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EMANCIPATION— BLACK AND WHITE 



[1805] 



Quashie's plaintive inquiry, " Am I not a man 

 and a brother? " seems at last to have received 

 its final reply — the recent decision of the fierce 

 trial by battle on the other side of the Atlantic 

 fully concurring with that long since delivered 

 here in a more peaceful way. 



The question is settled; but even those who 



are most thoroughly convinced that the doom is 



just, must see good grounds for repudiating half 



the arguments which have been employed by the 



winning side; and for doubting whether its 



ultimate results will embody the hopes of the 



victors, though they may more than realise the 



fears of the vanquished. It may be quite true 



that some negroes are better than some white 



men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, 



believes that the average negro is the equal, still 

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