, h-u*
eat in all your dealings, truthful, you
need not fair of getting homes. There will
be room enough fur nil the industrious,
economical and useful people oa the
plantations; but none for the idle, la*/
and dishonest cnee; but for them the Go
vernment tv ill make plenty of room ifi
the jails. We hops better things oi' y: u
all, and therefore shall uot adviaa the j
Uov.iiiiussst to order tbs lumber for the '
jaile yet.
For your tncouragsment 1 must (ell
that I have heard tome maeldrs Eay they
intend to give certain ones among their
servants a first rate chance, because they
are industrious, love their families wud
would do well for both their musters and
theuiselvoß. These matters who doubt
whether their servants would be honed or
wotk if they had u good chance, say they
intend to sond North for their laborers.
On® says he intends to get Irish work
men; another Bays ho must havo some
Outchmen to work iur him. f-outo of
your misirißsea say they will scud Nuith
fur house tervnnts. 1 have no fears as to
this. The Northern people have grown
bo rich during the war that they can af
ford to pay twice as much as your was
ters or mistresses for help; and Non hern
laborers are afraid to bring their families
into this warm climvo. So you sea if
you are really industrious and make
yourselves useful ia every opening and
sitnaiion in lilc you have nothing to fear
The South is wane and better adapted to
yon, and 1 have no fears for you, that j or
cannet, by industry ana economy, make
this country more flourishing, more prof
itable, more pleasant both for your was
tors aud yuaiaelvop,uow that you are free,
than it ever could have been made by
slave labor, if you will only do your both
Your master a bavo proved how high a
valt’.a ihey set upon you as elavci ; com
pel thora cop, by your good conduct and
usefulness, 'to value y u more and do
more for you, in freedom; and then yiu
will have no trouble in getting uomtorto.
bio, pleasant homes. Then money will
flow into your hands, and you will bo able
to buy lauds for your families. Your mao
ters will have loudu to soil, atul tho Gov
ernment has millions ol (tores to sell at
tho low price of $1 25 per aero in the
far West and ia Florida to eitheir white
or black a’ike. With a jroud chars,ator
aud plenty ol greenbacks m your pockets,
the whito peoplo will be happy to Ball
you land!;, houses, horsae, mule?, cows,
aud everything elsioyou need.
famjlv vci.axxona.
Auothtr point of vital interest to y .-u
is tku family roiatioa. iliiherto your
fumiliea, m many iuoiaucsD, have boon
soatlerod. Homo of you, unloriunatsly,
have two or more linug wives; ale a uiatay
a wife will Ami two or more husbands.—
A cade of utamuga law a k*o baeu adopt
ed wbicaihviil all thes-i n-Aifei-a
aigcseafiiy to that -ode, tiio msrrisgs cf
Hicso who were living together us Luts -
bauds and mvaa ou oouusg into fzc-civm,
is deciarcd to to tbs lawful rusniaoc.—
Arovioiou however ia aieds for such nsat
uageii under certain eircumßtances to be
ditß-lve.l. All wkcue raarriuges have
uot been Solinonlze-J by a. minister of tho
gospel, &t by suoh magistrates as ike civil
laws cf the Stafo authorize, will be ie
paired to lia,o theta publicly confirmed —■
Again; TUccs who engage to marry
each other will not ba allowed to live tcT
ffetkor as huebund oud wife until they ut-n
lawfully married. The marriage relation
amorig you must be ub sacred ae among
the whites.
THii .CiATHOiar CI OF FAMILU3
Every hußbandi hao tho legal light to
bring to whenever ho pleaso;,
his wifi and ohlldrea wheiovor they may
be located. Tbs Governueut confers
this right, Siul av man can iu toiler e with
it. While however this is your right and
your privilege, it may not be, and d:-übt
H-uw ,f-m IV; -. fti'vihV-2,
to do it now. Rome of yc-ur wives art,
on distant plantations; they hare enter
ed into oontniots with their former vans
tern for tho support of themselves and
such children an they may bavo with
them, and they aso legally bottou to i@-
uuuu, in such casts, until tho time ex
piroa.
Again: If Hi is were not so, you may
not all have comfortable houses for there
—you may not have the means of Blip
porting them if they wore wish you. It
might bo au uot of unkiudnoss to them,
besides it would be wrong to require them
to break thGir oontraol3.
Thin also is true, ia many oa?ea of your
children. Many of them arc in good
Christian families which love them, are
disposed lo do well by them, and would
be very glad to keep them for a while, at
least. However inuoh you may love
theta, bo we vet pleasant it would bo 10.
have them with yan, still it, might bo an
unkindnroa to them to tabu them from
their present: homed. You have the right
so to do,- bat ii neve*thelpff. might not be
expodimH Again; If you winli to Fling
your family to you* homo, if it 1.0 on the
pb.Rtot -u, you must always fli-.i obtain
the imneeat of the owner of it, You
must examine nil (ho reasons for mid
against a change. Tfi in not for too or
any one el s to decide those (fucstions; H
ia for you aud you alone. l>o cot cle
oide them too hastily The time will
noon come, uo doubt., When ail (he peat
tered members of your fr.rnllir.fi will be
gathered, and you will have, ns J humbly
trust and pray, a * - - LA
Tin: sm-ponr of wahiues.
I have heard complaint:! that tjomo
able-bodied wen bavo left the ir families,
refusing to support, theta. Ho L not
worthy to be called husband or father,
who would do such a thing, No man
having a family will have <.he right to
spend his earnings on him*!: If, and lea e
bis helpless wife and children to bo sup
ported by his friends or by the cove; j
rnent, He who dcos this disgraces hlto
self, wrongs his /unify and is ay enemy
to his raoo.
V?hoa in elavety your masters oared
far yen and |r.i your families. they re
lieved yon of aii this burden. You aaver
know, indeed, you could tick; know what
a luxury it »a to a freeman having a fam
ily and loritig them, to support them, to
educate them, to fuioieh them with all
the comforts and onavocienoes that make
life pleasant and useful. Ido not wonder
so much, tlieroioie, that come of you
should feel so lightly the obligation to
support your families ; still it you are
tiion worthy of being freemen, worthy of
citizenship, you must have a love for
your families, and publicly acknowledge
your duty to support theta A planter
has just gout me word that a mau having
a wife aud live children has *uu off and
loft, them, aud that ha is probably ia this
crowd to day. Is so, 1 should like to
look hurl tti the face, and too bov/ far
short he ouliitu ot being a tali man.—
Hark 1 what do 1 hear? A man over yon
der ssya here is a man baling a vtifo aud
five ohiidrsn, and ha has not iun oft aud
left them. That is the mau far me ; that
io noble ; that i» ohriiiliau. I would ad
vise tbo winner, before marrying to look
wall to the habits of the man. If & mou
be lazy, or a spendthrift, or unsteady,
pass him along; for he wants u wife to
support him, and that you cannot afford
to do When a wohiau tutirriee she wants
two things; she wants a good husband
aud a good h- mo.
THE FROFBR TIME AHD MAIIKUR OF LKAV •
IHQ MASTKfU)
1 find along tho ratircade and public
roads, and in tho towns, Urge numbers
of men, women and children who have
left the plantations aud thoir hon.es.
Many of them are without Bfioller, with
out loud aud worse than all without
friends. They have a dark pro .peot be
fore them; and J must toil you that ills
a serious matter at this time especially,
to letivo your masters and (no plantations.
Clothing, food nod shelter you must all
have for next winter, and you c.un obtain
| them, in most case?, only by leinainjrg
with your masters, and working on the
I plantations at least till oimutmw.
Homo nay they loft because their mas
: fers otforod ihom eo little ; others say the
j maeterp (rented them unkindly {dome. I
I soar, left bpoause they s >e unwilling to
work, nr because tbov thought it w»:> a
nice thing to go abroad, see thetr friends
and have a good time. Freedom allows
you to work, allows you t,o play, »ud al
lows you to starve if you wish Yoticau
take .your ohunoe L> work aud live coio
for (ably, or not to wu> k aud go with bun
gry Btouia-.hr. la ciaw'uftho ohortucst)
of ;Ut) evopi, and (ho dfK-.uUy of cutting
new places for work, ii is butler, fir bet
ter, that you teiu.uu ruth youi former
tuasters ev ou you gut only your
food aui cljihtuy. 1 would bo giad you
could get more, much more; and I udvita
you to got all you caa , but however lie
tie they give you, that is better ikaa
nothing. If you are earning only a liv»
tag, make us ohai/gu until you are ouzo
of another place tu, good if uot bettor.
To make,this all plait), I will tell you
of a eiily tlcg who v\oat to market.' A
kind butoitor gave him sumo meal. On
going home he had toßiriiu u, river. The
pieco cf meat was email, but it mads a
shadow cu .ho boUum cf tho river.
Tho cleg saw it, so hp let go tha meat
and it went do*** the streua.-, while ha
: and;, t to the b;-Uo«, erne drug aiouacl and
puv'iug around to find (ho shadc-w. Ho
ti.iod to Aud it, uiid came up 'with au
empty mou:h auci uothrug for Uio body.
(LauyhUr among the darkies ) Now ic-ru
. Wisdom from tho silly dc-g Your old
Pv-ok of hoiuiiiy a week, even wnk hard
work is belter rhau no work with an
empty stomach.
If you must leave, I advise you to leave
•j cur .masters in a hrud manner. Don't
tay Laid’ thiuga to (horn on leaving.
Don’t xu'u off iu the night ii you leave,
you know not wlml may bof'oil you. Yea
rnay bo sick ; you may find no work ami j
no food. D»rk cioucla may coino over' :
you and you wish to ioluia. If you liavo i
left in a spirit of uakindness, ia an im
polite insuuer, you will bo ashamed to s .«
Lack, you ought to bo asharuod Be
careful thea on leaving, it leave you must,
to leave the door open to so;urn again.
Agate, your masters or* roistressea m.-.y
fali tick, their littla or.-c ;-b- >»««».,
tbt-cr UE66S ycur wuik on the plauta
tioao, troubles may overtake thorn and
«t»/ dreite your return, and would per
hkpa now give you batter wages ; but.if,
on leaving, you did or said anything to
provoke them to threaten you, or forbid
your return, their pride would not allow
them to eoucl for yeti. Lo earelul then
to leave tho door open on thoir pan that !
they may oomo to ycu. Let ali see to it
then, that they leave tho door wide op on
both ways.
GOOP COTJK3EB.
Ycu hare had amok and various court
set, Bome.ftr your good and much to yc-ur
injury. There aro few who are sate
counsellors Mou may bo good, but yet
not wise. You have had all confidence
in the Yankees"; you seem to have had
none, of late at ieasi, in your masters and
miblrcsfl. Your yuirkeo friends have
given you, no doubt, much and good
counsel; but law sorry to say my brother
yankoofi are not all angels. Y our con ft
dunes for tho present eoti.au to bo ali
placed in your Northern frioncla; but
(hay will conn leave you and (he uni -a
Boidieys will leave you, and you will bo
left alone with ymu- former masters and
luiutre Bes You know too little of this
world to got along well without counsel.
1 advise you to sock uof them. Do not
Do afraid of thorn. If you feared to trust
them whoa in slavery, and doubtless some
wore unworthy of your contfi.ittics, your
relation to them ia now such that your
confidence, your ootoenj, now that you
ms free, they will value, your interests
au-i tkoira aro ouo now as they Dover
were before. They will fed it no honor
lo (,!;«.< T'. and nonilrle in them to ask CoUU
ect ot tnoic; Tlioy will bo nappy (o ua;
to their neighbors, our eervuut# still love
us, still confide tu us. We love to sec
them do weii, aud wo aro helping them
all we eau. Muoh friendly relations will
be a orowu of honor to any uiasler.—
Maku friends then, I boseeoh you of your
masters aud aiistresstß bo far aa you oou.
Their friendship and their oouueol ate
too valuablo to you ia the iufatty of you: 1
freedom, to be thrown a way.
Hitherto there h».a been a kind of as- \
tsgouista belwoen y u u and your masters. I
You felt that ycu had cue ulasr cf inter- !
esta, whils they had another- This rays- i
terioua silence, this gulf botwee-a ycu uad •
them must be bridged.over. As our col
or ed brother prayed to day, the Lord
louct fill up ‘.fit- valicyo mid levtd thohilib
(hat ouv hearts and our love may come
together. While the war lasted, we op
p-eed your iu alters, aud we advised you
to run away from then), but now iho war j
iu over we have dropped ihe bayonet, j
aud we shako hands with your masters :
The oheila of your masters tore off tho i
am of Gen. V/ild, who now tils before !
you ; and yet he comes here to serve both '
(he freednria and tiib poor vs into man.
He gives the hand of kindness to ail, and j
your masters do the same wiilihiiu Now ,
we want you to forgive, and confide in I
your masters, end we will uii do out best :
io restore hari&ony and prosperity.
PvXiUJUUi.BG.
Os iscuio I have hoard it said they have
become impudent and off*» ,c iva ia their
in&nnu'Q to their former ta at tore and taiu
treseea sitiaeentering treedom How oau
ibis poßsibly be? Were you polite aud
respectful to mooters and luisUiaoes iu
alavery, and y/tt3 it only to escape the
whip? Have you become rough i?j your
miiijuora and sour in your api'-it. I
caanut believe this to be true If mere
rough and impolite now, is not that a tea
ton for your slavery, rather tsau frto
d'.m ? Y’forc lin your place I would, if
possible, be more respectful; 1 would put
oa a higher pollen; I would Ebow a
awootor uad kindlier spirit to maeters and
mia'leasts, whether tney have bcon kind
or ucluuct ; i would try to ainko them
more happy ; I would compel them to sa,
that I had improved, greatly improved,
by my freedom Let*none, them, excel
you iu politeness.
LCAVINIi VICKS UEHIKXI
Homo havo charged you with.being ve.y
vticked, very licentious and dishorcut ua
slaves, aud they have feared, and some
of your Northern f.ieuds to have (cared,
that if this were true, your vieus might
ruin your freedom. I beg yen. I bete ;ch
you to leave not only your cha ns, bur
your vices behind. Como- into freedom
with clean hands and pure lips. Your
freedom must, in no race, bo used as &
license to do wrong. The Jews, on com
ing out of Egypt, thought it a very nine
thing to copy tho siun of their old niivu
tars ; aad wbilo Moses was on the mount,
r:oeiving from Gud the ten command
(o uts, ih.; people gavo their j •,wclry to
Aaron ter a golden calf that they might
have, like their old masters, {in idol ko
woi.Lip Foolish people! Cod, who
had hcur.l their groaus and act them fror,
sc: displeasod with thorn, and Ho ordered
three thousand to be eluued to death
Again, they gave themselves up to lloen
ticuouu-.s, to gratifylog their lusie, man
went to tho bed of their neighbors’ wives,
their young women played tin hatlot;
thay dishonored thotaseiven and dis
pleased God, aud His judgments fell
upon them, destroying the lives of thou
eouds.
Your musters Bay; and perhaps with
too much reason, some of your friends
have leaved it, that you will not guard
year personal purity , that men will in
dulge their lusts, that your women will
throw out their womanhood to tho com
mune. I hope butler thiuefi, of you, aud
I am iutppy to cay, that heucefcrlk evtuy
mail's. if: ;. his tv it wife iu a ssuse shu
never was before. Ho may, ho taunt
protect her , and woe io the man, white
or black, who would defile her 1
Again, X cay, that your daughters are
yours, and youru only, as they never wore
before. Love them, oherish, protect
them Whatever m*y have been their
pact temptations, however helpless aorno
of them may h/ivo boon against tho adult
erer and (he fornicator, whether white or
black, m.w, bUsotd be God, you may pro
tcot them. They need not eactiiice their
purity. Iu tho hour ot thoir distrust) let j
(hem call ou God, let them cry aloud io ;
their feiauds, lot them resolve they will '
dio before they will yield to (he whore
monger aud tha adulterer Tney will not
cry iu vein ; the wicked will flee.
I must cay more. It now that ycu are
free, any man, married if single, shell
play the adulterer or the fornicator; i(
any man uhali lie down ia the bod of the
adulterer pi- whoropioTiTar. ac_(f linji...
young woman, however fair and beam.)
ful, shell play the harlot, they vriil be not
only enemies to themselves but. enemsea
to your whole race. "They will be sinners
of the worst dye in tho Bight of God If
you do tht’so things, now that God has
done uo muoh for you, you will cio theta
at d:o risk of tho datmuion of your souls
Were you guilty of stealing iu slavery i
utoal no more Lay uot your hands oa
anything that belong* to another—not *.
sheep, a pig, a chicken, or even au ear of
corn that belongs to another If you are
hungry, and have no means of paying for
these Hunts, you may beg and not be
at-hauled to bog, but steal them you never
limbi. Too goverumeut will call you to
flooeunt if y.m do, tha same aa it does
the white man who does wrong.
Have you been guiify of lying or swear
isg, or of drunkenness, iu slavery ? Bo
guilty no more. If those things are com
niUtcd, lot net a black muu commit them
He oausrot afford to do it.; be kau too
much at Etako. If a man will drink and
fall into tho gutter, let it not be aaid it
was a black ruau ; if u rnau will blaspheme
tbs narco o{ Cod, let it not be said it was
a redeemed-bondman. Offer unto God
and givo to your ooua f ry &u example of a
pure life, and Land it down, as a heritage
of freedom to your children and children’b
children. But while I exhort and pray
you to break off from all former tins, I
must tell you that you oauaot do it so
your strength. Only by iho grace of G'»l
helping you will you be able to break off
from your sine aud livorigct. Seek that
gtuoo, thou, for God Bays to ouo, to ali, ao
thy day jo so thy uLiougth ahull ho.
COUTH ACTS t'O It LABOR.
I k.'.tu that some of the froedtuen arc
afraid ox 't'Juu, gav if they
sign ttiboi, it will put ilium baok iax«
slavery uguin ; or ihut tho master would
!>ut the advantage of yuuin various ways.
Written iK-ntraots are not, reftuirad; but
both planters aud freetlmon arc advised
to make written contracts to avoid micun
derstandings. If you: bargain or con
traot bo ia r/oxoa only, and not written,
it may ba broken ; aud wixeu you coma to
settle, tho masters way claim that it wa.
thua and Be, end you may think it teas
different; but if your agrooteoni, be uiude
in writing , if tho contract stated that,
you should work no many hours in the
day, and eo many dsyt. in the week, and
that your masters bhall clotiio you and
feed you, &o , aud at Ciirietma-, give you
so many bushels of corn, bo many bimh.
els of potatoes, oo many gallons of syrup,
and eo much of this and tr> muoh of that
—ii it all be in writing, thou the writing
will be the earne next Christmas that it. is
to day. Ine words vrill not change if
written down The oentreat, if written,
will protect you and protect tha muster
And let me say to you, us a friend, that
you need cot bo afraid to sign any coil
tract which you" master will sign firs;
If fie should lakfa advantage of you, waee
you find it out you have . lily logo to the
freedmsa’s bureau, or it there be none, i«•
tho nearest proves: •• marahal and Uil mui
all about it, and if there bo any vrro: g, if
ho his tiiueu advantage of you tlia tt.-.ec
will i: ctiiy it That is hia busiuess
Aud so, oo the other haud, if jc-u have
agreed to w ik six oayoin the wok, an<i
bavo worked only five days or five an J a
half; if you have agreed to do ibis or to
do that, tmd have failed, and at ill oiaio;
nil your pay, wb’ch would be wrongi g
I tbo waster, then the agent of ifit- bun>a
will rectify these things also, il. wil
protect you, »ad no wilt proteot the mas
j i.er—the nnej .at as in ash a-s tbs other
Again, your masters have a oiiaraemr
io u.aiuiatu a'-d tho honor of tfceh fam
jilts. .They have too at stake, t,
condescend to take advantago of a jio'.r
ignorant negro that cannot read Any
honorable man would be ashamed to and,
buck a thing. The whole community
would iiov/n U;,on tun.
fjosua oi you may object to signing be
cause you tuifik you ought to bav.i m >re
1 Pork pa veu ought, >u coma cases, to have
more. Had freedom Come to you at the
: begiuiiin:; of iho year, the pl»oier could
i havo done much m re for you. You ouuA
have raised in. re o no, couiu have raised
, even a line crop of c-uwu to help boib
you and tfio piaatjr; but your treedom
| cawo too la'o !■ v dim, so you mast now
m-.ke tho bout of if you can and try to dt
; better lot next year.
I learn, viiih sorrow, that some who
have signed tho contracis have broken
thtifi, aud have refused to wc"k. Soon*
have g.-ne cd, toft tho crops uucxrou tor,
afid dieappointod tho'planters. Now the
id all wrong. It is not only very unplet
e;-nt to the employer, bat iujurious to
his intertßls, for intu to moke &u sgrec
moat vvilh him and then to quit him in
tho rnidot of tho harvest, or when any
work ia only half liuLhod. Both your
w; rd and your oomraota should be sa
cred. If yyu find you iiavo not made a
good bargain or coutraot, stiok to it,
don't fail. I ounko it a rule if a man gets
tho bettor of me, if he gets my tioao ou
tho gnndtionß, to .ethim griudand grind
uu'.il tbo ti.no iu „ut; and then I do not
try to put bis ncse ou tho griudetorte, for
that would be a sin in tho Eight of God,
but I look out that he never getu my note
oa the g-indsione again. 8o you must
all lc.;k out ior your noses, for they are
11 at enough alceady. (Crcai laughter.)
Yourniftstere will, no doub-, try to tnaUa
the best bargains for themselves they
can That it, all right; aud you on your
part must do (ho euko. Get ail you can,
but let me sou:ion you not to make such
largo demands tout your masters, who
hav-a Utfle or ao money and short crops,
afiall act bo able to pay you what you
ask, uud so, if you refuse their best
I terms. y.,u lo.e y ur place and get noth
ing. Heretofore, when t-no ot you was
iszy and shirked fiL work, or was thlev
iug a»-d atoie a pig, or some of the corn,
no robbed only his master, and you all
excused him for iho wrong doiag, think
ing it ju3iifiicii) to okoat tha master whou
you could . but tii w all t.iuc.e things are
oh-.ngod. Hereafter, wlua you work in
common oa iho plantation, if-onu is lazy
or shirks, ha rots uot tho plantar only,
but all his sell -w ervants. for h« ia eat-
the fruits of oiherß’ tab. r. oom
pela (he industrious to work for hua ia
iue idleatioo, while hu eats the fruits o?
their labor, The worst enemy you ha/e
(O deal with oq the plantation ia your
fellow servants who aro idle and eteal.
You ail seo bow great a emit is in others,
no careful then not to live in this way
yourstdves.
KV.EK. UMIS AX I*OXX EOYaL.
Very many have thought that your
race oould uover support itself, if lefc
without guardi&as. Ido not believe our
tie-ivonly Father ever created a race that
oould not both support and elevate itself,
ts proper encouragement end facilities
wore offered, ilea differ, aud will oou
iiaue to Uiff .ir on this question, until you
yourselves settle it. t-ome, no doubt,
would be glad to have you fail, for that
would be an argument iu favor or slave
ry, as- they otaim; but there are others
who desire free labor to be proven a euo
ouss. If it Ganuot be made a suoocss by
you, then the government, in setting you
all free, has assumed a tearful responsi
bility.
Providence, however, has shed a great
light on this question, in the euooess of
U~e labors of your brethern on tha sea
isl inds of Boutn Carolina. When the
Union forces, under Admiral DuPont and
General Sherman, captured Port Koyal
nattily four voam ego, the citizens and
planters ail fled from the islands, taking
with thorn all the i-.b16-bodied men and
women from tho plantations, and also
oneir house servants. They leit many of
tho old and infirm peoplo bohind. They
took nearly all thoir stock and farming
tools. They burned most of the cotton
Hid cotton barns and gins- itany Blaves
however, who were taken off', came baok-
It vas iheu cold winter, and many were
sr Coring. The government determined
to taao oa-re cf those poor people, and
also, to try and see if they could earn ft
living in freedom.
Ia March, 1862, the government sent
to port Ituyai forty auperintoudonUl, and
fnurtuen ladies, under the direction of
Mr. E. L. Pierce xnd myself Tha eu-
Deriatondeats wore to organize the labor
era, for cultivating (he plantations. Tha
ladies wor.i io diaiributo clothing among
ihe o.estiiute, instruct tho women in all
their duties a., house keepers, wives and
mothers. They wore aloe to instruct the
children in the schools.
We fouud about eight thouiand poor
people, uad though It wa; late in the Bea
con, wo all v/ent to work and did the beet
we could The men aad women who
vroi-koci in tho fiftid'nera paid according to
the amottitf of « k done, or th 6 number
of hours they labored. If they tailed to
work they got no pay. We had no dri
ver's bom to call ihom out, no whip to
urge them on. Wo simply eaid, work aud
you ihall bo paid, or if you refuse to work,
you mu-.t have no pay and go with hun
gry stomachs The government gave
ciulhes to the poor, at the first, but never
uftei ward- 1 It gave rations as a part of
their pay to alt the workiug poople. AT
tfi« close of the first year, those who Uad
gone to worn in the fit-id early and worked
a full day, and every w- rking day too,
oau enough money paid to them to buy
wiuti-rtSCioibi&g and provisions for iheir
famiiits Du-iug ‘he eummer many of
mem h-.u sA.; -o Uuion midiere aud oth
era, momne, berntu, fish and oysters, and
got irom iv/caty five to one hundred dol
lars But 'here were seme, «s taere are
always, even asao&g my osn raoo, who
I ,ved play rnuih muie than work. Tney
g .1. up t*i,e tu me moruiug, went late to
wors, aud were ni .says glad <o wee ..fie
uo g.. down Ta- - U-ougn Uacie Sain
Lad full corn cribs, uad u.i wrapping
eostß, and <h y wou d’ ii ve a good. time.
Tuey slept wuiie oihers worked in the
• uur .i- ” ' They ran over the islands to
B e ihtu- friends, and had a good many as
.hey thought- But when the melons and
the berriea were all gone, (for iezy peo
t> e cun live oa them wnile thiy ia®:,) and
"when the would n -t bite, aud cold
winter hoi come, ihey found to their bor
row that though Uncle Sam had no «bip
jjiag posts, ho had strong locks ou all hia
c ;rn orih3 Ha had p-leuiy of oora to sell,
a i aheap too, to thc-b3 who-had worked
and c raed dic&ey, and some to give away
to the old folks wh i were poor and unabla
to work. B’fore they got through the
winter they-found a hungry stomach was
worse than old masfer’a whipping post,
ar.d wo haJ Icbs trouble with them the
ih-xi year
Vl*j. Gon Saxton, who ia now assistant,
•j .uimi-sLoner of iho bureau of refugees
; and freodiiiiu for the States cf South
Garoiiua aad Georgia, took charge of the
work, after a faiv me uibs, aud under his
abie uiiusgomeut, the great experiment
has been carried forward to this day. At
the end of the see-cud year, the govern
ment withdrew the superintendents anil
required every mau uni woman, except a
few of the aged and infirm who had no
friends able to care for them, to look out
for themselves. The government had
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