with them, of working all kinds of miracles in en

chantment and witchcraft.

They believe in ghosts

A story was related to

and the spells of evil spirits. us of a recent occurrence at a railroad depot. A corpse was in transit for burial, and when the train stopped, a bystander snatched a negro's hat and placed it upon the coffin. The negro refused, through fear of the dead man's ghost, to go and get his hat; and when a white man took the hat from the coffin and offered it to him, he still refused to touch it, believing that his path through life would henceforth be beset by ghosts.

In their religious nature the negroes are decidedly emotional; being fond of music, a large part of their service is song, and often, indeed, they sing their prayers, and have considerable tune to the discourse. The preaching which affects them most is that which deals with vivid description of hell and its torments. Strong statements and frequent repetitions are more forceful to their understanding than true eloquence or logic.

They are often charged with a divorcement between religion and morality and, perhaps, not without some show of justice, but when we think upon the number

of white church members that patronize the saloons and engage in walking where Christ would not walk, and in doing what Christ would not do, we are not sure that this is a race peculiarity.

Taking it all in all, we think that if the reader will remember what we have shown to be the character of the negro in ancient times, and even what he is at present in the wilds of Africa, he will readily admit that slavery has been a blessing to the race, hardly equalled in the history of the world. It is true that this blessing cost the South millions of dollars and the best blood of her heroic sons.

The sons of Ham received an awful shock

Of doom and prophecy to serve as slaves;
And like the iron prisoned in the rock,

That fire alone from grosser matter saves,
Their toils and their trials 'neath the yoke

But gave them zeal in civilization's cause.

That when through destiny their fetters broke,
This destiny. e'en rendered them applause.
"There is a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we may."

CHAPTER XIII.

Solution of the race problem-Negro equality-Amalgamation -Extermination-War-Vicious leaders-The hand of Providence-Slavery a blessing to the negroes-The true solution-Possibilities.

The first part of this volume was devoted to answering the foolish, but pernicious arguments of Prof. Carroll, that the negro is a beast; we then proved unmistakably his real origin; then we traced his history from the time of his origin till the present. Now we reach the most difficult of all problems with which the American people have had to deal. Many are the conjectures upon this point, most of which are impossibilities. Many northern people believe that the negro will become educated and refined and thereby secure such social recognition as to intermarry with the whites, and by amalgamation lose all the attributes that now characterize the black race; but Southern prejudice waxes stronger every year, so that social equality becomes more and more odious, thus widening the gulf between the races; and the major

A NEGRO HANGED BY A MOB IN SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS,

FOR ATTEMPTED RAPE OF A WHITE GIRL.