other slave states further south. Free Negro children often attended the white schools. Instruction was given them everywhere, often by members of their master's family, even in violation of the existing slave laws. And where education was totally denied them they still possessed their native capabilities, their natural shrewdness, which no master could pluck out of their soul. CHIVALROUS nature. SPIRITS. Chivalrous spirits often manifested themselves in their intercourse with their superiors, especially when treated with kind consideration by them. Their faithfulness was often beyond computation. Let us relate just one case here to illustrate our point: In South Carolina we came across seven sons who own seven farms. Back of these farms is a bit of history interesting to all students of human Before the emancipation of the slaves the owner of the father of these seven sons was challenged to fight a duel. The old slave heard of this, and knowing his master was a poor shot, went the night before and killed the man who made the challenge. Upon investigation it was found that the old Negro had done this on his own accord. Of course there was no way to save his life, and he never tried to save it. After slaying the would-be slayer of his master, he immediately made the confession and gave him self up to be hanged. We abhor the crime; we revolt against it; but the fact remains uppermost that the poor old slave, by weighing his life and the life of his master in the balance, decided that the life of his master was of more importance than that of the poor old chattel he was. When the master died he willed to each of the old slave's children a nice little farm, and we have heard it said that he did a just deed. THEY ARE BOUND TO RISE.-Cases of a similar nature could be multiplied indefinitely; and some of the most heroic deeds done in the olden times were unrecorded and unrewarded. Thus we maintain that a truly worthy class of men, bond or free, of whatever color, will rise sooner or later and come to the top, and will not be downed. We recently read the account of an old northern soldier, who was all over this country during the war. He speaks of the underground railroad and especially of the remarkable accurate knowledge displayed by the colored people, about "Lincum and his sojes," during the war. Knowing these people we can well imagine that every word spoken by southern whites, concerning the then important question, was carefully stowed away by slaves, who made every effort to hear and learn, absorb and repeat what they heard. Thus knowledge of existing conditions spread, opinions were Southern formed, compared and passed on. whites, who were opposed to slavery, did something to help spread a knowledge of things among them. Now, if these people had such a fair knowledge of "Lincum and his sojes," so many years ago, what knowledge of Lincum and his sojes ought not their children possess today? The more we investigate this matter the more are we convinced that there is a process of evolution going on among these people that cannot be ignored or suppressed; and if our colored reader believes that this process ought to be carelessly considered, with regard to a better understanding and closer relation with the white race, he had better deport himself to the haunts of his fathers and shed his clothes of civilization in the jungle. MAY AS WELL CONFESS IT.-We (North and South) may as well make an honest confession: The Negro, the Afro-American, the Colored Caucasian, are fast outgrowing all bounds of what a white populace in America, deep down in its heart, believes they ought to be. Among them are organizations of tremendous influence and binding character. The idea, if entertained by northerners, that the Negro is not organized, cannot make a united effort in any line if he desires, is not true. When the best interests of his people are at stake, he can, if he choose, stand united, organized, ready for an emergency if it should arise. There is not only organization, but a tremendous amount of brain and executive ability back of it. NOT WEAK AND HELPLESS.-Outwardly he may yet appear weak and helpless, but in years hence, when ignorance and the Leopard's Spots have entirely disappeared, we shall see him in full possession of his aspiring rights. It is not the church or religion, which has done and is still doing a great deal, that has alone wrought these conditions. Schools bring him enlightenment, and fraternal organizations, such as Free Masonry, Odd Fellowship, etc., have taught him the trick of how to cement his best interests. Few whites have any idea of the universal understanding, the dominant current of interest, which prevails among many of them. They may be despised, abused, misused and ignored, by the class just referred to, but as to weakness in many sections of the South they are not to be considered as weak and helpless as may be supposed, or as may appear to a casual observer on the surface. WILL NOT SUBMIT TO WILES OF WHITE RELATIVE-They are by nature not a vicious, treacherous people; on the contrary we find them rather open-hearted, kindly disposed, sympathetic. For example, we will relate and |