AN ADDRESS TO COLORED YOUNG


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Dear youths, you will doubtless receive word


OF admonltlon from one that feels it a duty incum-


bent on him, as he has been favored with more


years to reflect than yourselves am aware.


youth is the time to form our connexions, regu-


late our affections and adopt measures to elevate


ourselves. To do this, shall suggest few


thoughts, as they seem to present themselves


Y You will please to read them for yourselves. In
travelling through the country, mean out of the
city, in any part of the United States, or in Eu-


rope, on all public roads you will discover hand


boards, on which you may read to enable you
the more readily to direct your steps to the place
of your destiny. So it is in your case If
you mean ever to be men filling place in So
ciety of respectability and usefulness, you must


begin now in your youth. If you have paid any
attention to the change of custom within the last
six eight years, think it more than probable
you will agree with me that everything has great
ly changed and much for the better. You might
go anywhere almost and see some of the mostre
spectacle citizens in the land in the habit of go
ing to all kinds of places where the Intoxicating
glass stood always on the counter ready to admi-
mister the poisonous draught, and it was thought
nothing of by any one. 1t was not noticed; and
indeed you might see more. You might see them
often intoxicated that their friends had to take
them home and very little was said it was GEN
tleman and he was rich, SO Of course there was
no harm. But how is it nowa IF man of anvy
grade known to drink, he is ptied by his friends,
gainsaid and prosecuted by his acquaintances and
friends, and despised by all respectable persons,
and ninety mine times out of hundred become
abandoned by all their respectable connections,
and to drown every sense of reflection they are
very often in short time brought down from
the very pinnacle of honor to wretched drunk
ards grave.


What then must be the end of young man of
color that has nothing to depend on but good
conduct, by which he justly gains good charac-
ter by pursuing proper coursee But he must be
very careful in reading 9. boards, and be sure to
take the right hand road that leads to the city of
temperance in the state of reformation, short
distance from the capitol ofequal rights. Imean
by this singular dea that the people of color that
honestly feel for their oppressed brethren in these
United States, must know that they can do
great deal towards assisting in their deliverance
if they viii but try. The fact is, I feel cali.
ed onby our commonfasher, that hasof one blooda