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Show 198 TILE !, IDEil1'\' UEJ.l., 'l'hc shallow craft glided so le,·cl with the waves, that one could gather the gulf·wccd with one's band Tho weather was generally good, from amidships. and the opportunity for making acquaintance with the sea and the little world on board, was much better than is afforded by larger accommodations, during the passage to Europe by steam. Dccid· cdly the most interesting of our ship's company was the mate, a na.ti\'O of the State of Maine:- a handsome boy_ 000 could hardly call him more -notwithstanding his high dignity on tbc little quarter deck. IIo was, to be sure, like most youths of eighteen, " wiser than seven men that can render a reason ; " but then it is by no means tho worst quality in the world, - this superior wisdom of youth ; since but for it the world would stand still in the paths of the past. Whenever his duties woulU permit, we fell into conversation upon all things under the sun ; above a1l, upon those especially American things, politics and religion. Of course, we soon stumbled upon tho Anti-SlavQry TilE YOIJ:\'0 SAJr,Oit. 199 question, so eminently religious und politicnl. '!'he youth had not yet learned our names, anJ. so we baJ the benefit of his undisguised opinion of ourselves and our cntcrp1·isc. "A set of fools!, he said. "Nothing can be made of m."ggers. ~rhey arc tho descendants of Cain, and their color is God's mark, set upon them that they may be avoided, wherever they go. The Bible says they shall be accursed, and the scn·ants of servants, and Christ says that O\'cry jot and tiWe of tho old law shall be fulfilled. They nrc nn inferior race, and thoro is a natural repugnance between them and us: it is an ordination of Providence. .And yet thoso crazy Abolitionists have repealed the intcrmaniagc law, and arc insultinrr our Southern brethren by trying to make our Go,: ernment receive a. black Ambassador from the island wo 'ro going to! If tho same time and money they've wasted had been spent properly, they might, by this limo, have bought up all the niggcrs at tho South, and shipped them home to |