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warm and sincere salutations and welcome. In the first place, however, it behooves us to open at once, for the speedy and pell-mell exit of all the negroes, Indians, and bi-colored hybrids, every back-door in our land; and to assist them to retire, totally and forever, to some appropriate nook or corner, where,-if, indeed, there be such a nook or corner in any part of the universe, their presence may not be generally and justly considered a most consummate and unmitigated nuisance.

Less than ten thousand miles from the place where these lines are penned, a lady and gentleman were recently wedded. Prior to their marriage, certain rules and regulations, by which they were to be more or less governed in all the future of their earthly existence, were well defined, understood, and agreed upon. Among these matters of mutual agreement was one that, under no circumstances whatever, was any negro, Indian, nor bi-colored hybrid, whether bond or free, old or young, male or female, ever to find either service or welcome within any house or other building, or upon any foot of land, or on or about any ship or other vessel or thing whatsoever, whether at sea or elsewhere, over which it might be their prerogative to exercise control. These rules and regulations, as adopted by the couple in question, have been, and will always continue to be, rigidly observed.

As a matter of high and sacred duty to their own supremely blessed race, not as an act of harsh dealing toward those upon whom Nature has been pleased to fasten the curse of foul and fatal blackness, every white man and every white woman in the world, whether married or unmarried, ought at once to subscribe to rules and regulations similar to those above mentioned, and to be always and undeviatingly governed by them. Under such

an efficacious and salutary White Republican policy as is thus faintly foreshadowed, we may soon look for the ignominious finale of Black Republican folly. Faithful adherence to the same policy will also soon rid us of the negroes themselves, and likewise of all the other base-colored, base-blooded and base-minded species of mankind, whose pernicious presence, in any place inhabited by white people, is a thousand times worse than a threefold pestilence.

Particular portions of the subsoils of America are known to possess special affinities for coal-black materials; and other portions for copper-colored substances. These respective subterranean localities are also remarkable for possessing certain attrahent and fossilizing properties, which, with a power far greater than that of the loadstone, manifest a nature-implanted destiny to attract and overclod all jet-black and killow-colored bipeds. Fossilization then-speedy and complete fossilizationis alike the doom of the negro, the Indian, and the bi-colored hybrid. If, in his great mercy and kindness, God wills it, let every one of these reprobate creatures be fossilized to-morrow-in which case, the delectable dawn of the millennium will be less than two days distant!

CHAPTER II.

BLACK; A THING OF UGLINESS, DISEASE, AND DEATH.

Black is the badge of hell, the hue of

Dungeons, and the scowl of night.-SHAKSPEARE.

If the world were intended for a house of mourning, every flower would be painted black; every bird would be a crow or a buzzard; the ocean would be one vast ink pot; a black veil would be drawn over the face of heaven, and an everlasting string of crape hung around the borders of creation.-Eclectic Magazine. July, 1863.

Of the negro race, it may fairly be said, that it is the one most likely to have had an independent origin: seeing that it is a type so peculiar in an inveterate black color, and so mean in development.-Vestiges of Creation, page 145.

To men of acute and well-balanced perceptive faculties, no fact in nature can be more obvious than that Black is a thing of universal ill-omen and detestation. Everywhere, also, is it plainly observable, that the displeasing and repulsive characteristics of blackness are affixed to faulty and effete things in general, and to the negroes in particular. These black persons and things (all of them, without any manner of exception) have been irrevocably foredoomed to utter destruction. Why is this? For the same reason that anything is as it is-simply because God himself, in his infinite wisdom and power and justice, has so decreed it.

Black, indeed, is a most hatable thing; and it is quite as natural and right, for white people at least, to hate black, as it is for the angels in heaven to abhor hideous Satan, or for bachelors on the earth to love pretty maids.

He who is the Creator and the Ruler, the Upholder and the Disposer, of the heavens and the earth and the seas, and of all the things that therein are-of every thing in the universe, both great and small-will be exact in requiring of us perfect fulfillment of all the conditions

of our being. In no manner, in no degree, may we, with impunity, shirk the obligations, whether altogether as we would wish them or otherwise, which he hath imposed upon us. What he hath made for us to love, that we must love; and what he hath made for us to hate, that we must hate.

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If, in a spirit of rebellion against the laws of nature, we love the negroes and other black things, we shall thereby only gain the low distinction of gratifying the devil; but if, on the other hand, assuming attitudes of antagonism toward the imps of Africa, toward the prince of darkness, and toward all the other monstrous representatives of blackness and abomination, we hate them with perfect hatred," as they deserve to be hated, and as we are required and expected to hate them, we shall thereby render highly acceptable and pleasing service to the Deity; and, continuing to please him, will secure for ourselves unlimited and everlasting felicity in heaven.

During the myriads of ages which have elapsed since the first appearance of animal life, certain genera and species of creatures peculiar to each grand cycle, have, without intermission of time, and independently of their own election, been endowed with both the means and the irresistible inclination to exterminate others. So steadily and extensively has this natural process of extermination affected sentient (or once sentient) beings, that there is much reason for believing that the earth and the ocean contain, to-day, the fossils of at least as many families and varieties of formerly numerous but now entirely extinct organisms, as are known to exist in full vigor at the present period.

From the application of this fossilizing law of nature, only the more favored branches of the white races of

mankind can, thus far, truthfully claim to have enjoyed exemption-and even the more meritorious and tenacious of these, after the lapse of eighty-nine millions of years, more or less, may, and probably will, be superseded by other white races, as far superior to those of the present, as those of the present are superior to the Orang-outangs and the Hottentots.

We may not, in this particular place, speak of the numerous aboriginal tribes of Palestine, and other countries of the Old World, who, according to oft-quoted and well-received authority, have been totally "cut off from the face of the earth;" but we may here, with unquestioned propriety, invite attention to the cheering fact, that, under the operations of the great law of nature just mentioned a law of which we white people have, in so great a measure, been made the executors-no less than one hundred millions of American Indians have already found, at the depth of five or six feet beneath the soil, their appropriate and final resting-place. Just so many of these worthless creatures as still survive-whether they survive in North America, in Central America, in South America, or in the islands adjacent-are now (having already arrived at the very doors of the house of death) rapidly learning, like all the Indians in other parts of the world, how specifically this law was framed for them. Under the operations of the same law, fourteen millions of negroes on this side of the Atlantic, and fifty-five millions on the other side, will soon be taught that the time allotted for their tenancy above ground is now fast expiring, and that they, too, must all speedily depart for

"The undiscovered country, from whose bourne

No traveller returns."

Strange it is, however, passing strange, that in the

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