the church or the house door on the negro."

There are doubtless persons in the Republic who are disposed to think
that, so far as education is concerned, Nashville, the capital and
largest town of Tennessee, is the paradise of the negroes. The place is
famous for its schools, churches and colleges, Fisk College and some
others ranking as universities. The coloured race are in the minority.
The fact tends to promote their own peace and happiness, that they are
not overmuch fascinated by politics; and, according to common report,
the coloured people in the town are more eager than others to obtain an
education. Three great colleges, one named after Roger Williams, have
been founded for their special benefit. A certain small proportion of
negroes may advance to higher scholarship, but the main part do not get
beyond what used to be called grammar-learning; while it is a most happy
thing, both for whites and blacks, that the industrial programme of
General Armstrong and Booker Washington is in large measure carried out.
As a writer in the _Century Magazine_ remarks:--

"All boarding pupils are required to devote an hour a day to such forms
of labour as may be required of them, and the cleanest school building I
ever saw is Livingstone Hall of Fisk University, which is kept clean by
the pupils. A certain number of young men at Fisk learn printing every
year, and others will henceforth learn carpentry and other useful
handicrafts; while the young women are taught nursing the sick and the
rules of hygiene, cooking, dressmaking and plain sewing. The course of
industrial training in Central Tennessee College and Roger Williams
University is about the same."

The majority of those who are thus educated become teachers of their
own people, and in this service there are plenty of openings for them.
The negroes seem to be as amenable to the civilising influences of
education as any race with whom they might be compared, and in Nashville
they are peculiarly fortunate in their teachers. You may meet with
thriving negro business men whose honesty and tact are much commended by
the whites. They see that the acquisition of property gives them a good
standing in the world, so that they may sometimes need a little
wholesome advice to check their excessive eagerness to become rich. Then
the character of their well-furnished and comfortable houses shows how
completely they have been raised from the squalid one-room life of their
former c