The Mind of the Negro: As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800–1860 by Carter G. Woodson

Author:Carter G. Woodson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2013-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

I notice in the Boston Morning Chronicle of last week, and in the Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle of this morning, several communications, purporting to be reports of meetings recently held in New-Bedford and Salem, and involving, in a prejudicial sense, the course pursued by my friends Douglass, Phillips and Buffum, and myself:—the first, signed by Wm. R. Pitman and Elihu Grant—the second, over the signature of P.—the third, over the signature of Viator—and the fourth, I presume to be editorial.

Permit me to say, through the medium of your paper, to those friends likely to be abused by the foul slanders, that each and every statement, representation, charge and insinuation, contained in the reports of the proceedings, are alike mean and unmanly—destitute of an approach to truth, the color of justice, the semblance of moral honesty, or the shade of moral courage—and pronounce the authors, whoever they may be, as wilful detractors and fabricators, or un-pardonably ignorant of the doings of the meetings they have presumed to reflect upon. If the former, they prove, upon the face of such knavish traducings, their Liberty party ship to be in a sinking condition, to require such desperate means to keep her afloat on the sea of public sentiment. If the latter, they ought ever after this to hold their peace. And without adding more, if my unequivocal denial of the truthfulness of the reports or communications shall be questioned, I pledge myself, not upon the honor of a Liberty party demagogue, but of a man, to hold them to the proof, upon names and characters not one of their maligning number shall dare to impeach.

Ever faithfully yours, for the Truth and Right,

CHAS. LENOX REMOND.72

PHILADELPHIA, April 5, 1845.

DEAR FRIEND PHILLIPS:

I have deferred writing until the present time, presuming some account of the movements of friend Foster and myself would be given to the ‘Pennsylvania Freeman,’ or the ‘National Anti-Slavery Standard;’ and apprehending Stephen will yet do so at his earliest opportunity, I do not intend writing particulars.

Since arriving in this State, I have spent some time in Bucks and Montgomery counties, a portion of it in company with Stephen, and the remainder holding meetings and lecturing myself, and in most places mobs and rumors of mobs have been the order of the day; but receiving personal injury only in a single instance, I will pass them without comment.

I held an excellent meeting at New Hope, and think a good impression was made upon the large and respectable audience present. At most places I have visited, I have found a few choice friends, intelligent, feeling, efficient, and determined to labor while the day lasts; in fact, I believe our good friends, the Lintons, Johnsons, Smiths, Irvings, Janneys, Beans, Parrises, Magills and Bowmans shall yet redeem their respective counties from their pro-slavery tendencies. The task to many may appear dark and doubtful, but those choice spirits are fully equal to the undertaking.

I have held a number of meetings in Philadelphia, principally among our colored friends, and

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