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THE NEGRO. 
[chap. viii. 
resists any attempt at coercion; being free, bis first 
impulse is to claim an equality with those whom he 
lately served, and to usurp a dignity with absurd pre¬ 
tensions, that must inevitably insure the disgust of 
the white community. Ill-will thus engendered, a 
hatred and jealousy is established between the two 
races, combined with the errors that in such conditions 
must arise upon both sides. The final question remains, 
Why was the negro first introduced into our colonies— 
and to America ? 
The sun is the great arbitrator between the white 
and the black man. There are productions necessary 
to civilized countries, that can alone be cultivated in 
tropical climates, where the white man cannot live if 
exposed to labour in the sun. Thus, such fertile 
countries as the West Indies and portions of America 
being without a native population, the negro was 
originally imported as a slave to fulfil the conditions 
of a labourer. In his own country he was a wild 
savage, and enslaved his brother man; he thus became 
a victim to his own system; to the institution of 
slavery that is indigenous to the soil of Africa, and 
that has not been taught to the African by the ivhite 
man , as is currently reported, but that has ever been 
the peculiar characteristic of African tribes. 
In his state of slavery the negro was compelled to 
work, and, through his labour, every country prospered 
where he had been introduced. He was suddenly 
freed; and from that moment he refused to work, and 
instead of being a useful member of society, he not 
only became a useless burden to the community, but 
a plotter and intriguer, imbued with a deadly hatred 
to the white man who had generously declared him 
free. 
Now, as the negro was originally imported as a 
labourer, but now refuses to labour, it is self-evident 
that he is a lamentable failure. Either he must be 
compelled to work, by some stringent law against 
vagrancy, or those beautiful countries that prospered 
