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tual measures for advancing our interests,
that the paragraph first extracted must ne
cesSarily refute itself it's not to us very
small matter that abolitionists have conde-
scended to unite with colored people in pc
titioning, though we do not believe that all
Of them have done so, nor do we believe
that only prolessed abolitionists have: we
know that men of all parties have signed
petitions, and we cannot therefore with
hold their portion of credit. The editor
proceeds !: SHOW can it be charged upon
aboli,ionists that they have done nothing
for colored people" Now we deny having
made amy such charge, and we demand
the proof.


We are aware that several ." institutions
have been erected with the funds Of aboli-
tionists" and others and that some others
have been opened through abolition in
f1uence." But we are also aware that
several of our acquaintance have been
compelled to leave the Oneida and other
institutions because they were unable to
support themselves, and their friends had
not the means to assist them; and if the
editor thinks that colored people believe
that opening seminaries form the most
effectual means for berering their condi-
tion, we can assure him that he is very
much mistaken. We know that he pos
sesses large fund of information. Will he
do us the favor to inform us how many CO.
lored young men from the multitude of
seminaries which he informs US have been
opened "through abolition influence"
are employed by abolition merchants and
lawyers as clerks, and also what is the OBJ
jeclion to employing colored persons who
are sufficiently qualified for such purposes !?
We recollect that few years ago certain
anti-sIavery office advertised for clerk ; a
competent and respectable colored man,
happening to be out Of employment ne
with the advice of his friends, made appli-
cation for the place, when the proprietors,
after consulting among themselves, very
generously offered him some two hundred
dollars per annum, we'll knowing that it
was impossible for him to support his fa-
mily upon such scan,y allowance. IT,
then, aboi.ionists will not employ etIuca
ted colored men in their stores or offices,
or The anti-slavery mechanic will not take
coIored boys as apprentices, can we justly
be accused of malignity and untruth, of
injustice and cruelty, because we tell them
what we think of their Inconsistencies
nor can it reasonably be said that The most
ehectual means bave been employed for
bettering the condition of our people.


If one half the "aholition influence"
was employed in obtaining employment
in stores for respectable and competent
colored men that was used in opening
the doors of seminaries, or if they were
as perseyering in their efforts to destroy
that spirit which keeps knowledge of the
mechanic arts from our youth, as they
were TO effect the demolition Of negro
pews in theirchurches," perhaps weshould
have no just cause to make such "unwar-
rantable, unjust and cruel attacks" upon
them in that spirit Of malignily" which
the editor has been pleased to ascribe to
US. But until, as we said in that article
which presented SO many objectionable