“With regret I forget If the song be living yet, Yet remember, vaguely now, It was honest, anyhow.”...

To Bishop Benjamin William Arnett, With profound regard for his heroic devotion to God and the Race, both in Church and in State⁠—and with sincere esteem for his unselfish espousal of the cause of the...

In the clash and clatter of our American Conflict, it has been said that the South remains Silent. Like the Sphinx she inspires vociferous disputation, but herself takes little part in the noisy contr...

The two sources from which, perhaps, modern civilization has derived its noble and ennobling ideal of woman are Christianity and the Feudal System. In Oriental countries woman has been uniformly devot...

The two sources from which, perhaps, modern civilization has derived its noble and ennobling ideal of woman are Christianity and the Feudal System. In Oriental countries woman has been uniformly devot...

In the very first year of our century, the year 1801, there appeared in Paris a book by Silvain Marechal, entitled Shall Woman Learn the Alphabet. The book proposes a law prohibiting the alphabet to w...

In the National Woman’s Council convened at Washington in February 1891, among a number of thoughtful and suggestive papers read by eminent women, was one by the Rev. Anna Shaw, bearing the above titl...

Just four hundred years ago an obscure dreamer and castle builder, prosaically poor and ridiculously insistent on the reality of his dreams, was enabled through the devotion of a noble woman to give t...

There are two kinds of peace in this world. The one produced by suppression, which is the passivity of death; the other brought about by a proper adjustment of living, acting forces. A nation or an in...

There are two kinds of peace in this world. The one produced by suppression, which is the passivity of death; the other brought about by a proper adjustment of living, acting forces. A nation or an in...

For nations as for individuals, a product, to be worthy the term literature, must contain something characteristic and sui generis. So long as America remained a mere English colony, drawing all her l...

I once heard Henry Ward Beecher make this remark: “Were Africa and the Africans to sink tomorrow, how much poorer would the world be? A little less gold and ivory, a little less coffee, a considerable...

A solitary figure stands in the marketplace, watching as from some lonely tower the busy throng that hurry past him. A strange contrast his cold, intellectual eye to the eager, strained, hungry faces ...

Read before the convocation of colored clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Washington, DC, 1886. ↩ Bascom. ↩ Bascom’s Eng. Lit. p. 253. ↩ Pamphlet published by Dr. Alex. Crummell. ↩ The publi...