AFRICAN TEMPERANCE MEETING
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meeting was held at the Hamilton street Ban.
tist meeting house, last evening, for the purpos.
of promoting the cause of temperance among the
colored population of our city. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Wright, Cromwell, Butler, Tho
mas, Myers, Morton and Murray, (all of whom
are colored persons,) some of which would
have done credit to any audience. Indeed
we have rarely listened to more able and eloquent
arguments IN favor of the glorious cause of tempe
rance, and regretted much that larger number of
our colored citizens were not present to be bene-
fitted by them. Nearly all those present signed
the total abstinence pledge, and resolved to pre-
sent it to every colored man, woman and youth
in the city.


God speed them in their noble effort Let II.
colored people of the Northern States become an


industrious and temperate people, and they will no,
only gain the respect and confidence of the white
citizens here, but they will remove one of the
greatest obstacles to the abolition of slavery in the
South, for whenever it can be said (and not gain
sayed) that the free blacks are sober, industrious.
and intelligent people, capable of self government
the only argument in favor of slavery falls to the
ground. Let our colored citizens, then. engage
heart and hand in this temperance movement ana
they will do more for themselves and their ensla-
we'd brethen, than all the effort of abolition soc;s-
ties can accomplish in century-Eue. Jour.