_Dr. Hartranft’s Sermon._—“Christ stood not for any one race, but for every race and every nationality, and whenever we take this cup we pledge ourselves to put aside all barriers of race, all barriers of nationality.”
_Capt. Pratt._—“If you wish Indians to live like citizens, you must let them see how citizens live, must put them for a time in well-bred communities. The kind of citizens that make free use of the revolver, they know too much of.”
“I have seen a Western village with eighty-four graves in the grave-yard, and only one man died a natural death.”
_Dr. Brastow._—“Diogenes with his lantern has been 250 years hunting among the blacks for a man. Let this Association do its work in one-fifth of that time, and Diogenes will put out his lantern and find his man without it.”
_Prof. Cyrus Northrop._—“Your uneducated bad man can be no worse than a brute. Your educated bad man is a demon. Hence, the education we give the colored man must be Christian.”
“Votes are the impulses that every man gives to the ship of state in the direction of safety or of danger.”
_Secretary Strieby._—“When diamonds were found in Africa they might, in their native condition, have been carried away by cart-loads without suspecting their value. It was only when they were cut and polished that men knew their true value. The worth of the colored people, these black diamonds, cannot be known until they are educated.”
_Gen. Howard_ alluded to the Exposition at Atlanta where all kinds of _wares_ illustrating the progress of the South are now on exhibition, and then felicitously introduced the President of Atlanta University as a _Ware_ that was having a wonderful effect upon Southern progress.
When Mr. Wright, the colored man from Georgia, was reading his address, a venerable white man, more than eighty years of age, came forward, and resting his elbows upon the platform at the foot of the desk, with bowed head listened with rapt attention. The scene was most suggestive, and in the hands of artist Rogers would make an admirable companion group for “Uncle Tom’s School.”
_Rev. L. Dickerman_, referring to the treatment received by the Chinese on our Western coast, exclaimed in a tone of indignation: “I don’t blame them for wanting their bones sent home when they die.”