is it reasonable to expect they will
dominate abroad? There is reason for apprehension that our
cousins in the East will find little change of despotic
tendencies amid the rank and file of American adventurers. The
philosophy of our system of government seems out of balance.
Cicero wrote "that excessive liberty leads both nations and
individuals into excessive slavery."

But amid the lights and shadows that environ the Negro, he is
neither undeserving of the assistance rendered, and
indispensable for educational development, which has been
generous, and for which he is grateful, although handicapped by
a prejudice confronting on so many avenues of industry, and
forbidding his entry. Not undeserving for patient and
non-anarchist in the realms of labor, his right to possess and
enjoying equality of citizenship is written with blood and
bravery on the battlefield of every war of the Republic where
he "fell forward as fits a man." Munificent contributions of
Christians and philanthropists, for missionary work abroad, are
greatly in evidence, given with a self-complacency of duty
done; but, however, fail to vivify the declining pulse-beat for
equality before the law and justice at home. Manifestly there
is an absence of that arraignment and condemnation of wrong
done the weak, that contributed so largely to abolish the "corn
laws of England" and slavery in the United States. History is
the record that it is the men of moral courage and heroism who
by pen and voice, that sociality and gain cannot intimidate and
combat evil in their very midst that "leave footprints in the
sands of time."

I must close this letter, already too long. Don't regard me as
a pessimist. I know that Bacon wrote that "men of age object
too much," but the fact is, Cooper, it has been so long since I
heard a Fourth of July hallelujah chorus that I am getting out
of tune.

McKinley has been again nominated, I see, and doubtless will be
elected, with a Congress in harmony, thus giving the party
another lease of power, which, God grant, let us hope, may
redound to the welfare of all the people. Say to my many
friends that they are, "though lost to sight to memory dear."
Truly your friend,

M. W. GIBBS.

CHAPTER XXII.

The Island of