forces at Paducah and Columbus, Kentucky,
history has made out a case against Gen. Forrest that no human being
would covet.

FOOTNOTES:

[144] Rebellion Records, vol. x. pp. 721-730.

Part 8.

_THE FIRST DECADE OF FREEDOM._

CHAPTER XXII.

AN EDUCATED AFRICAN.

Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce, a native African, and educated in
America, presents a striking illustration of the capabilities of the
Negro. He was born a pagan, and when brought in contact with the
institutions of civilization he outstripped those whose earlier life
had been impressed with the advantages of such surroundings. There was
nothing in his blood, or in his early rearing, to develop him. He came
from darkness himself as well as by his ancestry. Rev. Daniel K.
Flickinger, D.D., has been secretary of the Home Frontier and Foreign
Missionary Society for the past twenty-five years. He was the
companion in Africa of George Thompson, and on one of his trips had a
short association with Livingstone. Dr. Flickinger aided in
establishing the United Brethren Mission on the Western Coast of
Africa, and has had his heart in it for a quarter of a century. During
that time he has made six trips to Africa to look after this mission;
returning from his last voyage in May, 1881. He has studied those
people and found them apt in the schools as well as in the acquiring
of American customs in tilling the soil and in the trades. During Dr.
Flickinger's first visit to Africa in 1855, while at Good Hope
Station, Mendi Mission, located on the eastern banks of Sherbro
Island, latitude 7 deg. north, and longitude 18 deg. west, he employed a
native to watch over him at night as he slept in his hammock, there
being wild and dangerous tribes in the vicinity. To that man in that
time was born a child. The father came to the missionaries the next
day to tell them that his wife "done born picin" and wanted them to
give it a name. Mr. Burton, the missionary in charge, suggested that
of Daniel Flickinger, and it was taken. The missionaries had performed
the usual marriage ceremony for as many as came within their reach,
and broken up the former heathen customs in their immediate vicinity
as far as possible, and this man was duly married. He took as his last
name that of Wilberforce after the English philanthropist, who was
dear to all Colored people, and from that time on this native and his
family became attached to the mission, and were known by the name of
Wilberfo