. Autographs for freedom. try, the free-coloredman of the North has pledged himself. Already hesees, springing into growth, from out his foster work-school, intelligent young laborers, competent to enrichthe world with necessary products—^industrious Industrial College. 15 citizens, contributing their proportion to aid on tteadvancing civilization of the country;—self-provid-ing artizans vindicating their people from the never-ceasing charge of a fitness for servile positions. Abolitionists ought to consider it a legitimate partof their great work, to aid in such an enterprise—^toabolish not o
. Autographs for freedom. try, the free-coloredman of the North has pledged himself. Already hesees, springing into growth, from out his foster work-school, intelligent young laborers, competent to enrichthe world with necessary products—^industrious Industrial College. 15 citizens, contributing their proportion to aid on tteadvancing civilization of the country;—self-provid-ing artizans vindicating their people from the never-ceasing charge of a fitness for servile positions. Abolitionists ought to consider it a legitimate partof their great work, to aid in such an enterprise—^toabolish not only chattel servitude, but that other kindof slavery, which, for generation after generation,dooms an oppressed people to a condition of depend-ence and pauperisnl. Such an Institution would bea shining mark, in even this enlightened age; andevery man and woman, equipped by its discipline todo good battle in the arena of active life, would be,next to the emancipated bondman, the most desirable Autograph for Freedom^. AN the west side of tlie AppalacHcola Eiver, some^ forty miles beloTV tlie line of Georgia, are yetfound tlie ruins of wliat was once called BlouxtsFoET. Its ramparts are now covered with, a densegrowth of underbrush and small trees. You may yettrace out its bastions, curtains, and magazine. Atthis time the country adjacent presents the appearanceof an unbroken wilderness, and the whole scene is oneof gloomy soLtade, associated as it is with one of themost cruel massacres which ever disgraced the Ameri-can arms. The fort had originally been erected hy civilizedtroops, and, when abandoned by its occupants at theclose of the y\-ar, in 1815, it was taken possession ofby the refugees from Georgia. But little is yet knownof that persecuted people; their history can only bo AT I5Lo^^•Ts Port. 17 found in the national archives at Waslimgton. They had been hjLl as slaves in the S!:at3 referred to; butduring the Revolution they caught the spint ofliberly, at that ti
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