f the constitutional amendment
that places the Negro on the same legal plane with the white
citizen of this country. We do not doubt the supreme and binding
authority of this legislature. We mistake the temper of the
American people if a blaze of indignation is not kindled by this
outrage from the Atlantic to the Pacific."

From _Frank Leslie's Weekly_:

"Under these provisions no citizen of Florida, it will be noted,
can under certain conditions educate his child. He is excluded
absolutely from the best educational institutions in the State if
these admit pupils of both white and colored parentage. The
defiance of the law was in obedience to a definite determination
on the part of the American Missionary Association to make a
distinct test of the statute."

From the _Boston Daily Advertiser_:

"The Sheats law in Florida was passed through the influence of
malice, prejudice, and partisan venom. Efforts have been made in
other Southern States to perpetrate similar outrages, but for the
most part without avail. The better public sentiment all over the
South is strongly against such meanness. This better sentiment has
asserted itself successfully elsewhere, and we do not doubt that
it will do so very soon in Florida."

From the _Boston Journal_:

"The American Missionary Association will be sustained by an
enlightened public sentiment in fighting to the last resort the
outrageous Florida law which makes it a crime to teach colored and
white pupils in the same school."

These comments are but samples of the sentiment which comes to the
Association respecting this attempt to challenge the constitutional
amendment which came with the emancipation of the colored people from
slavery. But now there is

A SECOND CHAPTER.

After the teachers were arrested it was supposed that this would be the
end of the persecution until the statute should be tested by the courts.
Accordingly they returned to the work in the school as before. On the 4th
of May the Sheriff was instructed by the State Attorney to inquire into
this continued violation of the law, and if he found the school to be
going on as before, to arrest and rearrest, as long as the school should
be continued. In consequence the school was forced to close its sessions,
as the teachers were informed that they would be arrested over and over
again, and that n