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Show i. J.U11 iiiiinr. Atr.ailon, Maryland, Is a school for net.ro children an I It la quite well attended, Ilecontl uu aged aud noted meuiberof their raoe, who was born aud reared near there, appiared tefore them and nude an Intonating aerch, llo told them of u urgro almehoj, whoaefatlirr aud mother died whun hu was six) ears of agu. Ills bd was the dirt llior ot u hovel. In lold wuatlur tin olten crept htAlforcmol Into a mial big, leaving hla fivt lu theaihiHOf a small fire tl Letpthim warui. Hi melliuoi hv aatltilud hunger hun-ger by roasting an ear of cirti or eggs, hlch hu had atoured b) crawling under barns and it'Uei. His utile ganueut dJ uud iiltut was a tun ilniniblrt There were no schools for colored children then, but hu learned tu read Irom a I old Webtter stalling book, aud to write from copy set for hlni ou cellar doors by boys and men willing to help him. 'Hie name of that boy was 1'uderlik Douglasi, who a forward biiamo the greatest man lilt race has produced lu America, and who lilt lervuj as 1'realdoutlal elector, UnllodHUtei miralial aud diplomat. It wis au itutoblotiaplilial sketch, for thu iea'.eraiid tho boy tpoken of , weruone. I Tho children spoken to by Douglaii lis J no ojmptrhonilnn ol III poilllon In slavery dayt, only thore who ex (erlenced such poattlon could form any conception of II. One thlug that he said, however, wo liopo they undor stuod "Bo loDg at you remain In Ignorance, so long will you fall lo command tho rrapect of your fellow men." Inittiictlve.lf not glowing and abuvu all, truthful! Aud what a well- filled pago of tho world's history does It open to the vlrwl As n rule, the mill who have will leu Ihrlr nan.es hlghettand most Indent In-dent ly upon life's structurr, In our Iliud at least, have bten thoie wh'i had hut little loirnliiglo hulii with or noi o at all. Tho story of the nation' carter conlalui hundred! of luch chatton, more of course In earllir than lu taltr yrara. Hut when lu till generation we contemplate the apco taclu of a man who rotn frmi one civil station to another until nl Nat he btcams l'rrildent of the linlted Blulrs and whose tint lutoni lu reading and riling weru given ty hla wif , wu can Ihrn and rlia(s only tbeu realise how luilg-nlflrant luilg-nlflrant la the man with an uncultivated unculti-vated mind anJtowhatlirlghtaoffamr, fortune and honor may ho not climb whose draughts at Ilia l'licrlari spring are deep and constaLtl Ulvcn a thlral for kuowlrdxe, a dlapoalllon lo Inviitl-gale Inviitl-gale and analjteand find out, ami thn loiiiraor thereof will become Inform-' ed aod of couaequeuco whether lie ever toes the Inaide of a school house or not; but It thou) I Is remembered that tho actio il houao slni Ultra Ilia work, cut! oil many of Iho dIUlculllea be would other lie encounter aud placet lilm farther aluad lu tbu Ufa-race Ufa-race for knowledgo nnd its attendant alvantsgrs. |
