Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening at the meeting in the interest of the negro and Indian education. The meeting was opened with music by the Hampton Quartette, which is composed of students of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Dr. McKenzie made a somewhat lengthy introductory address, in which he said that the institute, whose representatives were to address the meeting, was founded on a principle and for a purpose essentially the same as our own university. He was followed by W. H. Daggs, a graduate of the school, who spoke of the advance of the negro since his emancipation twenty five years ago; yet he said that the vast mass of the population is still in dense ignorance. What is asked for the negro is not mere rights, he has all the rights of American citizens, but more light. The speaker said that in his experience he learned as much as he taught; he found his people only too eager to learn. The sorest need of this people is for teachers, and the Hampden school is the place for such teachers to be prepared, and the school calls for the support of all Americans.

Chas. Doxon of the Onondagee tribe, a student of the school, spoke next. The want of progress of the Indians, the speaker thought, was due to the separation and insolation of the Indian tribes. What is needed is that the whites should settle in their midst; show them that there is no hard and defined boundary between the whites and the Indians. He said in conclusion that if a bond of sympathy is once established the progress of the Indians is assured. The Hampton Quartette rendered some very sweet negro melodies. They sang as an encore the favorite of all negro melodies, "Way Down on a Swanee Riber."

Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have received the rights of citizens; but as in the case of the negroes education is what is needed for them.

The vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone.

General Armstrong following spoke of the types of negroes of the South, and the respective needs of each class.