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782    DOUGLASSS' MONTHLY     January, 186
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manhood. Consider how  many teachers, how many preachers of the gospel, how many instructions in the mechanic arts and the routine of civilized life, will be needed as these untaught millions enter upon their new existence. 

Who so well fitted to be the teachers and guides of their emancipated brethren as the intelligent and Christian colored men and women of the free states, and especially of New England, who have grown up in our schools and churches, and who in real culture and character are very much above the average white men of the slave States? Many white people will doubtless be found, like the missionaries and teachers who have gone to South Carolina, to enter the opening field of the South from motives of philanthropy.- But colored people of the North have besides the sympathy that comes from race and blood, and will naturally be attracted southward just as soon as the freedom of their race is established. They will be the most acceptable instructors of their emancipated brethren. And to them will be offered not only opportunities for-philanthropic effort, but for enterprise and skilled labor. The rude cabins of the slaves are to give place to the neat cottages of the free laborers, and thousands of school houses are to be built for the education of the negro children. And there are young men and women of color, trained in our public schools, who are competent to this great work of lifting up the degraded millions of their race, and educating them for civilized life.

It would be a great thing for our free colored people if they could rise to the grandeur of this conception, and prepare to undertake the mission that province is just about to offer them. Our colored people have complained, with good reason, that the avenues to influence and position were closed against them in the free states, and that education of their children only made them discontented with the menial pursuits to which the negro is limited by popular prejudice. But this is to be true no longer. There is to be a demand for the services od educated colored men and women, which is not likely to be half met. The next half century is to be one of unprecedented activity and progress among the colored people of this country, and talent and industry will gain their just rewards, without respect to race and complexion. Let no smart colored boy lay aside his books, then, with the idea that he can never be anything better than a barber, a boot black or waiter. He may become a lawyer, a preacher, an educator, and win his way to fortune and distinction at the same time that he does in valuable service to his race. The emancipated slaves of the south will make much more rapid progress that those of the British West Indies, because they are within the sphere of a more vital and active civilization. hundreds of enlightened and inspiring influences will be brought to bear upon them that the Negros of the West India Island know nothing of; and besides, the Christianity of this country will rightly consider the South its peculiar field, and concentrate its chief efforts upon the heathenism of a false civilization until it is obliterated. Whether emancipation shall be quick or slow under the President's proclamation and the progress of the war, it is beyond doubt that the peculiar institution has received its death-blow, and is doomed to utter destruction. And there can be no nobler mission for either the colored or pale-faced Christians of this country than co operation with divine providence in the elevation of a whole race to the capacities and blessings of American citizenship. Will the educated Christian Negros of the North think of it, prepare to do the great work that lies just before them?
[Springfield Republican.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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--John C. Underwood, Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, has been chosen President of the Freedmen's Relief Society of the District of 
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Columbia, vice Mr. Hamlin deceased. The Society, we learn, is now in active operation. Valuable contributions have been made recently to its funds and stocks of clothing through Mr. Still of Philadelphia. The "contrabands" at the quarters in Washington are in tolerable condition, but at Alexandria they are in great suffering from want and disease.

--On Saturday lats the State Senate of Virginia passed a preamble and resolution, setting forth that Mr. James S. Carlile had violated the instructions of the body that elected him, in failing to sustain the legitimate efforts of the Government to suppress the insurrection, in opposing by his votes and speeches, in and out o the United States Senate, measures absolutely necessary to the preservation of the Union and enforcement of the laws, and in opposing the admission of the New State of Western Virginia into the Union, and requesting him to resign his seat in the United States Senate. The House was expected to concur in this action.

--The Rev. James Means of Massachusetts, Chaplain to the United States Hospital in Newbern, N. C., has just been appointed to the responsible and laborious position of Superintendent of Contrabands, a post for which he is excellently fitted.

--Rev. Merrill Richardson, Pastor of the Central Church in Worcester, Mass., occupeid the pulpit of the Church of the Puritans on Sunday last, and in the evening delivered a very able discourse, showing the duty of obeying God by abolishing slavery.

--Eight missionaries, three male and five female, sailed last week in the Star of the South under the auspices of the Freedmen's Association.

--On the recommendation of Gov. Andrew, Secretary Stanton has appointed Dr. Le Barron Russell of Boston a Commissioner to investigate the condition of the contrabands at Fortress Monroe.

--Gen. Hiram Walbridge is announced in the correspondence of the Philadelphia Press as the probably successor of General Wadsworth as Military Governor of the District of Columbia. 

--It will be remembered in America and England, says the Evening Post, that eight years ago an 'Address' was sent to the women of this country signed by half a million of their British sisters, imploring them to use all their influence to abolish negro slavery in this country. This remarkable document, splendidly illuminated on vellum, with all the signatures, was bound up in twenty-six folio volumes, and sent to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, to be promulgated far and wide in America. Among the ladies who first put their names to the 'Address' were the wives of Lord Palmerston, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Cowley, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Argyle, Earl Russell, Baron Parke, Lord Ruthven, Mr. Gladstone, and other well-known British celebrities. The husbands of most of the signers to this address having thrown all their influence in favor of the South against the North, and bolstered up slavery with all their powerful support, Mrs. Stowe has written 'A Reply' to this 'Address,' which will appear in the January number of The Atlantic Monthly, and she will lay before the 'many thousands of the women of Great Britain' in her fourthcoming paper the inconsistency of their appeal. It will be a document that will stir the English heart, or we are greatly mistaken in the trenchant power of Mrs. Stowe's eloquent pen.

--The English correspondent of The Independent states that George Thompson, Esq., is a candidate for Parliament at Southampton, to 
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fill a vacancy. It is not probably however, that he can be elected. He is too earnest a champion of the United States to be very popular in England just now.

--Charles L. Reason, Esq., of this city lately delivered a lecture in Boston for the benefit of the Fugitive Aid Society. A correspondent of The Anglo-African says: 'Mr. Reason had the largest audience that has assembled during the whole course of lectures,' and this notwithstanding his predecessors were able white men.

--Garibaldi has just been elected an honorable member of the Swiss patriotic association called the Helvetia. Dr. Nelaton, the French Surgeon who went to Italy to treat Garibaldi's would, is to be presented a valuable gold box by the Italian sympathizers in Paris.

--Rev. Mansfield French spoke in the Hall of Representatives in Washington on Sunday morning last, giving an account of the condition of the Freedmen in South Carolina. The hall was crowded.

--William Wells Brown spoke to a crowded house in Jersey City last Sunday evening, and greatly interested and edified his auditors. His subject was, 'The Proclamation and its effects upon the slaves.' Mr. Brown is fulfilling other appointments in this vicinity.

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JUSTICE TO SLAVEHOLDERS,
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The impression prevails to some extent, more particularly abroad, that the late emancipation triumph in Missouri was a victory over the slaveholders, and that the contest was one partaking largely of the character of a war of classes or interests--one side being represented entirely by slave-owners and their adherents, and the other entirely by non-slaveholders. Such is not the fact, and justice to a large number of earnest, hard-working Emancipationists in Missouri, who are owners of slaves, requires that it should be stated.

Previous to the election, and since, we have been in confidential communication with slaveholders, as well as others, in all sections of the State, and have in consequence the means of judging of their real sentiments upon the subject of emancipation. A disclosure of our entire correspondence would exhibit some singular things--among others the fact that many of the most liberal-minded men in the State upon the question of free soil are largely interested in slave property. Many of these men were, however, not simply favorable to emancipation at heart, but have been the most zealous and successful workers in its behalf in the late canvass. It is one of the singular, and by no means uninstructive features of the election, that several of the heaviest slaveholding Counties in the State have given decided emancipation majorities, while Counties, on the other hand, having scarcely a slave in them, have elected pro-slavery representatives to the Legislature.

The great fact established is, that the result of the election is not the product of a prejudice of one class of our people working against another class. It is the result of a general conviction, entertained by men of property and intelligence throughout the State, without reference to the character of their possessions, that slavery in Missouri is a doomed institution, a cumberer of the ground, a dry and worthless trunk, the sooner cut down and cast into the fire the better for the true interests of the State. The triumph of emancipation, although to some extent aided, undoubtedly, by the peculiar condition of public matters in our midst, was not the work of the bayonet, of popular excitement, or anything of a temporary nature, but of the sober second thought of the people, as deliberately executed as it was formed. Outside of St. Louis, where the contest was between two parties of professed Emancipationists, there never was a more quiet and orderly election
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