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negro, why do they not send out half-a-dozen of 

 their most enlightened men to see the country and 

 judge for themselves as to the best means of civil- 

 ising its inhabitants ? Instead of taking for gospel 

 the tissues of lies that have been promulgated, they 

 would then hear an unprejudiced account; and I 

 am certain that " a change would come over the 

 spirit of their dream," for the negro would then 

 appear in his true character — " black in heart as he 

 is in skin." 



Sierra Leone is governed on what are supposed 

 to be '^ philanthrophic" principles ; and the experi- 

 ment, like most Exeter Hall schemes, has turned 

 out a complete failure, for, by injudicious manage- 

 ment, its mongrel population have become the 

 scum of the Coast and perhaps the vilest compound 

 on earth. The colony has been ruined by the jiegro 

 being placed on an equality with the white man, a 

 position, it is evident, nature never intended him 

 to occupy, and which he cannot sustain. Compared 

 with the white race, a negro is certainly of a lower 

 type of humanity ; and although, from his inferiority 

 of intellect, he may be entitled to -some con- 



