believe that the freedman's case has as yet been thus
settled. Moral questions will not be suppressed. If ignored in the
domain of private morals, they "spring up and expand once more into
questions of public equity; neglected as matters of public equity,
they blossom into questions of national interest; and despised in
that guise, presently yield the red fruits of revolution." On the
basis of such a principle, he argues that there will be no quiet to
the agitation until the freedman is a free man in all respects. And
he is right. We commend our readers to secure this article if
possible and read it. They will be amply repaid.

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We hope none of our readers will fail to read Prof. Crogman's
address, published in this number of the MISSIONARY. Prof. Crogman is
a graduate of our Atlanta University, and is now a Professor in the
Clark University, a school for colored youth in Atlanta sustained by
Methodists. The splendid tribute he pays the teachers who went South
to teach the colored people is very handsomely done--and it is just.

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And still the votes are coming in. Subscriptions for THE AMERICAN
MISSIONARY last month number nearly one-half the total subscriptions
of the preceding year. Most heartily do we thank our friends. There
are thousands yet to be heard from. We know fifty cents is not a very
convenient sum to send, but we beg our readers to remember that a
dollar answers for two years. _Vote early and often._ In politics,
this is not a commendable motto. In the peculiar election we are just
now trying to carry through, we put special emphasis on the _vote
early_, and yet do not object to the vote often--that is, if the
voters feel like it.

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A SANITARY VIEW OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

From the time when it was made manifest that man by the sweat of his
brow must provide his bread, there has been occasion for industrial
education. Its ameliorating consequences is a good reason for it.
Indirectly, at least, it has the example of the Carpenter's Son for
its authority; His mighty works were for the most part in relief of
physical wants. An industrial education serving such ends has an
unquestionable warrant.

In the August number of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY we gave statistics of
mortality of colored people in several Southern cities. For the last
week in May the number of deaths per 1,000