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Rh (Conn.) Courant and The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press indorse The Journal by taking the same view of the question.

The Chicago (Ill.) Inter-Ocean, one of the largest and most widely circulated papers of the Northwest, gives the following opinion of Afro-American progress: "In the entire history of mankind, no race has ever made such rapid progress against tremendous odds as the colored people of this country have since the chains of slavery were stricken off, less than a generation ago. Nor did emancipation, followed as it was by enfranchisement, remove their disabilities. The negro color has remained, with all its disadvantages."

Commenting on the election of Mr. C. G. Morgan to the class oratorship of Harvard College, it says; "Such a star as Clement Gerrett Morgan relieving the darkness, is a star of hope for the entire race. By doing him justice, his college associates performed a high duty, which can not fail to exert a most wholesome general influence upon the public sentiment of the country, and prepare the way for the enforcement, South as well as North, of the last and crowning amendment to our national Constitution. It will not long be possible to deny, and with impunity trample under foot, the political rights of a race that has, in this centennial year of the Constitution, borne off what may fairly rank as the highest of collegiate honors."

These are only a few of the comments on the progress of the race from Northern journals. We will name a few of the hundreds that declare for his development incessantly: The New York Independent, New York Press, Philadelphia Press, New York Tribune, Springfield Republican, Boston Herald, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, The Baltimore American, The Minneapolis Tribune, and The Journalist.

Let us examine the views of the Southern press, and ascertain its opinion of the Afro-American and his condition,