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him or his subjects justice. Some of his conclusions, however, are important, and may be given in a very brief space. Mr. Burt remarked that there were two extreme views of the negro race, with neither of which he had any sympathy. There is a class of reformers who have "negro on the brain." They paint the African race in the most rose-colored tints - assume his physical and mental equality with, and in some instances even his superiority to the whites - and in fact make him appear but "a little lower than the angels." The other class, occupying the opposite extreme, deny almost the humanity of the negro - insist that he is greatly inferior in every essential particular to the white race - and deride every attempt to improve and elevate his lowly condition. These extreme views on both sides spring from prejudiced or fallacious conceptions of the negro character. The fact is that the negroes, as a class, display very much the same important elements of character that the white race might be justly supposed to do under like circumstances. With regard to their mental capacity, Mr. Burt believed that their minds were, on the whole, just as susceptible of improvement, expansion, and culture, as those of a like number of whites - neither greatly more nor greatly less. In a Northern school room there will be found various grades of intellectual capacity, ranging perhaps from great mental power to that low level of human intelligence wherein stupidity is the most obvious trait. It is so, taking into account the differences of their training, in an equal number of negro scholars at the South. There are negro youths, with faces as black as a well polished boot, who possess great intellectual acuteness; there are others whose intelligence is of a low order. Generally speaking, however, there is a remarkable aptness, accompanied by an equally remarkable desire, for acquiring learning, among the freedmen. Nor does this remark apply to the youth alone. Even the adult population are eager to acquire the elements of learning, and there are numerous instances of progress in this direction in advanced years - thus disproving the theory asserted by some that at the age of puberty the weak intellectual capacity of the African is overwhelmed by his stronger animal nature.
 Concerning the moral characteristics of the negro, Mr. Burt's conclusions are similar to those which relate to his mental capacity. The negro has many of the vices which belong to civilized society, together with some special vices which have been entailed upon him by the corrupting system of slavery. Yet in this respect the negro can hardly be said to be worse than the white man. He has good moral qualities, which even slavery has not debased. He improves under instruction and Christian culture. The children, with whom lying and a system of petty thieving naturally grew up in their servile, irresponsible condition, are rapidly laying aside these bad habits, and are acquiring ideas of the sacredness of truth and the rights of property which would do no discredit to children with fairer faces and situated in more favorable surroundings. So, also, with many of the adult males, who are forsaking habits of intemperance and immorality, and learning to respect themselves and to command respect in others.
 The material condition of the freedmen is low, as might be expected of a race just emancipated from bondage. Yet there is manifest among them a very general desire to improve that condition, and especially to acquire land. There need be no apprehensions of the future of the negro race on this score - on the contrary, if they need friendly advice at all it is that they do not surrender themselves too unreservedly to the acquisition of property to the neglect of improvement in other directions. Mr. Burt cited several instances coming within his observation in which negro heads of families had purchased comfortable homes with the earnings at their labor.
 Many interesting statements were made concerning the character of the Southern people, and their new relations to their former slaves, but we cannot attempt to repeat those statements here. The entire address was characterized by directness, by an intelligent study of the subject, by a hopeful yet practical view of the future, and withal by the utmost charity for those who entertained views differing from those advanced by the speaker. It is an address which we believe calculated to excite interest in and promote correct views of a subject which too many persons look at with reluctance, and that it should therefore be disseminated as widely as possible.