A fair inference at least from the Doctor’s article is, that he sees no hope for his people on this continent, and that their only way to success is to emigrate to the land of their mothers, and to make its reclamation their ambition. But how does that affect our work and the present generation? The American Colonization Society, as seen by its last published report, sent out to Africa during the year 1878, one hundred and one colonists; during the same year the bark Azor transported two hundred and forty. It is but a spoonful dipped from this deep sea. It is but the smallest possible percentage even of the increase of the colored population of America. Meanwhile, what are we to do with the five millions who remain, and with their children and their children’s children? What we do for them we must do for them here. We, too, believe in colonization; in the evangelization of Africa by Africans; and the only difference in our aim and purpose from the work with which the Doctor is so fully identified, is that we want to distribute our colonists more widely. It is well to have a Christian republic in Africa. But it is our desire to plant small colonies of twenty-five or thirty, among whom shall be both ministers and mechanics, here and there through the still “dark continent”—points of radiation for the light of life and of Christian civilization which they are to hold forth. We are full of sympathy and interest with the good work in Liberia. May the Lord bless it abundantly. But the work here is not hopeless. Hundreds of thousands of the Freedmen still answer, from amid all their disappointments and disabilities, “We are rising.” Our plan and purpose desire to take part in both hemispheres of the whole rounded work—to save the African in America and in Africa alike. * * * * * DR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. The American Missionary Association, whose publications we have prefixed to this paper, in their work of lofty and noble purpose through the South are endeavoring to prepare the negro for higher spheres of labor than “cotton-fields, turpentine orchards, and rice-fields.” Every negro who is at all acquainted with matters in the United States must have the highest admiration for it. Almost alone among the benevolent institutions of that land in the days of the great struggle, they never for one moment yielded to the imperious dictates of an oligarchical monopoly, but gave expression to the idea which they inscribed upon their banner, that one of the chief purposes of their organization was to resist the tyranny of the autocracy which doomed the negro to perpetual servitude. No one could be enrolled among its members who was a slave-holder. They have the gratitude of the negro race.