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as having wants exceeding such, means of gratification 
as are supplied to him by nature. The struggle and 
grand object, whether directed by humanity or not, 
has been to induce the former to furnish the latter 
with his superabundance. 
Hitherto this has been done by the most unjustifiable 
means. The white man, in the pride of superior mental 
and physical endowments, has dragged the unresisting 
negro fi-om his loved repose, and compelled him to 
minister to his inordinate demands, regardless of the 
expense of blood and suffering which it entailed. 
He is now awakened to a sense of his injustice, but his 
craving still remains; his talisman is still “Onwards.” 
He thinks by persuasion to obtain the same advan- 
tages, and bases his hopes on being able to excite in 
his weaker brother the artificial desires which are the 
powerful stimuli to his own exertions. 
Although the whites may guide, protect, and in- 
struct their dark congeners in their mental minority, 
there must be a time when they should be suffered to 
“ run alone.” That time seems to be pointed out by 
the physical obstacles which prevent our entering their 
land, to hold them there in leading strings ; and by the 
palpable failure of all our well-meant exertions for the 
suppression of the Slave Trade, which holds that land 
in darkness. 
It becomes imperative, therefore, that we try some 
other means; and what can be supposed to be more 
