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INTERMARRIAGE OF THE RACES, 



The theatre belongs to the city. The committee " on 

 the theatre" in the Common Council, composed of a ma- 

 jority of brown men, quietly turned the key of the theatre, 

 and excluded the artizans sent to arrange it for the festival. 

 The ball had to be postponed in consequence, and finally 

 took place at the Camp, a much more desirable place in 

 every particular. I was assured by members of the ball 

 committee, that the Jew's report was false altogether— 

 that they had resolved upon no such exclusions. They 

 did not propose to invite Jews, because no social inter- 

 course had existed between them and their respective 

 families, nor did it appear that either party desired 

 any ; but they said that invitations had been sent to the 

 daughters of the Receiver General and of the Mayor ; 

 — all, as I have before mentioned, browns. Before the 

 ball took place, I believe the colored people became satis- 

 fied that they had been deceived, for a brown gentleman 

 spoke to me with some bitterness, of a determination formed 

 by the committee on invitations, as he professed to know 

 of his own knowledge, to invite to the ball no persons who 

 had ever been behind a counter ; but he made no allusion 

 to the other report. 



One unacquainted with the extent to which the amalga- 

 mation of races has gone here, is constantly liable to drop 

 remarks in the presence of white persons, which, in conse- 

 quence of the mixture of blood that may take place in 



