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grow, and the Crown must continue to hold the con- 
trolling power. 
Searching enquiry will satisfy any unbiassed person 
that the Africans in the British West Indies are rising in 
civilisation, rather than relapsing into pristine barbarism. 
The forthcoming Jubilee celebrations, throughout the 
British West Indies, promise of themselves to be a re- 
futation of Mr. FROUDE'S cynical attempt still further to 
blacken the Black Man. The promoters of the Jubilee 
celebrations have already evinced an amount of self- 
respect upon the question, of commemorating the 
Emancipation, that is really remarkable. 
Imperial Statesmen should pay no heed to Mr. 
FROUDE'S vaticinations, founded upon the gossip he 
heard during his seven weeks pic-nic in the West Indies. 
He has constituted himself the Champion of the fossil 
prejudices of a narrow-minded set. He is neither in- 
spired, nor the Heaven-born Minister of State he thinks 
himself. He is a mere man of the study, who writes with 
a charming style. Let him stick to his last. He would 
pass himself off as the Ulysses of the Empire : stripped 
of his mask, he is discovered to be but the Don Quixote 
of Colonial and Imperial Politics. 
It is fortunate for the West Indies that against the 
forebodings of a despondent theorist like Mr. FROUDE, 
the views of a really distinguished man, can be opposed, 
upon the question of giving the inhabitants, Whites and 
Coloured, as well as Blacks, some say in the choosing of 
their Law-Makers. It would be unfair, however, alike to Sir 
Henry Norman and to our readers, if Mr. Froude's as- 
sertion of Sir HENRY'Seminence were to be accepted with- 
out some proof, for, with ourTourist, mere geese are swans. 
