ULS IN 360
YEARS.--NEGRO POWER OF ENDURANCE.--HIS WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS AS
A LABORER, SOLDIER, AND STUDENT.--FIRST IN WAR, AND FIRST IN
DEVOTION TO THE COUNTRY.--HIS IDIOSYNCRASIES.--MRS. STOWE'S
ERRORS.--HIS GROWING LOVE FOR SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.--HIS GENERAL
IMPROVEMENT.--THE NEGRO WILL ENDURE TO THE END.--HE IS CAPABLE
FOR ALL THE DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP.--AMALGAMATION WILL NOT
OBLITERATE THE RACE.--THE AMERICAN NEGRO WILL CIVILIZE
AFRICA.--AMERICA WILL ESTABLISH STEAMSHIP COMMUNICATION WITH THE
DARK CONTINENT.--AFRICA WILL YET BE COMPOSED OF STATES, AND
"ETHIOPIA SHALL SOON STRETCH OUT HER HANDS UNTO GOD."

It has been shown that the tribes of Africa are divisible into three
classes: The tribes of the mountain districts, the tribes of the
sandstone districts, and the tribes of the alluvial districts; those
of the mountain districts most powerful, those of the sandstone
districts less powerful, and those of the alluvial districts least
powerful. The slave markets of America were supplied,[139] very
largely, from two classes of Africans, viz.: the criminal class, and
the refuse of African society, which has been preyed upon by local
disease, decimated by wars waged by the more powerful tribes which
have pushed down from the abundant supply that has poured over the
terraces of the mountains for centuries. Nevertheless, some of the
better class have found their way to this country. About 137 Negro
tribes are represented in the United States.

For every slave landed safely in North America, there was one lost in
procuring and bringing down to the coast, and in transportation. Thus
in the period of 360 years, Africa was robbed of about 30,000,000 of
souls! When it is remembered that the Negroes in America sprang from
the criminal, diseased, and inferior classes of Africa, it is nothing
short of a phenomenon that they were able to endure such a rigorous
state of bondage. Under-fed and over-worked; poorly clad and miserably
housed; with the family altar cast down, and intelligent men allowed
to run over it as swine; and with the fountains of knowledge sealed by
law against the thirstings of human souls for knowledge, the Negroes
of America, nevertheless, have shown the most wonderful signs of
recuperation, and the ability to rise, against every cruel act of man
and the very forces of nature, to a manhood and intelligent
citizenship that converts the cautious, impartial, a