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SEPTEMBER, 1862      DOUGLASS' MONTHLY.      719
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scorn and insalts, many from this and other congregations of the city have joined the army as menials rather than not be permitted to go at all.  There are to-day in this city and throughout the north and south tens of thousands who are ready and anxious to peril their lives in defense of the Government whenever they are called as free citizen soldiers not to be armed onlp with the spade and the pickax, but to be armed and equipped as the law requires, and then they will be ready to fight or dig, as they are commanded.

He concluded his eloquent discourse with an appeal to Christians and Christian ministers to consider well their duties and obligations in this whole matter, and advised all to seek counsel from God, the great commander and leader of armies.——N. Y. Tribune.
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——A Boston man has undertaken to raise the vessels sunk in Hampton Roads.  Among the vessels to be raised are the Congress, Cumberland, Raritan and Merrimac.  Several of the most experienced divers in the U. S. will be employed on this expedition.
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LETTER FROM M. R. DELANY.
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F. DOUGLASS ESQ, MY DEAR SIR:——Your Monthly in its present form of a periodical, being always preferrable to me, is the best adapted as a poliiical repository of events, of any paper in existence among the Anglo-Africans of America, therefore I send you the following items from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser on the 25th and 29th utt., as being so much to he point, and iterating my own oft expressed views, to merit preservation for future reference:

"The Washington correspondent of the Springfield Republican relates the following as the best thing he has heard of the President;

"Redpath came to tell the President that Geffrard, President of Hayti, would send a white minister to this country if Mr. Lincoln especially desired it.  Hayti is so grateful said Redpath, for her recognition at your hand, that he was authorized to ssy that if you desired it as a favor, a white minister should be sent instead of a colored one.  Of course Hayti would prefer to send one of her own children, but she will be generous even to the prejudice against color!  Mr. Lincoln turned drolly in his chair and replied: Well you can tell Mr. Geffrard that I shan't tear my shirt if he does send a negro here!  Isn't that reply Lincolnish enough through and through?"

THE SEQUEL.——There is a sequel to the story which we recently published regarding an interview between the President and Mr. Redpath.  It seems that Redpath was fishing for the office of Minister for himself, and was very desirous that the President should prefer a whiteman.——Old Abe understood the manoeuvre, and so hinted we could stand the darkey.

I would add a word here as an admonition to our people generally, and would wish it were possible for the Haitien Government to profit by it——which is, that there is a prevailing error in regard to the relation of the blacks to the whites in the United States.

My knowledge and experience teaches me——and so do yours——that in all matters concerning our race exclusively, the people and government would generally prefer our claims to be made by representations from among ourselves, to any second or third rate white man, such a would intrude themselves into positions for which neither nature nor qualification fitted them. 

And I say understandingly that the recent recognition of Haiti and Liberia, was due more to the presence of intelligent black representatives from Liberia, at Washington, than a thousand whites such as the one in the person of the foreigner intruded before the Government in behalf of Haiti.  It is simply justice and due to our race at such a period, to make this record.  If I have one great political desire more than another it is that the black race manage the r own affairs instead of entrusting them to others.

For self-regeneration and the redemption of Africa, I am dear sir, most sincerely your old friend and co-laborer,   M. R. DELANEY. 

Buffalo N. Y., August 7th, 1862. 
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DIED——At Emerald Mills, near Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich., June 28th, 1862, SARAH S., wife of Reuben White, aged forty years and fourteen days. 

The following by the deceased, written six years ago, will illustrate her Christian character.

THE DYING CHRISTIAN. 
I feel the icy hand of death, 
Upon my pulses laid;
I know I must resign my breath, 
But I am not afraid. 
My Savior vowed to be my friend, 
And He'll be with me to the end; 
I shall receive his friendly aid
To lead me through the valley's shade.

But hark! what heavenly music steals
Upon my dying ear?
Oh! can it be that heaven reveals
Its charms to mortals here?
Ah! see they come, a heavenly band, 
To guide me to that better land;
In sweetest accents here them say, 
Rise sister leave thy house of clay.

I come, dear friends, I may not stay, 
My father calls me home, 
With joy the summons I obey, 
I come, I come, I come.
Open ye everlasting doors,
Another soul to glory soars; 
Another Spirit wings its flight, 
Unto the realms of pure delight. 

Oh glorious is that heavenly power
Which can the soul sustain, 
In this, the darkest trying hour, 
Through this the deepest pain.
Oh glorious tis indeed to die, 
When death is lost in victory;
And in the last dread hour to sing, 
Where boasted conqueror is thy sting?
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Syracuse, August 16, 1862

DEAR FRIEND DOUGLASS:——I wish to acknowledge through your paper, a kind donation of £5 0 0 from the Birmingham Ladies of the Negro's Friend Society, England, sent to us through that ever true friend of the slave Mrs. Julia G. Crofts.  For the cause of my poor bleeding people, and in behalf of those we are called upon to comfort, I thank these kind friends for their remembrance of them.

Yours for Liberty,
J. W. LOGUEN, Agent and Missionary. 
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NORTHFIELD, Minnesota, July 26, 1862.

FRIEND DOUGLASS:——I cannot well avoid writing you a line at this time, which is so momentous to our country, and to mankind——To the colored poplation of the United States it is the hour of destiny.  At last instead of expatriation or degradation, the country has been brought to a position to ask in effect, the aid of its colored population, and pledge them a commou share in its rescued liberties.  Now let them meet this advance of the government with the magnanimity, enthusiasm and valor of which we know them to be capable, and their winter of wrongs will open to a glorious spring.  How long since we affirmed that the white and colored population of the land were bound to a common fate, Liberty to both or to none!  Now it is admitted, and our colored countrymen enslaved and free, must act their part like men who are worthy of the crisis and of the glory!

And I know of no man who can do more than yourself to rouse these people to their duty.  Whether others can do more or less, put the trumpet to your lips, let it be heard in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, to Canada, and if possible all over the south.  New York should turn out a regiment, Massachusetts another, Pennsylvania another, and large bodies should rally from other States and from Canada West without delay for this war.  We now have the monster by the throat, will colored men strike?——Have they not felt its fangs long enough!——The colored people of the free States can reach those in the south better than others can.  Will they not now justify the defense which so many of us made during long years of suffering and toil in their behalf?
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I know not your views at this time for it is a long time since I have heard from you, but past acquainstance leaves no room to doubt that you are ready for the hour.  God, Humanity and the Country coll now to the field, and Libertp throughout all the land is the prize.

Yours fraternally still, in the confliet. 
A. WILLEY.
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The Future of Africa: 
MISCELLANIES: BY REV. ALEX. CRUMMELL, B.A., OF LIBERIA, AFRICA.
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THE UNDERSIGNED proposes to issue in a 12 mo. volume, of about 300 pages, Orations, Addresses, and other Papers, mostly prepared for National and Missionary occasions in Liberia, West Africa; and pertaining to National Life and Duty. 

The following is a list of the articles:
 
1. The English Language in Liberia.

2. The Duty of a Rising Christian State to contribute to the World's Well-being and Civilization.

3. Address on laying the Corner Stone of St. Mark's Hospital, Cape Palmas. 

P. S.  The following names have been readily obtained, within a very few days, in the city of Philadelphia, mostly for TEN copies:

Rt. Rev. A. Potter, D.D.  Rev. Albert Barnes,
Benjamin Coates. Esq.,    Rev. S H. Tyng, D.D.,
Mrs. Eli K. Price,         of New York., 
Rev. J. W. Cracraft,      John Welsh, Esq.,
John S. Crozier, Esq.,    Samuel Welsh, Esq.,
Hon. Edward Coles,        Rev. T. S. Malcom, 
Rev. B. T. Noakes,        Hon. G. W. Woodward, 
A.R. Cope,                John Bohlen, Esq., 
Anthony P. Morris,        W. Parker Foulke, Esq
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TERMS OF DOUGLASS' MONTHLY. 
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Single Copies, to American subscribers, $1 per year. 
  "      "     to British      "        5s. sterling.

Subscriptions must be paid for invariably in advance

All communications, whether on business or for publication, should be addressed to

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ROCHESTER, N.Y.
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AGENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

We take the liberty of using the names of the following gentlemen who will receive names and subscriptions for Douglass' Monthly in Great Britain: 

Halifax——Rev. RUSSELL LANT CARPENTER, Milto Place.

Dublin——Mr. WM. WEBB, 52, High Street, and 8, Dunville Avenue, Rathmines.

Derby——Dr. SPENCER T. HALL, Burton Road.
 
Glasgow——Mr. JOHN SMITH, 173, Trongate.

Leeds——Mr. ARTHUR HOLLAND, 4, Park Row; Rev D CROFTS

NEwcastle-on-Tyne——Mr. WALTER S. PRINGLE. 
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