CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. HOWE. 595 



Should this question be answered in the neg- 

 ative, it is evident that a wise policy would 

 look to the best mode of removing that race 

 from these States, by the encouragement and 

 acceleration of emigration. Should the ques- 

 tion be answered, on the contrary, in the af- 

 firmative, then it is plain that we have before 

 us one of the most difficult problems, upon 

 the solution of which the welfare of our own 

 race may in a measure depend, namely, the 

 combination in one social organization of two 

 races more widely different from one another 

 than all the other races. In effecting this 

 combination it becomes our duty to avoid the 

 recurrence of great evils, one of which is al- 

 ready foreshadowed in the advantage which 

 unscrupulous managers are taking of the 

 freedmen, whenever the latter are brought into 

 contact with new social relations. 



I will, for the present, consider only the case 

 of the unmixed negroes of the Southern States, 

 the number of which I suppose to be about 

 two millions. It is certainly not less, — it 

 may be a little more. From whatever point 

 of view you look upon these people you must 

 come to the conclusion that, left to themselves, 

 they will perpetuate their race ad infinitum 

 where they are. According to the prevalent 



