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Rh the word "white" from the constitution of the state, the repeal of the Bastardy law, and the modification of the odious distraint law.

Our subject, at various times, has been upon the editorial staffs of The Exodus of Washington, (in 1880), The Maryland Director, and The Bee and Leader, of Washington, D. C. He now writes for The Gazette of Cleveland, and The New York Age, as "Bruce Grit." He is a successful gatherer of whatever news is afloat; more so than most of the Afro-American reporters, in that he can more readily get an interview with noted men, such as senators and "representatives at Washington.

He distinguished himself, some time since, by an expression he got from Senator Hoar, relative to an assertion accredited to him. It was heralded through the country in many papers, complimenting Mr. Bruce on his shrewdness in getting the sentiment from Senator Hoar. One describes him as "vigilant, shrewd, active, progressive, and always on the alert for the messenger news." His expression in The Bee, relative to the Payne and Derrick controversy, was full of suggestive thoughts. He is always square upon a matter at issue. "Bruce Grit" never flinches from what he regards a just and frank opinion.

In our efforts to give the history of a work so wide and comprehensive as that of Afro-American journalism, the special correspondent of The New York Age and Negro World comes in for a place. His letters have been racy and of interest to the many readers of those papers. This gentle man, whose writings measure well, in every respect, with the Afro-American editor, was born at Knoxville, April 16, 1852.