The lecture on "The Education of the Negro," delivered at Monteagle,
Tenn., and published in this volume, is a sample. Dr. Haygood states
"four root objections" to negro education: 1--Ignorance; 2--Stinginess;
3--Prejudice; 4--Fear that education will "spoil the negro as a laborer"
and bring him into "social equality" with the whites. The author shows
the absurdity of all these objections.

The volume is full of statistics and will prove a valuable mine of
facts. The discussions are clear and generally convincing. We commend
the book highly.

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THE SOUTH.


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THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

_Rev. S.C. McDaniel and others, Committee of the United Congregational
Conference of Georgia._

DEAR BRETHREN.--Having been appointed by the Georgia Congregational
Association as a committee to confer with you in reference to a union of
the two bodies represented by you and us, we desire to express to you
our gratification at the receipt of your request for such a conference,
and our earnest desire that such a union should be consummated. With