larger per cent of
the ownership of homes, and the impossibility of securing
them in the desired space of time, under the prevailing
circumstances, where the necessaries of life and rents
consume the entire resources year after year, he has applied
himself to the development of a scheme of buying large
estates and cutting them into small holdings, and giving
long periods of time in which to pay for homes, receiving
about the usual rents as payments.

He now has about 200 families located on about 9,000 acres
of land, and is adding from 2,000 to 3,000 acres to his
territory each year.

He has already secured twelve letters patent on a multiple
farming machine, that is destined to revolutionize farming
methods.

Without his request upon the demand of the President
himself, he was recently appointed Division Internal Revenue
Deputy Collector for the district of South Carolina.

To the casual observer the above query is easy of solution, but it is
at the same time engaging the profoundest attention and thought of the
wisest statesmen, and the greatest philanthropists and humanitarians.

It is especially difficult to the black victims of present political
environments.

With a proportionate share of all the elements of strength,
intelligence, wealth, business and character--the Negro's attitude
politically should, and would, be the same as that of the other
members of society.

The writer presume that in dealing with the question at issue, he is
territorially restricted to the ex-slaveholding portions of the United
States, as the Negro's political status in the rest of the territorial
limits of the country differs so little from that of other members of
society.

As we see it, the mistake of the nineteenth century was the attempt to
make the ex-slave a governor, before he had learned to be governed.

It seems that members of the race have not even yet learned that
governments have their origin and growth in the necessities
originating in the business and wealth of mankind, and have attained
their greatest perfection where there is most business and wealth.

The naked, wandering savage has the lowest order of governments,
because, in that state, he has need for no other, and could not
support any higher.

It twenty intelligent and progressive men settle down in the midst of
a hundred thousand such savages, they will immediate