There is one thing more about it.  We have said that if the Negro is to have the free exercise of the ballot, he will insist on being voted for as well as voting.  If the Negroes have power to elect, they will wish to elect some of their own number.  They will not, and certainly they ought not to vote for a man simply because he is black.  They should vote for the best qualified man whether he is black or white.  If they have the power they will certainly elect some of their own number.  But this means, if it means anything good, that there shall be those of their own number who are qualified to hold office and to hold it honorably to themselves and usefully to their constituents and the country.  But this implies higher education to a good many colored people.  It will not do for them to have a few men educated as professional politicians.  May Heaven save them from the day when they will encourage the growth of such a class of men.  They will need to have a large number of educated men in the various walks of life, from whom suitable candidates may be selected, just as white men have.  But if they are to have such a class of men, adequate measures must be taken for their higher education, and those friends of the Negro who desire and help to educate him only in primary studies, while they are doing a great and essential work, are not doing all that is needed.  It may be all well enough to say to the Negro, “Work hard and keep out of politics.”  But if he is allowed to enter into politics freely, he will do it just as other men do.  There is enough human nature in him to secure that.  And any view of this matter that accepts the theory of a free ballot to the Negro, will be short-sighted, if it does not aim at the education of the mass of the Negroes as the mass of the white people are educated, and at the higher education of a proportionally large number of the Negroes.  If Congress and Mississippi Conventions should turn their attention in this direction, their work would be more significant than the efforts they are now making.

Notes From The West.
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By District-Secretary C.W.  Hiatt.

Sylvan, terraced, lacustrine; cottages by the score, gay in color, unique of design; people everywhere, chatty, erudite, artistic, processional; “round tables,” “leagues,” “societies” and “circles;” lectures, sermons, concerts and conferences—­a school, a church, a university—­all this, and throughout it all a steady pulse of religious heart and heartiness—­such is the Chautauquan Assembly of Bay View, Michigan.  One of the important features of this assembly is its annual missionary conference.  All denominations participate and the field of the world is brought vividly before the mind by the laborers from here and there.

An interesting testimony by a missionary from Singapore was to the effect that many of the most cultured and generous people he had ever met were Chinese.  By the aid of influential Mongolians—­though they were heathen—­he was once enabled to start a school which grew rapidly till hundreds were enrolled and a permanent religious center of great importance was established.  The whole account was thrilling.