To preach the independence of the colored man is to preach his Americanization.

The shackles of slavery have been torn from his limbs by the stern arbitrament of arms; the shackles of political enslavement, of ignorance, and of popular prejudice must be broken on the wheels of ceaseless study and the facility with which he becomes absorbed into the body of the people.

To aid himself is his first duty if he believes that he is here to stay, and not a probationer for the land of his forefathers--a land upon which he has no other claim than one of sentiment.
What vital principle affecting our citizenship is championed by the National Republican party of to-day?
Is it a fair vote and an honest count?
Measure our strength in the South and gaze upon the solitary expression of our citizenship in the halls of the National Legislature.

The fair vote which we cast for Rutherford B.Hayes seemed to have incurred the enmity of that chief Executive, and he and his advisers turned the colored voters of the South over to the bloodthirsty minority of that section.
The Republican party has degenerated into an ignoble scramble for place and power.

It has forgotten the principles for which Sumner contended, and for which Lincoln died.