Den we knows we's right." I am glad to add, however, that at the present time the disposition to vote against the white man merely because he is white is largely disappearing, and the race is learning to vote from principle, for what the voter considers to be for the best interests of both races.
I reached Tuskegee, as I have said, early in June, 1881.

The first month I spent in finding accommodations for the school, and in travelling through Alabama, examining into the actual life of the people, especially in the court districts, and in getting the school advertised among the class of people that I wanted to have attend it.

The most of my travelling was done over the country roads, with a mule and a cart or a mule and a buggy wagon for conveyance.

I ate and slept with the people, in their little cabins.

I saw their farms, their schools, their churches.