Replying to your letter received this morning, I am not able at this moment to lay my hand on the copy of Mr. Carnegie's address -- I am at my office and have probably left it at home. As I read it, it seemed a very fine, friendly, hopeful and encouraging utterance, well worthy of being laid before the whole world. As to editing it for publication, or leaving out any of it, I can think of nothing now. On one point, however, I do not at all agree with Mr. Carnegie or with Dr. Washington, whom he quotes, in holding it "the wiser course" to practically throw up the ballot, or the demand for it. I do not think the liberties of any class of citizens are secure without the ballot -- the liberties of colored men least of all. Nothing in history goes to show that the rights of any class are safe in the hands of another. I believe that the rape of the ballot from the Negroes of the South is wicked, and indefensible. It has been followed by the steady denial of other rights, which, it will take a long time to regain. I never yet heard of a white man, with red blood in his veins, who voluntarily relinquished the ballot, and there have been millions who counted no price too great, not even death itself, to pay for the right of self-government. IamI am unable to see how any self-respecting man can, willingly