orded them.

"But Mr. Parton was born in a cooler and calmer atmosphere, where
men are accustomed to give a reason for the faith that is in
them, and hence it is necessary, in opening any discussion such
as he had provoked, that he should assign some ground of
opposition or support--Christian, Pagan, utilitarian,
constitutional, optimist, or pessimist.

"The very apparent friendliness of his intentions makes even a
legitimate conclusion from him seem mere conjecture, likely to be
successfully controverted by any subtle thinker and opponent. No
definite conclusion is, indeed, reached with regard to the first
query (Jefferson's fourteenth) with which Mr. Parton opens his
article: Whether the white and black races can live together on
this continent as equals. He lets us see at the close,
incidentally only, what his opinion is, and it inclines to the
negative. But throughout the article he is in the anomalous and
dubious position of one who opens a discussion which he cannot
end, and the logical result of whose own opinion he dares not
boldly state. The illustrations of the early opinions of Madison
and Jefferson only show how permanent a factor the negro is in
American history and polity, and how utterly futile are all
attempts at his expatriation. Following Mr. Parton's advice, the
negro has always prudently abstained from putting 'himself
against inexorable facts.' He is careful, however, to make sure
of two things,--that the alleged facts are verities and that they
are inexorable. Prejudice we acknowledge as a fact; but we know
that it is neither an ineradicable nor an inexorable one. We find
fault with Mr. Parton because he starts a trail on antipathy,
evidently purposeless, and fails to track it down either
systematically or persistently, but branches off, _desipere in
loco_, to talk loosely of 'physical antipathy,' meaning what we
usually term natural antipathy; and at last, emerging from the
'brush,' where he has been hopelessly beating about from Pliny to
Mrs. Kemble, he gains a partial 'open' once more by asserting a
truism--that it is the 'ignorance of a despised class' (the lack
of knowledge we have of them) which nourishes these 'insensate
antipathies.' Here we are at one with Mr. Parton. Those who know
us most intimately, who