of Ed_., 1871, p.

353.] In seeking to show how these good results were obtained by the Negroes' cooeperative power and ability to supply their own needs, we are not unmindful of the assistance which they received.

To say that the colored people of Baltimore, themselves, provided all these facilities of education would do injustice to the benevolent element of that city.

Among its white people were found so much toleration of opinion on slavery and so much sympathy with the efforts for its removal, that they not only permitted the establishment of Negro churches, but opened successful colored schools in which white men and women assisted personally in teaching.

Great praise is due philanthropists of the type of John Breckenridge and Daniel Raymond, who contributed their time and means to the cause and enlisted the efforts of others.