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of political parties, that is found no longer advisable for the colored people to have great faith in them. This is the conclusion that many blacks have come to.

"Recent outrages in the South, and the tendency in the North to unite with Southern leaders against the blacks, the efforts of religious bodies to rid themselves of their colored membership, the desire of political parties to carry elections without the negro vote, prejudice and ostracism, all are having their effect, and are making new creatures of the more thoughtful American negroes. They impel the negroes to adopt plans and measures that will in some way aid them in changing their present condition for something more desirable.

"It is not a wise policy to conitnue alienating the affections of the negro, especially when there is no possibility of removing him from the country. As the whites have all to lose, and the