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210 in a peaceable way to settle the negro problem. The idea advanced by many of the North, in advocacy of racial protection by an organized force system, is dealt a blow by The South in a scathing editorial on—"Who will Bell the Cat?"

These are the closing lines of the editorial, which will commend itself to all intelligent and sober-thinking people: "It seems to us that the history of every effort on the part of the colored people of the South to organize for self-protection, is of itself sufficient to satisfy every intelligent mind of the utter helplessness of such an undertaking. It has never yet proved effective, and, so far as we can see, never will be effective for such a purpose. If for these troubles there can be no other remedy suggested by these gentlemen, then we are of all races the most miserable, indeed."

These extracts prove the editorial ability of The New South. Its managing editor, with but little previous journalistic training, is a good writer.

This cultured gentleman and well-known writer was born in the famous tobacco town, Durham, N. C., September 29, 1858. His editorial career began while he was a student at Shaw University, of which he is a graduate. He became associated with Dr. H. M. Tupper (president of that institution) and Prof. N. F. Roberts, in the publication of The African Expositor, which was then the organ of the North Carolina Baptists, as well as that of the University.

Though the junior member of the staff, he is accredited with having been the most classic writer upon The Expositor. The secret of his success with the paper was due to the fact that all of his articles upon religion, education, temperance, and, occasionally, politics, were prepared with the utmost care and study, and were said to be of a nervous, concise and