true missionary zeal.  They have labored among innumerable trials and discouragements, in leaky, rickety log-cabins, without desks, without blackboards, maps, charts, or other educational necessities.  They have been eager and zealous workers for Sunday-schools, for temperance and righteous living, even when oftentimes opposed by the old-time preachers and church-officers of their own race, and sometimes opposed by the whites.  So the leaven has spread far and wide.  A great work has been accomplished by these schools and churches.  These ten years have seen a most decided uplifting of character and power among the colored race.  They are steadily acquiring property, building homes and improving their surroundings.  There are now over eighty newspapers published by colored men in the former slave States of the South.  Some of these are very creditable specimens in typography and in ability, and they have great and increasing influence.  The great majority of these editors and teachers have been educated in the A.M.A. schools.  There are also several colored lawyers, dentists and physicians, who have almost without exception been educated in our schools.  The direct results in our Congregational church work are not as plainly apparent, because most of the students when coming under our influence are already connected with other churches, or else their parents are, which amounts almost to the same thing.  So the Baptists and Methodists have reaped rich harvests through the training of their sons and daughters in our schools.  But these same denominations have been through this means greatly uplifted and purified, so that great good has come to all these strong and numerous churches, besides the steady growth of Congregationalism as well.  Rev. Dr. Curry, one of the leaders of Southern thought, said in a recent address before the Georgia Legislature, “The Congregationalists have done more than all other denominations for the education of the Negro—­they have done grandly, patriotically.”  To my eyes, which have been wide open during these ten years, there are most marked and gratifying signs of progress apparent in every way.  Far and near the leaven has spread, the older denominations are improving, the principles of industrial and Christian education are accomplishing untold good.

2.—­There is also manifest in these ten years a marked improvement in the feeling between the races.  When a man has lived for ten years in the South, he will begin to see how deeply rooted and immovably imbedded in the Southern mind is the sentiment of inborn contempt for the Negro.  This was greatly intensified and brought to the surface by the passions and prejudices of the war, with the volcanic upheavals and chaotic events of the “carpet-bag period” which followed.  Considering all these things, there has been in my opinion a remarkable loosening of the grasp of prejudice, a gradual melting of the caste principle, especially in the minds of the better class among the whites.  I say this