"The writer himself appears not to feel such an antipathy to us
that it must need find expression; for his liberality is well
known to those who have read his writings for the past fifteen
years. Nor is there any apparent ground for its appearance
because of any new or startling exhibitions of _antipathia_
against us noticeable at the present time. No argument was needed
to prove that there has been an unreasonable and unreasoning
prejudice against negroes as a class, a long-existing antipathy,
seemingly, ineradicable, sometimes dying out it would appear, and
then bursting forth afresh from no apparent cause. If Mr. Parton
means to assert that such prejudice is ineradicable, or is
increasing, or is even rapidly passing away, then is his venture
insufficient, because it fails to support either of these views.
It does not even attempt to show that the supposed antipathy is
general, for the author expressly, and, we think, very properly,
relegates its exercise to those whom he calls the most
ignorant--the 'meanest' of mankind.

"If his intention was to attack a senseless antipathy, hold it up
to ridicule, show its absurdity, analyze its constituent parts,
and suggest some easy and safe way for Americans to rid
themselves of unchristian and un-American prejudices, then has he
again conspicuously failed to carry out such purpose. He asserts
the existence of antipathies, but only by inference does he
discourage their maintenance, although on other topics he is
rather outspoken whenever he cares to express his own
convictions.

"On this question Mr. Parton is, to say the least, vacillating,
because he fails to exhibit any platform upon which we may combat
those who support early prejudices and justify their continuance
from the mere fact of their existence. We never expect Mr.
Gayarre and Mr. Henry Watterson to look calmly and
dispassionately at these questions from the negro's point of
view. The one gives us the old argument of De Bow's _Review_, and
the other deals out the _ex parte_ views of the present leaders
of the South. The one line of argument has been answered over and
over again by the old anti-slavery leaders; the pungent
generalizations of the latter, the present generation of negroes
can answer whenever the opportunity is aff