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FRUITS IUI t i HIE GLORIOUS RESULT 1 The election on last Tuesday resulted in a glorious victory for the grand old party of freedom and equality. A solid North met and crushed the solid South. Every ". Northern State except the petty boroughs of New Jersey and Nevada cast her electoral . vote . for tt Garfield and Arthur, giving them 219 electoral votes, a' majority of CO in the elec toral college. Glory enough for one day. Three cheers for the soldier, patriot, statesmen James Abraham Garfield, President-elect of the grandest Republic on the globe. Written for the La ten SELF-EDUCATION Of the Slaves of Louisiana. In Three Prt-Bj Panl Gsto. A. M. PART II. Part I contained a condensed outline of the peculiar domestic und civil relations existing in the Province of Louisiana, at the close of tho eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth ceituriee, between the white and colored elements, from whbh the general reader may have derived a vague idea of the social, political and moral statu? acquired and exercised by these distinct races in their civil capacity. We should have added in pari 6 rat, that the text book? of most of tke echioU were entirely in the. French language, English being taught as a separate brarwh. "We enter a Court of Justice to ftnd tho civil law the bais of all judicial proceedings. "The code Napoleon" and the "Partidas" are oftener quulod than either IJlackitone or Kent, and oftcner the examination of wit p esses and pleadings of eoansel are entirely' in & foreign toigu. This peculiar state of society in New Orleans has exerted a great influence on the free" or Creole population, who had become aa element worthy of our consideration. The statuto laws were rigidly enforced on the union of "white" with the "colored'' lement, but the social customs have sanctioned them, to a great extent, and the Catholic Church not only recognizes, but encourages these union?, and her inexorable dogmas compel tho husband to support and educate his offkpriig. We now proceed to portray the effects' of of this dianielricism on the colored" and hence the weaker race Among the French and Spanish settlers and their dependents, the conditio of the colored race, rather than its colot haa been tho ground of pppular prejqdjce. They regarded the slave and his offsprings an inferior class, because they were in a condition ol servitude, and not becauso they wero of a darker hue. In the North, and in States settled by the English, the prejudice was one of color, rather tban condition. In the former case the emancipated was as much respected as he who could trace his genealogy to a remote ancestry of freemen, but in the latter, the slightest admixture of African blood consigned its possessor to hopeless dogredation, without regard to respectability, wealth or moral worth. After the memorable revolution in San Domingo, a great number of Creoles ond freemen of eoler, took up their residence in Louisiana, partially in ew Olcaas. Many of them were men of culture, wealth and intellectual ability, a majority of them were

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owners of extensive properties in that Ieland, and had been educated in the most eminent cholastic ' institutions of Frinc-i. The French was their native tongue and their early associations had been among that Irmly magnanimous people, who are universally admired and esteemed for its total exemption from those unwarrantable prejudices which tarnish the otherwise fair escutcheon of tho American people.. Prior to the Dominican emigration, the subject of education among the free colored people of Louisiana had been much neglected, and it was somewhat humiliating to their native pridoto find themselves objects of contempt by these polished emigrant?, whose wealth and influence at once opened to them the hitherto inaccessible privileges of social intercourse with the French element of th? province. Instead, however, of yielding to the sag gestions . of envy and jealousy, our own Creole population promptly inaugurated a system of education for their children which, in a short time manitestcd a most marked improvement in the moral aud mental status of both parent and child, and iu due time many of their own sons were pent to France to be educated, whence they returned to assume poaitiou of honor and emolument in their native provir.co, and hence in the year 1.79c, there were no less than 2,000 colored Creoles in the province who had received a liberal foreign education, and became both an ornament and an honor to their race. In fact, it was generally conceded that no other American colony could boast of so refined and influential a class of colored freemen as that which adornoi the professional, tho mercantile and the agricultural employments of Louisiana. Having thus shown the positions of two classes of the early inhabitants of the pro vince of Louisiana, it now remains to refer to a third class, of whom wo have hitherto had but a few brief glimpses, namely, the slaves of Africans, whom, at the period of the French revolution of 1780, had become very numerou?, and a regular article of commerce between the white planters and their colored progeny, which, of course, rendered the social chasm between the blacks and their semi-colored free brethren much wider than that existing between the first two classes. In consequence of this state of socirtl antagonism, the friends of the slave in France applied to the Nationol Assembly as . early as 1783, lor a charter establishing schools m the colony for the education of the children oftheelaYes, Ijafayette, Brissot, Uarnave and Gregoire eloquently advocated the measure, and were finally successful in obtaining a decree to that end. Unhappily, before the system could be reduced to thorough practice, the revolution broke out in France which threw the colony into such disorder that tho schools were abacdoned. Its friends in the mother country had either fallen upon tho insatiable guillotine, or lingered in gl.-oniy dungeons, atd when the 'Directory" was established it was found that Napoleon Bonaparte nad already made overtures to the American government for a cession of Louisiana to the United States. Th'iB negotation was consumated in 1803, from which time American law became the sovereign ruUr of the colony, and. of course, exerted its utmost power to eradicate the good seed which had been sown for the elevation of it huroam property. In spite, however, of the preventive measures adopted by ib.? new proprietors, tho slaves had during tbe.brief period of pupilage, became sensible of th value of education, and the advantage to Ld derived from it,' to determine the more daring anong them to obtain it at 11 hazzarda. For this purpose the plantations of a p.firiah or township would bü cnvHi-?',d,aid,thicij lA whom they could confide wr in vitd t attend a .school" in any locator, whore absolute secrecy could b'i necured. Sometimes these schools j wore held in reuvte swamps, cane-brakes or other places, whero, perhaps, the foot of the white man ' had never trod. In such cases, a number of logs would be formed into a hollow square, a pine firo built in the center, and the dusky pupils disposed around upon the log seats, prepared for the purpose, then 'Le Alaitre d'ecole" would engage in "teaching the young idea how to shoot," until He chanticker" announced the approaching morn, when each saholar must be found at his post of, labor, or receive a sufficient number of '-stripes," minus the Mstars,r to induce "an explanation of his delinquency. Whenever the weather or other cause' prevented this nomadic ''pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" the "school-rccm would be removed to stable lofts or other fjUrilla" lrt"ati-i mtAva ff n Vt1-

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ing the seam3 between the boards, the pupils would seat themselves on bundles of fodder, old harness, horse collars, or on the floor as circumstances permitted. Then with a konk-ahell filled with lard or oil, and a cotton wick inserted as their only 'chandelier," which was held in turn, the outcasts would pore over their tattered "Child's First Primers" until "one," Hwo" and "throe" in the morning, and those who lived at a distance seldom closed their oyes on "school nights " but spent the entire period of "darkness" in the clandestine pursuit of "light." For obvious reasons these schools never began before ten or eleven o'clock at night, nor in any event until the "sentinels" on picket-duty reported at "head quarters" that every white man's eyes were closed in slumber. to bi continued. ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE. Walnnt II HI.; Gojd Dye, Maj. Gen. Winild Scott Hancock, hero of Gettysburg, etc., Jamas A. Garfield, scholar, orator, Statesman, Christian. Let all good men rejoice thaj tbe time has come when such a man wan bo elected President of iho United States. Tie wedding of Miss Sutie Washington and Mr. G. Carroll last Wednesday night was one of the grandest affairs of the season. The ceremony was pronounced bv Rev! Air. Scott. Osborn Farly, Herman Richison, W. 11. Mundell and .Mrs. D. Swanson attended Sunday-school last Sunday at the little church around the corner. Elder A. J. Darnell of the First Baptist Church preaches to tho larger colored congregation on the Hill. .1. W. Haskins and W. H. Baltimore attended the temperance meeting at the Hall on Mcilillian street, 'ast Sunday. Miss Mary Weave: relumed home this wek from Morrow, Ohio, much improved in health. Gen. II ami -ck Dear Sir; That you may have a long and happy life and a home at last in heaven, U the sinoere prayer of the Walnut IlilU Correspondent of the Leader. The tfundsy-school of the Tiivt Baptist Church now uses the Berean Lesson Papers. Mr. W. T. Peyton, one of the editors of the Louisville Bulletin, and Principal of tho Western schools of that citv, is' a son of Iev V. A. Peyton, Superintendent of the A. M. E. Sunday-school. The colored men voted early at the polls, and some of our good women voted often on the'r knees, JohnQ wens loft this week for Christian, burg, Va. to visit his mother whom he has not seen lor sixteen years. Quarterly meeting on Sunday at the A. M. E. Church. fciJer M. M. Smith of Lockland, will hold bid quarterly meeting Nov l4. At 3 o'clock last Sunday Rev. W. II. Franklin, A. B. preached at F.lder Darnell's Church. Mrs. Rachel Porter returned last week from a pleasant visit to Xenia. Miss Ida M. Bishop ef Lima Ohio, a young lady of fine talents . artd education having finished her course In the Oberlin Musical Conservatory is teaching at Toledo, Ohio. Rev. J. AY. Barber formerly associate editor of ihe National Tribune ofCambridge, Ohio, ia now stationed at Gailipolis. B.esure to got next week's Leader, my friend. Miss IUUic Washington is quite sick. Miss America Clarke is Secretary of th Temperance Societh. ' Gen. Hancock Dear Sir: Tho Cincinnati Enquirer says that your party was beatea by us nogroes. Well, General, that it should be so is in accordance with the very nature of things. Your paty has beaten to death thousands1 of our people, and, now. you see, General we are getting even with you. This you see, General, is a fine illuftration of poatic- justice. Things will come home, you know. The mills of the gods grind slowly Uut tney Jriod ex ceedingly fine. Thejunior'a High scUocd hs a.boat 65 students., M'ss E;lia Weaver ras at Sunday-school looking as v?eU at usual. Mrs, fchoda : Hall was a"ble to attend ohuych last Sund iy, ' Rev. Mr, Clay of tl Avondale Baptiit Church live? on Qbwuut stmt.

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