hites collectively will then be a
considerable body, and can assert themselves successfully. Confederation
is, as I said before of the movement in Trinidad, but a turn of the
kaleidoscope, the same pieces with a new pattern. A West Indian
self-governed Dominion is possible only with a full negro vote. If the
whites are to combine, so will the blacks. It will be a rule by the
blacks and for the blacks. Let a generation or two pass by and carry
away with them the old traditions, and an English governor-general will
be found presiding over a black council, delivering the speeches made
for him by a black prime minister; and how long could this endure? No
English gentleman would consent to occupy so absurd a situation. The two
races are not equal and will not blend. If the white people do not
depart of themselves, black legislation will make it impossible for any
of them to stay who would not be better out of the way. The Anglo-Irish
Protestants will leave Ireland if there is an Irish Catholic parliament
in College Green; the whites, for the same reason, will leave the West
Indies; and in one and the other the connection with the British Empire
will disappear along with them. It must be so; only politicians whose
horizon does not extend beyond their personal future, and whose ambition
is only to secure the immediate triumph of their party, can expect
anything else.

Before my stay at Barbadoes ended, I had an opportunity of meeting at
dinner a negro of pure blood who has risen to eminence by his own talent
and character. He has held the office of attorney-general. He is now
chief justice of the island. Exceptions are supposed proverbially to
prove nothing, or to prove the opposite of what they appear to prove.
When a particular phenomenon occurs rarely, the probabilities are strong
against the recurrence of it. Having heard the craniological and other
objections to the supposed identity of the negro and white races, I came
to the opinion long ago in Africa, and I have seen no reason to change
it, that whether they are of one race or not there is no original or
congenital difference of capacity between them, any more than there is
between a black horse and a black dog and a white horse and a white dog.
With the same chances and with the same treatment, I believe that
distinguished men would be produced equally from both races, and Mr.
----'s well-earned success is an additional evidence of it. But it does
not follow that what