course with the whites. They are not
suffered to become, so far as I know, members of any secret society,
association or organization, whatever. Beside the white man at the
hospitable board, they cannot, they dare not sit; and to a seat in the
white man's parlor, and social converse, they dare not aspire. The
carpet of the white man was not spread for them, and around his
cheerful hearth, before his crackling fire, there is no place for
them. They are not suffered to participate in any of the festivities
or amusements of their more highly favored white brethren. If they are
admitted into the same crowd, they must not commingle with the whites;
they are required to stand to one side. If they are admitted into the
same house, a separate apartment is assigned to them, and if to the
same table, they are taught to wait in patience until the white man is
satiated; and then to be content with the fragments and crumbs. If
they enter the same church, a separate bench, or a separate apartment
in the church is allotted to them; for beside the white man they dare
not sit, while engaged in devotional exercises. The black man's
children are not gathered together in the same school room, with the
white man's. They are denied in free, as well as in slave States, the
right of suffrage, or any participation, whatever, in civil affairs.
All this is true of free, as well as slave States, with a few
exceptions. The free negro in no respect betters his condition, by
taking up his residence in a free State. In some respects it is made
worse by the change. They are offcasts from society--loathed and
despised, wherever they go. Nature has interposed an impassable
barrier, between the white and the black man. It is not alone tho
black skin, and the woolly hair of the African that render him so
odious to the Anglo-Saxon. The two races are diverse, mentally and
morally--in their social qualities, habits, tastes and feelings. I
shall not stop here to draw a contrast in detail, but after a few
remarks I shall pass on.

The African differs from the Anglo-Saxon in his physical conformation,
by his black skin, his curly hair, his flat nose and broad flat foot.
Nor is he less distinctly marked by his mental characteristics.
Content to repose on the bosom of his mother _terra firma_, he is not
disturbed by dreams of honor, wealth or fame. He does not with the
white man possess that towering ambition, that soars aloft in climes
ethereal. There is with th