CULTIVATION, &c. 



" CAN the Ethiopian change his skin, or the 

 leopard his spots," is the energetic language of 

 holy writ, from which we feel the full force of 

 the law established for the government of ani- 

 mal nature. Whether in the deepest recesses of 

 his native forest, or the circumvented captive of 

 man, the ferocious being referred to, is still the 

 same. An intelligence more effective than phy- 

 sical strength dooms him to a life of durance, 

 which violates the strongest principle of his 

 nature ; and his indomitable spirit is trained to 

 obedience by hunger and stripes. But a thirst 

 of blood shows him controlled, not changed ; and 

 bolts and bars are the strong assurance we feel of 

 safety in his presence. Death, the great scene 

 shifter, confirms, rather than changes his attri- 

 butes, and carnage follows in his train, as the 

 brindled housing adorns the war horse, and in-- 

 flames the spirit of his martial rider. 



Sufferance, saith Shylock, is the badge of our 

 tribe ; and the patient son of Africa, long the sport 

 of .cupidity and violence, hath a prescriptive 

 title to appropriate the axiom. 



Though the broad wave of ocean rolls betwixt 



