ford a very striking proof of the
truth of my proposition. And it is much to our purpose here to remark,
that the very aversion to incorporating the negro into our nationality,
which is so firmly fixed in the minds of the masses of the people, is no
new thing in our history, and no outgrowth of slavery. It is the same
national characteristic which, in all parts of the world, has prevented
the English colonist from intermarrying with his barbarous neighbor.
Call it by what hard name you please, call it 'prejudice against color,'
and denounce it as eloquently and indignantly as you may, it is one of
the most remarkable and one of the most respectable features of the
English colonies wherever found, and one of the chief causes of their
preeminence over those of other European nations, in civilization,
wealth, and power. But what it is chiefly to our purpose to remark is,
that while it is to the colonies themselves the cause of unequalled
prosperity and rapidity of growth in all the elements of national
greatness, to their savage neighbors it is the cause of rapid and
certain extinction.

Precisely in such relations to each other will the white and colored
populations of the United States be placed by an act of universal
emancipation, the substitution of free labor and free competition for
the compulsory power of the master. And while on the one hand the
history of the colonial off-shoots of England shows that the
amalgamation of the races will not follow, it shows with equal clearness
and certainty that the rapid extinction of the colored race will
follow. Here I might rest the whole argument, with a high degree of
assurance of the soundness and certainty of my conclusion, that the
result of emancipation must be, not the amalgamation of the races, not
an internecine war between them, but the inevitable extinction of the
weaker race by the competition of the stronger. I say the _competition_
of the stronger, because, to avoid extending this article to a very
unreasonable length, I must assume that the reader is sufficiently
versed in American history to know that even the Indian perishes, for
the most part, not by the sword or the rifle of the white man, but by
the simple competition of civilization with the Indian's means of
subsistence.

I might, I say, leave my argument here; but to do so would be great
injustice to the subject. There are abundant and unquestionable facts,
which show to a demonstration, that the case o