to those, whose image and likeness were made after their Creator, and to whom He gave DOMINION Over all the earth and every living creature, and all else, whether inanimate or animate! Behold the war of colors already begun in Cincinnati, Chicago, New Albany, and at Panama, and in fact throughout Mexico, Central and South America, except Brazil! We see its unquestionable manifestations on which side soever we turn our eyes for peace and prosperity; and hence, we must unequivocally conclude that existences of color must subserve the purpose of pioneer labor, and consequently, be controlled by supericr genius! Experiments with reference to educating the progressive colored existences, in order to elevate them in the scale of progress, have proved, with few exceptions, from time immemorial, of no importance to them, and more especially to the negro; for the second generation, from those well schooled, has fallen back to barbarism, with scarcely any exceptions, to impress their importance upon the historian's page.

To a great extent this has been tried in the British West Indies, but apparently, as yet, without any degree of eminent success. This seems to have been the experience of travelers in the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, and especially of Anthony Trollope, an English traveler, with a view to examine and report the condition of the freed negroes in these several regions. Taking Jamaica as an example, with reference to this consideration, Mr. Trollope says in his narrative, that his visit to this island was in the year 1859, and that, at least, one

half of the country, compared to it before emancipation in the year 1838, was then returning to a primitive state, covered with briars and thorns. This is the substance of his observations, and it is the experience of other travelers, with our own, in the regions above mentioned. With such facts with reference to the effects of Abolitionists and Emancipationists, fully presented to our consideration in the United States, should we wish to imitate the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, in severing the bonds that hold together, as sacredly as we have proved, the relations of master and slave, and taste the bitter fruit which these prolific countries are experiencing? Let common sense answer!

If these people had the spur of progress, civilization and enlightenment, imbued in them as an organic law of their natures, and as the ancient Greeks and Romans had when they were in a primitive state, the light and knowledge of one single individual would spread like the flame on the prairie, though with an unceasing burning after knowledge. The Africannegro has not this spur, nor is he excited to any acts for distinguishment, except to eat, sleep, and be let alone in this brute-like state. These are his characteristics, and they are undeniable, for they stand in full view of those who will see facts, as they should come home to the most common understanding, in the picture of life, on each day's report. It is said that Cadmus introduced letters into Greece from Egypt, which would imply that the Greeks were then without letters, and were till this time savages, compared with civilization at the present time.

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was a white man. He did not deteriorate by living among savages, and become a savage with those around him, as existences do, when educated, and on returning to the land of their nativity.

These existences learn comparatively nothing by experience in addition to what their fathers hand down to them. They are content with the implements, the mode of living, and the huts of their fathers. It is unnatural for them to aspire for high positions in the scale of progress, which they see exemplified around them in the whites, with that degree of persistence and design which overcome every obstacle. Like the lower classes of animals, they are most generally satisfied when hunger and cold cease to excite them to action; and hence like them in mind, they have no mental aspirations; they are as God created them, implements formed in the organic law, to aid that Superior Intelligence to advance in the scale of being, from one generation to another, based upon what the former has handed down! Where, through the influence of presumed philanthropists, we see the organic law of God abnegated, with reference to putting politically these progressive existences of color, on an equality with the whites, we have seen nothing but debasement and the war of races ensue!

Wherever we extend our vision, we behold these facts. Behold again the quiet of New Albany, of Peoria, of Chicago, of Cincinnati, and portions of Pennsylvania, of all the West Indies except Cuba and Porto Rico, of Mexico, of Central and South America, except Brazil, disturbed by the popular en

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deavor to counteract the will, the purpose, and the command of God, in placing these existences of color out of the sphere they were created to fill by the organization of matter. We might as well argue in favor of freedom for all animals that do not exercise reason, as for this higher class of progressive existence, whose reason end with the satisfaction of hunger, sleep and sensuality! This class is the intermediate link between man and the lower order of the brute creation, formed by the organization of matter in the beginning, to fill a fixed design, as much as any of the cereals were to satisfy hunger; or in his creation there would have been chance work. We should see it, in such an event, in every atom of matter, whether inanimate or animate we might survey, if such a design was not manifest. Therefore, we can not admit that there is chance work in the creation; hence we must conclude that every thing in the form of animated matter emanated by a special design of God; and consequently, there can be no unity in the races of being, as coming from one common parentage, but we trace distinct gradations, which, in their very countenances, expose their class, and as adapted to generate their own species.

Lo and behold these facts, that is, the war of races, illustrated by the examples of our near neighbors, in Mexico, Central and South America, who struck for too much freedom, in casting from themselves the thraldom of Spain. Their negroes and the Indians were placed politically on an equality with them, the whites, respecting the exercise of the elective franchise. This elevated the former in State

rights, but the latter it degraded, and placed them, with their long line of ancestral worth and knowledge, on a par as to the right of suffrage, with the merest animal instincts, ever ready for any use which might be designed for them, by the artful and depraved.

If the four millions of slaves in the United States were freed, what would be the consequences in the States setting them free? but such as we all know to have been the results to our near neighbors in the South West. Shall the white man, North and South be taxed to send the negroes out of the United States, to colonize and support them for a time, he who has never owned one, or he who has owned hundreds?

In accordance with the order of creation-the or ganic law of God, and with the constitution of the United States, we have proved slavery to be a Divine Institution, and a conventional concession, being a part and parcel of said order and constitution; and hence, to contemplate the emancipation of the four millions of blacks in the United States, would be to clearly act against the Divinity and the Constitution, which act by man, can never succeed; though it has the eloquence of powerful minds to urge it on, still they are urging themselves and their aiders and abettors to poverty, disgrace and destruction! The minds of such men should keep the picture of countries before them, where the emancipation of the blacks has been effected for years; and what is it but horror and gloomy despair, against which human nature, in her purity of purpose, and with a hope of progress, would revolt, and turn human will to higher and nobler objects!