is, as yet, no sufficient basis of observed fact for
legitimate induction, and the blood in the theorist's own veins is
almost sure to press upon the brain and disturb accurate vision, or
his preconceptions to render it impossible. Gervinus reads the whole
history of Europe in the two words, _Teutonic_ and _Romanic_;
Wordsworth believed that only his family could see a mountain;
Dr. Prichard, led astray by a mistaken philanthropy, believed color
to be a matter of climate; and Dr. Nott considers that the outline
shown by a single African hair on transverse section is reason
enough for the oppression of a race. If the black man be radically
inferior to the white, or radically different from him, the folly of
white-washing him will soon appear. But, on the other hand, if his
natural relation to the white man be that of slave to master, our
Southern brethren have wasted a great deal of time in prohibitory and
obscurantist legislation; they might as well have been passing acts
to prevent the moon from running away, or to make the Pleiades know
their place.

It will be a blessed day for the world when men are as willing to
help each other as they are to assist Providence. The "London
Cotton-Plant," a journal established to sustain the interests of
Slavery in the Old World, is almost overpowered with acute distress
for the Order of Creation, and offers its sustaining shoulder to the
System of the Universe. "Fear nothing," it seems to say, "glorious
structure of the Divine Architect! Giddings shall not touch you, nor
shall Seward lay his sacrilegious hand on you!" "Who are ye?"
murmurs the Voice, "that would reedit the works of the Almighty?"
"Sublime, but misguided object of our compassion, we prefer to
remain in the modest seclusion of namelessness, but we are published
at Red-Lion Court, Fleet Street, and are sold for one shilling!" To
judge from Mr. Cushing's letter, he has studied this organ of the
sympathizers with the Pre-established Harmonies,--certainly there is
a singular coincidence in the sentiments of both, so far as we can
make them out. Both call themselves conservative, both are
anti-philanthropists, both claim that public opinion is tending in
the direction of their views, both affirm that their cause is that
of the white man, and both appear to mean by white man the same
thing,--the owner of a slave.

But is not Mr. Cushing's anxiety misdirected, and wilfully so, in
seeking the material for its forebodings