s, but that is all. It is noticeable how
uniformly the conscience and principles of these men agree with
their prejudices, salaries and other interests, and with changed
circumstances how "concessions" distill from them gently as the
dew.

We quote again from the _St. Joseph's Advocate_, as to the color line:

Man was created in God's own image and likeness. This image and
likeness is, however, not a physical one, it is a spiritual or
soul likeness. The likeness and image of the operation of the
human soul--the mind--through the material, physical medium of
the brain, is not only similar, but substantially and formally
alike in every division of the human race. It thus follows that
fundamentally there is an identity of mental or soul activity and
action in all the human race. Neither color, nor form, nor
feature, nor clime, operates a change on the formal and
fundamental identity of human thought as evolved by the human
mind....

It follows that the negro race, thinking the same thoughts, have
the same apprehension of the perfect, good and true, and,
thinking in the same lines as the Caucassian race, must needs be
of the same order of creation, in the image and likeness of their
Maker, although physically different in color, yet in mind and
soul the same. This, too, removes the theory of the inferiority
of races, and relegates it to the lumber room of the mere
physicist or corporal anatomist, who, because he cannot find life
in death any more than thought, would deny life as he would deny
the soul, even as La Place would not admit a Creator--God--
because he could not see him at the end of his telescope....

Naturally working for and under white men, their industry,
versatility and submissiveness have made many people think they
were an inferior race. This cannot be. Give them a fair chance in
life's battle, train their minds, fill their immortal souls with
worthy conceptions of the truth as only presented by the Roman
Catholic Church, and you will make of the negro race a kind,
charitable, intelligent, worthy Christian people, as full of love
for the country of their former enslavement as the best patriot
descendant of the Revolutionary fathers. Tried in peace and in
war when they have received but half the training of the white
rac