Among them, education has produced a large number of men of high grade,
and influence. Most of them have turned to agriculture, but being a race
that is still in embryo, so to speak, that is one of the present era,
the time has not yet arrived when it can be predicted of them that they
are equal to coming up to the highest rank in civilized life.
They are an open, living illustration of the power of education and
modern civilization. The lesson to be learned from them is, that what a
race so sunk in savagery and barbarism can do, is much more within the
reach of the Colored Americans who have a great and noble ancestry back
to which they may look with admiration and feel an incentive to continue
to advance—it is in them.