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312 correcting an error there, and really accomplishing more toward the final solution of the problem than all the articles, talk and legislation combined. At the close of a recent gathering of colored teachers in a former slave State one of the .prominent daily papers contained the following editorial:

Thus throughout the land, in the midst of unyielding obstacles, to use the words of one of our most distinguished women, "We are rising," as all who are equal to the task of rising above their prejudices are willing to admit.