II. 



EMANCIPATION BLACK AND WHITE. 



QUASHIE S plaintive inquiry, &quot; 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 

 und smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on 

 by thoughts and not by bites. The highest places in the hier 

 archy of civilization will assuredly not be within the reach of 

 our dusky cousins, though it is by no means necessary that they 



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