n is no better for
being black, but he is none the less a man on that account. The simple
thing to be insisted on is that he shall be treated as a man, entitled
to the same rights as other men, and protected in his enjoyment of them.
This is no time to relax our emphasis on this point, when the bitterness
of the caste spirit is venting itself in violence, and in assertion that
white supremacy must be maintained by illegal means if it cannot be by
legal. We maintain that the only safety for the South, and the only way
to its large prosperity, is by securing fair play to every man within
its borders. There must not be one law for the white man and another for
the black. There must not be one standard of legal protection in the
North and another in the South. Anarchy in Chicago is not a whit worse
nor more dangerous than anarchy in the South, that defies law and rules
by the mob in order to gratify race prejudice. Conspiracy to murder in
Chicago is not more outrageous and perilous than the conspiracy of men
of one color in the South to get rid of obnoxious men of another color
by the shot-gun. Injustice and wrong will always bring forth a harvest
of disaster in any part of the country. Fair play for every man must be
our motto. We must have no color-line in politics, no color-line in the
church; but equal rights for all before the law, and in the church equal
privileges of Christian brotherhood.

It is for us to clear the way thus for Providence to carry out its wise
designs for this race. And if we fulfill our part of the work
faithfully, what may not this people, educated and regenerated, add of
blessing and benefit to our common country. If out of a race of slaves
God in the old time could raise up a Moses, if out of a rude race of sea
pirates and robber chiefs, who drank their mead from the skulls of their
enemies, He could raise up a Shakespeare, what may He not develop out of
this long despised and defrauded people? Let us furnish freely the
channels through which God may work, that in His providence "the weak
things of the world may become mighty" for good to our land.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

The Iowa Woman's Union is working nobly toward the support of our school
at Savannah, Ga., and the sympathetic bond between helpers North and
helpers South shows that the money contributions open the way to warmer
missionary impulse and more eff