“Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of the want of them, is owing only to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America. * * * * I have taken the liberty to send your Almanac to M. de Condorset, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic Society, because I consider it a document to which your whole color has a right, for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them.” The writer then gives a graphic picture of the active efforts of the Christian world, to educate and enlighten this needy and neglected class, as soon as the Emancipation Act had given access to them. From 1863 to 1866, the work in the Freedmen’s camps around Washington was, perhaps, the most conspicuous of all; so that in this latter year, 42 regular day-schools, with 71 teachers, were caring for 3,930 pupils. These were sustained from New England and the Middle States, and by Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Friends, Congregational, and various undenominational agencies. Then came the era of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which expended some thirteen millions of dollars, and the free-school law for the District of Columbia. The history of the Normal school, established with much self-denying effort, and against great obstacles, by Miss Mytilla Miner, is given quite at length, and a full and appreciative sketch of the beginning and development of the work of the A. M. A. The story of Fisk University and the work of the Jubilee Singers is told at length. We quote from the closing paragraphs of Mr. Arnold, this impressive comparison: