im to make greater efforts to reach the
independence of the white man.

Having lived in both sections of our country, I am prepared to say
that the Negro can do better towards working out his destiny in the
South than in the North.

SECOND PAPER.

DOES THE NORTH AFFORD TO THE NEGRO BETTER OPPORTUNITIES OF MAKING A
LIVING THAN THE SOUTH?

BY PROF. W. H. COUNCILL.

[Illustration: Prof. W. H. Councill]

PROF. W. H. COUNCILL, PH. D.

W. H. Councill was born in Fayetteville, N. C., in 1848, and
was carried to Alabama by the traders in 1857, through the
famous Richmond Slave Pen. In Alabama he worked in the
fields with the other slaves. He is a self-made man, having
had only few school advantages. He attended one of the first
schools opened by kind Northern friends at Stevenson, Ala.,
in 1865. Here he remained about three years, and this is the
basis of his education. He has been a close and earnest
student ever since, often spending much of the night in
study. He has accumulated quite an excellent library, and
the best books of the best masters are his constant
companions, as well as a large supply of the best current
literature. By private instruction and almost incessant
study, he gained a fair knowledge of some of the languages,
higher mathematics, and the sciences. He was Enrolling Clerk
of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1872-4. He was
appointed by President Grant Receiver of the Land Office for
the Northern District of Alabama in 1875. He was founder and
editor of the "Huntsville Herald" from 1877 to 1884. He
founded the great educational institution, Normal, of which
he is president, and has been for a quarter of a century. He
read law and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Alabama in
1883. But he has never left the profession of teaching,
although flattering political positions have been held out
to him. He has occupied high positions in church and other
religious, temperance, and charitable organizations, and has
no mean standing as a public speaker.

Prof. Councill has traveled quite extensively in Europe, and
was warmly received and entertained by the Hon. W. E.
Gladstone and His Majesty, King Leopold, of Belgium.

And thus by earnest toil, self-denial, hard study, he has
made himself, built up one of the largest