From The People

To llie Editor of the Aun Arbor C'ourler: Dear Sin : - I have noticed i a recent numlier of the Courikk 1111 extract froni tli! Cleveland Leader, whicli, in its tuin, li ui it as kii extract trom the MmislirM Slueld mil Banner, a democratie paper publMud in Olilo, entitled "How do colored voters like this." There ni I time (bef ore 1 had educition and ooninion sense enmijfh to look upon aml consider such rubid and inlinite-iin illy smal1, mean utterances with tlie pity tor the atlthof, lofty contempt for li is sentiment, :iinl Christian charity Inch snch ungentlemauly remarks deserve,) when niy feellnjfs would have been comtderably hurt by even a rehcar.sal of the low editorial elap-trap to which the editora of the lower orders of the democratie mináis resort, as a folorn hope by which he extreme, radical, oMtiíae principies of the democratie party may snrvive the carnaje of civil war, and gajii unlimited afceiidency in the land of their germilation and spontaneous production. Kut line for such juvenile weakness hai lonjf ince past, while the mental lijfht of the lineteenth century has driven such Ijrnlficanl llttlenwaof iplrlt to JU nttWi a.i.-s. and beneatb the wheeli t iis ¦ hariot l progre'i ooucbed to the , ealh agony llie loathonu; nptile of Interen! prejudlre; wliteb, Hke the veneboih rnttleanake wl'b 'lls deatli-wound. Ml only vent t malies by his-inji at lis Mintiera, and buteti It ""' oemli by Iriving deadly poUon ihrough It own Kxly. Buoh utieraiiccs ure at pur with he followlng wordt whlch [ beard npoken by a btulneai innn liere in Ann Arbor, iiimi't three year at, In reference totbf exounlonUU on the op&iel fu lt ni [ Ausr. eelebratlon. "It wooM h good hing," siiid lic "it the lxHt honlil ink ind uil tlio nlggeri thould gei dr"wntd." iomment or compkriaon I unnecessary. ; Mv humhle ailvlce to Mie Atricaii penple s to and htwtend well tbelr i ent ind excellent eduoatloiial atlyautairet - lOt iiiiu livcl cliiin Ilip purilying sentinenti oí a piaotleal Chrtotíaiiltyi and aytng alle all th vu-os, but praotlclng all llie virlnes of tin; Anjili-!S ixon p,1,., arlse to tbat elerated plaiie, and )reatbe the pure atmotphers wür all fTOod society In peifect liannony ; {lad Indeed to welooine all those wbo, eaytnfi tbeli Uut Inbind them, brlng lorth fruits mret tor repentitnce but alike lildepetHlent of tbew prcjudice, intlnuatloni or petty grudylnily glven monclary omoluiuents, eilhcr In piivute en Kilitloal lite. In iny eatlmation the llftt of a iiieiui raaa s iliictureü wltb au iriliallowod tuibid streiim, whicli is tilterad througb its every avenue froin it.tii si tlawn of intelligent leason, and may continue till lts consunnnxtlon. Iet iu truc man let the remarks of a mean man cause the least ripple on the current of bis lile. Kor the Afriean people the dark hour wliicli precedes the davvn is pist, and for prooi and precedent let me lefer the intelligent reader to the matuur in ivhïeli every blck man wortliy of reipecl la Ireatcil throughout llie entlre (OitiiK'tit of Europa, tVom wheuce bas origina tfd nemly all the culture of the modern ayeg, LooklBg back tliroagb the (¦ore of yi-ais past ibera la much th.it is inientive to rcnewed energy - looking forwanl there b DO ause tor dis(oiiragemciit, "glnoe o'l is God and rilit Is right 'l'lio right the liiy must win ; TO doutil wonld be disloyalty, To laliur would be sin." Youra in the cause of sobriety and n iiiisli.'irklcd man bood.