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magistrates and drink their brains mixed with rnm, nor send 

 delegates to the President of Hayti to ask if he will assist 

 them, in case of a general rising, to exterminate the ^Yhites 

 tricks which the harmless Xegros of Trinidad, to do them 

 justice, never have played, or had a thought of playing we 

 must remember that we are very seriously in debt to the 

 Kegro, and must allow him to take out instalments of his 

 debt, now and then, in his own fashion. After all, we 

 brought him here, and we have no right to complain of our 

 own work. If, like Frankenstein, we have tried to make a 

 man, and made him badly; we must, like Frankenstein, 

 pay the penalty. 



So much for the Xegro. As for the coloured population 

 especially the educated and civilized coloured population of 

 the towns they stand to us in an altogether different 

 relation. They claim to be, and are, our kinsfolk, on another 

 ground than that of common humanity. We are bound to 

 them bv a tie more sacred, I had almost said more stern, 

 than we are to the mere Negro. They claim, and justly, to 

 be considered as our kinsfolk and equals ; and I believe, from 

 what I have seen of them, that they will prove themselves 

 such, whenever they are treated as they are in Trinidad. 

 What faults some of them have, proceed mainly from a not 

 dishonourable ambition, mixed with uncertainty of their own 

 position. Let them be made to feel that they are now not 



