mmer as a
Christian is? If an Indian wrong a Christian, what is his humility?
revenge; if a Christian wrong an Indian, what should his sufferance
be, by Christian example? why, revenge.' There, you have the whole in
a nut-shell."

"In addition to the difficulty growing out of their treatment by the
whites, suggested by the doctor," said the Judge, "there is another,
which I consider insuperable, arising out of a difference of race."

"I do not quite understand you," observed Mr. Robinson.

"It is said by naturalists," answered the Judge, "that man
comprehends, within himself, the peculiarities of all inferior
animals. Now, there are some capable of domestication, while others
are irreclaimable. You may tame the horse, but not the tiger. The
wild element controls the one, and is controllable in the other. In
my opinion, this wild element so predominates in the Indian as to make
him incapable of civilization. He is the tiger."

"But some have been civilized," remarked Mr. Armstrong.

"A _quasi_ civilization, I grant," said the Judge; "and were I to
concede more, the exceptions are so few as only to confirm the rule."

"Your theory opens a wide field for speculation," said Mr. Robinson,
"and I could bring many objections to it. In the first place"----

"No doubt, no doubt," cried the Judge, hastily, and desirous to avoid
the arising collision, "and I shall be happy to examine the subject,
at some future time, with you. I throw out these ideas only as hints.
But there is another rule operative, if, indeed, it is not the same
differently expressed--the inferior must always give place to the
superior race"

"That is not clear, either," said the divine. "What race ever existed
superior to the Jews? Yet, observe their condition."

"I am not understood. Why, the Jews prove my theory. If they had not
been a superior race, they would long ago have been extinct. But their
number now is probably as great as it ever was. The Indians, however,
are vanishing."

"And, really, Mr. Bernard," said his wife, "on your own principles,
they will be no loss, if they do vanish. If a superior race succeeds,
all the better."

"Right, right, my dear," cried her husband, "_rem acu_--pshaw! I was
going to quote Latin. They have had their day, and fulfilled their
design."

"It seems to me a deplorable necessity," said Mr. Armstrong.

"There are many laws and purposes at work in the rise and fall of
nations," said the minister, "beyond