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is a necessary and inherent inferiority of the 

 Negroes to the Europeans. Now, with all de- 

 ference to your superior knowledge, it appears 

 to me, that you have adduced a sufficient num- 

 ber of facts to destroy your own argument. 

 First, you inform us of the fine * " moral qua- 

 * f lities of the Araucans of Chili," and you 

 allow, that " in the savage tribes of North Ame- 

 " rica we meet with lofty sentiments of inde- 

 <c pendence, &c. which would sustain a compa- 

 <c rison with the most splendid examples in the 

 " more highly-gifted races." Now this, Sir, is 

 sufficient to shew that the superiority of the more 

 highly-gifted races does not arise from any thing 

 in their internal structure, but from the effects 

 of government and civilization. So much for 

 the American variety. Then, as to the unfortu- 

 nate Negroes, t <c you see no reason to doubt 

 " that taken altogether they are equal to any in 

 " natural goodness of heart," and since you 

 have shewn that they are capable of learning 

 all kinds of u delicate manual labors ;" that they 

 form expert carpenters and watchmakers ; that 

 even the wild Bosjesman may become an accom- 

 plished draftsman; that some have excelled in 

 music ; others in painting ; others in mathema- 

 tics; others in physic, in poetry and theology, J 

 after these confessions, most of your readers 

 will be inclined to think that they are not infe- 

 rior to us " in natural goodness of head," in 



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