National Republican (Washington City

The Negro at His Best.

The president of the Literary association, under whose auspices the symposium at Lincoln hall is to be given Tuesday evening, says he and the officers would very much like to see present in the audience that evening the correspondents of the New York dailies who write such long and exaggerated articles caricaturing negro effort, and other such writers as, he says, "the negro will be seen at his best, and will give them an experience they seldom treat themselves to." The participants embrace the leading colored theologian, a gentleman of large influence in the south, a professor in a college, a president of a university, a graduate of Cambridge (England) university, who is also an author of some note, and a leading divine of Philadelphia. The subject upon which all these gentlemen will present views is "Subjection, Absorption, or Colonization," to be treated in relation to the two leading races of America. This subject and these men were chosen so that all the leading questions affecting the negro's relative position in America could be most clearly presented.