is question? Almost universally the
resort is to material agencies! The ordinary, and sometimes the
_extraordinary_ American is unable to see that the struggle of a
degraded people for elevation is, in its very nature, a warfare, and
that its main weapon is the cultivated and scientific mind.

Ask the great men of the land how this Negro problem is to be solved,
and then listen to the answers that come from divers classes of our
white fellow-citizens. The merchants and traders of our great cities
tell us--"The Negro must be taught to work;" and they will pour out
their moneys by thousands to train him to toil. The clergy in large
numbers, cry out--"Industrialism is the only hope of the Negro;" for
this is the bed-rock, in their opinion, of Negro evangelization! "Send
him to Manual Labor Schools," cries out another set of philanthropists.
"Hic haec, hoc," is going to prove the ruin of the Negro" says the Rev.
Steele, an erudite Southern Savan. "You must begin at the bottom with
the Negro," says another eminent authority--as though the Negro had been
living in the clouds, and had never reached the bottom. Says the
Honorable George T. Barnes, of Georgia--"The kind of education the Negro
should receive should not be very refined nor classical, but adapted to
his present condition:" as though there is to be no future for the
Negro.

And so you see that even now, late in the 19th century, in this land of
learning and science, the creed is--"Thus far and no farther", _i. e._
for the American black man.

One would suppose from the universal demand for the mere industrialism
for this race of ours, that the Negro had been going daily to dinner
parties, eating terrapin and indulging in champagne; and returning home
at night, sleeping on beds of eiderdown; breakfasting in the morning in
his bed, and then having his valet to clothe him daily in purple and
fine linen--all these 250 years of his sojourn in this land. And then,
just now, the American people, tired of all this Negro luxury, was
calling him, for the first time, to blister his hands with the hoe, and
to learn to supply his needs by sweatful toil in the cotton fields.

Listen a moment, to the wisdom of a great theologian, and withal as
great philanthropist, the Rev. Dr. Wayland, of Philadelphia. Speaking,
not long since, of the "Higher Education" of the colored people of the
South, he said "that this subject concerned about 8,000,000 of our
fellow-citizens, among whom