mingled their blood with the Africans,
possessing Indian hair and features.

[237] The author of "England and America." We do, however, most
indignantly repudiate his conclusion, that we are bound to submit to a
tariff of protection, as an expedient for retaining our slaves, "the
force of the whole Union being required to preserve slavery, to keep
down the slaves."

[238] Fourierites, Socialists.

[239] The Irish levee and rail-road laborers are driven by blows.

[240] English papers propose _this_ for the West India negroes.

[241] Essays of Elia.

[242] _Southern Literary Messenger_, for January, 1835. _Note to
Blackstone's Commentaries._.

[243] See Missionary reports, statistics; also, Prof. Christy's
Ethiopia.--_Editor._

[244] Journal of an officer employed in the expedition, under the
command of Captain Owen, on the Western coast of Africa, 1822.

[245] The slaves of the "Wanderer" were returned to Africa against their
wills.--_Editor._

[246] In relation to the Missouri Controversy, J. Q. Adams
said:--_Editor._

"There is now every appearance that the slave question will be carried
by the superior ability of the slavery party. For this much is certain,
that if institutions are to be judged by their results in the
composition of the councils of the Union, the slaveholders are much more
ably represented than the simple freemen."--_Life of J. Q. Adams, by
Josiah Quincy, p. 98._"

"Never, since human sentiment and human conduct were influenced by human
speech, was there a theme for eloquence like the free side of this
question, now before the Congress of the Union. By what fatality does it
happen that all the most eloquent orators are on its slavish
side?"--_Ibid. p. 103._

"In the progress of this affair the distinctive character of the
inhabitants of the several great divisions of this Union has been shown
more in relief than perhaps in any national transaction since the
establishment of the Constitution. It is, perhaps, accidental that the
combination of talent and influence has been the greatest on the slave
side."--_Ibid. p. 118._

[247] The author of England and America thus speaks of the Colombian
Republic:

"During some years, this colony has been an independent state; but the
people dispersed over this vast and fertile plain, have almost ceased to
cultivate the good land at their disposal; they subsist principally,
many of them entirely, on the flesh of wild cattle; they have lost most