A friend, who is familiar with the blacks at the South, writes us that the statement that “the colored people prefer to be in churches by themselves” is only half true. He adds that, so far as it is true, it is because they either shrink from the restraints of a pure and intelligent religion, such as that of the whites, or from the scorn or ill-concealed toleration of their white fellow-worshipers; and that, if sure of a cordial welcome by the whites, they do not prefer to worship by themselves. We are glad to give publicity to this statement, although it is contradicted by that of every one else whom we remember to have heard speak of the matter. Is there not another reason which tends to separate white and black Christians into distinct churches? Do not the latter, even when assured of a cordial welcome by the whites, usually prefer an emotional, hortatory style of preaching which is very dear to them, but which disturbs, if it do not even amuse, the whites? Certainly it is so here at the North. _The Congregationalist._ ONE DESTINY. BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS. There is but one destiny, it seems to me, left for us, and that is to make ourselves and be made by others a part of the American people in every sense of the word. Assimilation, not isolation, is our true policy and natural destiny. Unification for us is life. Separation is death. We cannot afford to set up for ourselves a separate political party or adopt for ourselves a political creed apart from the rest of our fellow-citizens. _The Independent._ CHRIST OR CASTE. BY H. K. CARROLL.