Sweet Chariot from Dunlap, Kansas • 4

ings and discourses were plain and simple; his thoughts reached upward and forward in mortal grandeur. Parents are somewhat at fault in keeping pupils away from school, and in causing them to be tardy. If parents knew the value of education, the would wake the children early and teach them the great lesson of being on time. Here is a picture of one of the Academy boys who was always on time. the Genius oj Universal Emancipation.

He commenced to issue the paper with six subscribers, got his printing done at Steubenville, Ohio, and carried the first issue home on his back. In the meantime, Osburn had sold the Philanthropist, and it had been removed to Jonesboro, Tenn. Thither, eight hundred miles into the domain of slaver-, Lundy removed with his family. Here he learned the art of printing, and here he continued to issue the Genius, which had taken the place of the Philanthropist for three years. About January, 1824, the first American for the abolition of slavery was held in Philadelphia.

Lundy attended, and as a result of his investigations, he determined to remove his office to Baltimore. In the following summer, with satchel upon his back, he started to retrace his steps across the mountains toward the home of his youth. On his way he made his first public address on abolition, and before he reached Baltimore, October 1st, he had organized some fifteen abolition societies. Ten days after his arrival. No.

1, Vol. of the Genius appeared, and a year later it became a weekly journal. During his second year in Baltimore he visited the Island of Hayti to find homes for slaves whose freedom he had secured. By the kindness of his daughter the writer possesses an interesting letter written to him while in the West Indies. During one of his trips, his wife gave birth to twin daughters and died.

When he arrived off the boat on his return home, it was night. Ht made his way through darkness and rain to his home. Tell, if you can, his pain and sorrow when he found his house deserted and learned from his neighbors that his wife was in the grave and his children sent some-where among stranger? for keeping. But in his anguish that night he made a solemn vow to continue his labors in the cause of freedom till i death. Can the colored people forget such faithful service? In Lundy traveled eastward to New York, where he met Mr.

Tap: an. Mr. Goodell and other leading Abolitionists; and thence to Bos- ton, where he met. in a boarding 1 use. Win.

Llovd Garrison, and so tins young man's spirit against slavery that he went to Bal-timoie and took charge of the Genius in Mr. Lundy's abs nee. but was shortly attested and sent to jail for abtiM ig slave-traders. Lundy te-tur. ed to Ha'timore.

paid Garrison's fine and got him out of prison. With this experience Mr. Garrison returned to Boston and started the L.ibta-torm which lived till victory over slavery was recorded upon its pages, Janu.iry I- 1863 But the mm and the journal that rekindled the spirit of the patriots and heroes of the Revolution, that set the Declaration of Independence in a new light before the careless eyes of a new generation, and that called down again from the throne of God the spirit of universal liberty, moral devotion and humanity to man, were Benjamin Lundy and the Genius oj Universal Emancipation. Mr. Lundy was a miracle of energy and diligence.

He traveled mostly on foot, and often carried his tools on his back, so that when he was in need of money he could stop and work at his trade He often walked forty miles and delivered three addresses on the same day. He was a very small man, about 5 feet tall, with light hair and clear blue eyes. His face was most expressive and winning. His mind was not brilliant, but his moderate gifts made him the better qualified to approach without offending the partisans of slavery. He excelled in perseverance and high moral purpose.

He visited Canada to observe the condition of the exiles from slavery in that cold clime. He visited Hayti and Mexico, each twice, to secure lands for freedmen from the United States. He greatly desired to demonstrate, by a colony near at hand, that free colored labor would be bet. ter and more profitable than slave labor. He removed his office tD Washington City for a time; thence to the new Abolition Hall erected in Philadelphia.

But just when he hoped his wanderings were ended, and lie would have a home tor the rest of his days, this fine new hall was burned to the ground by a mob of pro-slavery men. liy this work of Satan he lost everything, and desiring to secure a home for his children, he removed to the State of Illinois. There he secured some land, and prepared to issue his paper again, near where Rev. Lovejoy lost his life by a mob in the defence of a similar paper but a year or two before. All his plans were cut short, however, by an attack of fever, which led to his death the year he came West.

This was in 1S39. Thus died, at the age of -only fifty years, one of America's noblest sons. He gave the entire force of his life more precious than a world of gold tor the service of the colored people. His labors led to the organization of more than two hundred Abolition societies; he published the Genius of Universal Emancipation the first Abolition paper in the United States for twenty years; he traveled extensively, often going in disguise through the Gulf States, and ga' the country the heuefit ofhis careful observations; he secured a large grant of land in Mexico for the benefit of a colony of freedmen, but a war between the Mexican States prevented its occupation. His influence led other prominent men into the conflict with slavery- His writ- For the close of school on Friday before Christmas, the students of the Academy had arranged a very pleasant surprise for Prof.

Atchison and wife. Mr. McMillan made a speech acknowledging the services of Professor Atchison and presented him a fine gold-mounted watch-guard as a token of the gratitude of the school. Miss G. A Smith then came forward, and, in the name of the school, presented Mrs.

Atchison a finely bound Bible. It was a pleasant affair to pupils and teachers. It is well when education reaches the heart and makes people generous. "Sweet Chariot" is the musical name of a neat little paper that swings down on us from Dunlap, Morris county. As might be inferred from its name, it is published by a colored man, and seems to especial fy represent the Freed men's Academy, located at Dunlap.

The principal of this Academy is a friend of ours, a graduate of the University, Mr. Andrew Atchison, who has been engaged in the woik for several years. He is an earnest man, full of faith and steadfastness, and the school that he established among the 'exodusters" has made and is making a splendid record. Marion Record. A True Bill.

That there is no education wasted by the colored people may be seen from the following extract from an account book kept by a colored 'cook lady" in Austin, Texas. She insisted on handing in, every day, an itemized account of her purchases at the market: Osten, auuS 9teen. One 5 scent soop boan 10 seen tees. Tow 10 scent loves of bred 30 scentces. A Quamirs wuff of termaters 30 scentces.

Which makes one dollar and oteen scentces. Totally fl.00, 20 cts.