There can be no question but that the negro can, if he be well treated, do better in the Gulf States than in the cold climate of Kansas—at raising cotton and the sugar-cane than wheat and stock. Is there no serious warning in this movement to the people of those States?—a lesson not political so much as industrial; an intimation that fair treatment even of the lowest, poorest and most ignorant classes, especially if they are held by no artificial bond like ownership, is essential to a rendering of the service for which they were valued once as slaves, and for which they are no less indispensable as freemen. There is policy as well as right in justice, and the law of gravitation is as real and as irresistible in masses of men as in the realm of material things. The South needs the negro quite as much as the negro needs the South; and unless its leaders of thought and action help its people to recognize their mutual dependence, and teach them to conciliate and not to abuse the arm that is ready to sow and gather their crops, they will have to do without it. The present hegira is but a hint of what may be. Is it not a hint, also, as to how so great a loss may be avoided? For, after all, dislike the truth who may, the negro is “a man and a brother.” * * * * * WOMAN’S WORK FOR WOMAN. Every once in a while a feeling prevalent in the churches gets voice in the question: “Cannot women find some recognized method of doing more for the elevation of the freed women of the South than they are doing now?” There has been an unwillingness on the part of many to agitate this question lest there might be in it a seeming antagonism to the work of the Woman’s Board; a work that in origin and development is so clearly providential. Still the want has been keenly felt. Some attention has been given it, and in a few instances the thought has developed into action. Nearly two years ago Mrs. Zachary Eddy, of Detroit, interested a number of ladies in Eastern Michigan in the matter, and the result was that these ladies became responsible for the support of a lady missionary, to be appointed by the American Missionary Association, to work exclusively among the freed women; and the work then begun has been steadily sustained ever since by Miss Hattie Milton, at Memphis, Tenn. It is no longer an experiment, it is now a success. Miss Milton, in a letter, not long since, says: “This has been the happiest year of my life; for this work has its own reward, both to the missionary and those who send her, which is more valuable than silver or gold. I sometimes think the angels might almost envy us in this work.”