By this crucifixion of feeling through which those workers have passed, and by their self-denying endurance of hardness, they too, in no small sense, have been making expiation for the wrongs done the slaves.  Their missionary instinct also forms the necessary spiritual complement of the aggressive genius of the Puritan civilization which is now taking possession where its sword had cleared the way.  Their advance in the good opinion of the best people of the South is also a striking evidence of their high character and intelligence.  No class of Northern people going South have done so much to make the North respected as the missionaries, and none are doing more to lessen the danger of transition from the old state of things to the new.  Going, not as “carpet-baggers,” but as citizens, to be identified with the moral reconstruction of the South, they translate there the real spirit of the North, and represent the spiritual side of the new life which is going into that fair portion of our own dear country.  By the peculiar people to whom they especially go, and who prove to have a natural affinity for Puritan ideas and institutions, they are doing more than any others to set up, not a New England in the South, but a New South, wherein shall be rejuviant the principles of that civilization which was planted at Plymouth Rock.

Joseph E. Roy.

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Expulsion of negroes from Marion, Arkansas.

It is not our custom to publish details of alleged outrages upon the colored people at the South.  We have no wish to stir up strife by recalling memories of the past, or by giving incidents of recent aggression against the helpless.  But this case in Marion is free from bloody details and is a simple illustration of the determination of the white people to maintain their sway in the South.

The simple facts in the case are, that in Crittenden County, Arkansas, of which Marion is the county town, the population is chiefly colored, the ratio being seven negroes to one white man.  For several years the office of Judge of the County and Probate Court, and the Clerk and under officers of the court, were colored men.  The more important county offices were held by white men.  On a given day, fifty or more heavily-armed white men appeared at the county seat and drove from their offices and homes the colored officers named above, together with the colored local doctor, the lawyer, the schoolmaster of the colored school, the editor of the colored newspaper and a number of other prominent colored citizens.

The farther details of the transaction are given in a thoughtful and calm article in a recent number of The Independent by Rev. B.A.  Imes, the colored minister of the church at Memphis, Tenn., under the care of this Association.  We give below all of the article that relates to the facts: 

The Crittenden county outrage.