ttle difficulty. I
cannot serve my readers better, perhaps, than by quoting the
words of the Rev. Dr. Callaway, lately Professor in Emory
College, Oxford, Ga., and new President of Paine Institute,
Augusta, Ga., a native of that State, and to the manor born.
In a late address, he says: "We have spoken of the Negro as
related to the conduct of the war, but it remains to be said
that, in his relation to us as a friend during that period,
and to our wives and children as guardian, the testimony of
his fidelity is on the lips of every surviving soldier. It
is easy to conjecture how, with a race less loyal to home
and patron, the testimony in the case might have been a
narrative of lawlessness and license. What he refrained
from, therefore, is to his credit. But in the four years of
darkness and demoralization, when, besides those of military
age, every boy whose muscles were equal to the support of a
musket, and every old man with vigor enough to mark time,
was called to the front, the Negro, commanding as a
patriarch and reverent as a priest, kept sacred vigil at our
homes. Besides this, with a foresight not developed for
himself or his family, but evoked by virtue of his office,
and the piteous destitution of our loved ones, he provided
for their wants. 'They were a-hungered, and he fed them.'
What he did is to his honor. What we refrain from in our
place of power as the superior race, shall be to our credit;
what we do in return shall be in proof of our appreciation.
The conduct of the Negro during the war proves him kindly,
temperate, trustworthy; his conduct since the war reveals in
him considerateness, purpose, capacity, an order of growing
good qualities. During the war his inferior courage, it may
be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his
fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care. So set it
down, if you will, though the logic is as lame as the charge
is ungrateful."

This testimony upon the character, temper and adaptability of colored
people is all the more valuable because Dr. Marshall not only treats
the question from a Christian standpoint, but because his intimate
acquaintance with the subject adds weight and authority to his
opinion.

In the same strain, Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, President of Emory
College, in Georgia, a man of