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Vol. XXXIV. No. 11.

THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

NOVEMBER, 1880.

ANNUAL MEETING.
 CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL.

Paragraphs 321
Financial—Proceedings at Annual Meeting 322
Heroism and Statesmanship: Rev. Alex. Hannay, D. D. 325
General Survey 326
Summary of Treasurer’s Report 334
Report of Committee on Finance and Enlargement 335
Why We Should Enlarge: Rev. L. T. Chamberlain,
D.D. 336
Sacrificial Living and Giving: Rev. A. F. Beard, D.D. 340
Working out the Equation: District Secretary Powell 342

THE FREEDMEN.

Report of Committee on Educational Work 344

Christian Education: Rev. Addison P. Foster 345
A Sample State: Pres. H. S. Deforest 347
Report of Committee on Church Work 350
Our Disadvantages and Advantages: Field Sup’t J. E.
Roy, D.D. 351
The Need and the Opportunity: Prof. Wm. J. Tucker,
D.D. 354

AFRICA.

Report of the Committee 357

 The Mendi Mission: Prof. T. N. Chase 359
The Call to the Association: Rev. H. M. Ladd 363

THE INDIANS.

Report of the Committee 364

Causes of the Mismanagement of Indian Affairs: Rev. A.
H. Bradford. 365
Letter from General Fisk 370

THE CHINESE.

Report of the Committee 372

The Two Methods: Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D. 372
Our Grounds of Encouragement: Rev. Samuel Scoville 375

RECEIPTS 379
Constitution 383
Aim, Statistics, Wants 384

This number of the American Missionary is sent to

some persons whose names are not among our
subscribers, with the hope that they will read it, become
interested in the work it represents, and subscribe for it. Terms,
50 cents per annum. Subscriptions may be sent to H. W.
Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York.

Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.

American Missionary Association,
56 READE STREET, N. Y.

PRESIDENT.

Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Hon. F. D. Parish, Ohio. Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., D. C.
Hon. E. D. Holton, Wis. Rev. A. L. Chapin, D. D., Wis.
Hon. William Claflin, Mass. S. D. Smith, Esq., Mass.
Rev. Stephen Thurston, D. D., Me. Dea. John C. Whitin, Mass.
Rev. Samuel Harris, D. D., Ct. Hon. J. B. Grinnell, Iowa.
Wm. C. Chapin, Esq., R. I. Rev. Horace Winslow, Ct.
Rev. W. T. Eustis, D. D., Mass. Sir Peter Coats, Scotland.
Hon. A. C. Barstow, R. I. Rev. Henry Allon, D. D., London, Eng.
Rev. Thatcher Thayer, D. D., R. I. Wm. E. Whiting, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., N. J. J. M. Pinkerton, Esq., Mass.
Rev. Edward Beecher, D. D., N. Y. E. A. Graves, Esq., N. J.
Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., Ill. Rev. F. A. Noble, D. D., Ill.
Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., D. C. Daniel Hand, Esq., Ct.
Hon. Seymour Straight, La. A. L. Williston, Esq., Mass.
Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, D. D., N. H. Rev. A. F. Beard, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. Edward Hawes, D. D., Ct. Frederick Billings, Esq., Vt.
Douglas Putnam, Esq., Ohio. Joseph Carpenter, Esq., R. I.
Hon. Thaddeus Fairbanks, Vt. Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D. D., Ill.
Rev. M. M. G. Dana, D. D., Minn. Rev. C. L. Goodell, D. D., Mo.
Rev. H. W. Beecher, N. Y. J. W. Scoville, Esq., Ill.
Gen. O. O. Howard, Washington Ter. E. W. Blatchford, Esq., Ill.
Rev. G. F. Magoun, D. D., Iowa. C. D. Talcott, Esq., Ct.
Col. C. G. Hammond, Ill. Rev. John K. McLean, D. D., Cal.
Edward Spaulding, M. D., N. H. Rev. Richard Cordley, D. D., Kansas.
Rev. Wm. M. Barbour, D. D., Ct. Rev. W. H. Willcox, D. D., Mass.
Rev. W. L. Gage, D. D., Ct. Rev. G. B. Willcox, D. D., Ill.
A. S. Hatch, Esq., N. Y. Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. J. H. Fairchild, D. D., Ohio. Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, Mass.
 Rev. H. A. Stimson, Mass. Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., Mass.
Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., California. Hon. C. J. Walker, Mich.
Rev. G. H. Atkinson, D. D., Oregon. Rev. A. H. Ross, Mich.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., 56 Reade Street, N. Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston.
Rev. G. D. PIKE, D. D., New York.
Rev. JAS. POWELL, Chicago.

H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Treasurer, N. Y.

Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, Recording Secretary.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Alonzo S. Ball, Samuel Holmes,
A. S. Barnes, Charles A. Hull,
C. T. Christensen, Edgar Ketchum,
H. L. Clapp, Chas. L. Mead,
Clinton B. Fisk, Samuel S. Marples,
Addison P. Foster, Wm. T. Pratt,
S. B. Halliday, J. A. Shoudy,
A. J. Hamilton, John H. Washburn.
COMMUNICATIONS

relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding

Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters
for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. C. C. Painter, at the New York
Office.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or when

more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,
Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty
dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.
 THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Vol. XXXIV. NOVEMBER, 1880.
No. 11.
 American Missionary Association.

This Missionary, as will be seen, is an Annual Meeting number. We

have endeavored to give a glimpse at the things which were said
and done at Norwich. We have been able to give almost nothing
entire, except the briefer of the reports of the Committees. For Dr.
McKenzie’s sermon we must refer to the Advance of Oct. 28; for Dr.
Taylor’s paper, to the Congregationalist Supplement of Oct. 20; for
Mr. Carroll’s review of missions, to the Independent of Oct. 28. For
the rest, we have crowded what we could into this double number of
the Missionary.

We are under renewed obligations to our denominational

newspapers for their editorial representation at our anniversary, and
their full and discriminating reports of our proceedings.

Our Annual Meeting in the Broadway Church, Norwich, awakened, in

the minds of many, encouraging comparison with the Anniversary of
this Association held in the same place 19 years ago. It was in the
fall of 1861. Our country was just settling into the heavy tug of war.
And yet one of the headings of the Annual Report was:
“Enlargement demanded.” See how God has fulfilled that aspiration
in the enlargement of our finances, of our constituency, of our field,
of our work. The $51,819 of that year, upon the recommendation of
the Boston Council in 1865, came up to $250,000 and $3,000 more,
and the average of these fifteen years has been that same sum,
$253,000. All the work we then had at the South, the very first of
the kind that was done, was that of the one missionary and one
teacher among the 1,800 “contrabands,” who at that point had
pressed through our lines. But the men of that meeting, believing
that the day of freedom was at hand, and praying,—in the words of
one of Governor Buckingham’s State papers—that “the country
might be carried through the crisis in such a manner as should
forever check the spirit of anarchy, bring peace to a distracted
people, and preserve, strengthen and perpetuate our National
Union,” did solemnly and grandly resolve “to follow the armies of the
United States with faithful missionaries and teachers”. You know how
this Association did follow those armies across the sunny South, and
how it turned its own forces into an army of occupation, until its field
became identical with the realm of our national flag.
Now this marvelous enlargement, attained within less than two
decades, has brought us to “the cross of our success.” Shall we take
up that cross? Shall we consecrate ourselves to bear the burden of
obligation which this extension of our work lays upon us? May we
discern this call of God for enlargement, even as did the good men
of that day?
The chief officers of this Association, the President, Rev. David
Thurston, the Treasurer, Lewis Tappan, with his brother Arthur, the
Secretaries, George Whipple and S. S. Jocelyn, now on high, were all
here on this platform, bearing up against the discouragements of the
way, and by their great faith inciting the people to “go forward.”
“The workers die, but God carries on the work.”
 A SUGGESTION—FINANCIAL.
We have passed another milestone in our work. The reports and
extracts from addresses made at the recent annual meeting, and
placed before our constituents in this double number of the
Missionary, tell how far we have progressed, and indicate something
of the demands that the journey beyond is already making upon us.
A perusal of these papers will show that the enthusiasm of earnest
conviction characterized the Norwich meeting. The success of the
past, no less than the present exigent needs of the field in every
department, focused the thought of the meeting on one thing—
enlargement of the work.
But the spirit that pervaded the annual meeting must in some way
or other be carried over to the churches. Enlargement of the work
means necessarily enlargement of resources. There must be at least
an increase of twenty-five per cent. over the contributions of last
year. It is a good time now to lay plans to secure this. We would
suggest to pastors and others having charge of missionary meetings,
that, as far as possible, the next monthly concert be made the
occasion of bringing before the churches the interesting facts
regarding the work of the American Missionary Association
presented at the Norwich meeting. By possessing the minds of the
people with intelligence, and their hearts with interest regarding the
work, the needed increase in contributions, we believe, will be easily
secured.
 PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING.
The thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Association had for its
meeting place the commodious Broadway Church in the beautiful
city of Norwich, Conn. It was favored with perfect autumnal days,
bountiful and beautiful hospitality, and a large and sustained
attendance at all its sessions.
President Tobey being detained from attendance, the chair was
occupied by Vice-Presidents Dr. Wm. L. Gage, of Hartford, and Dr.
Wm. W. Patton, of Howard University, and at the closing session by
Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, pastor of the church in which the meetings
were held. Rev. Geo. M. Boynton was elected Secretary, and Revs. C.
P. Osborne and J. H. Isham, Assistant Secretaries of the meeting. Dr.
Langworthy, of Massachusetts, conducted the opening devotional
services. The Treasurer read his report. The report of the Executive
Committee was read by Secretary Strieby, after which an hour was
spent in prayer, reminiscence and thanksgiving.
Dr. Alex. McKenzie, of Cambridge, Mass., preached the Annual
Sermon, his text being Ex. ii.:9—“Take this child away and nurse it
for me.” The thought elaborated with great force and beauty was the
claim of the child, the African race, upon the King’s daughter, the
Church of God.
Wednesday morning the prayer meeting was led by Rev. R. B.
Howard, of Massachusetts. Part of the morning was devoted to
presentations of missionary work outside of the special limits of the
Association. A paper, valuable for its clearness and
comprehensiveness, on “Recent Progress of Protestant Missions,”
was read by Mr. H. K. Carroll, one of the editors of the Independent,
in whose care is their excellent missionary column. Mr. Eugene
Reveillaud then addressed the Association, through Rev. Mr. Dodds,
who acted as his interpreter, on the recent remarkable religious
movements in France. Mr. Dodds and Rev. L. W. Bacon spoke briefly
on the same subject.
The Committees to which had been assigned the various
departments of the work as represented in the official papers, then
in order reported, and addresses were made on the subjects of
which they treated.
1. The church work. The report was presented by Prof. Wm. J.
Tucker, D. D., of Andover Theological Seminary, and was sustained
by him in an able and suggestive address, showing the kind of
religion needed by the negro and the progress already made. Dr.
Roy followed with a statement of the disadvantages under which this
department of our work was compelled to labor, and, on the other
hand, of the favorable circumstances by which it was assisted.
2. The Indian report was read by Rev. A. H. Bradford, of New Jersey,
after which General Armstrong spoke of the educational experiment
at Hampton, its success and its needs. A company of the Indian
pupils on their way from their summer homes in Berkshire County,
Mass., added, by their presence on the platform and by simple
exercises, to the impressiveness of the plea. Mr. Bradford sustained
the report made by him in a forcible address, showing the evils of
the treaty and reservation systems, and the need of still further
reform in our civil service.
3. The educational work (South) was reported on Wednesday
evening by Rev. Addison P. Foster, of New Jersey, Chairman of the
Committee. Dr. Wm. M. Taylor, of New York, followed with a strong
plea. Its leading illustration was drawn from the feeding of the five
thousand; when the disciples came to the Master and said, “Send
the multitudes away;” to whom he replied, “They need not depart,
give ye them to eat.” Mr. Foster also sustained the report read by
him. He demonstrated the greatness of the need and the religious
character of the education demanded and sought to be supplied by
our schools.
Thursday morning, after the prayer meeting, which was led by Rev.
F. Williams of Connecticut, Rev. H. S. De Forest, President of
Talladega College, spoke in continuation of the discussion of the
report on education, setting forth the wants of Alabama and the
condition and needs of Talladega. Rev. Wm. E. Brooks, just elected
to the Presidency of Tillotson Institute, in Texas, gave his creed in
regard to the work before him, in a brief address full of animation
and hopefulness. He was followed by Professor Fairchild, of Berea
College, who spoke of the influence of that Institution in doing away
the prejudices of the whole community in which it was located. Dr. I.
P. Warren, of Maine, also spoke briefly. District Secretary Powell, of
Chicago, closed the discussion of this largest department of the work
of the Association.
4. The African Missions were reported on by Rev H. M. Ladd, of
Walton, New York, who followed the report with a brief address.
Professor T. N. Chase, of Atlanta, Georgia, who recently has returned
from a visit of inspection to the Mendi Mission, gave an account of
the field, of the location of the mission, with its drawbacks and
hopeful signs frankly and fully contrasted. Rev. Lewis Grant followed
briefly. Dr. Patton also spoke on this topic.
5. The Finance Committee reported through its Chairman, Rev. Wm.
H. Willcox, D.D., commending the business management of the
Association, and making it clear that the $150,000 recently received
for buildings in no wise lessened the demands upon the treasury or
the dependence of the treasury upon the churches. Secretary Strieby
followed, urging the need of the enlargement of the work. Dr. A. F.
Beard, of New York, read a most suggestive paper on Giving as an
important part of the sacrificial life to which the Christian is called.
He was followed by Dr. Chamberlain in an earnest plea for justice
and restitution to the races which our race has so deeply wronged,
and briefly by President Magoun of Iowa College.
6. The Chinese report was read on Thursday evening by Dr. Lyman
Abbott, of New York, and supported by him. In his address he stated
fully and frankly the possible dangers arising from Chinese
immigration, and the two methods by which they might be averted.
Rev. Samuel Scoville, of Stamford, Connecticut, followed in a fervid
plea based on the importance of the work, and the encouragements
to its prosecution. Rev. R. B. Howard briefly followed.
It would not do to omit the witty and eloquent address of Rev. Dr.
Hannay, Secretary of the Congregational Union of England and
Wales, in which he spoke of the heroism of modern missionary effort
and the statesmanship needed and shown in the discussions of the
work of the Association.
The Lord’s Supper was celebrated on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. J.
O. Barrows of Turkey, and Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Massachusetts
officiating.
At the close, resolutions of thanks to the churches and citizens of
Norwich, to the choir, the Committee and the railroads, were
adopted, and responded to by Rev. Wm. S. Palmer, D.D., of Norwich,
chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. The benediction was
pronounced by Rev. Dr. Chamberlain. Thus ended one of the best
attended and best sustained anniversaries of the American
Missionary Association. For changes in the list of Vice-Presidents and
Executive Committee we refer to the first inside page of the cover.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Second Church was filled below and
above with a congregation of nearly a thousand women. Mrs. Dr.
John A. Rockwell, of Stamford, Conn., presided, and, after the
opening prayer by Mrs. Phipps, read a brief paper on woman’s
responsibility in the nineteenth century.
Miss Stevenson, Miss Sawyer, Mrs. Hickok and Miss Emery, all
familiar with the condition and needs of the colored women of the
South, addressed the meeting, the interest of which was so great
and so well sustained that it re-assembled the next morning. At that
time Miss Douglass, who had labored in Georgia among the negroes,
and Miss Ludlow, of Hampton Institute, Miss Lord and others spoke,
keeping up the interest which had attended the previous session.
Resolutions expressing hearty sympathy with the work of the A. M.
A., and urging an organization for home mission work in every
church in New England, were adopted at the close of this full and
earnest woman’s meeting.
 HEROISM AND STATESMANSHIP.
FROM THE ADDRESS OF REV. ALEXANDER HANNAY, D.D., SECRETARY OF THE
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

We sometimes talk—and I think in a very superficial and wild way—

about heroic ages of certain nationalities, heroic ages of the church;
and there are men who will say it was a heroic age in which foreign
missions were projected, whether in England or here; that then the
men were of great stature, and that they rose to the opportunities
the great living Head of the Church offered them, and went out and
did a giant’s work; and they look down on this time, and perhaps
complain that it is not a heroic age, and that we cannot have a
giant’s test put to us. Now that is all very flimsy and superficial talk
in my judgment. There are epochs in the history of nations and of
churches when great opportunities occur, the record of which
becomes historical, and it seems that the men who take the
prominent part then are men of Alpine bulk and grandeur of nature
—true heroes; and then there comes a time of equable, dogged,
plodding, unhistorical work, and it is said “The age of heroism and
the age of heroes has passed away.” Brethren, the work of these
quiet and plodding ages cannot be done well, except in the very
spirit of the heroic age; and I take it there is a test of individual
character, there is a test of strength and firmness in men, a strength
of heroism demanded for the quiet, ordinary, fruitful work of times
like these, equal, at least, to that which was needed to originate the
new epoch. And I congratulate the representatives of the American
churches assembled at the meetings of these great societies on the
evidence which has appeared to me, (and I would use no words of
mere courtesy in this, but a simple and unaffected expression of the
feeling which has taken possession of me while I have attended
these meetings), that here they are in the very spirit of their fathers,
now gone to their rest, who said, “We must redeem the pagan
nations and bring them to Christ.”
Another thing that has struck me is this: in listening to what we have
heard here to-day, I have seemed to find not merely a fulness and
vitality of the missionary sentiment, but associated with that, a keen,
political outlook, the statesman’s thought about the demand of the
hour and the special adaptations that are necessary in service for
the carrying out of the great work that these societies have in view.
It is especially encouraging in view of this, to which no one can be
blind, that God is calling America to a singularly honorable, because
singularly difficult, vocation, in dealing with the races with which her
life of intelligence and faith is here being brought into contact.
It is quite true, sir, that the Head of the Church, as has been
proclaimed from this platform, and from that at Lowell, again and
again, is imposing on you the discipleship of the world, the duty of
carrying the Gospel to all the nations of the earth. It thus lies upon
the Christian nations so honored to stretch out their hands to lift the
other nations up to the plane on which they are themselves living.
But there has been brought to America, it seems to me, a specially
difficult task. She has had thrust within her national boundary at
least three separate races, that are on a different stage of
intellectual development and civilization from that which she has
reached; or if it be too much to say that these races have been
thrust within her boundaries, then that the high and laudable
ambition, which has moved you as a people to keep this great
continent to yourselves, and to take as much more as you can get,
has brought upon you this obligation in connection with the great
races which are to be found on your soil. We are aware that the
spirit and the policy of the world is hounded on, perhaps now more
than ever, by that proud and insolent dictum of science, falsely so
called, ready to be applied to the affairs of races as to other things
—“the survival of the fittest.” No doubt there are men among you
who are ready to take up the spirit of this maxim and to apply it all
around, and to feel, as has been said here about the dead Indian,
that it is the province of the stronger people simply to overrun, and
press out, and hustle over the frontiers, or over the shores of your
continent, the weaker races. Now, sir, as I understand it, you have
been called to this vocation of bringing up these weaker races, of
incorporating them into your own national life, of clothing them with
all the honors and responsibilities of citizenship, of giving them a full
status in the Church and in the township, of making them what you
are yourselves, gradually scattering their darkness by the light of
your intelligence, and vitalizing their enfeebled and degraded
manhood by the overflow of the surplus energy of your own
manhood. There has been given to you this great task to perform, to
show the nations a better way of dealing with the weaker races than
any nation has yet reached; and if the spirit of the American
Missionary Association can but be breathed into the American people
as a whole; if you can control your political action, if you can
determine the issues in your Congress by that spirit, and control all
your dealings with those peoples by it, one of the very brightest of
the many crowns which will sit on the brow of the American nation
will be the crown which you will win in that service. This is the work
to which you are called.
I have been asked since I came here how I could explain the fact
that the citizens of America seem to meddle so much in politics. I do
not think we of England meddle enough with them. The existence of
a political church among us forces a certain political contention upon
us with which you here have nothing to do. But I take it that it is
one of the highest, most urgent vocations of the Church of Christ, in
this and in all lands, to see to it, that, so far as her influence shall
go, by teaching and by testimony, by debate, by criticism, by all
kinds of fair mental conflict to penetrate the political life of the
nation with the spirit of Christ. It will not be well with you in
America, any more than with us in England, whether with regard to
your work for the black man and the Indian and the Chinese, or with
regard to your own national stability and progress, until this work
has been gone earnestly about. We can afford to rise above party
politics, but we are bound to preach that righteousness, that truth,
that spirit of self sacrifice, without which neither church nor nation
can be made great and stable.
 GENERAL SURVEY.
The battle cry of the American Missionary Association now is
Enlargement. We are called to this by recent encouragements, and by
the demands of the future.
 THE ENCOURAGEMENTS OF THE PRESENT.

FINANCES.

We present our financial situation as one of these encouragements,

and first in order, as being special, we mention the receipt of
$150,000, the donation of Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, Mass.
This munificent gift has been so confidently anticipated, that Prof. T.
N. Chase has for some time been occupied in maturing plans for the
buildings to be erected by it, so that the work at all points will be
pushed forward with rapidity and economy. We hope, therefore, at
our next Annual Meeting, to announce that buildings have been
erected at several points in the South that shall afford much needed
facilities to overcrowded schools, and that shall serve as monuments
to the liberality and wisdom of the donor, more fitting, because more
useful, than the most costly shaft or obelisk.
Next in order, but not least in significance, we refer to the financial
exhibit of our Treasurer, with its favorable balance sheet. The
receipts for the year, aside from Mrs. Stone’s donation, have been
$187,480.02, which together with the amount on hand Sept. 30,
1879 ($1,475.90), makes a total of $188,955.92; and the
expenditures, $188,172.19; thus giving a credit balance of $783.73.
As a part of the gratifying results of the year’s expenditures, as we
had no debt to pay, we can point to four school buildings newly
erected or greatly improved; to six church edifices completed; to two
in the process of erection; to five repaired and improved; and to
three parsonages repaired, one in process of erection, and one built
by the people. Among these new school buildings we are glad to
number the large and commodious edifice for Tillotson Institute,
Austin, Texas, a permanent outpost, we hope, in the rapidly
increasing population of the great South-west.
Such a balance sheet, carrying on the one side our regular work and
these new and greatly needed buildings, yet held in even poise by
the generous donations of our friends, is an argument for
enlargement at other points calling for it with increased importunity.
We dare not be presumptuous, but may we not trust still further to
the God of the poor, and will not his people sustain us in the trust?
 FREEDMEN.

Our Educational work among the Freedmen furnishes the next

source of encouragement.
The increasing appreciation of our schools by both the white and
colored people of the South, is manifest. Georgia continues to give
the substantial assistance of her annual appropriation of $8,000 to
the Atlanta University. A large majority of the State Board of
Examiners attended the anniversary exercises this year. Their
examinations were close, their report to the Governor wholly
favorable, and their recommendation of the continuance of the
appropriation unhesitating, the closing words of their report being:
“Who can doubt the wisdom of continuing the appropriation?”
The State of Mississippi was represented at the Commencement
exercises at Tougaloo by her Superintendent of Education and other
influential citizens, who, after careful inspection, gave public
assurance of State aid. The first instalment, we are confident, will
reach us this fall. Soon after the war, when this State was under
Republican rule, it granted aid to Tougaloo. Under changed political
control, this grant was for a time withheld, but now while
overwhelming Democratic majorities are regularly reported, the
proffer of aid is renewed. The significance of the fact is that both
political parties, much as they may differ on other points, are agreed
in sustaining the Tougaloo University.
Another evidence of such appreciation is found in the attendance at
our school anniversaries, of persons who represent public sentiment.
At Hampton, President Hayes, Secretary Schurz, the Governor and
an ex-Governor of Massachusetts were present; at Berea, the
audience numbered probably 1,800 or 2,000 persons, two-thirds
being of the white race; at Fisk, there was reported “a crowded
house;” at Atlanta, the audience was packed; at Straight University,
New Orleans, it is reported that “the audience, both in numbers and
intelligent appreciation, was one of the best ever gathered for the