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but little exertions needed to gain a complete control over 

 the whole race. Some 30,000 ivhifes in East India gov- 

 rnt some 200,000,000 of Indians. 



To establish such a colony in Africa would be a far 

 simpler thing to effect than to conquer Cuba, and it 

 would be a means of gradually relieving this country of 

 the negroes. 



To emancipate the slaves and leave them in these 

 States would be a step full of the greatest danger, and 

 the most evil consequences would be certain to follow. 

 In America, being freed, there would be no one, as there 

 would be in a colony, to guide and direct them as a 

 body. Therefore the negroes, except in some cases, are 

 not prepared for freedom. They have passed from genera- 

 tion to generation without the habit of thinking, and 

 thought is the mainspring to action. The labor of slaves 

 in the Southern States is but a kind of healthy exercise, 

 as their great increase in numbers show and they are 

 altogether taken more effectually care of by their owners, 

 than are the owner's own children ; for affection of the 

 parent is often the ruin of the child, but the negro is 

 ruled by judgment tempered with kindness, and a great 

 deal of leniency. The slaveholder knows that to 

 preserve the negro strong and vigorous in body is 

 for his interest; that ill-treatment or connivance at dissi- 

 pation would be detrimental to himself ; a sick negro is 

 a burden, a healthy one is wealth to his owner. There- 

 fore these considerations, and the naturally kind and 

 generous feeling of the people of the South, have rendered 

 the negroes the most contented and cheerful people that I 

 have met with in my extensive travels. The abolitionist 

 who would do aught to interrupt that contented condition 



