Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence | Page 2

to the Front 63
ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOT The Civil Rights Bill 67
JOHN R. LYNCH Civil Rights and Social Equality 89
ALEXANDER DUMAS, FILS On the Occasion of Taking His Seat in
the French Academy 95
JOHN M. LANGSTON Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania
Abolition Society 97
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Centennial Anniversary of
the Pennsylvania Abolition Society 101
HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET A Memorial Discourse 107
GEORGE L. RUFFIN Crispus Attucks 125
P. B. S. PINCHBACK Address During Presidential Campaign of 1880

151
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL The Black Woman of the South 159
JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN An Open Letter to the Educational
League of Georgia 173
JAMES MADISON VANCE In the Wake of the Coming Ages 177
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON At the Opening of the Cotton States and
International Exposition, Atlanta 181 Robert Gould Shaw 205
CHRISTIAN A. FLEETWOOD The Negro as a Soldier 187
CHARLES W. ANDERSON The Limitless Possibilities of the Negro
Race 211
WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH The Party of Freedom and
the Freedmen 219
NATHAN F. MOSSELL The Teaching of History 227
GEORGE H. WHITE A Defense of the Negro Race 233
LEVI J. COPPIN The Negro's Part in the Redemption of Africa 243
FANNY JACKSON COPPIN A Plea for Industrial Opportunity 251
WILLIAM J. GAINES An Appeal to Our Brother in White 257
EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN The Political Outlook for Africa 263
W. JUSTIN CARTER The Duty and Responsibility of the
Anglo-Saxon 265
THEOPHILUS G. STEWARD The Army as a Trained Force 277
D. WEBSTER DAVIS The Sunday-School and Church as a Solution of
the Negro Problem 291

REVERDY C. RANSOM William Lloyd Garrison 305
JAMES L. CURTIS Abraham Lincoln 321
ABRAHAM WALTERS Abraham Lincoln and Fifty Years of Freedom
337
ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE On the Presentation of a Loving Cup to
Senator Foraker 337
FRANCIS H. GRIMKE Equality of Rights for All Citizens 347
JAMES E. SHAPARD Is the Game Worth the Candle? 357
ROBERT RUSSA MOTON Some Elements Necessary to Race
Development 367
GEORGE WILLIAM COOK The Two Seals 379
J. MILTON WALDRON A Solution of the Race Problem 389
J. FRANCIS GREGORY The Social Bearings of the Fifth
Commandment 397
WILLIAM C. JASON Life's Morn 403
WILLIAM H. LEWIS Abraham Lincoln 409
ALICE M. DUNBAR David Livingstone 425
KELLY MILLER Education for Manhood 445
ROBERT T. JONES On Making a Life 455
ERNEST LYON Emancipation and Racial Advancement 461
JOHN C. DANCY The Future of the Negro Church 475
W. ASHBIE HAWKINS The Negro Lawyer 483

W. E. B. DUBOIS The Training of Negroes for Social Reform 491

THE PEOPLE OF HAYTI AND A PLAN OF EMIGRATION[1]
BY PRINCE SAUNDERS
[Note 1: Extracts from an address delivered at the American
Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the
Condition of the African Race, Philadelphia, Pa., December 11, 1818.]
Respected Gentlemen and Friends:
At a period so momentous as the present, when the friends of abolition
and emancipation, as well as those whom observation and experience
might teach us to beware to whom we should apply the endearing
appellations, are professedly concerned for the establishment of an
Asylum for those Free Persons of Color, who may be disposed to
remove to it, and for such persons as shall hereafter be emancipated
from slavery, a careful examination of this subject is imposed upon us.
So large a number of abolitionists, convened from different sections of
the country, is at all times and under any circumstances, an interesting
spectacle to the eye of the philanthropist, how doubly delightful then is
it, to me, whose interests and feelings so largely partake in the object
you have in view, to behold this convention engaged in solemn
deliberation upon those subjects employed to promote the improvement
of the condition of the African race.
* * * * *
Assembled as this convention is, for the promotion and extension of its
beneficent and humane views and principles, I would respectfully beg
leave to lay before it a few remarks upon the character, condition, and
wants of the afflicted and divided people of Hayti, as they, and that
island, may be connected with plans for the emigration of the free
people of color of the United States.

God in the mysterious operation of his providence has seen fit to permit
the most astonishing changes to transpire upon that naturally beautiful
and (as to soil and productions) astonishingly luxuriant island.
The abominable principles, both of action and belief, which pervaded
France during the long series of vicissitudes which until recently she
has experienced, extended to Hayti, or Santo Domingo have
undoubtedly had an extensive influence upon the character, sentiments,
and feelings of all descriptions of its present inhabitants.
This magnificent and extensive island which has by travellers and
historians been often denominated the "paradise of the New World,"
seems from its situation, extent,