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ried desolation through the -finest countries in the 

 world; but their conquests were distinguished for 

 nothing but unrelenting slaughter, and universal 

 destruction : their career was unmarked by any 

 traits of generosity, of pity to the vanquished, or 

 consideration for the rights of mankind. 



The white races of mankind present as complete 

 a contrast to the dark in moral and intellectual, as 

 they do in physical complexion. We have no re- 

 cord of their existence as mere hunters and fishers. 

 They either were never so low as the others, or 

 they quickly emerged from this state of utter bar- 

 barism. In the earliest accounts, we find them in 

 a pastoral or agricultural state. To them is due the 

 first invention of arts and sciences, and their subse- 

 quent progress. Among them have originated the 

 only religions which present worthy views of the 

 Deity. Patriotic and social feelings have here, only, 

 arrived to their highest refinement. They only have 

 possessed free governments, and even the absolute 

 monarchies that have existed among them, have 

 been tempered with a regard to justice and equity, 

 perfectly unknown to the darker tribes. 



We would be understood to assert, that this su- 

 periority is only general, not universal ; many indi- 

 viduals of the darker races and some tribes are 

 considerably beyond the rest ; many Europeans are 

 morally and intellectually much inferior to Negroes. 

 Among the latter, much ingenuity is often exhibited. 

 Most of the artificers in the West Indies are blacks. 

 Many are expert musicians. The case of Hannibal, 



