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plied ; but since erroneous opinions have been formed, 

 and published, I wish the facts I have stated may be 

 ascertained by the testimony of practical men. Mr. 

 Livingston, whose zeal, talents and instructive intel- 

 ligence in general, I highly respect, has unwittingly, 

 degraded the whole dynasty of the broad- tails, stock and 

 branch, from their rank in the scale of created beings ; 

 though they have, from the beginning of time, had 

 undisputed possession of two quarters of the globe, 

 and a part of the third ; to wit, of Asia, Africa, and 

 part of Europe. I have endeavoured to introduce some 

 of them, to the acquaintance of those who inhabit the 

 fourth quarter of the world. Mr. Livingston would 

 have excepted, had he been acquainted with it, this 

 branch of the family ; and would have been among the 

 -first to welcome it to this place of refuge ; from the 

 disgraceful society of its illegitimate and unnatural 

 African collateral relations : for such those must be, to 

 whom his description applies.^ 



^ Has Nugce in Seria ducunt : however trifling these 

 things may be in themselves, they lead to serious con- 

 sequences ; they revive, or create and foster, unwarrant- 

 able prejudices. When I sent the ram to Lancaster county, 

 the Germans, there, would not, at first permit any con- 

 nection with their ewes. General Hand was obliged to 

 buy thirty or forty ewes, to set an example. The Ger- 

 mans considered it an unnatural intercourse — "- verhiu- 

 pffung umiaturliche '^'—and they stiled Sultan,or Caramellt, 

 an oudandish-mongrel-brute ;— " ausl'dndisches iinvernlmff- 

 tig-es Maul-thier:' But when the Philadelphia butchers 

 sought for the lambs, and good prices were given lor them 

 and the wool, they altered their opinions ; and the stranger 



