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subjects, forbids at once the introduétion of Science, and 
leaves each individual to depend upon the strength ofhis 
natural talents and the might of his own arm for sub- 
sistence. Establishments are destroyed as fast as they 
are ereéted, and the petty jealousies of a thousand despots 
keep alive in Africa the flames of war, desolation and 
slavery. Under such circumstances what must be the 
charaéter of the negro ; what even would the white man’s 
probably be ? 
~ Barbarism in all countries and in all ages, gives the 
same picture of despotism amongst individuals who rule, 
and slavery amongst those who are governed. The 
character of the Celt, the Hun, the Goth and the Vandal, 
in the extreme Era of their ignorance and barbarism, is 
at this day, with allowance for the influence of climate, 
the character of the negro. It implies no extraordinary 
debasement of nature to account for the blemishes that 
appear at first sight so monstrous, The negro is cun- 
ning, the barbarian of Europe is politick; the negro is 
revengeful, so is the Goth; the negro is a thief, so was 
Ros Roy; the negro is a liar, so are all those who do not 
discover in society the virtue of truth. The negro is 
indolent, so are all those who can procure the necessaries 
of life without labour and who have no ideal wants 
beside. The negro is obstinate, treacherous and un- 
grateful—lascivious, intemperate and inconstant—so has 
nature formed all mankind, till religion and reason re- 
duces the selfishness of individual gratification to the 
standard of social expediency. 
It is ridiculous, because we find in the negro natural 
vice operating uncontrolled, to mark him as a monster ; 
we might, by a parity of reasoning, level the uneducated 
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