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Show 248 'filE LlDl-:ll'IY UELf,. e::n.kc of my colorccl countrymen, to sec l\lonsicur Cumbcrworlh, that I might suggest to l1im tho idea of sending some of his beautiful works to tho Northern States; where tho majority of the inhabitants so sclclom sec a negro, out of whom they have not trampled the beauty and the grace of life, that they forget how differently the very Ramo being would appear to them under different circumstances. It has been well sakl, that there is one circumstance, the effect of which we can rcmnrk upon nobody : tho circumstance of our own absence. As long, therefore, as we arc selfish tyrants, wo can sec nothing upon the face of the negro but ugliness and debasement. It is the shadow of oursel ves. But this metal had been shaped in a different mould. It afforded the nearest possible approach to a. miraculous sight of the race we vilify, behind our own backs : and my interlocutor's narrow notions of commercial policy yielded immediately to his feelings of humanity. '' You will find Monsieur Cumberworth," he T ill~ SClJI,J>TOR OF Tim TOunm zo~n:. 2-ID ~aid, " at No. 2, Passage I t I I Oendrier; ''-this .'t cas t Jought, from the ,, the orthography : pronunciation, must be but no such and had begun passage coulll I find to despah· of ' scarcllin rr in the ne· 1 b my object, when, o lg I orhood of the R du Rcm}Jart, I sa . uc Basse w, .lbove my he 1 S.\~DJUB, as I had seen it a{' IMPASSE Ni. a dozen times before ow, for the first time, it struck m . . . mind,- prejudiced b a . y preJudiCed y notwn of cind 'f . that had got into it, that S d . ~ er-st tmg meet my wishes as . an ne was as likely to h his more comprehensible broth t e ashes dealer. And 't cr, 50 I proved 1 Cumberworth's 1ocll"1in!!'8 at 1 t '- Jere were o o as . And now I I If regretted that I had found h. 'a I . Jill ; so ungracious so a most dishonest did it sec . ' and r t m to enJoy the crentions ' IS en to the conversation f doin11 som(Jtl . 0 genius, without o ung to nourish the brilliant flame. I fbe lt, momcntnril y, g 1a d that he was not at home . ut I left my nddrc . ' would call ss, With n request that he ' on me the next clay Tl arrived, but an affi. . lC next day ' uJr of some urgency uncxpccted1y |