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SUPREMACY OF THE AFRICAN. 



Of course the loss of every white man is a loss of capital 

 to a greater or less extent, it strengthens the influences 

 already operating to depress the price of property, 

 increases facilities for the colored people to appropriate it, 

 and is hastening that partition of the soil which I have 

 supposed necessary to a realization of its highest produc- 

 tive power. It is also hastening a result which I have 

 reason to believe the home government anticipate and are 

 prepared for — the gradual occupation of the whole island 

 by the blacks. They see and know that the two races 

 cannot prosper together, if both are free ; that the superior 

 intelligence and advantages of the whites will prevent the 

 blacks from acquiring that independence and self-reliance, 

 which are the sinews of enterprise and the basis of 

 national prosperity ; and as the blacks are so much the 

 more numerous, and enjoy so great an advantage in their 

 natural adaptation to the climate of the tropics, it has been 

 wisely determined to surrender the island to them, as soon 

 as it can be done 'consistently with the vested rights of the 

 white population. 



But the question arises, What shall follow the introduc- 

 tion of a colored Governor into the King's house, a colored 

 Chief Justice upon the Queen's bench, a uniform Assem- 

 bly of colored representatives, with no white people about, 

 to make them ashamed or afraid ? Will Jamaica then 

 recover ? 



