past. The
reward is perfect equality under the laws of the Federal Government
and of the several states. But our attitude must be one of absolute
fidelity to the priceless sacred trust of citizenship, which comes to
us out of the agonies of the greatest war of modern times. If we be
true to ourselves, the great republic will be true to us "in God's way
and time."

THIRD PAPER.

WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEGRO'S ATTITUDE IN POLITICS?

BY HON. GEORGE W. MURRAY.

[Illustration: George Washington Murray.]

GEORGE WASHINGTON MURRAY.

George Washington Murray was born September 22, 1853, of
slave parents, near Rembert, Sumter County, S. C.
Emancipation found him a lad of eleven summers, bereft of
both parents. Without a friend upon whom to rely for either
aid or advice in an impoverishing section, he entered upon
the fierce combat then in progress for the indispensable
bread of life. Among the waifs of his neighborhood in 1866,
he learned the alphabet and acquired an imperfect
pronunciation of monosyllables. In efforts to improve his
meager stock of knowledge during the succeeding five years,
he so industriously applied himself that in January, 1871,
he entered a day school, while in session, for the first
time, but as teacher, not scholar.

He taught until the Fall of 1874, when he successfully
passed a competitive examination and secured a scholarship
as sub-freshman in the reconstructed University of South
Carolina. He was successfully employed as a teacher until
February, 1890, when he secured an appointment as inspector
of customs at the port of Charleston, S. C.

Entering the political arena in the contest for the
Republican nomination for Congress in 1892, he successfully
won the stake and was placed in the general election against
Gen. E. W. Moise, one of the most brilliant, wealthy and
popular Democrats in the State, whom he finally defeated and
was declared elected to the Fifty-third Congress.

He was again elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress, and
counted out, but contested and was finally seated. He was
again elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses,
and counted out, and failed to be seated after strong
contests.

Since his retirement from congressional contests, seeing the
primary and crying need of his race is a