of battle-fields, must be admitted and command the admiration
of all fair-minded men. Let him add to all these attributes, purity in
all things; let him cultivate a love for justice and fair play, live
as an example for his neighbors, ally himself with the best men in the
community or state where he lives, and the day must certainly come
when his rights--political and civil--will be conceded to him.

Let us learn what is _right_ and then dare to do the _right_; ever
pressing forward to higher and nobler things; never lagging, but
remember, "That constant effort will remove the mountain, and that
continued dripping will wear away the stone."

SECOND PAPER.

WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEGRO'S ATTITUDE IN POLITICS?

BY T. T. FORTUNE

[Illustration: T. Thomas Fortune]

TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE.

Timothy Thomas fortune, the subject of this sketch, is an
author, a journalist, an agitator and a lecturer.

Mr. Fortune's grandmother was a mulatto, and his grandfather
a Seminole Indian. Thomas was born of slave parents in
Florida in 1856. His father took an important and active
part in the reconstruction of Florida, being a delegate in
the Constitutional Convention that framed the present
constitution of Florida, and a member of the first five
sessions of the reconstituted Florida Legislature.

During the Ku Klux Klan period, which followed, the father
of Thomas had to stand for his life, which he manfully did
by preparing his house to receive the night marauders. The
father finally moved with his family to Jacksonville,
Florida. Here young Thomas soon found a position as a
printer's "devil," which was the first step to that high
position which he now occupies. He left his printer's "case"
for two years in order to attend school and to work in the
Jacksonville city postoffice.

In 1874 he was appointed mail route agent between
Jacksonville and Chattahoochee; but he was soon promoted to
the position of special inspector of customs for the first
district of Delaware. A year later, 1876, young Fortune
entered that school which has been an inspiration to so many
negro youths, Howard University. After two years' study in
this school he returned to the printer's trade. While in
Washington he married Miss Smiley of Florida.

In 1878 Mr. Fortune returned to Florida to try his ha