become paupers. The South does not bend the manacles of pauperism on his wrists, but instead opens to him many lines of industrial activity, such as other sections of our country do not afford. (American Baptist, Louisville, Ky.) [Pg 75] [Pg 75] MRS. GEORGIA GORDON TAYLOR. Nashville, Tenn. MRS. GEORGIA GORDON TAYLOR. Nashville, Tenn. For seven successive years of almost continuous labor she was the leader of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, of Nashville, Tenn., who traveled extensively, both in America and Europe, giving popular entertainment of a species of [Pg 76]singing which originated among the slaves of the South. She possesses a soprano voice of rare quality that is always pleasing and in demand. [Pg 76] THREE GREAT NEGROES. BY JOHN E. BRUCE, WASHINGTON, D. C. The three greatest Negroes that the race has produced are dead. No three living Negroes fill so much space in books or in men's thoughts as Toussaint L'Overture, Richard Allen, and Frederick Douglass, and it will be a long while before three Negroes of equal intelligence and ability for leadership and organization will be able to take their places. There are others, but these represent the real greatness of the Negro on two continents, and each man's work stands out conspicuously for itself. Hayti, the great African Methodist Church, and Negro citizenship in the United States are the magnificent results in part or in whole of the agitations begun by each of these men in his appointed time. The monument to L'Overture's greatness, generalship, courage, and organizing ability is the black republic which he founded and consecrated with his blood. Richard Allen's monument is the great African Methodist Church, with its hundreds of thousands of worshipers, its schools of learning, and its progressive and educated ministers, some of whom can hold a good deal more book learning. [Pg 77] [Pg 77] THE LATE HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
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