YIII. 
21 parting tDorlr. 
To the Blacks and Men of Color in America: 
I N the preceding pages you have been enabled to see— “ as 
in a glass, darkly”—the history of your race in its sole 
American possession; how rich in every kind of natural wealth 
that terrestrial paradise is; the character of its people, the 
nature of its Government, and, by the official papers appended 
to the Constitution, the disposition of its present Administrar 
tion. 
The voice of history is the voice of God. 
Do we not hear it in the existing Black Code of America, 
and in the acts of the Government of Hayti ? Is not the same 
command of the Still Small Voice, once given to the Chosen 
Nation, ages before the Christ was born, again thus repeated 
to His persecuted children in the States, — Come out of her, 
My People ? 
There is a profound significance in the fact of the diversity 
of races,— far deeper than many of our sages know. It was 
for a wise and grand purpose that the European and the African 
have for a time become different in destiny and in physical 
capacity; and it belongs to the same blind and false philosophy 
that disputes about the relative superiority of the sexes, to in¬ 
quire whether the Black man or the White is the more capable 
of a glorious future. Their missions in the world are different; 
and, until these are fulfilled, their identity must be preserved. 
