carpet-bagger" is the decline of the school-master. Can it be that the enlightened Christian men of the South, our religious editors, our ministers, our bishops, South, can read such statistics without dismay and earnest purpose to remedy the sad decline? What say men like Bishop Keener, Dr. Summers, Dr. Haygood, and Dr. Sledd, to such portents? The speeches at the anniversary narrated in this report, delivered by Bishop Haven and Dr. Fowler, though too accusatory, perhaps, in their tone, are rare specimens of eloquence, and deal out thrilling truths and appalling facts in bold and brilliant style. The so-called exodus of the colored people westward is simply a clear announcement that the days of fugitive slave laws are past, and that the relations between the two races are, therefore, to be settled not by the arbitrary dictum of one race, but by fair compromise between the two. The movement, slow or rapid, is just the ordinary fact of a people going at their own will to the region where they can improve their condition; and its progress will be in the proportion of the clearness of the improvement. If Kansas or Arkansas affords to the negro better conditions than Mississippi or South Carolina, then thither he will and should go. If the emigrants' own statements be true, (and in these days their statements will be listened to with impartial regard,) that they are oppressed with exacting bargains, withheld education, and political disfranchisement and bloodshed, it is their right, as it is ours, to remove to sections where these disabilities have no existence. This free and natural mobility will, we cheerfully trust, prove favorable for all parties. It will withdraw the colored surplusage, both political and economical, from the overcrowded sections, and thereby leave a colored political minority, and a diminution of laborers which will increase the value of labor and secure fair compensation and equitable dealing. Politically, as our readers are aware, we do not approve the subjection of the intelligence and morals of a people under the predominance of an unintelligent and demoralized majority. Give to all the means of education, moral and intellectual, but give control to superior qualification. In this respect both sections, North and South, are wronging each other. The South has, through nearly our whole history, aimed to rule the North through its unintelligence; and at the present time the North has been endeavoring to base one corner of a great national party upon mainly the Southern negrodom. It has proved to the negro a crushing weight, and, so far as the party in the South is concerned, a disastrous failure. Now, the withdrawal of negro majorities from given sections will withdraw the apprehension of negro predominance, without disfranchising the negro. It will leave him a suffrage to be wielded in choosing the most favorable Caucasian rulers, without being himself, nomially, the ruler. The present physiological as well as historical inferiority of the colored race plainly indicates a humbler grade as a whole, yet without suppression of individual superiorities wherever exhibited. And physiology speaks as positively of the improvability of a race as of its inferiority. The prospects of the colored people are hopeful, and we do not hesitate to recognize their exodus as one step in their march of progress. Of this exodus there is no Moses; the only leader is Jehovah. Miscellaneous. Stories of the Old Dominion. From the Settlement to the End of the Revolution. By JOHN ESTEN COOKE, Author of "Leather Stocking and Silk," "Professor Pressensee," " Henry St. John, Gentleman," etc. 12mo., pp. 337. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1879. A very readable series of historical and biographical sketches of eminent Virginians, as John Smith, Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, John Marshal, and John Randolph. It is written for the author's two sons, but may be recommended to every body else's sons for perusal. Daniel Quorm and his Religious Notions. (Second Series.) By MARK GUY PEARSE, Author of "Mister Horn and His Friends." Illustrated by Charles Tresidder. 12mo., pp. 225. New York: Nelson & Phillips. Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden. 1879. Daniel is still quaint and wise and good; he is still very readable, but, perhaps, hardly as spontaneous as his first issues. The Second Coming of Christ considered in its Relation to the Millennium, the Resurrection, and the Judgment. By S. M. MERRILL, D.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 12mo., pp. 282. 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FRANKLIN SQUARE LIBRARY: A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress. By JUSTIN M'CARTHY.-An Eye for an Eye. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.-Basildon. By Mrs. ALFRED W. HUNT.-Coward Conscience. By FREDERICK M. ROBINSON.-Lady Lee's Widowhood. By CAPTAIN EDWARD B. HAWLEY, R.A.-That Artful Vicar. By the Author of “The Member for Paris," etc. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1879. Notices of the following postponed to next number:- |