As to _responsibilities_, the colored students recognize their duties as leaders of their people. Some of them who would gladly be teachers have found that orders on the State Treasury, subject to ten or twenty per cent. discount for cash, are not very remunerative, and are looking in other directions for employment. Undoubtedly, as skillful farmers and successful merchants, no less than as teachers, they can elevate their people. But at Hampton, a stalwart black man, in a post-graduate address, gave the students a ringing exhortation not to desert, because of its hardships, the vocation of a teacher, “which,” said he, turning to President Hayes, who sat before him, “is a nobler position than even that of President of the United States.” The responsibilities of the negro for village improvements in the South and for the evangelization of Africa were points dwelt upon by other speakers. We listened with peculiar interest to references made in the graduating addresses to the relation of the colored man _to other races_. It was pleasing to see the kind and forgiving spirit manifested. No bitterness was shown either publicly or privately because colored teachers had failed to secure their pay. An interesting essay on “The Advantage of Disadvantages” referred to their ill-treatment in the past, with no word of reproach. One speaker advanced the sentiment that the colored man need not feel specially troubled at his past deprivation of political privileges; that it was better for him not to have much influence in government until he had become fitted to exercise that influence wisely. Other like utterances were made, full of patience, modesty, loyalty, hopefulness and a worthy ambition. As to _religion_, everything is most encouraging. We attended a revival meeting in a neighboring church, which was conducted with great decorum and genuine feeling, entirely different from the wild hurly-burly of war times. The students of the Institute are carefully trained in religious truths, and it is seldom that a graduate goes out who is not a sincere Christian. The spirit of the anniversary exercises was that of a deep, but unostentatious piety. The same influence is exerted among the Indians. We were told a touching story of “Walking Cloud,” an Indian boy whom nothing could move from his stolidity and his unwillingness to put away the badges of his barbarism—his blanket and long hair—till the chaplain of the Institution showed him a picture of Christ on the cross and explained its meaning. This boy, soon afterward taken sick and dying, gave expression in the peculiar metaphoric speech of his race to his desire to live a Christian life.