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Show 30 the nrts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons, polished stones ar~d wood~.' leather,, ~lass, dyes, ornaments, soap, pipe-bowls, and tnnkcts. . 1 h~se he showed to Mr. Pitt, who saw and handled them wtth extreme interest. "On sight of these," says Clarkso l~ , "many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into h1s mind some of which he expressed;'' and hence nppearcU to nr,isc a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa,- a dream which forever elevates his fame. In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, " We have already gained one VIC· tory: we have obtained for these poor creatures the recog~ nition of their humiln nature, which, for a time, was most shamefully ucnied them." It was the sarcasm of Montes· quicu, " it would not do to suppose that negroes \\'Cre men, lest it should turn out that whites were not;'' for: the white has, for ages, done what he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state. His laws have been furies. It now appears, that the negro race is, more thnn a.ny ~the~, susceptible of rapid civilization. The ctnanc1pat10n IS observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is Urought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears. lf, before, he was taxed with such st upidity, or such defective vision, that he could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the principal, if not the only mechanic, in the West Indies; and is, besides, an arch1tect, a physician, a lawyer, a magistrate, an edilor, an~ a v~lucd and increasing political power. The recent testtmoutes of Sturge, of Tltome and K imball, of Gurney, of Pltilippo, are very explicit 011 this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black populatio11 in employments of skil l, of profit, and of trust; and, best of all, is the testimony to their moderation. They receive hints and advances from the whites, that they will be gladly recetved 31 as subscribers to the Exchange, as members of this or that comm ittee of trust. They hold back, aud say to each ~thcr, that "sociul position is not to be gained by pushmg." I have said that this event interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part it is the earning of the blacks. Tiley won tl 1e pity and respect which they have received, by their powers and nat1vc endowments. 1 think this a circumstance of the hig.hest import. Their wl10le future is in it. Our planet, ~clore the age of written history, had its races of sa\'ages, hkc the generations of sour paste, or the animalcules that wriggle and bite in a drop of putrid water. Who cares for these or for their wars' We do not wish a world of bLws or of birds; neither afterward of Scythians, Caruibs ~r Fcejccs. The grand style of nature, her great period~, is all we observe in them. Who cares for oppressing whitPs, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago, more than for had dreams? Eaters and food are in the harmony of nature; and there too is the germ forever protected un4 folding g igantic leaf after lcnf, a newer flower, a r{cher fruil, in e r cry period, yet its next product is never to be g uessed. lt will on ly save what is worth saving; and it saves not by compassion, but by power. It appoints no pollee to guard the lion, but his teeth and claws· no fort or city for tl1e bird, but his wings; no rescue for 'flies and mites, but their sp:nvning numbers, which no ravages can overcome. It ueals witlt men after the same manner. If they .arc rude and foolish, down they must go. vVIJcn at lust 111 a race, a new principle appears, an idea,_ tltat conserves it; ideas only save races. If the IJinck man is feeUic, and not important to the ex isting races, not 011 a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated. 13ut if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and comino-o |