the Colored People of the United States."

We need not say that we have no sympathy with Romanism and its errors,
nor with the "Missionary Society of the Sacred Heart," and its efforts
to plant Romanism among the colored people of the South.

We can, however, but admire the fidelity of the church to its doctrines,
and the Christian example it gives to all missionary societies in its
recognition of man as man. The quotations which we make from the Roman
Catholic Quarterly will account for the strong hold that Romanism is
beginning to secure upon the negro race.

The following, for example, is a Roman Catholic tribute to John Brown:

On the 2nd of December next, thirty years will have passed
since John Brown, in his sixtieth winter, ascended the scaffold
and gave his life for the colored race.

Connecticut gave the hero birth--from heroes; New York, in her
Adirondack recesses, developed in him that spirit of liberty
which Ohio had nurtured, and is forever honored by his grave;
while Virginia, "building better than she knew," bestowed the
martyr's crown. It was necessary that one man should die for the
people (John xviii, 14), and God arranged that he who is likewise
one of the great benefactors of the human race as well as of his
native land should crimson and beautify with his blood the soil
that gave a cradle and a tomb to the Father of his Country.

Grand indeed is the greatness of the rock-ribbed Adirondacks
where John Brown lived, prayed, thought out his great