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were no admixture of foreign blood among the negroes ; if, in other 

 words, the race of mulattoes could be extinguished, I suppose that the 

 whites would have little to fear : because, during a residence of nine 

 years among them, I became entirely satisfied of the truth of the two 

 following propositions. In the first place, full-blooded negroes, whether 

 born free, or emancipated, or slaves, are of very inferior natural ability, 

 not only to white men, but to American Indians, Lascars, Chinese, or 

 any other race with which I am acquainted. Secondly, the infusion of 

 white blood, immediately produces a decided intellectual improvement. 

 This is the case almost invariably, though exceptions will occur to this 

 rule, as to every other. In St. Domingo, the President, Boyer, is a 

 mulatto ; and, though numerically superior, the blacks in that island 

 succumb to those of his caste. In the United States, the leaders in 

 almost every attempt to procure the emancipation of the slaves, have 

 been of the same mixed blood. From the efforts of this class then, 

 which has increased, is increasing, and which no means have hitherto 

 been taken to diminish, must the principal danger to the continuance of 

 white supremacy be apprehended. The inhabitants, therefore, of the 

 Southern States, are, in many respects, similarly situated to our West 

 Indian fellow-subjects. Their estates are mortgaged, and their com- 

 merce crippled ; and a separation from the Northern Provinces would 

 in a few years place them nearly as much at the mercy of their slave 

 population, as the sudden withdrawal of British garrisons would leave 

 our colonies at the present moment. In such circumstances, the threat 

 of a separation is equally ridiculous on the part of both. 



But if we view dispassionately the situation of the Brazils, the West 

 Islands, and the slave states of North America, which border upon the 

 Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, and analyse the materials of which 

 their discordant population is composed, we shall be driven to the con- 

 clusion, that the time must arrive when a struggle between the two 

 castes will terminate in the expulsion or subjugation of the whites. 

 This is, indeed, a melancholy prospect ; but we have sown the w r ind, 

 and we must reap the whirlwind. In the emphatic words of Mr. Jef- 

 ferson, f( the Deity has no attribute which can take part with us in 

 such a contest ; and when I think that God is just, I tremble for my 

 country." 



From a private letter which we have received from the intelligent and 

 impartial writer of these " Notes." we make the following extract.- 

 [ED. M. M.] 



" I observe that a writer in the Globe has charged me with some inaccuracies, 

 into which, he says, I have fallen, in my last number. It would be no difficult 

 matter to shew that I am right, and my reviewer mistaken. 



" He asks, for instance, ' Why is not the pine-tree mentioned ?' It is men- 

 tioned at least three times and once in the very first paragraph. 



" Again, he asserts that ' the country fever is no worse than a common 

 head-ache/ &c. Now, I have seen persons dead and dying from it. It is a 

 most terrible malady, as distressing as any generated by the Pontine marshes. 

 I assert, that my account of the duel is the correct one. I had every oppor- 

 tunity of knowing the truth. 



" His remark upon the anecdote of old Randolph, is quite absurd. I gave 

 the story as it was told in the best society in America. From the character of 

 the man, it is extremely probable and at all events, I was not to be prevented 

 from telling it, because I was not an eye-witness of the flogging." 



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