untry. We must
set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting
about now; the lower class must not be educated."

"That is past praying for," said Augustine; "educated they will be, and
we have only to say how. Our system is educating them in barbarism and
brutality. We are breaking all humanizing ties, and making them brute
beasts; and, if they get the upper hand, such we shall find them."

"They shall never get the upper hand!" said Alfred.

"That's right," said St. Clare; "put on the steam, fasten down the
escape-valve, and sit on it, and see where you'll land."

"Well," said Alfred, "we _will_ see. I'm not afraid to sit on the
escape-valve, as long as the boilers are strong, and the machinery works
well."

"The nobles in Louis XVI.'s time thought just so; and Austria and Pius
IX. think so now; and, some pleasant morning, you may all be caught up
to meet each other in the air, _when the boilers burst_."

"_Dies declarabit_," said Alfred, laughing.

"I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that is revealed
with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses
are to rise, and the under class become the upper one."

"That's one of your red republican humbugs, Augustine! Why didn't you
ever take to the stump;--you'd make a famous stump orator! Well, I hope
I shall be dead before this millennium of your greasy masses comes on."

"Greasy or not greasy, they will govern _you_, when their time comes,"
said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them. The
French noblesse chose to have the people '_sans culottes_,' and they
had '_sans culotte_' governors to their hearts' content. The people of
Hayti--"

"O, come, Augustine! as if we hadn't had enough of that abominable,
contemptible Hayti!* The Haytiens were not Anglo Saxons; if they
had been there would have been another story. The Anglo Saxon is the
dominant race of the world, and _is to be so_."

* In August 1791, as a consequence of the French Revolution,
the black slaves and mulattoes on Haiti rose in revolt
against the whites, and in the period of turmoil that
followed enormous cruelties were practised by both sides.
The "Emperor" Dessalines, come to power in 1804, massacred
all the whites on the island. Haitian bloodshed became an
argument to show the barbarous nature of the Negro, a
doctrine Wendell Phillips sought to combat in his celebrated