cultivation, the miasmatic malaria floating in the atmosphere, let it move gradually, with proper guides to direct it to new fields, when 'man,' by retaining it, will obey the 'command of God,' as related in the 28th verse of the first chapter of Genesis. Thus if it take century after century, let it march to its long home, the land of the tropics, where it is destined to work out, and demonstrate its own destiny.

The negro, as a race, will bear no disintegration; they must be together, directed by the superior mind of the whites till they are molded by contact with this class, in shaping the heads of the young after the whites, to assume a position for themselves. It never can be done, except by contact, which their past history clearly illustrates and proves.

However, taking the first chapter of Genesis as our guide with reference to what shall be our doings as to them on earth, it would seem that the Almighty did not contemplate any change in his workmanship, nor in his commands; otherwise, Moses being thus inspired, would have informed us in this chapter.

Therefore, we must conclude that God communicated all to Moses, at that time, which he desired we should know, respecting His Creation-His six days' labor! And there is no other account in the Bible or in the New Testament of his laboring any other period of time. All else is hidden, and we have no right to infer.

In writing upon and discussing many of the facts we have presented to the public consideration, another great object we have in view, is to awaken the

mind to thought and reflection, which, most generally, will place it aright.

In our presenting this to the public, we have no desire to sting good people; we detest fanatics and those who will not think and investigate for themselves. We deplore the condition of our country, and feel to weep over the graves of our fellow-countrymen. We desire to allay sectional prejudices by exciting men to good acts rather than to bad ones. Fearful should we be of that man who would now raise his voice to prejudice one section against the other; for reason teaches us that such a course of conduct, practiced by both sections, would never restore our country to prosperity and contentment, which we should all desire! In a social and political life, if we can do no good to others, we should do as little harm as practicable, ever maintaining a proper dignity of character in self-defense. To reason and common sense we should appeal, and by this means we should carry our case before the high tribunal, ordained by Conscience, to decide the merits of the case,— that grand principle planted in our breasts, which intuitively knows right from wrong.

Too often is the impression held out by Northern writers and travelers, that the poor whites, in the South, are the mere creatures of the slaveholding community. Knowledge and experience demonstrate facts. Up to within eighteen months past, we had made the South our home for twenty years, being well acquainted with the manners and customs of the people in the Southern portions of Mississippi, Lou

isiana and Texas, embracing, by far, the richest sections of the South.

Sure wealth there has its charm; it seduces to love, and often wins a fortified position by insinuation or storm; the poor man and woman, if they have intelligence and merit, occupy a position in society among the rich, which make them all feel their mutual dependence on each other. The poor man or woman of intelligence and merit as often marry among the rich, as among those of their own means.

It may not be venturesome to say that 80-100 of the young men immigrating into the South from Northern sections, go there in the first place as poor young men, and after establishing themselves in business, whom do they marry? Do they return to the land of their nativity for companions? or do they marry some ones for whom they have formed an attachment while they were engaged in establishing themselves in business? Few there are who return to their native homes for companions; consequently we see a vast disparity between the numbers of marriageable ladies in the North and in the South. It is said that there are three in the former to one in the latter; this is owing to the young men in the former seeking homes in distant and foreign lands, leaving their female schoolmates behind.

The admission of the poor young man into society in the South is as easy as it is elsewhere, either in the North or in Europe. Virtue and wealth are shy of strangers throughout the world, though in ninetynine cases out of a hundred there is no impression formed as to their inferiority.

Do the people of the North, of the South, of the East, or of the West, greet strangers, though fellowcitizens, with a perfect disingenousness on their first appearance? Do they not want to know their history, their adventures, their parentage, their means of support, their morals, and even their religion, before they assent to continue their acquaintances? Yes, human flesh will do all this most coquetishly !

The most unapproachable personages in the South are those who are ignorant and rich; yet they can even read and write, enter and depart from a room politely, sit cross-legged on a chair or otherwise, and can say pretty Poll! and other domestic things, having begun in the world usually poor, with one idea; but their reasons cease with their animal passions being satisfied, and lie dormant, moldering to renew again a stronger thirst than before!

But this class is not confined to the South,-it is the unhappy product of every State, of every city, town, and hamlet wherever we have travelled, to scan closely the governing characteristics, not only in the United States, but in foreign lands. Superior wealth, though it covers a clown, and hides the face of an idiot, or a head that is shaped like a chimpanzee, often attracts the fairest flower, and receives the lavish and voluptuous smile of those whom we should suppose to be artless and innocent! Such is beneath the veil of life, and wherever we walk, we notice, in commingling in society, its little incidents that amuse, and disgust one with the race of man! A knowledge of mankind shows us all this at a glance.

And the best place to read character by phrenology

and physiognomy, is to go to church, where we can see most of the heads of the congregation, or whereever else we can see multitudes,with heads uncovered. Practicing this, and observing closely the gestures of individuals, we can nearly tell what they would say and do in any case whatsoever; at least they can be drawn out by cross questions, or by an incidental interrogative!

Such a class, such aristocracy remind us of an inflated balloon, which is filled by the means of art, and which plies itself beautifully in the dancing scuds, seen at a distance; but when punctured by a scientific touch, that object falls and feels as mean as man when let down from his high estate!

In returning more closely to our position, so far as relates to making money, we will venture to say that an intelligent young man can make three dollars in the South to one in the North, following any laudaable avocation in life. Hence, when you see such a class possessed of enterprise, they go South, or to foreign lands. If the planters make money fast, every portion of the community is prosperous. This does not look like oppression to the poor; for wages are fully three hundred per cent. higher in the South than in the North, in every department of labor; whereas it does not cost fifty per cent. more to live in the South than it does in the North; and the whole country is equally as healthy, with the exception of those districts where the yellow fever prevails. The negroes are the tools of the planters, and justly so according to Scripture, yet the white men, though poor, know their estate in the creation, and with manliness