THE NEED OF NEW IDEAS AND NEW AIMS. M
to bear upon this enormity. No people can be lifted
up by others to grand civility. The elevation of a
people, their thorough civilization, comes chiefly from
internal qualities. If there is no receptive and living
quality in them which can be evoked for their elevation,
then they must die ! The emancipation of the black
race in this land from the injustice and grinding'tyranny
of their labor servitude is to be effected mainly by the
development of such personal qualities, such thrift,
energy and manliness, as shall, in the first place, raise
them above the dependence and the penury of their
present vassalage, and next, shall bring forth such man¬
liness and dignity in the race as may command the
respect of their oppressors.
To bring about these results we need intelligent men
and women, so filled with philanthropy that they will
go down to the humblest conditions of their race, and
carry to their lowly huts and cabins all the resources of
science, all the suggestions of domestic, social and
political economies, all the appliances of school, and
industries, in order to raise and elevate the most abject
and needy race on American soil. If the scholarly and
enlightened colored men and women care not to devote
themselves to these lowly but noble duties, to these
humble but sacred conditions, what is the use of their
schooling and enlightenment? Why, in the course of
Providence, have they had their large advantages and
their superior opportunities?
3. I bring to your notice one other requireme. of
the black race in this country, and th?t is th v™d of a
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