Considered, then, in the incalculable amplitude and multiplicity of the meanings which belong to it, what is White? Precisely what, in the preceding pages, it has been represented to be a thing of Life, Health, and Beauty; a thing of Hope, Mirth, and Merit; a thing of Improvement, Progress, and Permanence; a thing of Goodness, Glory, and Grandeur; a thing of Harmony Sublimity, and Perfection; a thing of Amiability, Peace, and Heaven-born Excellence; a thing of Sympathy, Attraction, and Delight; a thing of Innocence, Virtue, and Purity; a thing of most wholesome Enchantments, Benefits, and Blessings: a thing worthy to be eternally Loved, Courted, Kissed, Caressed, Embraced, Cherished, Protected, Increased, Multiplied and Replenished.

Numerous other instances might be cited to show that, while Black is one of the worst of bad things, and is under the bitter and blasting ban of Nature, White is one of the best of good things, and is under the especial and all-powerful protection of Heaven. But, for this chapter, already much lengthened beyond the limits assigned it, we must now find a conclusion.

Henceforth, who, in the councils of our nation, shall be so idiotic or so impudent, so deceitful or so audacious, so demagogical or so degenerate, so shameless or so reprobate, as to demand that America shall become the theatre of a forcibly and gigantical organized system of amalgamation between good and evil, and that the pernicious blackness of the African shall, by acts of Congress, be placed upon an equality with the salutary whiteness of the Caucasian ?—as if, forsooth, a thing so impossible in nature could be feasible in legislation! If our National and State legislatures are still haunted by the presence of ghouls and ogres who persist in howling out demands so odious and preposterous as these, those ghouls and ogres must at once give way to men of common sense, to men of clear heads and practicable ideas, who, recognizing the fact that the whole universe is but an aggregation of ever-obvious and immutable distinctions, will not waste time, nor render themselves ridiculous, by attempting to annul or modify the irrevocable decrees of fate.

Scarcely possible is it, within the compass of a single language, to find words of sufficient number and force to reprehend with adequate severity that particular class of demagogues who are here but too feebly, too imperfectly denounced. In the midst of their career of criminal folly, let the execrable two-thirds majority of the Black Congress, who have so shamelessly and so wickedly proposed to strike from all our State Constitutions, and from the Con stitution of the United States, the blest and sacred word White, pause for a few moments, and listen to the manly and significant protests of their insulted and aroused constituents.

This day, indeed, may the stentorian voices of the greater and better portion of the American people, pointing toward Hartford and New Haven, and directly addressing the Black Congress, be heard pithily exclaiming,

in effect-Remember the result of the late election in Connecticut! Observe how gloriously the White Republicans and the Loyal Democrats, acting together in a spirit of most laudable and patriotic harmony, have saved the State from irreparable disgrace. Near at hand is the time for this opportune and wholesome lesson of Connecticut to be carried into every other State of the American Union! Since the old Republican party has been debased into a black and vile-smelling negro party, it, as a party, has forfeited all just claims upon us for support; now it may take care of itself; from this time forward, we are firmly resolved not to have anything whatever to do with it, nor for it; only, as a solemn duty which we owe to the commonwealth and to ourselves, we are determined to use every legitimate means in our power to divide it, to defeat it, and to destroy it! Untrue to its mission, false to the faith of its founders and its followers, the old Republican party may henceforth look for the precarious life and maintenance which yet await it, to the negroes and to such other Black Republicans as may unfortunately encumber and curse with their presence our common country! Assembling together the better elements of the old Republican party, in affiliation with the Loyal Democrats, (and sloughing off, and pushing out, all Black Republicans, Copperheads, and Secessionists) it is our purpose to form a White Republican party, one of the functions of which shall be the early bringing, and the perpetual keeping, of the whole continent of North America under one good republican government-precisely such a good republican government as is provided for in the Constitution of the United States-to be presided over and controlled, from first to last, and all the time, exclusively by men who inherit the natural greatness and glory of unsullied descent from the pure white races! What! strike from an American Constitution the hea

ven-born and immaculate word White! No, no, never, never; this beautiful and salutary monosyllable (one of the best terms recorded in the annals of time, one of the most elegant and sublime vocables of the English language) must be preserved in full vigor and force as the palladium of an elevated and progressive American manhood. Rather than that the sorry-witted and recreant members of the Black Congress should busy themselves in the base attempt to strike from the archives of their country the pure and precious word White, infinitely better would it be if, at once, they would but take service in striking from themselves their own duncical and degraded heads!

Countless ages ago, God was pleased to create the Toxodon, the Mylodon, the Glyptodon, and numerous other gigantic quadrupeds, not a single representative of which can now anywhere be found, save only in fossil form. Previously, or subsequently, or at the same time, he also created a certain species of black bipeds, of the genus homo, to whom he allotted, as the proper period of their aggregate existence upon the earth, a fixed number of centuries, the last of which is now rapidly approaching (if, indeed, it be not the one now actually drawing to a close) and with the last day of which will inevitably pass away, forever, the last servile and slothful scion of the House of Ebony-a most slavish and shabby scion, fitted finally, and from the first, like all of his fugitive and forgotten forefathers, only for fossilization!

CHAPTER IV.

THE SERVILE BASENESS AND BEGGARY OF THE BLACKS.

There has never been the slightest danger of an insurrection of the slaves. The real victim of slavery is the white man. Whatever little good there is in the system, the black man has had; while most of the evil has fallen to the white man's share.-Parton's Gen. Butler in New Orleans, page 99.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.-POPE.

Who so base as be a slave?

The coward slave! we pass him by.-BURNS.

WHEN the negro, in Africa, in the year 1620, fastening anew upon both himself and his posterity the condition of perpetual bondage, allowed himself, as a guarantee of his passive and prodigious dastardy, to be brought in chains all the way across the Atlantic-it was then that, for the first time, was reached the uttermost depth of human degradation. That the negro had, and has, always been a slave in his own country or elsewhere, according to the habitat or journeyings of his master, is well known; but it was only when, as the cringing tool of the meaner sort of white men, he came to America, that his obsequiousness and pusillanimity began to assume monstrous proportions.

Of all the miscreants and outcasts who have brought irreparable disgrace upon mankind, the slave is at once the most despicable and the most infamous. To be a slave of the white man, yet, if possible to be a slave exempt from the necessity of labor, has always been the ruling ambition of the negro-not less so now than it was four thousand years ago, and not less so then than