_Education--Professional or Industrial_ The "Religious Training of the Freedmen" and the "Education of the Freedmen" have raised up an army of people more _peculiar_ in many respects than any other like class in all the history of mankind.

They stand off by themselves; they are not to be approached by any counter method of "advocating a cause" or "building up the Kingdom of Christ" in _their_ field.

Millions of dollars have been "raised" to root out the illiteracy and immorality of the Freedmen, and to build up their shattered manhood.

Indeed, there have been times when I have seriously debated the question, whether the black man had any manhood left, after the missionaries and religious enthusiasts had done picturing, or, rather, caricaturing his debased moral and mental condition.

He has been made the victim of the most exalted panegyric by one set of fanatics, and of the most painful, malignant abuse and detraction by another set.