with the whites who revolt at the idea of Negro officers, whether they are elected by a majority of citizens or not.  The whites seem bent on revolution to prevent the force and effect of Negro majorities.  Whether public sentiment will continue to endorse these local revolutions is the question that can be answered only by time.  Just so long as the Negro’s citizenship is written in the Constitution and he believes himself entitled to it, just so long will he seek to exercise it.  The white man’s revolution will be needed every now and then to beat back the Negro’s aspirations with the Winchester.  The Negro race loves progress, it is fond of seeing itself elevated, it loves office for the honor it brings and the emoluments thereof, just as other progressive races do.  It is not effete, looking back to Confucius; it is looking forward; it does not think its best days have been in the past, but that they are yet to come in the future; it is a hopeful race, teachable race; a race that absorbs readily the arts and accomplishments of civilization; a race that has made progress in spite of mountains of obstacles; a race whose temperament defied the worst evils of slavery, both African and American; a race of great vitality, a race of the future, a race of destiny.

In closing this resume of this little work it is proper that I should warn the younger members of the race against despondency, and against the looseness of character and habits that is singularly consequential of a despondent spirit.  Do not be discouraged, give up, and throw away brilliant intellects, because of seeming obstacles, but rather resolve to BE SOMETHING AND DO SOMETHING IN SPITE OF OBSTACLES.

“It was not by tossing feather balls into the air that the great Hercules gained his strength, but by hurling huge bowlders from mountain tops ‘that his name became the synonymn of manly strength.’  So the harder the struggle the greater the discipline and fitness.  If we cannot reach success in one way, let us try another.  ’If the mountain will not come to Mahomet let Mahomet go to the mountain.’”

[Illustration:  UNCLE SAM AND HIS NEW ACQUISITIONS.—­(N.Y.  WORLD.)]

THE SOUTH IS A GOOD PLACE FOR THE NEGRO TO LIVE, provided, however, the better class of citizens will rise up and demand that lynchings and mobs shall cease, and that the officers of the law shall do their duty without prejudice.  The only way to suppress mob violence is to make punishment for the leaders in it, sure and certain.  The reason we have mobs is because the leaders of them know they will not be punished.  The enforcement of the law against lynchers will break it up.