11} yours. And not only these men who fought at the end of a gun
to make you free have given their lives for you, but some of us from
the South, who stood with breasts bared to the bayonets of those who
were marching forward to the support of a great principle. We are
anxious now to do all we can for your advancement. But we of the white
race may do our best. After all we have done for you, it is as when
a man goes with a friend to the brink of the grave; he can go no
further. There is a limit beyond which we cannot go for you, no matter
how great our interest in you. Some man with a skin darker than mine
must take up the work and carry it on."

He said not a word about politics, but later in the day the question
was put to him privately:

"Doctor, suppose these negroes to whom you talked awhile ago become
what you urged them to be--useful, reliant, well-to-do citizens--what
will be their status politically? Will the white people, with all this
progress of the negro in education, in industry, in independence and
in the acquisition of property, acknowledge his political rights?"

"They'll have to, sir," was the prompt and emphatic reply. "This
present condition of affairs can't go on. We know that. As the negro
becomes qualified we've got to admit him to full citizenship."

W.B.S.

* * * * *

WHICH WILL BE THE UNDER DOG IN THE FIGHT?

As a member of a Boston Raymond Excursion in January last, I spent
three or four days in New Orleans. The President and a Trustee of
Straight University visited our _side-tracked train_, and invited us
to call at the University. Quite a number accepted the invitation, and
in addition to being shown through the buildings, we were entertained
by the students, under the supervision of the President and
Professors, with hymns, songs and plantation music, with explanation
by the President of the course of studies and progress of the
students. At the close of the reception, it fell to my lot to
acknowledge the civility shown us, which I did in the following words:

In behalf of visitors from the Raymond Excursion, it gives me great
pleasure to express to the officers and students of Straight
University our thanks for the interesting reception we have received
at their hands. We have come from a long way off, for sight-seeing,
and the study of the country, but here we find something more than the
wild mountains, and desolate plains, and border towns, that are to
make