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would bring a delegation of them to him in a twinkling for reparation. Saloon keepers and such dealers in every kind will insult our manhood with impunity, by setting us apart from whites; yet we patronize just such folks as these. We know, for instance, a firm in Pine st. keepers of a bakery and ice cream saloon, whose business has been built up by colored patronizers three fourths, of their patrons are and always have been colored people; yet this same firm with an impudence that borders on bravery, some time last year set up a negro pew for colored customers. What smites us with shame and indignation, is there has, under this unjust arrangements been no sensible falling off in colored custom. We have frequently cast our eye through the windows of a fine evening, and there beheld what made us bite our lips with indignation, colored men and women sitting in the negro pew laughing and as happily as if they had been on the sure road to Heaven! What shall we say for the race to which we belong when in denouncing such reprehensible conduct as this on the part of white men, we are met with the fact that just such actions is set up by colored men themselves, barbers, waiters and others? O shame! shame! that truth has already compelled the historian to record. "As Greeks enslaved Greeks, as the Hebrew often made the Hebrew his absolute lord, as Anglo-Saxon trafficked in Anglo-Saxon so has the negro race enslaved its own brethren."

Men and Brethren, do let us wake up, get education, money, character, good sense, religion of the right kind, and let us meanwhile not forget that we may be called upon, or others in our situation have been to earn our dear, God given rights, but stand by one another, and support enterprises among themselves.

Some white man in the upper section of the city with the best intentions no doubt, sent word to our colored citizens that if they were organized in any way to protect their poor this winter, he was authorized to plead at their disposal several hundred dollars to be expended in behalf of said poor. A meeting of colored men was convened, and they politely sent word that they did not think it best to set up an exclusive aid society, and preferring to let the needy among the colored people take their changes with the needy among the white people they hoped the gentleman would place the proposed donation into the general fund for the common relief of all the needy in the city. We have it from good authority, that the gentleman was much pleased with the shrewdness and fore-