LXXI 



The French have managed to make Algeria a French 

 province; it will take the British longer to Anglicize 

 India; but their hand lies heavy on the land. Though 

 equal before the law, the native " has no rights which a 

 white man is bound to respect," and the way in which he 

 is repressed is, with due deference to the Briton, more 

 worthy of criticism than our much -rebuked Southern 

 method of bulldozing the negroes. The Hindoo may do 

 nothing of his own free will ; Government takes so father- 

 ly an interest in him that he is fenced in at every turn, 

 and prevented from doing this, that, or the other. He is 

 hustled aside as our negro cannot be, and there is a sort 

 of moral Post no Bills on every street corner. It reminds 

 one of the celebrated witticism of the Louis XIV. era, 

 when there was a "Defense" to do something on every 

 hoarding, and a multitude had assembled at a new mira- 

 cle-working shrine in numbers which threatened to be- 

 come a nuisance. Some one posted up during the night 

 near the spot a placard reading : 



"De Par Le Roy, Defense a Dieu 

 De Faire Miracles En ce Lieu." 



Our good cousins have a sad trick of berating us be- 

 cause the few millions of negroes in America are not ad- 

 mitted by the whites to social equality ; and they allege 

 that we have done nothing to raise the negro since his 

 emancipation. But, with their usual obtuseness, they for- 



