So it seems to me as though the problem were being slowly yet truly solved, and by and by the Negroes will be lifted up on the same footing with other people.  That is the only thing we want.  We are not fighting for social equality, or this or that thing.  No intelligent Negro has any desire to put the South into the hands of the Negroes for rule.  No man who is intelligent could wish the government of the South to come into the hands of any ignorant and inexperienced people, whether white or black, and that is what we are as a mass.  But we do want recognition, so far as we have those qualities that would cause the same thing to be granted to us if we were not Negroes.  This is the only thing that we ask for, and this is what is withheld from us.  There are those even in the South who are willing to give us this recognition, and little by little they are getting over some of their prejudice and are inclined to recognize us so far as we have a right to their respect.  Of course there are those who are determined to keep the Negro down; but these are coming over slowly but surely, and by and by there will be in this land no Negro problem.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D.E.  EMERSON, SECRETARY.

In our February number, in mentioning the special work of some of the Woman’s Organizations, we referred to the four teachers of the Woman’s Home Missionary Association.  These have been assigned them from the ranks of the American Missionary Association additional to their former work in the Southern field.  They having transferred to the American Missionary Association their former work, have now eleven missionaries under our auspices.

We also failed to mention in our February number the Woman’s Union of Iowa, which is rendering us so substantial aid in the support of our Beach Institute at Savannah, Georgia.

And here comes yet another pledge—­the Union of Kansas starting in with three hundred dollars toward the support of a missionary.  Nebraska has also come forward with a pledge of a definite amount.

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The State Unions organized in the South have begun their growth in the right direction.  The Union of Louisiana shows its right to live by the following words from its Treasurer:  “I have just had the privilege of sending off three postal orders, $8.00 to the A.M.A., $7.00 to the A.H.M.S., and $3.00 to the W.B.M.I., which at least is a beginning.  We hope the little acorn planted last April may yet be a grand live oak.”

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The following from one of the auxiliaries of the Union of Tennessee and Kentucky is also cheering.  “The inclosed $6.00 is an offering of our Ladies’ Missionary Society of Trinity Congregational Church to the American Missionary Association, the first fruits, financially, of the little organization.  Be assured the small gift is accompanied with large-hearted gratitude for the work of the Association in elevating the colored people, and earnest prayers for the continued success of the Association in its beneficent work in every field.”