He knocked, and knocked, and waitin’ stood While white folks, a great multitude, Went in, without cessation: He thought he heard in undertone: “This is the white folks’ gate, alone!” Distract, in consternation. They hurried through, without a glance— He was to them na circumstance— Upon the very canter: He saw their backs were maistly labeled, For places in advance they’d cabled, And hailed doon from Atlanta. At length, there came one martyr, Glenn, And pointed to an auld slave-pen, Fitted for nigger-quarters: It stood against the city-walls, Arranged within with auld-time stalls, Just as before they fought us. “Your name, I think, is Douglass, Sir, An’ nigger poisons in you stir, O hell itsel’ th’ infection! Ten thousand æons you must wait, Till you are purged withoot the gate;— Submit, then, to inspection. “For, Heaven no place, as well as earth, Can find for those o’ nigger birth, For Master or for Madam: You married, too, on earth a white;— And that deserves a deeper night, Than first befell auld Adam!” And sae the Gowden Gate was slammed, And in yon pen was Douglass crammed, For doom sae unrelaxin’: Till he had passed from state to state, Been bleached all white, from heel to pate, An’ made an Anglo-Saxon! FOOTNOTE: [A] Golden * * * * * Mr. L. Maxwell, a graduate of Atlanta University, a member of the Hartford Theo. Sem., and who during the summer has had charge of our Congregational Church in Savannah, Ga., went with a friend a few weeks ago by railway to McIntosh. They paid for first-class tickets and went into the so-called “white car.” The conductor merely intimated to them that they were in the wrong car. This did not suit the white passengers, who, to the number of twenty-five, insisted that they should leave. They found the conductor and appealed to him. To his credit be it said, he came and informed the passengers that as conductor he was compelled to protect the colored men, and hinted that they better not interfere with them. This settled it. The boys took their first-class seats in the white people’s car and rode unmolested to their destination. This is certainly a report of progress. All that is needed is a little backbone on the part of railroad officials at the South, and the colored people will have their rights in railway travel. * * * * * The Kentucky Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church convened recently in Louisville. Bishop Miles having called the meeting to order, before proceeding to business startled the Conference by saying: