The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 196 pages of information about The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States.

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 196 pages of information about The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States.

She went home; her heart fluttered; she stole an opportunity when no one listened, to mock or gossip; let out her voice, when ecce! she found her strains four notes above Sweden’s favored Nightingale; she descended when lo! she found her tones three notes below! she thanked God with a “still small voice”; and now, she ranks second in point of voice, to no vocalist in the world.  Miss Greenfield, if she only be judicious and careful, may become yet, in point of popularity, what Miss Lind was.  The Black Swan, is singing to fine fashionable houses, and bids fair to stand unrivalled in the world of Song.

Patrick Henry Reason, a gentleman of ability and fine artist, stands high as an Engraver in the city of New York.  Mr. Reason has been in business for years, in that city, and has sent out to the world, many beautiful specimens of his skillful hand.  He was the first artist, we believe in the United States, who produced a plate of that beautiful touching little picture, the Kneeling Slave; the first picture of which represented a handsome, innocent little girl upon her knees, with hands outstretched, leaving the manacles dangling before her, anxiously looking and wishfully asking, “Am I not a sister?” It was beautiful—­sorrowfully beautiful.  He has we understand, frequently done Government engraving.  Mr. P.H. is a brother of Professor Charles L. Reason.

David Jones Peck, M.D., a graduate of Rush Medical College, a talented young gentleman, practised Medicine for two years in Philadelphia.  He left there in 1850.

William H. Allen, Esq., A.B., successor to Professor C.L.  Reason, is Professor of Languages in Centre College, at McGrawville, N.Y.  Professor Allen, is a gentleman of fine education, a graduate of Oneida Institute, and educated himself entirely by his own industry, having the aid of but fifty dollars during the whole period.  The Professor is a talented Lecturer on Ancient History, and much of a gentleman.

Martin H. Freeman, A.B., a young gentleman, graduate of Rutland College, in Vermont, is “Junior Professor,” in Allegheny Institute, Allegheny county, Pa.  The Professor is a gentleman of talents, and doing much good in his position.

Rev. Molliston Madison Clark, a gentleman of great talents, a noble speaker, educated at Jefferson College, Pa., sailed to Europe in 1846, and was a member of the Evangelical Alliance.  Mr. Clark kept a regular Journal of his travels through the United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland.  As well as a Greek and Latin, he is also a French and Spanish Linguist.  He has all the eccentricity of Rowland Hill, manifested only in a very different manner.

William C. Nell, of Rochester, N.Y., formerly of Boston, has long been known as a gentleman of chaste and lofty sentiments, and a pure philanthropist.  Mr. Nell, in company with Mr. Frederick Douglass, was present by invitation, and took his seat at table, at the celebration of Franklin’s Birth Day, by the Typographical and Editorial corps of Rochester.  In 1850, being again residing in Boston, he was nominated and ran for the Legislature of Massachusetts, by the Free Soil party of Essex county.  Mr. Nell stood even with his party vote in the District.

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