For the man who owns the soil largely owns and dictates to the men who are compelled to live upon it and derive their subsistence from it.

The colored people of the South recognize this fact.

And if there is any one idiosyncrasy more marked than another among them, it is their mania for buying land.

They all live and labor in the cheerful anticipation of some day owning a home, a farm of their own.

As the race grows in intelligence this mania for land owning becomes more and more pronounced.