_The Triumph of the Vanquished_ There are those throughout the length and breadth of our great country who make a fair living by traducing better men than themselves; by continually crying out that the black man is incapable of being civilized; that he is born with the elements of barbarity, improvidence and untruthfulness so woven into his very nature that no amount of opportunity, labor, love, or sacrifice can ever lift him out of the condition, the "sphere God designed him to occupy"-- as if the great Common Parent took any more pains in the making of one man than another.

But those who utter such blasphemy, who call in the assistance of the Almighty to fight the battles of the devil, are the very persons who do most by precept and example to make possible the verification of their blasphemy.

They carry their lamentations into the pulpit, grave convocations, newspapers, and even into halls of legislation, State and Federal.

They are the false prophets who blind the eye of reason and blunt the sympathies of honest, well-meaning men.

They are the Jonases on board the ship of progress.