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2,212 |
Total UndergradsIncluding 153 Part-time |
498 |
Degree-Seeking Freshmen |
Gender Breakdown: |
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9 |
Men's sports coaches (Average salary: $54,000) |
10 |
Women's sports coaches (Average salary: $47,480) |
Sport | Varsity Men | Varsity Women | Club | Intramural |
Baseball | 34 | - | - | - |
Basketball | 16 | 18 | - | |
Football | 114 | - | - | - |
Golf | 22 | 11 | - | - |
Soccer | 31 | 35 | - | |
Softball | - | 22 | - | |
Swimming | 10 | 14 | - | - |
Tennis | - | 8 | - | - |
Track and Field, Indoor | 24 | 20 | - | - |
Track and Field, Outdoor | 20 | 17 | - | - |
Track and Field, X-Country | 4 | 5 | - | - |
Volleyball | - | 27 | - | |
Badminton | - | - | - | |
Bowling | - | - | - | |
Court Sports | - | - | - | |
Cricket | - | - | - | |
Flag Football | - | - | - |
Student | Total |
American Indian/Alaskan Native | 0.3% |
Asian/Pacific Islander | 1.5% |
Black/non-Hispanic | 9.7% |
Hispanic | 3.5% |
Non-resident alien | 1.6% |
Race/Ethnicity unknown | 2.7% |
Two or more races | 1.2% |
White/non-Hispanic | 79.4% |
Disabilities | |
Percent of students with disability | 3% or less |
Services Offered
Musical Groups
Performance Arts
Journalism & Publications
Arrests On Campus | |
Illegal Weapons Possession | 0 |
Drug Law Violation | 0 |
Liquor Law Violation | 5 |
Criminal Offenses On Campus | |
Personal Crime | 1 |
Property Crime | 29 |
"I'm not in love with the choices and Millikin rearranged where the upperclassmen live... it has made a lot of people unhappy.…"
"there is a dorm on campus for every persons likes. classic, modern, and new ones are the choices and each one is maintained very nicely with the staff in charge.…"
"horrid system of on campus residency. …"
"The dorms are pretty nice. Some of them have air conditioning while others don't and they are all secure. …"
"Dorm Life at Millikin is a good option for those who can afford. Millikin's price to stay on campus is extremely high! They also don't allow students to have a…"
The food is fairly decent. At the very least it is not awful. The selection just gets boring after awhile.
» Read MoreThe food is good it;s the same sometimes but you can always exchange your meal at the bistro and they have the best food on campus. There are also a lot of places where you can use your meal plan like Domino's and Subway.
» Read MoreI can say sometimes they have good food to eat but something the food can use a little work. Subway and pizza hut is always good options when you are pulling an all nighter.
» Read MoreThe caf is your only option for breakfast and lunch. For dinner you can either eat in the caf (limited options, questionable quality), or go to the Bistro downstairs in the same building if it's past 7pm (currently a $7.50 limit if you want to use your meal plan; any extra cost goes on flex or is paid separately). You also get flex, which is money on your account you can only spend at certain food places. Currently, the only places you can use your flex are the caf, the Bistro, Domino's Pizza, Subway, and Einstein Bros.
» Read MoreThe caf food is pretty decent.
» Read MoreDining was great. There is many options for vegetarians and non vegetarians. There is also gluten free products, as well.
» Read Morenot usually a wide variety from day to day but nutritional information is available for most entrees!
» Read MoreDining is great. We have an Einstein Bagel Bros on campus! :) Lots of dining options on and around campus.
» Read MoreI personally enjoyed the cafeteria. The cafeteria workers are sweet people who are very caring. The place is clean and there is ALWAYS something yummy to eat. There are lots of options for different types f eaters (especially vegetarians).
» Read MoreThe cafeteria food is not the greatest, and it is easy to get sick of after a few weeks. However, there are a lot of really great restaurants right around campus, many of them in very close walking distance--Donnie's Homespun Pizza, Lock Stock N Barrel, University Dogs, Mi Pueblito, and Einstien's Bagels--to name a few. There are also quite a few late night dining options on campus for all those night owls.
» Read MoreGreek life is fairly good. There are several fraternities and sororities on campus. All of them are active on campus. I am a member of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and I love it.
» Read MoreWe have an unusually high percentage of Greek students.
» Read MoreWe have a very active Greek Life, but it's more than just social. There's a greek organization for everything!
» Read MoreGreek life is great! Lots of options available!
» Read MoreOnly about 18% greek. Very different from your typical University greek life.
» Read MoreWe have several of the major social Greek orgs as well as several service oriented orgs.
» Read MoreThe fraternity and sorority community at Millikin University currently consists of eleven fraternities and sororities; 5 men's fraternities and 6 women's sororities.The 11 Greek organizations that comprise the Millikin University fraternity and sorority community hold in membership approximately 27% of the Millikin University student body. Additionally, the fraternity/sorority community has maintained a grade point average higher than the all Millikin average since 2005. The main social fraternities are; Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega, and Tau Kappa Epsilon. The main social sororities are; Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, and Pi Beta Phi. If you are interested in learning more.. look at the school's website.
» Read MoreEven if you don't think of yourself as the kind of person who would join a fraternity or sorority, you may want to consider it at Millikin. Many of our Greek houses break the typical negative Greek stereotypes. There are three panhellenic sororities, four IFC fraternities, and a few multicultural groups. Millikin waits until the Spring for formal recruitment, so first year students have a lot of time to consider whether or not they want to go Greek, and can get acclimated to the campus first.
» Read MoreGreek Life is pretty cool if you're into that. Check the website for the list of fraternities and sororities.
» Read MoreGreek groups for men include Tau Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and the newly founded Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc. Greek groups for women include Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority, Inc. There is also a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity which is co-ed.
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Priest and organist deny sex abuse charges at Hove court (From The Argus)
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1:20pm Thursday 14th March 2013 in News By Ben James
A Church of England priest is accused of using his position to groom and sexually abuse young boys with the help of his organist.
Father Keith Wilkie Denford, 78, is accused of breaching the trust of the parents of two boys by molesting them over 18 months from when they were about 13.
His organist at St John the Evangelist Church in Burgess Hill, Michael Mytton, 68, is said to have assisted him.
Hove Crown Court was told yesterday (March 13) that Denford used the respectability of his cassock to get to the youngsters.
Prosecutor Marcus Fletcher told the jury that on one occasion, the priest got into a bath with one of the boys while aroused.
On another occasion he is said to have pressed himself up against a boy intimately and said: "How nice it is to have a cuddle."
Following a meal at a restaurant in Cuckfield, Denford is accused of asking Mytton to pull the car over in a layby where he molested the boy.
Buying gifts
Mr Fletcher said Mytton had also told the boy he wanted to have sex with him.
He said: "Mytton would buy him gifts, all with one aim in mind – to abuse him."
The court was told that Denford held a dinner party at his house where the boys were asked to be waiters.
After the guests went home, the boys were given alcohol and Denford got in the bath with one of the boys.
Mr Fletcher said: "This was the boy's first sexual experience – and it was with a vicar.
"This was extremely upsetting and confusing."
It was arranged that the boys would stay the night. Mr Fletcher said this was so Denford could abuse them both without the other being a witness.
Nothing done
He added that one of the two boys recalled blowing the whistle about the abuse to a vicar but nothing was done until last year, when police were alerted by one of them.
In a police interview, Denford said the allegations were "absolute lies" and "complete fantasy".
Mytton told police that he was "not really" attracted to children.
But when pressed he told officers: "They are lovely...there is so much beauty...as long as you don't let it take over."
Denford, of Broad Reach Mews, Shoreham, denies four counts of indecent assault between January 1987 and January 1990.
Mytton, of South Road, East Chiltington, denies one count of aiding and abetting indecent assault and five counts of indecent assault between January 1987 and September 1994.
The trial continues.
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f '-"- -rsi ir *■»■. TUT? A. J. WARREN, Publisher. Miscellaneous Gfcf" UNTER"<"RCHER, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. Office at "Unterkirclier's Pharmacy Chica go St. SALINE - MICH. SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THUESDAY JANUARY 5, 1899. VOL. XIX.--NO.H "QR.G.'E.'KUHL, Dentist Office over Citizen's Bank. SALINE, - - "MICH. At Manchester every "Wednesday and Thurseay P E. JQINES. Attorney at Law. Business attended to with Promptness and Care. Office on McKay street, SALINE, - - MICH. . WILLIAMS G. Attorney at Law, i-'specialHattention paid to Pension Claims o£ a! ^^,. kinds. Newcomb Block. MILAN, % ■ MICH. p C. SLAGHT, Veterinary Surgeon. -JIACOtf, LEXAWEE.CO., MICH. Connection with Tecmnseh by Telegraph and by Mail. ALL CALLS PROHPTLY ATTENDED TO. \^ATERiV.AN' PHOTOGEAPHfGALLEKY. (Miss Gfflett's old stand.) Will be in Saline every Wednesday and shall be jleasedto meet all in need of work in my line. Oallandsee samples of our work. A. J. WARREN, CONVEYANCER AND- Hoiar^ - Public. AU legal papers}*drawn"[on short notice and at prices within the ^ reach, of all. General Fire Insurance a Specialtj TAND UAREEI Demand honest shoes for § your honest dollars. ** There are no shoemakers' rg tricks—No weak spots—No hid- •/ den bad work about the I J. % im\% GO'S I Isslstsrs59 0 rJSffery stitch Ishonest. jpterory shoe Is stamped ''Lewis." It L3»--l!j- J. B. I,SWIS CO., Boston, Mum. LEWIS ''WEAR-RESiSTERS" are sold by all shoe dealers. p. Nissly and Harper & Parsons Housekeepers Who would avoid tho annoyance incident to the use of unreliable Stove should use Red Crown And avoid being seriously annoyed by the presence of oil or other tary and foreign substances in most of so-called Stove Gasoline in tie market. You"will find relief by " using our Red Crown Brand Deodorized Stove G-asoline Insist on your dealer supplying you with our goods. No Smoke! no .Odor! Wo gdstixmtee /-Rect* -Grown ^Gasolitte^-S*Q^^^j|cft,-ic> Oil ||^!fe-"^ ^wkySr---* un^Ornf ••aad: M-j^'entSre^aiiMifotion.. *-*'- spent his Bridgewater Rev. C. Clessler. is sick with neuralgia of the heart. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Boettner one day last week at Ann Arbor. Dr. J. P. AUon is entertaining brother from the north this week. Mr. Bretenwischer is ready to grind feed and exchange flour for week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Christian Grinnilles is still quite sick a relapse of his sickness a few weeks ago. Phil F. Blum is entertaining friends from. Detroit. E. A. Hauser shipped a car of hogs froril here Tuesday. Fred |Boettner has purchasedtthe Godfrey Kader farm. .,; . Jacob Guthard of Detroit has "SOld' his farm here-to Mickail Klager Jr. Mooreville. Another cold wave. C. A. Shaw entertained friends from Azalia Sunday. ,-,,-. Mrs. Clem Tuttle of Detroit is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Hobbs this week. Mrs. Isaac Clark went to Bay City Thursday to spend the rest of the winter with her daughter Mrs Rogers. GutaHobbs is spending the week in Ann Arbor with relatives. John Willmot is visiting in tbe state of New York. Lemuel Goldsmith is in Chicago this week. Many of our young people attended the dance in Saline Friday night. Mrs. Orra Whitehead and children of Detroit are visiting her sister Miss Anna Bailey this week. Roy McMullen is spending the holidays with his sistep in Detroit. Miss Nelliu McMullen and Gertie Ball visited at Mr. Edgar Delaforce's Saturday and Sunday. Milan Locals Mrs. Frank Leonard and son Osborn of Durand are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Clark. Prof, and Mrs. C. M. Fuller returned to their home in Salem Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard iGauntlett of S. Carolina are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gauntlett. Mr. and Mrs. Allison of Farminglon were the guesis of Mrs. A. E. Pulman the last oE the week. The K, of P. ball and banquet w.is a success Friday night. Mrs. Young has the LaGrippe. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rouse entertained guests at a New Years dinner. Ora Popper will return to the U. of M. hospital this week. Miss May Alderman of the Normal returns to Ypsilanti the last of the week. W. H. Holcomb and wife of Detroit are vititing Milan people. F, H. Barnes is one of La"Gripps victims. Atly C. C. Fouch will not locate in Milan. Mrs. Chas. Denton gave an Xmas dinner to a large circle of friends. Milton Clack came home from Delta Ohio to attend ihe K. of P. party. The firm of Brewer & Co. Tecunoseh Mich manufacturers of Clay working machinery, of every description has been re-organized and W. F. Stimpson of Detroit taken into the firm as a partner in consideration of his assigning his patents on improvement in Clay working machinery to said firm. Mr. Stimpson is also elected General Manager oj the company at a salary o? §1000 for one half his time. Arrangements are so made that Mr. Stimpson will give three davs cf each week to the Brewer Co. and the remainder of his time will be given to the ff. F. Stimpson Co. at Detroit Mich. This makes alist of four manufacturing concerns operating under Mr. Stimp- son's patents which are as follows: Stimpson's Computing Scale Co., Elkhart Indiana, Beam Computing Scales American Harrow Co., Detroit Mich., Automatic Weighing trucks, H. Brewer & Co., Tecumseh Mich, Clay working machinery and the W. F; Stimpson Co. Detroit Mich, and Automatic Computing scales. County Crumbs At a meeting held in Ann Arbor last Saturday night, it took all the colored people of that city to decide who should be the nest appointee in the cloakroom at Lansing. The Ann Arbor railroad has purchased the Wisconsin & Michigan railroad and will extend the line to a big tract of pine land in Forest and Vilas counties, Wisconsin. When our farmers complain because they cannot get more than §50 an acre for their farms, they should remember that the Crouch farm of 400 aeres,a few miles from Jackson, lately sold for §20 an acre.—Enterprise All the Christmas packages received through the mails from Canada were examined by the enstom house officers and some of our citizens have been called upon to pay duty upon their Christmas presents.—Argus—D. While'! the Courier recognizes the fact that Governor Pingree is a pretty fair sized man and pretty much of a governor that journal does not concede that he is big enough to be governor, legislature and supreme court all at once. P. S. —The Courier is for Burrows.—Argus—D. Deputy Sheriff Lester Canfield and Miss Jessie Walker were married last week at tho residence of the bride in Ann Arbor by Rev. W. L. Tedrow. The wedding came as a surprise to the friends of the newly married couple, yet nevertheless they are the recipi- ents'of tbe heartiest congratulations.- Col. H. S. Dean will discuss the subject "Can the Golden Rule be Successfully Applied in Business Life?" at the Congregational Church, Sunday, immediately after the morning service. Every one is invited. A very entertaining discussion may be expected. —Courier. Aqueer subject for a Sunday service. When did the Col. enter the ministry. Those fellows who ship skunk skins by express, ought not to bring the pelts to the express 'office "so early in day, as the odoriferousness of the things is too awfully muchee much for human noses to bear, even at Christmas time. Much "complaint is mado by those affected and we suggest that the shipper keep the skins tucked snugly beneath their coats or sone other place until time for the train to depart.—Enterprise. The Armory in Danger There is a movement on foot to entirety reorganize tbe present militia in the varions states. At the meeting of the Interstate "National Guard Asso. recently held in Chicago, at which nearly every state in the union was represented, it was the unanimous opinion that the present system of state militia was a total failure. This, it was declared , was demonstrated when the war with Spain .broke out. At this meeting it was decided to urge the passage of several bills now^iending and to have others framed relating to the military seryice. The present ;state militia act was passed in 1S08 and congress will be asked to apportion §5,000, 000 annually among the States, instead of §100,000, and to make the law such that troops can be called out by the president at any time without.the formality of an enlistment. The proposed formation of companies of 1-15 was not favored, but 100 was thought sufficient, and the tactics, arms and accoutrements should be the same as ia tho regular army. It was also thought that members of companies should receive a small annual compensation in addition to their pay while in the encampment, and organizations should be for business instead of social purposes. Instead of increasing the regr ulararmy to 100,000 it was thought better to haye" an efficient state militia equipped and ready for service on call. Such a thing as in Michigan National Guard no longer exists, but the state continues to pay rentals on armories. Michigan allows §300 for this purpose, but gives the military companies the privilege of paying additional amounts if better quarters are desired. The rental Of the Ann Arbor armory is §400 per year, the extra §100 being paid by tbe Light Infantry boys.—Register. Miss Vesta Mills entertained^the choir of the .Trinity Lutheran church at her home. No. 810 W. Huron St., Thursday eve ning—Courier The Homeopathic Hospital*in Ann Arbor is having a prosperous year. There are but few [vacant beds in the institution. The friends of ex-sheriff Judson gave him a leather covered ehair; as he left the office Sunday. Perhaps they think "Billy" needs rest. Booksoller Geo. Wahr reports having enjoyed the greatest holiday business in the history of his store. While the early days of the season were rather quiet on account of the unfavorable weather, the last three days more than made up for them.—Courier. Ann Arbor Electric Granite Works Designers and Builders of ■ - "Artistic Granite arid Marble Memorials \ jQjk^^d* large quantities of. all the various Granites in the Rougb ap^'-^tp^pai-ed to execute fine Monumental work on short notice. »kA0M6ARDNER, Prop. Ann Arbor I Horses at Auction At Brenner's barn, on the northwest corner of Huron and Ashley streets, in the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Wednesday, January 11,1S99, commencing at 10 o'clock, 1 will sell 20 head of horses. These horses are Percher- ons and will weigh from 1-500 lbs to 1900 lbs. They were raised in Washtenaw county by the undersigned and are the best band o£ heavy horses ever offered for sale, either publicly or privately, in the state of Michigan. Sale is under cover and will take place rain or shine. Terms: Cash or approved notes on nine months time at seven per cent interest. Henry C. Waldron Worden, Washtenaw Co., Miebigan How to Look Good. Good looks are really more than deep skin, depending entirely on a healthy con- ditition of all the vital organs If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look; If your stomach is discorded, you have a dypseptie look. Secure good health, and you will surely have good looks, "Electric Bitters" is a good Aljerative and Tonic. Acts directly on tne stomach, liver and kidueys- pnrifies the bjood. cures pimples, blotches and boias, gives a good complexiou- Every bottle guaranteed." Sold at Lister & Sheeder's. Drug Store. 30 cents per hot tie, 5 NOTICE. Wo the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25-cent bottles of Baxter's Mandrake Bitters if it fails to cure constipation, biliousness, sick headache, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended.. Also will refund the money on a 50 cent bottle of Downs, Elixir, if it does not cure any cough, cold, croup, whooping cough, or any throat or lung difficulty. ** We also guarantee one 25 cent bottle of either of the above to prove satisfactory or money refunded. Lister & Sheeder, C. F, Unterkircher. BuoMea's Arnica Save. The Bfpt SaiiVE iu the world for Cuts Bruises, fciores, Ulcers, Salt Ehermi, Fever. Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. 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The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Skefse- jimila tlf-utote, Cf CASTOHIA. ll M fnipfsiv Our Annual Inventory will be taken not later than Jan 16th. Until that time we offer our stocks of Cloaks, Furs, Underwear, Blankets, Comfortables and special lines of Dpsss Ctoods and Silks At exceedingly attractive prices. The purchasing power of your dollar will be largely increased during these two weeks. The Bargain time of the year. AU 83.98 Jackets, now §2.00. All §6.00 and §500 Jackets, now $3.9S. All §8.00 and §7.00 Jackets, now S4.9S All 810,00 Jackets, now 86.9S. All 815.00 and 812.00 Jackets now 7.98 All S20.00 Jackets, now 812.00. Fine Assortment of fancy Weaves in Black Goods, all reduced for this sale. Capes. These prices will tempt many AU 82.98 Capes, now $1.95 All 84.75 and S3.9S Copes, now 82.95. All S6.50 and 86.00 Capes, now $3.95. All S9.00 and 88.75 Capes, no*V 85.95. All $10.00 Capes, now $6.95. $12.00 Capes, now $7.95. Better Capes up to $35.00 marked on equally low basis. AU our Fancy Trimming and Waist Silks reduced for this sale These two weeks are always tbe Bargain time of the year. ILLS & CO., ANN ARBOR. MICH. ^^0 have just received a large and well selected stock of Black Dress Goods Good all Wool Cashmere ftfr 25 cents, to a fancy Wool and.Mohair Lizard figure at 85 cents. We cordially invite you to compare prices and quality with any other in the country Woiiwy i j>up'.lie lie of ramming Silks andBraiSs. Eemember we are headquarters for, Prints. Percales. Ginghams, Table Linens. Sheeting, Shirtings, Tick and Denims Toweling- Chas. Burkhart, S"ffi:«EIB* MID-OTIS. |.2.3. All Druggists Fancy Stores. ONg CHVES RSUBR ollar until you have tried You can buy them in the paper 5-eent cartons Ten Tabuies for Five aentjs. SUi tortU put up e*u*t>l7 to snti& tb. ujiI-«n»J -prMut CoMaigr i'l^r'itfltt. 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Title | 1899-01-05; Saline Observer |
Date | 1899-01-05 |
Publisher | LeBaron & Nissly |
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I couldn't resist passing along this beautiful photo! Taken today at Madrid's San Anton church, animal lovers came from all over to have their pets blessed during the feast of San Anton. San Anton, the patron saint of animals, is honored by Catholic churches in Spain — and many priests like Father Juan Manuel Villar perform this doggie ceremony with an aspergillum.
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i thought it was st francis of assisi well guess i am wrong, i would love to take gordo and any future pets to an event like that!
In Paris, there's a church (christian one) where you can come with your pet 1 sunday of the month because this day, this is a special service for all animals!
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My question is, why are they even debating severability? If I understand correctly, Congress often/usually includes severability clauses in legislation, but elected not to in this case. Doesn't that mean that if any provision is struck down, the law should be struck down? Any thoughts on that from those who have studied more than I have?
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CHAPTER VIII.JOHN BROWN AND MRS. STOWE.My first meeting with Capt. John Brown—The Free-Soil Movement—Coloured Convention—Uncle Tom's Cabin—Industrial school for coloured people—Letter to Mrs. H. B. Stowe. ABOUT the time I began my enterprise in Rochester, I chanced to spend a night and a day under the roof of a man whose character and conversation, and whose objects and aims in life made a very deep impression upon my mind and heart. His name had been mentioned to me by several prominent coloured men. among whom were the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet and J. W. Loguen. In speaking of him their voices would drop to a whisper, and what they said of him made me very eager to see and know him. Fortunately I was invited to see him in his own house. At the time to which I now refer, this man was a respectable merchant in a populous and thriving city, and our first place of meeting was at his store. This was a substantial brick building, in a prominent, busy street. A glance at the interior, as well as at the massive walls without, gave me the impression that the owner must be a man of considerable wealth. From this store I was conducted to his house, where I was kindly received as an expected guest. My welcome was all I could have asked. Every member of the family, young and old, seemed glad to see me, and I was made much at home in a very little while. I was, however, a little disappointed with the appearance of the house and with its location. After seeing the fine store, I was prepared to see a fine residence, in an eligible locality, but this conclusion was completely dispelled by actual observation. In fact, the house was neither commodious nor elegant, nor its situation desirable, It was a small wooden building, in a back street, in a neighbourhood chiefly occupied by labouring men and mechanics; respectable enough to be sure, but not quite the place, I thought, where one would look for the residence of a flourishing and successful merchant. Plain as was the outside of this man's house, the inside was plainer. Its furniture would have satisfied a Spartan. It would take longer to tell what was not in this house than what was in it. There was an air of plainness about it which almost suggested destitution. My first meal passed under the misnomer of tea, though there was nothing about it resembling the usual significance of that term. It consisted of beef soup, cabbage, and potatoes; a meal such as a man might relish after following the plough all day, or performing a forced march of a dozen miles over a rough road in frosty weather. Innocent of paint, veneering, varnish, or table-cloth, the table announced itself unmistakably of pine and of the plainest workmanship. There was no hired help visible. The mother, daughters, and sons did the serving, and did it well. They were evidently used to it, and had no thought of any impropriety or degradation in being their own servants. It is said that a house in some measure reflects the character of its occupants; this one certainly did. In it there were no disguises, no illusions, no make believes. Everything implied stern truth, solid purpose, and rigid economy. I was not long in company with the master of this house before I discovered that he was indeed the master of it, and was likely to become mine too if I stayed long enough with him. He fulfilled St. Paul's idea of the head of the family. His wife believed in him, and his children observed him with reverence. Whenever he spoke his words commanded earnest attention. His arguments, which I ventured at some points to oppose, seemed to convince all; his appeals touched all, and his will impressed all. Certainly I never felt myself in the presence of a stronger religious influence than while in this man's house. In person he was lean, strong, and sinewy, of the best New England mould, built for times of trouble, fitted to grapple with the flintiest hardships. Clad in plain American woollen, shod in boots of cowhide leather, and wearing a cravat of the same substantial material, under six feet high, less than 150 pounds in weight, aged about fifty, he presented a figure, straight and symmetrical as a mountain pine. His bearing was singularly impressive. His head was not large, but compact and high. His hair was coarse, strong, slightly gray and closely trimmed, and grew low on his forehead. His face was smoothly shaved, and revealed a strong square mouth, supported by a broad and prominent chin. His eyes were bluish gray, and in conversation they were full of light and fire. When in the street, he moved with a long, springing race-horse step, absorbed by his own reflections, neither seeking nor shunning observation. Such was the man, whose name I had heard in whispers, such was the spirit of his house and family, such was the house in which he lived, and such was Captain John Brown, whose name has now passed into history, as one of the most marked characters, and greatest heroes known to American fame. After the strong meal already described, Captain Brown cautiously approached the subject which he wished to bring to my attention; for he seemed to apprehend opposition to his views. He denounced slavery in look and language fierce and bitter, thought that slaveholders had forfeited their right to live, that the slaves had the right to gain their liberty in any way they could, did not believe that moral suasion would ever liberate the slave, or that political action would abolish the system. He said that he had long had a plan which could accomplish this end, and he had invited me to his house to lay that plan before me. He said he had been for some time looking for coloured men to whom he could safely reveal his secret, and at times he had almost despaired of finding such men, but that now he was encouraged, for he saw heads of such, rising up in all directions. He had observed my course at home and abroad, and he wanted my co-operation. His plan as it then lay in his mind, had much to commend it. It did not, as some suppose, contemplate a general rising among the slaves, and a general slaughter of the slave masters. An insurrection he thought would only defeat the object, but his plan did contemplate the creating of an armed force, which should act in the very heart of the South. He was not averse to the shedding of blood, and thought the practice of carrying arms would be a good one for the coloured people to adopt, as it would give them a sense of their manhood. No people, he said, could have self-respect, or be respected, who would not fight for their freedom. He called my attention to a map of the United States, and pointed out to me the far-reaching Alleghanies, which stretch away from the borders of New York, into the Southern States. "These mountains," he said, "are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength of the hills to freedom, they were placed here for the emancipation of the negro race; they are full of natural forts, where one man for defence will be equal to a hundred for attack; they are full also of good hiding places, where large numbers of brave men could be concealed, and baffle and elude pursuit for a long time. I know these mountains well, and could take a body of men into them and keep them there, despite all the efforts of Virginia to dislodge them. The true object to be sought is first of all to destroy the money value of slave property; and that can only be done by rendering such property insecure. My plan then is to take at first about twenty-five picked men, and begin on a small scale; supply them with arms and ammunition, post them in squads of fives on a line of twenty-five miles, the most persuasive and judicious of whom shall go down to the fields from time to time, as opportunity offers, and induce the slaves to join them, seeking and selecting the most restless and daring." He saw that in this part of the work the utmost care must be used to avoid treachery and disclosure. Only the most conscientious and skilful should be sent on this perilous duty; with care and enterprise he thought he could soon gather a force of one hundred hardy men, men who would be content to lead the free and adventurous life in which he proposed to train them; when these were properly drilled, and each man had found the place for which he was best suited, they would begin work in earnest; they would run off the slaves in large numbers, retain the brave and strong ones in the mountains, and send the weak and timid to the North by the underground railroad; his operations would be enlarged with increasing numbers, and would not be confined to one locality. When I asked him how he would support these men, he said emphatically, he would subsist them upon the enemy. Slavery was a state of war, and the slave had a right to anything necessary to his freedom. But, said I, "suppose you succeed in running off a few slaves, and thus impress the Virginia slaveholders with a sense of insecurity in their slaves, the effect will be only to make them sell their slaves further South." "That," said he, "will be first what I want to do; then I would follow them up. If we could drive slavery out of one county, it would be a great gain; it would weaken the system throughout the State." "But they would employ bloodhounds to hunt you out of the mountains." "That they might attempt," said he, "but the chances are, we should whip them, and when we should have whipped one squad, they would be careful how they pursued." "But you might be surrounded and cut off from your provisions or means of subsistence." He thought that could not be done so that they could not cut their way out; but even if the worst came, he could but be killed; and he had no better use for his life than to lay it down in the cause of the slave. When I suggested that we might convert the slaveholders, he became much excited, and said that could never be;—"he knew their proud hearts, and that they would never be induced to give up their slaves, until they felt a big stick about their heads." He observed, that I might have noticed the simple manner in which he lived, adding that he had adopted this method in order to save money to carry out his purposes. This was said in no boastful tone, for he felt that he had delayed already too long, and had no room to boast either his zeal or his self-denial. Had some men made such display of rigid virtue, I should have rejected it, as affected, false, and hypocritical, but in John Brown, I felt it to be real as iron or granite. From this night spent with John Brown in Springfield, Mass., 1847, while I continued to write and speak against slavery, I became all the same less hopeful of its peaceful abolition. My utterances became more and more tinged by the colour of this man's strong impressions. Speaking at an anti-slavery convention in Salem, Ohio, I expressed the apprehension that slavery could only be destroyed by bloodshed, when I was suddenly and sharply interrupted by my good old friend, Sojourner Truth, with the question, "Frederick, is God dead?" "No," I answered, and "because God is not dead slavery can only end in blood." My quaint old sister was of the Garrison school of non-resistants, and was shocked at my sanguinary doctrine, but she too became an advocate of the sword, when the war for the maintenance of the Union was declared. In 1848 it was my privilege to attend, and in some measure, to participate in, the famous Free-Soil Convention held in Buffalo, New York. It was a vast and variegated assemblage, composed of persons from all sections of the North, and may be said to have formed a new departure in the history of forces organized to resist the growing and aggressive demands of slavery and the slave power. Until this Buffalo Convention, anti-slavery agencies had been mainly directed to the work of changing public sentiment, by exposing through the press and on the platform, the nature of the slave system. Anti-slavery thus far had only been sheet lightning; the Buffalo Convention sought to make it a thunderbolt. It is true the Liberty party, a political organisation, had been in existence since 1840, when it cast seven thousand votes for James G. Birney, a former slaveholder, but who, in obedience to an enlightened conscience, had nobly emancipated his slaves, and was now devoting his time and talents to the overthrow of slavery. It is true that this little party of brave men had increased their numbers at one time to sixty thousand voters. It, however, had now apparently reached its culminating point, and was no longer able to attract to itself and combine all the available elements of the North, capable of being marshalled against the growing and aggressive measures and aims of the slave power. There were many in the old Whig party known as Conscience Whigs; and in the Democratic party known as Barnburners and Free Democrats, who were anti-slavery in sentiment and utterly opposed to the extension of the slave system to territory hitherto uncursed by its presence; but who, nevertheless, were not willing to join the Liberty party. It was held to be deficient in numbers, and wanting in prestige. Its fate was the fate of all pioneers. The work it had been required to perform had exposed it to assaults from all sides, and it wore on its front the ugly marks of conflict. It was unpopular from its very fidelity to the cause of liberty and justice. No wonder that some of its members, such as Gerrit Smith, William Goodell, Beriah Green, and Julius Lemoyne refused to quit the old for the new. They felt that the Free-Soil party was a step backward, a lowering of the standard, that the people should come to them, not they to the people. The party which had been good enough for them ought to be good enough for all others. Events, however, over-ruled this reasoning. The conviction became general that the time had come for a new organisation, which should embrace all who were in any manner opposed to slavery and the slave power, and this Buffalo Free-Soil Convention was the result of that conviction. It is easy to say that this or that measure would have been wiser and better than the one adopted. But any measure is vindicated by its necessity and its results. It was impossible for the mountain to go to Mahomet, or for the Free-Soil element to go to the old Liberty party, so the latter went to the former. "All is well that ends well." This Buffalo Convention of Free-Soilers, however low was their standard, did lay the foundation of a grand superstructure. It was a powerful link in the chain of events by which the slave system has been abolished, the slave emancipated, and the country saved from dismemberment. It is nothing against the actors in this new movement that they did not see the end from the beginning; that they did not at first take the high ground that further on in the conflict their successors felt themselves called upon to take; or that their Free-Soil party, like the old Liberty party, was ultimately required to step aside and make room for the great Republican party. In all this, and more, it illustrates the experience of reform in all ages, and conforms to the laws of human progress—Measures change, principles never. I was not the only coloured man well known to the country who was present at this convention. Samuel Ringold Ward, Henry Highland Garnet, Charles L. Remond, and Henry Bibb, were there, and made speeches which were received with surprise and gratification by the thousands there assembled. As a coloured man I felt greatly encouraged and strengthened in my cause while listening to these men—in the presence of the ablest men of the Caucasian race. Mr. Ward especially attracted attention at that convention. As an orator and thinker he was vastly superior, I thought, to any of us, and being perfectly black and of unmixed African descent, the splendours of his intellect went directly to the glory of his race. In depth of thought, fluency of speech, readiness of wit, logical exactness, and general intelligence, Samuel R. Ward has left no successor among the coloured men amongst us, and it was a sad day for our cause when he was laid low in the soil of a foreign country. After the Free Soil party, with "Free Soil," "Free Labour," "Free States," "Free Speech," and "Free Men," on its banners, had defeated the almost permanently victorious Democratic party under the leadership of so able and popular a standard-bearer as General Lewis Cass, Mr. Calhoun, and other Southern statesmen were more than ever alarmed at the rapid increase of anti-slavery feeling in the North, and devoted their energies, more and more, to the work of devising means to stay the torrents and tie up the storm. They were not ignorant of whereunto this sentiment would grow if unsubjected and unextinguished. Hence they became fierce and furious in debate, and more extravagant than ever in their demands for additional safeguards to their system of robbery and murder. Assuming that the Constitution guaranteed their rights of property in their fellow-men, they held it to be in open violation of the Constitution for any American citizen in any part of the United States to speak, write, or act, against this right. But this shallow logic they plainly saw could do them no good unless they could obtain further safeguards for slavery. In order to effect this, the idea was suggested of so changing the Constitution that there should be two instead of one President of the United States—one from the North and the other from the South—and that no measure should become a law without the assent of both. But this device was so utterly impracticable that it soon dropped out of sight, and it is mentioned here only to show the desperation of slaveholders to prop up their system of barbarism, against which the sentiment of the North was being directed with destructive skill and effect. They clamoured for more slave States, more power in the Senate and House of Representatives, and insisted upon the suppression of free speech. At the end of two years, in 1850, when Clay and Calhoun, two of the ablest leaders the South ever had, were still in the Senate, we had an attempt at a settlement of differences between the North and South which our legislators meant to be final. What those measures were I need not here enumerate, except to say that chief among them was the "Fugitive Slave Bill," framed by James M. Mason of Virginia, and supported by Daniel Webster of Massachusetts; a bill, undoubtedly more designed to involve the North in complicity with slavery and deaden its moral sentiment, than to procure the return of fugitives to their so-called owners. For a time this design did not altogether fail. Letters, speeches, and pamphlets literally rained down upon the people of the North, reminding them of their constitutional duty to hunt down and return to bondage runaway slaves. In this the preachers were not much behind the press and the politicians, especially that class of preachers known as Doctors of Divinity. A long list of these came forward with their Bibles to show that neither Christ nor His holy apostles objected to returning fugitives to slavery. Now, that this evil day is past, a sight of those sermons would, I doubt not, bring the red blush of shame to the cheeks of many. Living as I then did in Rochester, on the borders of Canada, I was compelled to see the terribly distressing effects of this cruel enactment. Fugitive slaves, who had lived for many years safely and securely in Western New York and elsewhere, some of whom had by industry and economy saved money and bought little homes for themselves and their children, were suddenly alarmed, and compelled to flee to Canada for safety as from an enemy's land—a doomed city—and take up a dismal march to a new abode, empty-handed, among strangers. My old friend Ward, of whom I have just now spoken, found it necessary to give up the contest and flee to Canada, and thousands followed his example. Bishop Daniel A. Payne, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, came to me about this time to consult me as to whether it was best to stand our ground or flee to Canada. I told him I could not desert my post until I saw I could not hold it, adding that I did not wish to leave while Garnet and Ward remained. "Why," said he, "Ward, Ward, he is already gone. I saw him crossing from Detroit to Windsor." I asked him if he was going to stay, and he answered, "Yes; we are whipped, we are whipped! and we might as well retreat in order." This was indeed a stunning blow. This man had power to do more to defeat this inhuman enactment than any other coloured man in the land, for no other could bring such brain power to bear against it. I felt like a besieged city at the news that its defenders had fallen at its gates. The hardships imposed by this atrocious and shameless law were cruel and shocking, and yet only a few of all the fugitives of the Northern States were returned to slavery under its infamously wicked provisions. As a means of recapturing their runaway property in human flesh the law was an utter failure. Its efficiency was destroyed by its enormity. Its chief effect was to produce alarm and terror among the class subject to its operation, and this it did most effectually and distressingly. Even coloured people who had been free all their lives felt themselves very insecure in their freedom, for under this law, the oaths of any two villains were sufficient to consign a free man to slavery for life. While the law was a terror to the free, it was a still greater terror to the escaped bondman. To him there was no peace. Asleep or awake, at work or at rest, in church or market, he was liable to surprise and capture. By the law the judge got ten dollars a head for all he could consign to slavery, and only five dollars apiece for any which he might adjudge free. Although I was now myself free, I was not without apprehension. My purchase was of doubtful validity, having been bought when out of the possession of my owner, and when he must take what was given or take nothing. It was a question, whether my claimant could be stopped by such a sale, from asserting certain or supposable equitable rights in my body and soul. From rumours that reached me my house was guarded by my friends several nights, when kidnappers, had they come, would have got anything but a cool reception, for there would have been "blows to take as well as blows to give." Happily this reign of terror did not continue long. Despite the efforts of Daniel Webster and Millard Fillmore and our Doctors of Divinity, the law fell rapidly into disrepute. The rescue of Shadrack, resulting in the death of one of the kidnappers, in Boston, the cases of Simms and Anthony Burns, in the same place, created the deepest feeling against the law and its upholders. But the thing which more than all else destroyed the fugitive slave law was the resistance made to it by the fugitives themselves. A decided check was given to the execution of the law at Christiana, Penn., where three coloured men, being pursued by Mr. Gorsuch and his son, slew the father, wounded the son, drove away the officers, and made their escape to my house in Rochester. The work of getting these men safely into Canada was a delicate one. They were not only fugitives from slavery but charged with murder, and officers were in pursuit of them. There was no time for delay. I could not look upon them as murderers. To me, they were heroic defenders of the just rights of man against man-stealers and murderers. So I fed them, and sheltered them in my house. Had they been pursued then and there, my home would have been stained with blood, for these men who had already tasted blood were well armed and prepared to sell their lives at the expense of the lives and limbs of their probable assailants. What they had already done at Christiana, and the cool determination which showed very plainly, especially in Parker, for that was the name of the leader, left no doubt on my mind that their courage was genuine and that their deeds would equal their words. The situation was critical and dangerous. The telegraph had that day announced their deeds at Christiana, their escape, and that the mountains of Pennsylvania were being searched for the murderers. These men had reached me simultaneously with this news in the New York papers. Immediately after the occurrence at Christiana, they, instead of going into the mountains, were placed on a train which brought them to Rochester. They were thus almost in advance of the lightning, and much in advance of probable pursuit, unless the telegraph had already raised agents here. The hours they spent at my house were therefore hours of anxiety as well as activity. I dispatched my friend Miss Julia Griffiths to the landing three miles away on the Genesee River to ascertain if a steamer would leave that night for any port in Canada, and remained at home myself to guard my tired, dust-covered, and sleeping guests, for they had been harassed and travelling for two days and nights, and needed rest. Happily for us the suspense was not long, for it turned out, that that very night a steamer was to leave for Toronto, Canada. This fact, however, did not end my anxiety. There was danger that between my house and the landing or at the landing itself we might meet with trouble. Indeed the landing was the place where trouble was likely to occur, if at all. As patiently as I could, I waited for the shades of night to come on, and then put the men in my "Democrat carriage," and started for the landing on the Genesee. It was an exciting ride, and somewhat speedy withal. We reached the boat at least fifteen minutes before the time of its departure, and that without remark or molestation. But those fifteen minutes seemed much longer than usual. I remained on board till the order to haul in the gang-way was given; I shook hands with my friends, received from Parker the revolver that fell from the hand of Gorsuch when he died, presented now as a token of gratitude and a memento of the battle for Liberty at Christiana, and I returned to my home with a sense of relief which I cannot stop here to describe. This affair, at Christiana, and the Jerry Rescue of Syracuse, inflicted fatal wounds on the Fugitive Slave Bill. It became thereafter almost a dead letter, for slaveholders found that not only did it fail to put them in possession of their slaves, but that the attempt to enforce it brought odium upon themselves and weakened the slave system. In the midst of these fugitive slave troubles came the book known as "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a work of marvellous depth and power. Nothing could have better suited the moral and humane requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, instantaneous, and universal. No book on the subject of slavery had so generally and favourably touched the American heart. It combined all the power and pathos of preceding publications of the kind, and was hailed by many as an inspired production. Mrs. Stowe at once became an object of interest and admiration. She made fortune and fame at home, and awakened a deep interest abroad. Eminent persons in England roused to anti-slavery enthusiasm by her "Uncle Tom's Cabin," invited her to visit that country, and promised to give her a testimonial. Mrs. Stowe accepted the invitation and the proffered testimonial. Before sailing for England, however, she invited me from Rochester, N. Y., to spend a day at her house in Andover, Mass. Delighted with an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the gifted authoress, I lost no time in making my way to Andover. I was received at her home with genuine cordiality. There was no contradiction between the authoress and her book. Mrs. Stowe appeared in conversation equally as well as she appeared in her writings. She made to me a nice little speech in announcing her object in sending for me. "I have invited you here, she said, "because I wish to confer with you as to what can be done with the free coloured people of the country. I am going to England, and expect to have a considerable sum of money placed in my hands, and I intend to use it in some way, for the permanent improvement of the free coloured people, and especially for that class which has become free by their own exertions. In what way I can do this most successfully is the subject I wish to talk with you about. In any event I desire to have some monument raised after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which shall show that it produced more than transient influence." She said several plans had been suggested, among others an educational institution pure and simple, but that she thought favourably of the establishment of an industrial school; and she desired me to express my views as to what I thought would be the best plan to help the free coloured people. I was not slow to tell Mrs. Stowe all I knew and had thought on the subject. As to a purely educational institution, I agreed with her that it did not meet our necessities. I argued against expending money in that way. I was also opposed to an ordinary industrial school where pupils should merely earn the means of obtaining an education in books. There were such schools, already. What I thought of as best was rather a series of workshops, where coloured people could learn some of the handicrafts, learn to work in iron, wood, and leather, and where a plain English education could also be taught. I argued that the want of money was the root of all evil to the coloured people. They were shut out from all lucrative employments and compelled to be merely barbers, waiters, coachmen and the like, at wages so low that they could lay up little or nothing. Their poverty kept them ignorant, and their ignorance kept them degraded. We needed more to learn how to make a good living, than to learn Latin and Greek. After listening to me at considerable length, she was good enough to tell me that she favoured my views, and would devote the money she expected to receive abroad to meeting the want I had described as the most important; by establishing an institution in which coloured youth should learn trades as well as to read, write, and count. When about to leave Andover, Mrs. Stowe asked me to put my views on the subject in the form of a letter, so that she could take it to England with her and show it to her friends there, that they might see to what their contributions were to be devoted. I acceded to her request, and wrote her the following letter for the purpose named:— Rochester, March 8, 1853. My Dear Mrs. Stowe:You kindly informed me, when at your house a fortnight ago, that you designed to do something which would permanently contribute to the improvement and elevation of the free coloured people in the United States. You especially expressed interest in such of this class as had become free by their own exertions, and desired most of all to be of service to them. In what manner and by what means you can assist this class most successfully, is the subject upon which you have done me the honour to ask my opinion. . . . I assert then that poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils; or in other words, these constitute the social disease of the free coloured people of the United States. To deliver them from this triple malady, is to improve and elevate them, by which I mean, simply to put them on an equal footing with their white fellow countrymen in the sacred right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." I am for no fancied or artificial elevation, but only ask fair play. How shall this be obtained? I answer, first, not by establishing for our use high schools and colleges. Such institutions are, in my judgment, beyond our immediate occasions and are not adapted to our present most pressing wants. High schools and colleges are excellent institutions, and will in due season be greatly subservient to our progress; but they are the result, as well as they are the demand of a point of progress, which we as a people have not yet attained. Accustomed as we have been, to the rougher and harder modes of living, and of gaining a livelihood, we cannot, and we ought not to hope that in a single leap from our low condition, we can reach that of Ministers, Lawyers, Doctors, Editors, Merchants, etc. These will doubtless be attained by us; but this will only be, when we have patiently and laboriously, and I may add successfully, mastered and passed through the intermediate gradations of agriculture and the mechanical arts. Besides, there are—and perhaps this is a better reason for my view of the case—numerous institutions of learning in this country, already thrown open to coloured youth. To my thinking, there are quite as many facilities now afforded to the coloured people, as they can spare the time from the sterner duties of life, to avail themselves of. In their present condition of poverty, they cannot spare their sons and daughters two or three years at boarding-schools or colleges, to say nothing of finding the means to sustain them while at such institutions. I take it, therefore, that we are well provided for in this respect; and that it may be fairly inferred from the fact, that the facilities for our education, so far as schools and colleges in the Free States are concerned, will increase quite in proportion with our future wants. Colleges have been open to coloured youth in this country during the last dozen years. Yet few comparatively, have acquired a classical education; and even this few have found themselves educated far above a living condition, there being no methods by which they could turn their learning to account. Several of this latter class have entered the ministry; but you need not be told that an educated people is needed to sustain an educated ministry. There must be a certain amount of cultivation among the people, to sustain such a ministry. At present we have not that cultivation amongst us; and therefore, we value in the preacher, strong lungs, rather than high learning. I do not say, that educated ministers are not needed amongst us, far from it! I wish there were more of them! but to increase their number, is not the largest benefit you can bestow upon us. We have two or three coloured lawyers in this country; and I rejoice in the fact; for it affords very gratifying evidence of our progress. Yet it must be confessed, that in point of success, our lawyers are as great failures as our ministers, White people will not employ them to the obvious embarrassment of their causes, and the blacks, taking their cue from the whites, have not sufficient confidence in their abilities to employ them. Hence educated coloured men, among the coloured people, are at a very great discount. It would seem that education and emigration go together with us, for as soon as a man rises amongst us, capable, by his genius and learning, to do us great service, just so soon he finds that he can serve himself better by going elsewhere. In proof of this, I might instance the Russwurms, the Garnets, the Wards, the Crummells and others, all men of superior ability and attainments, and capable of removing mountains of prejudice against their race, by their simple presence in the country; but these gentlemen, finding themselves embarrassed here by the peculiar disadvantages to which I have referred, disadvantages in part growing out of their education, being repelled by ignorance on the one hand, and prejudice on the other, and having no taste to continue a contest against such odds, they have sought more congenial climes, where they can live more peaceable and quiet lives. I regret their election, but I cannot blame them, for with an equal amount of education and the hard lot which was theirs, I might follow their example. . . . There is little reason to hope that any considerable number of the free coloured people will ever be induced to leave this country, even if such a thing were desirable. This black man—unlike the Indian—loves civilization. He does not make very great progress in civilization himself but he likes to be in the midst of it, and prefers to share its most galling evils, to encountering barbarism. Then the love of the country, the dread of isolation, the lack of adventurous spirit, and the thought of seeming to desert their "brethren in bonds," are a powerful check upon all schemes of colonization, which look to the removal of the coloured people, without the slaves. The truth is, dear madam, we are here, and here we are likely to remain. Individuals emigrate—nations never. We have grown up with this republic, and I see nothing in her character, or even in the character of the American people as yet, which compels the belief that we must leave the United States. If then, we are to remain here, the question for the wise and good is precisely that you have submitted to me—namely: What can be done to improve the condition of the free people of colour in the United States? The plan which I humbly submit in answer to this inquiry—and in the hope that it may find favour with you, and with the many friends of humanity who honour, love, and co-operate with you—is the establishment in Rochester, N. Y., or in some other part of the United States equally favourable to such an enterprise, of an Industrial College in which shall be taught several important branches of the mechanical arts. This college to be opened to coloured youth. I will pass over the details of such an institution as I propose. . . . . Never having had a day's schooling in all my life I may not be expected to map out the details of a plan so comprehensive as that involved in the idea of a college. I repeat, then, I leave the organisation and administration to the superior wisdom of yourself and the friends who second your noble efforts. The argument in favour of an Industrial College—a college to be conducted by the best men—and the best workmen which the mechanical arts can afford, a college where coloured youth can be instructed to use their hands, as well as their heads, where they can be put into possession of the means of getting a living whether their lot in after life may be cast among civilized or uncivilized men; whether they choose to stay here, or prefer to return to the land of their fathers—is briefly this. Prejudice against the free coloured people in the United States has shown itself nowhere so invincible as among mechanics. The farmer and the professional man cherish no feeling so bitter as that cherished by these. The latter would starve us out of the country entirely. At this moment I can more easily get my son into a lawyer's office to learn law than I can into a blacksmith's shop to blow the bellows and to wield the sledge-hammer. Denied the means of learning useful trades we are pressed into the narrowest limits to obtain a livelihood. In times past we have been the hewers of wood and the drawers of water for American society, and we once enjoyed a monopoly in menial enjoyments, but this is so no longer. Even these enjoyments are rapidly passing away out of our hands. The fact is—every day begins with the lesson, and ends with the lesson—that coloured men must learn trades, and must find new employment, new modes of usefulness to society, or that they must decay under the pressing wants to which their condition is rapidly bringing them. We must become mechanics; we must build as well as live in houses; we must make as well as use furniture, we must construct bridges as well as pass over them, before we can properly live or be respected by our fellow men. We need mechanics as well as ministers. We need workers in iron, clay, and leather. We have orators, authors, and other professional men, but these reach only a certain class, and get respect for our race in certain select circles. To live here as we ought we must fasten ourselves to our countrymen through their every day cardinal wants. We must not only be able to black boots, but to make them. At present we are unknown in the Northern States as mechanics. We give no proof of genius or skill at the county, State, or national fairs. We are unknown at any of the great exhibitions of the industry of our fellow-citizens, and being unknown we are unconsidered. The fact that we make no show of our ability is held conclusive of our inability to make any, hence all the indifference and contempt with which incapacity is regarded, fall upon us, and that too, when we have had no means of disproving the infamous opinion of our natural inferiority. I have during the last dozen years denied before the Americans that we are an inferior race, but this has been done by arguments based upon admitted principles rather than by the presentation of facts. Now, firmly believing, as I do, that there are skill, invention, power, industy, and real mechanical genius, among the coloured people, which will bear favourable testimony for them, and which only need the means to develop them, I am decidedly in favour of the establishment of such a college as I have mentioned. The benefits of such an institution would not be confined to the Northern States, nor to the free coloured people. They would extend over the whole Union. The slave not less than the freeman would be benefited by such an institution. It must be confessed that the most powerful argument now used by the Southern slaveholder, and the one most soothing to his conscience, is that derived from the low condition of the free coloured people of the North. I have long felt that too little attention has been given by our truest friends in this country to removing this stumbling block out of the way of the slave's liberation. The most telling, the most killing refutation of slavery, is the presentation of an industrious, enterprising, thrifty, and intelligent free black population. Such a population I believe would rise in the Northern States under the fostering care of such a college as that supposed. To show that we are capable of becoming mechanics I might adduce any amount of testimony; but dear madam, I need not ring the changes on such a proposition. There is no question in the mind of any unprejudiced person that the negro is capable of making a good mechanic. Indeed, even those who cherish the bitterest feelings towards us have admitted that the apprehension that negroes might be employed in their stead, dictated the policy of excluding them from trades altogether. But I will not dwell upon this point as I fear I have already trespassed too long upon your precious time, and written more than I ought to expect you to read. Allow me to say in conclusion, that I believe every intelligent coloured man in America will approve and rejoice at the establishment of some such institution as that now suggested. There are many respectable coloured men, fathers of large familes, having boys nearly grown up, whose minds are tossed by day and by night with the anxious enquiry, "what shall I do with my boys?" Such an institution would meet the wants of such persons. Then, too, the establishment of such an institution would be in character with the eminently practical philanthropy of your trans-Atlantic friends. America could scarcely object to it as an attempt to agitate the public mind on the subject of slavery, or to dissolve the Union. It could not be tortured into a cause for hard words by the American people, but the noble and good of all classes would see in the effort an excellent motive, a benevolent object, temperately, wisely, and practically manifested. Wishing, you, dear madam, renewed health, a pleasant passage, and safe return to your native land. I am most truly, your grateful friend,Frederick Douglass. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. I was not only requested to write the foregoing letter for the purpose indicated, but I was also asked, with admirable foresight, to see and ascertain, as far as possible, the views of the free coloured people themselves in respect to the proposed measure for their benefit. This I was able to do in July, 1853, at the largest and most enlightened coloured convention that, up to that time, had ever assembled in the country. This convention warmly approved the plan of a manual labour school, as already described, and expressed high appreciation of the wisdom and benevolence of Mrs. Stowe. This convention was held in Rochester, N. Y., and will long be remembered there for the surprise and gratification it caused our friends in that city. They were not looking for such an exhibition of enlightened zeal and ability as were there displayed in speeches, addresses, and resolutions; and in the conduct of the business for which it had assembled. Its proceedings attracted wide-spread attention at home and abroad. While Mrs. Stowe was abroad, she was attacked by the proslavery press of the United States so persistently and vigorously, for receiving money for her own private use, that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher felt called upon to notice and reply to them in the columns of the New York Independent, of which he was then the editor. He denied that Mrs. Stowe was gathering British gold for herself; and referred her assailants to me, if they would learn what she intended to do with the money. In answer to her maligners, I denounced their accusations as groundless, and assured the public through the columns of my paper, that the testimonial then being raised in England by Mrs. Stowe, would be sacredly devoted to the establishment of an industrial school for coloured youth. This announcement was circulated by other journals, and the attacks ceased. Nobody could well object to such an application of money, received from any source, at home or abroad. After her return to this country, I called again on Mrs. Stowe, and was much disappointed to learn from her that she had reconsidered her plan for the industrial school. I have never been able to see any force in the reasons for this change. It is enough, however, to say that they were sufficient for her, and that she no doubt acted conscientiously, though her change of purpose was a great disappointment, and placed me in an awkward position before the coloured people of this country, as well as to friends abroad, to whom I had given assurances that the money would be appropriated in the manner I have described. |


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Valentino Rossi might have been slowest on the opening day of the private Honda and Yamaha MotoGP test at the new Circuit of the Americas yesterday, but it didn't stop the Italian from falling in love with the long and technical Texas circuit. On a first day dominated by a lack of grip, Rossi ended fifth behind Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa,...
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Aug 09
Posts: 86
spdmon says:
Lorenzo was very lucky last year! He can thank Dorna and Camelo for that title! He was lucky in 2010 too. Yes, he has upped his game for 2010, but he didn't have real competition. Rossi was out, Stoner was on a bad bike, and Dani has crashed at Motegi. Lucky champion!
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Jun 10
Posts: 356
Lorenzo99 says:
spdmon - I would agree with you that Jorge was lucky last year in Dani's bad luck at the end of the season,Casey getting injured & the rule changes that effected Honda.Not to say that Jorge did'nt deserve the title because he most certainly did but yes he was defanatly lucky.However luck is luck & it does'nt make Jorge any less of a champion as a lot of champions have had more than they're fair share of luck.
As for 2010 ! No,I strongly disagree with you.Jorge Lorenzo was on a mission & he won fair & square & I don't think anybody was going to stop him.Even if Rossi had'nt brocken his leg he would not have won,no way.
You can discredit any one & all with coments like " They were giftet the win " or " They were lucky " but which ever way you go a win is a win & history cannot be re writen.Lorenzo was world champion in 2010 & is the reigning world champion fact,end of.
He was lucky last year, that's all. Everything went as it should for him, Dorna was messing with the rules which made Honda slower, Dani's bad luck, Casey got injured, Valentino on a bad bike. He was lucky.
Feb 13
Posts: 95
CaseyIsGONE says:
...every championship was because all his opponents were out and most race wins are gifted to him, when he knows he doesnt have the pace he falls back and picks up the pieces when everyone else up front puts it in the gravel.
Apr 11
Posts: 2180
Bultoboy says:
Lorenzo also started 2010 injured, having missed a lot of of pre-season testing due to that. He was right on Rossi at the end of the first race, although both were falling behind Stoner before the Ducati let go. He beat him in the next and then Rossi crashed at the next race, so it's reasonable to say that he had Rossi's pace measured once he was given equal equipment in 2010.
If you want to start calling people lucky you can pick apart anyone's season and point to other's misfortune either due to injury or standard of machinery.
@Bultboy Yes he was lucky last year, so what? There no shame in that!
Jorge Lorenzo is'nt world champion for nothing & his amazing race history in Moto GP is certainly not down to luck.I would like to address some of the critisisms in this post about Lorenzo.
1st Race craft - If Lorenzo has no race craft then why is it he can carve through the rest of the feild like a hot knife through butter on the 1st & 2nd lap to lead the race or gain 2nd position.Many times he has come out of the 1st corner in 4th or 5th & fought his way through to 1st & 2nd in 1 to 2 laps,how is this possible with no race craft.
Also he has had many battles with Rossi,Casey & Dani & clearly shown exellent race craft.Sachenring with Casey stoner springs to mind in 2011 I think it was.Superb race craft.I think youre argument is flawd my friend.
2nd falling back - Yes Lorenzo will ease off & let riders go if he thinks he cannot catch them & if it means crashing & giving away 20 or so points.This seems logical to me & proves Lorenzo to be thinking & to be a tactical rider.I see this as a strenght not a weakness.
It is better to pick up the pieces & points than put it in the gravel.How can that possibly be a bad thing,how can that possibly make Lorenzo a bad rider ? I don't get it !
Jan 13
Posts: 204
DogBert says:
Seeing it through to the end when the pressure is mounting is something different. We'll never know how 2010 would have panned out, but 2012 gave us a good insight into how Dani and Casey cope when things aren't going all their way.
I never wrote that he is a bad rider. Please look what I have wrote, and I firmly stand with that! He doesn't have race craft like the rest aliens, and that's clear. He never won a battle, a great duel; Rossi with one leg can beat him, Stoner with ease, and now Pedrosa.
Sep 11
Posts: 36
monkeyninja says:
That's an interesting one and I agree with Lorenzo99 and Bultoboy comments that many champions have had their fair share of luck. I believe Rossi has a huge amount of talent (still does) but he has been known as one of the luckiest riders during his heyday. Mick Doohan can have the same 'luck' levelled at him - Alex Criville was hardly giving him sleepless nights when he took his world championships.
First past the line seems to be the determining factor as far as I can tell. Most points accumulated wins the championship? Nicky Hayden managed it. It's all about luck - lucky to have a good reliable bike, lucky that your competition is not as strong as it could be, lucky that you saved a highside that could have ended your race or indeed season.
We see many gifted and fast riders that cannot string together a strong season but that's probably the most defining attribute of any champion - stringing it all together and being consistent.
That where Lorenzo is good - he's consistent and tough (mentally and physically). Dani doesn't have the physical strength because he's the size of a child's action figure.
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