They have done in the name of humanity and of God for the unfortunate needy what the government should have done for its own purification and perpetuity for the co-equal citizen.
And it is high time that the government should relieve the individual from the unjust and onerous tax.
I do not hesitate to affirm, that while the work done by the charitable for the black citizen of this Republic has been of the most incalculable benefit to him, it has also done him injury which it will take years upon years to eradicate.

The misrepresentations resorted to, to obtain money to "lift him up," have spread broadcast over the land a feeling of contempt for him as a man and pity for his lowly and unfortunate condition; so that throughout the North a business man would much rather _give a thousand dollars_ to aid in the education of the black heathen than to give a black scholar and gentleman an opportunity to honestly _earn a hundred dollars_.

He has no confidence in the capacity of the black man.

He has seen him pictured a savage, sunk in ignorance and vice--an object worthy to receive alms, but incapable of making an honest living.

So that when a black man demonstrates any capacity, shows any signs of originality or genius, rises just a few inches above the common, he at once becomes an object rare and wonderful--a "Moses," a "_leader_ of his people."-- It is almost as hard for an educated black man to obtain a position of trust and profit as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.