As this
institution offered both industrial and literary courses we shall
have occasion to mention it again. Both a cause and result of the
increasing interest in the higher education of Negroes was that these
unfortunates had made good with what little training they had. Many
had by their creative power shown what they could do in business,[4]
some had convinced the world of the inventive genius of the man of
color,[5] others had begun to rank as successful lawyers,[6] not a
few had become distinguished physicians,[7] and scores of intelligent
Negro preachers were ministering to the spiritual needs of their
people.[8] S.R. Ward, a scholar of some note, was for a few years the
pastor of a white church at Courtlandville, New York. Robert Morris
had been honored by the appointment as Magistrate by the Governor of
Massachusetts, and in New Hampshire another man of African blood had
been elected to the legislature.[9]
[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed_., 1871, p. 367.]
[Footnote 2: _African Repository_, vol. x., p. 312.]
[Footnote 3: _Ibid_., p. 312.]
[Footnote 4: Among these were John B. Smith, Coffin Pitts, Robert
Douglas, John P.
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