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Show i4 UNCLE TOM18 CABIN: OR1 little tempest;- his mother and I have given him up, long ago. But, then, that Dodo is a. perfect sprite,- no amount of whipping can hurt him." ' 1 And this by way of teaching I-Icnrique the £rst verse of a. republican's cathecism, 'All men are born free and equal!'" " Poh!" said Alfred; "one of ':rom Jefferson's pieces of French sentiment and humbug. It's perfectly ridiculous to have that going the rounds among us, to this da.y." "I think it is," said St. Clare, significantly. u Because," said Alfred, "we can sec plainly enough that all men are not born free, nor born equal ; they are born anything else. For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug. It is the educated, the intelligent, the wealthy, the refined, who ought to have equal rights, and not the canaille." 11 If you can keep the canaille of that opinion," said Augustine. "They took their turn once, in France." "Of course, they must bo kept down, consistently, steadily, as I should," said Alfred, setting his foot hard down, as if he were standing on somebody. "It makes a terrible slip when they get up," said Augustine,-" in St. Domingo, for instance." "Poh ! " said Alfred, "we 'II take care of that, in this country. We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; tho lower class must not be educated." "That is past praying for," said Augustine; 11 educated they will be, and we have only to say how. Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality. We are break. ing all humanizing ties, and making them brute beasts; and, if they get the upper hand, such we shall find them." "l'hey never shall get the upper hand ! " said Alfred. LIFE AMONG 'l'HE LOWLY. 75 "That's right," said St. Clare; "put on tho steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see where you'll lanU." '' 'Vell,'' said Alfred, ''we 'loill see. I 'm not nfraid to sit on the escape-valve, as long as the boilers are strong, and the machinery works well." u 'l1hc nobles in Louis XVI. 's time thought just so; and Austria and Pius IX. think so now; and, some pleasant morning, you ma.y all be caught up to meet each other in the air, 11Jiten t!te boilers lmrst. )l 11 Dies declarabit," said Alfred, laughing. "I tell you," said Augustine, " if there is anything that is revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses arc to rise, and the under class becomo the upper one." "That's one of your red republican humbugs, Augustine! Why didn't you ever take to the stump;- you 'd make a famous stump orator ! Well, I hope I shall be dead before this millennium of your greasy masses comes on." tt Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes/' said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them. The French noblesse chose to have the people 1 sans culottes,' and they had 'sans culotte' governors to their hearts' content. 'l'he people of Hayti-" "0, come, Augustine! as if we hadn't had enough of that abominable, contemptible Hayti ! The Hayticns were not Anglo Saxons; if they had been, there would have been another story. The Anglo Saxon is the dominant race of the wor1d, and is to be so." " Well, there is a pretty fair infusion of Anglo Saxon blood among our slaves, now," said Augustine. " There arc plenty among them who have only enough of tho African to |