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A Parting Word. 
Has the Black accomplished his destiny in America ? 
I think that in North America he has ; for he is threatened 
with extinction there. His future is — annihilation. There 
is no other possible result, — whether slavery or freedom shall 
prevail. Ten men against one, — the contest is decided. 
Whether at the end of two or of ten generations, the solu¬ 
tion of the problem is still, — annihilation. Too strong to 
perish beneath the white man’s lash, the black race here will 
disappear in his arms. Even the pride of giving birth to a 
new race will be denied to him; for the disproportion, daily 
becoming greater, between the Blacks and the Whites, gives 
the future also to the ruler of to-day. 
To preserve the African race in America, emigration from it 
is the first condition. Everything conspires to promote it. 
Pride of race, self-respect, social ambition, parental love, the 
madness of the South, the meanness of the North, the inhu¬ 
manity of the Union, and the inclemency of Canada, — all say 
to the Black and the man of color, Seek elsewhere a home 
and a nationality. 
I have spoken of the motives arising from a pride of race,— 
but is it necessary to show you why self-respect, also, repeats 
and enforces the same advice ? When even the churches of the 
“ Founder of Democracy ” are closed against you, — and solely 
because of your race, — why allude to the heathenism which 
displays itself in your exclusion from the theatres, the omni¬ 
buses, and the parlors of the country ? I have often heard it 
said, that with time this prejudice will disappear. Perhaps, — 
but not unless, by an insurrection, successfully conducted, the 
millions now enslaved exhibit their equality, in courage and in 
arms, with their masters. The Saxon race is a race of fighters, 
— its real religion is an evangel of pluck; to men, long-suf¬ 
fering, slow to anger, who return a kiss for a blow, patient and 
enduring to the end, it exhibits no compassion. Have not 
the slaves, for two centuries, exhibited these Christian qualities ? 
No man denies it. And yet, what is the opinion that these 
