page_0003

having been spent, as is the case with the most
of new beginners, in attending to matters not
so immediately connected with their trade. Yet,
though incredible as it may seem in this short
space of time, he has pursued his studies to that
perfection that he is now enabled to take as
true and correct a likeness as one might reason-
ably expect from an old and experienced artist,
and but a few years more of study, if increasing
at the same ration, no master mind in this, or
even the old world, will dare question his supe-
riority to the vast majority of professional
Artists, though their accomplishments and quali-
fications be ever so great. So, Mr. Editor, we
have colored Artists; and, in fact, we have men
filling, or at least, that are capable of filling al-
most any and every station in life of which it
is the privilege of man to aspire. Hence, then,
where is the inferiority? Our pulpits and our
rostrums speak forth in thundering tones of
eloquence; the fame of our orators is broad
cast over the entire land; multitudes hang in
breathless silence upon their lips, while our
poets vie with the shepherds of Judea, in pro-
nouncing anthems of praise to the God of the
universe.

Yours for Equality,

GEORGE WEIR.