25 JANUARY 1890, Page 14

THE INEGRO IN AMERICA.

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J

Si,—Po-day I have a letter from-Andover, Mass., the town of Mrs. Beecher Stowe. The writer says :—" We are spending

£15,000 on water. The tough work is being done by Italians, to the dismay of the Irishmen here : we could not in the factory employ a coloured hand here ; they would not work with a nigger. The educated school-people have them in their colleges and in their pulpits, but the lower working classes cannot stand a nigger, especially an Irishman cannot thole a nigger."—Com- firming every word you wrote on this question, I remain, Sir,