I have not time to speak at length of the work of the Association among the Asiatic immigrants upon the Pacific coast. Many of you know how honestly and earnestly I contend that in many respects this serf population that is sweeping in upon our Western border is a most undesirable element, morally, socially and politically. But by as much as they are, in the mass, vile and degraded, the worst sort of stuff out of which to make American citizens, by so much the more are we bound not to outdo them in violence that would dishonor a savage, and in intolerance and prejudice that is worse than heathenish. Here, too, the argument of this discourse finds its fullest illustration. It is the strongest proof of the bounty of our religion that its brightest trophies are secured and its grandest victories achieved upon the most hopeless fields, and in saving the very chief of sinners. But the work of the Association among the Aborigines of the wilderness is as nothing to their more important mission, and their more signal success among _the colored people of the south country_. Here is a population vastly more numerous and more dangerous if left in ignorance; for, wisely or unwisely, they have been invested with the right, and in some places they freely exercise the power to vote. Admit, now, all that may be said of the utter unfitness of the great majority of them to exercise this privilege of freemen. Yet since, beyond recall, they have the right, and in some way must be counted as a very important factor in the forces that are to shape our destiny, we can no more afford to let them remain in ignorance, than we can afford to let the same class grow up in ignorance and vice among us, with so little sense of their responsibilities, and with so little self-respect as citizens, that they can be bought like cattle by the highest bidder. The more debased, indolent and ignorant they are, the greater the danger to our free institutions, and the stronger the motive for seeking to elevate, educate and save them. They constitute more than one-tenth of our population. If directly or indirectly we were accessory to the placing of so dangerous a weapon in their hands—a weapon, as respects their own interests, liable to kick back—we are bound to help fit them so to exercise the right that they shall not be the ignorant tools of corrupt and crafty men in either party as ignorant and unprincipled as themselves. This the A. M. A. is striving wisely to do in accord with the sentiments and sympathies of many of the former slave-owners, who in good faith accept the situation, and sincerely desire the temporal and spiritual well-being of the colored people.