“We recommend them to get the annual reports of the American Missionary Society, of the Southern and Northern Methodist Churches, and of the African Methodist and Baptist Churches. From these they will find that more than $20,000,000 have been expended by these religious organizations since 1864 in building and maintaining handsome school-houses in which the Negro has been trained and educated and fitted for the noble task and important duty of training and educating others. They will find, too, from these reports that in all these years white men and women of learning and culture have labored, often in the face of prejudice and within earshot of contumely and hate. What these missionaries have done, the world at large has made little note of, but the days are not far distant when everywhere, through the South at least, it will be acknowledged as the greatest of all the great works accomplished in the United States since 1865. From the Potomac almost to the Rio Grande the academies and colleges of the American Missionary Society are to be found at nearly all the large centers of population, and they are flourishing because their work is a practical work and their purpose the plain one of widening and deepening the stream of learning at which the once slaves of the South may drink freely and at will. These institutions are the results of a generous benevolence, and have been maintained by a self-denying zeal worthy of the glorious Luther, whose birth a grateful world is everywhere celebrating with gladness. We recommend them to read the reports of the Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, of Oxford, Ga., who, since he wrote the _Brother in Black_, has launched into the work of furthering the education of the Negro with the zeal of a missionary, and the spirit of a soldier in a noble cause. Dr. Haygood, not long ago, made a tour of the South in the interest of the fund for which he is the dispensing agent, and the result is a more fervent devotion to the good work and more fervid and appealing speeches in its behalf. A gallant ex-Confederate, a Southerner by birth and breeding, and the son of a slaveholder, brought up, too, in a wealthy planting section of Georgia, he entered upon his, at first, self-appointed task as a mere private, a volunteer in the ranks where he found so many noble workers. But his knowledge of the Negro, of his capacity, and his needs, and the best methods of reaching practical educational results soon marked him for the high position he now occupies as the trusted and confidential agent of a fund bequeathed by a benevolent Northern man, whose desire for the advancement and betterment of the Negro Dr. Haygood is furthering by helping all the schools at the South that have these for their objects. Already, in the first year of the existence of the fund, this good, strong man finds encouraging results following upon what he has expended of it, and he pleads on every possible occasion with voice