Q. What do you think of his intellectual and moral qualities and his capacity for development? --A. There are individual instances I know of where negroes have received and taken a good education. As a class, it would probably be several generations, at any rate, before they would be able to compete with the Caucasian. I believe that the negro is capable of receiving an ordinary English education, and there are instances where they enter professions and become good lawyers. For instance, I know in the town of Greenville, Miss., right across the river from me, a negro attorney, who is a very intelligent man, and I heard one of the leading attorneys in Greenville say he would almost have anybody on the opposite side of a case rather than he would that negro. The sheriff of my county is from Ohio, and a negro, he is a man whom we all support in his office. We are anxious that the negroes should have a fair representation. For instance, you ask for the feeling existing between the proprietor and the negroes. The probate judge of my county is a negro and one of my tenants, and I am here now in New York attending to important business for my county as an appointee of that man. He has upon him the responsibilities of all estates in the county; he is probate judge. Q. Is he a capable man? --A. A very capable man, and an excellent, good man, and a very just one. Q. Do you see any reason why, with fair opportunities assured to himself and to his children, he may not become a useful and competent, American citizen? --A. We already consider him so. Q. The question is settled? --A. I thought you were speaking personally of the man I referred to. Q. No; I was speaking of the negro generally--the negro race. --A. Let me understand your question exactly. Q. Do you see any reason why the negroes, as a component part of the American population, may not, with a fair chance, come to be useful, industrious, and competent to the discharge of the duties of citizenship? --A. I think they may as a class, but it will take probably generations for them to arrive at that standard. Q. It has taken us generations to arrive at the standard, has it not? --A. Yes, sir. Q. There is some talk about our ancestors having been pirates, I believe. Now, will you state to us what the existing facilities for education are among the negroes? --A. I can only speak as regards Arkansas. Of course I do not know much of the other States. In Arkansas we have in each county a school board. These boards examine and employ teachers. We are taxed for a school fund, from which these teachers are paid.