Let there be no more the policy of seclusion, but rather that of absorption. Let all covenants between the Government and the Indian be executed as promptly and faithfully as with any other person. Let the Indian citizen have his own home with all the protection of National and State Governments. Let the Indian citizen have the same protection of law, and require from him the same obedience to law as governs in the case of the white man and the black man, and then the Indian will work out his own destiny. Let us say with that quaint philosopher, Hosea Bigelow, that “This is the one great American idee, To make a man _a man_, and then to let him be.” Trusting that the American Missionary Association will keep its standard on the Indian question “full high and advancing,” I remain, With very great respect, Your obedient servant, CLINTON B. FISK. * * * * * THE CHINESE. * * * * * “CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.” Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone, D.D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. J. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D.D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D.D., Jacob S. Tabor, Esq. DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball. SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. * * * * * REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. Your Committee, to whom was referred that part of the Report of the Executive Committee which concerns the Chinese, beg leave to report as follows: 1. That in estimating the success of their work, the difficulties under which it has been prosecuted must be borne in mind; the fact that it has been carried on in the face of an intense hostility to the presence of Chinese upon our shores, extending not only to the lower classes, but also, in not a few localities, including influential clergymen and laymen, and became so far a dominant sentiment, that both the great political parties have yielded to it by inserting anti-Chinese planks in their platforms. 2. That this work ought to be not only generously supported and vigorously maintained, but, so far as practicable, extended, especially by the establishment of schools and mission work among the Chinese in the mines.