The Anglo-African element of our population is classed off by popular sentiment, and kept so.

It is for the thoughtful, the honest, the calm but resolute men of the race to mould the sentiment of the masses, lift them up into the broad sunlight of freedom.
Ignorance, superstition, prejudice, and intolerance are elements in our nature born of the malign institution of servitude.

No fiat of government can eradicate these.

As they were the slow growth, the gradual development of long years of inhuman conditions, so they must be eliminated by the slow growth of years of favorable conditions.

Let us recognize these facts as facts, and labor honestly to supplant them with more wholesome, more cheering realities.