In regard to the general question, we believe it a law of God that, as intellectual attainment and moral character are in themselves of far more consequence than complexion or race, those who are equal in these higher spheres easily overlook the differences in things below. If we understand it at all, the Christian idea is not that the strong should destroy the weak, but “laboring, should support” them. The noblest sight on earth is when a superior race, or family, or individual—we care not which—reaches down to an inferior race, or family, or individual, to lift them up toilfully and patiently to its own higher level. The aristocracy of Christ’s kingdom is an aristocracy of service. And, in its accomplished peace, the lion does not eat the lamb, but they lie down together. It may be worth our while to practice a little here. FOOTNOTE: [A] “The Southern Negro as He Is”: a Pamphlet, by George R. Stetson, Boston, Mass. “The Result in South Carolina”: _Atlantic Monthly_, by a South Carolinian. “The Southern Question”: _North American Review_, by Charles Gayarré, of Louisiana. * * * * * —A variety of bills have been introduced into Congress affecting the interests of the red man. One to organize a territorial government, to secure land to individuals, to missions and to Church societies, the residue of land to be forfeited to the United States. Another granting right of way to two railroads, and still another for “a military and post-road bisecting the territory from North to South”; taking for it a strip five miles wide, some 300 to 1,000 square miles. Our large army could certainly travel it without elbowing one another. Another still is arranged, to make Indians having an organized government citizens by wholesale. Unfortunately, most, if not all, these bills indicate by their origin, as well as by their contents, that they are in the interest of those ambitious to get possession of the lands set apart by treaty to the Indians, and that they involve an utter disregard of the plighted faith and the sworn promises of the nation. EDUCATION AMONG THE FREEDMEN. Under this title appears a valuable article in the _Methodist Quarterly Review_, for January, by S. G. Arnold, Esq., of Washington, D. C. As an early testimony to the capacity of the African race, he cites a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1791, to Benjamin Banneker, a free negro of Maryland, who had shown remarkable inventive and constructive genius, and acquired a thorough astronomical knowledge. Mr. Jefferson says: