Ill 



EMANCIPATION BLACK AND WHITE 



[1865.] 



QUASHIE'S plaintive inquiry, "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 realise the 

 fears of the vanquished. It may be quite true 

 that some negroes are better than some white 

 men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, 

 believes that the average negro is the equal, still 



