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being capable of amalgamating with the whites, such 

 a result might be to you perhaps, as a philanthropist 

 or physiologist, a very interesting experiment ; but 

 would not the progress of the whites be retarded, and 

 our race deteriorated, nearly in the same proportion 

 as the negroes would gain ? Why not consider the 

 interests of the white race by hastening the abolition 

 of slavery. The whites constitute nearly six-sevenths 

 of our whole population. As a philanthropist, you 

 are bound to look to the greatest good of the two 

 races collectively, or the advantage of the whole 

 population of the Union.&quot; 



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