6. Many of the colored people are acquiring homes and other property, although in some places the owners of land will not sell it.
7. In some instances the colored people are cheated out of the benefits of their labor, and ill-treated in various ways.
8. Atlanta University stands high in the estimation of the people, and needs liberal pecuniary support from its friends to keep up its reputation and do the great work that lies before it.
9. Social prejudice seems to be yielding somewhat, although the fact that a white lady invited a colored girl to sit in a rocking-chair in her parlor, is not so common an occurrence as to make it unworthy of mention. Tidiness, gentility, intelligence and morality will yet be considered superior to a light complexion.
10. The hope of this race, as well as of any other, lies in the training of children, and hence the value of good schools, both day and Sunday.
11. The American Missionary Association is doing a valuable work among the whites, by showing them what education will do for poor people, and stimulating them to try to keep the “top-rail” where it is.
12. No one can estimate the influence our school is exerting in favor of education, industry, economy, temperance, Sabbath observance, chastity, social order, and, in short, morality and religion.