XL 



EMANCIPATION— BLACK AND WHITS 



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 realize 

 the fears of the vanquished. It may be quite true that 

 some negroes are better than some white men ; but no 

 rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the 

 average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the 

 average white man. And, if this be true, it is simply 

 incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and 

 our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, 

 as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete 

 successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed 

 rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts 

 and not by bites. The highest places in the hierarchy of 

 civilization will assuredly not be within the reach of our 

 dusky cousins, though it is by no means necessary that 



