This policy would have avoided unhappy friction between the races, and, what is more important, it would have offered a powerful inducement to every colored man to fit himself for the honor and grave responsibility of full citizenship.

At this time one of the noblest efforts made by wise philanthropy is that of educating, elevating and evangelizing our colored fellow countrymen of the South.
To help the negro to help himself, is the key-note of these efforts.

The time is coming--yea, it has come already--when to the name of Abraham Lincoln, the grateful negro will add the names of their best benefactor, General Samuel C.Armstrong (the founder of Hampton Institute) and Booker T.Washington..