It is a clear case that the law for common carriers requires the companies to allow passengers who have first-class tickets to ride in first-class cars. The 14th amendment declares that “no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Justice Strong, of the Supreme Court, referring to this language in the recent case of Strander _v._ Virginia (10 Otto, 307), which related to the exclusion of colored men from juries, said: “What is this but declaring that the law in the State shall be the same for the black as for the white; that all persons, whether colored or white, shall stand equal before the laws of the States, and in regard to the colored race, for whose protection the amendment was primarily designed, that _no_ discrimination shall be made against them by law because of their color.” It is clear that the railway companies are doing better and better in this matter. Some allow colored passengers to go without hindrance where their first-class tickets would take them. Other railway officials have instructed their train men that if colored people with first-class tickets make request to enter the first-class cars, they shall be allowed so to do, though the brakemen will keep them out as long as they can. Our colored friends must be patient while public sentiment is advancing and the law is coming to their help. Many colored people are as sensitive to the nicotine poison as any white ladies, and it is a cruelty, aside from the injustice, to thrust them into the smoking-car. * * * * * ADDRESS OF THE REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON AT THE BOSTON ANNIVERSARY, MAY 31, 1882. There are four ways in which a race in the enjoyment of power and prosperity may deal with a race which is under the burden of weakness and temporary debasement; God forbid that I should say with an inferior race; for it is not ours to measure gifts until the scale of opportunity shall have been equalized; God forbid that I should say with a despised race, though that too nearly represents the fact among large portions of people, even in our own land and day;—I say, in dealing with races which are for the present weaker and in inferior position to our own. I used to read, when I studied geography, that the inhabitants of the world could be classed under four heads: as barbarous, half-civilized, civilized and enlightened. And I think the four methods in which this race may be treated correspond somewhat with these four divisions of human progress. The first and barbarous cry which meets a weaker race is, “_kill them_; put them out of existence.” The first impulse of savage men—the question is when the savagery is all expelled from human nature—is to put out of the way that which is offensive, that which is in your way, that which seems in any way to compete with your full satisfaction and enjoyment.