tue is found instinctively possessed even by dumb beasts; and yet we are told by Mr. Shaw, in his work, p. 56, that a woman of the Bechuan tribe, offered to sell her child to him for some glass beads, who said that she loved her child, but that she loved beads far better. On the least occasion, says Mr. Shaw, page 58, they will kill their wives as they would a troublesome dog.
Insensibility to pain, remarks this author, p. 61, is one of the negro faculties; as they seem not to feel when even cut to pieces, nor do they care for their fellows when seen in the greatest distress.
With a view to all these things, and many more disgusting particulars, which the reader's discernment will not fail to suggest, how is it possible that any white man on the face of the earth can be found, who in his heart is willing to have the races become one by amalgamation? To the writer, such a desire seems to be a kind of monstrosity, a hideous nightmare, a frightful incubus, chattering and grinning on the bosom of the soul, driven on, and on, as by a devil in mockery, for the crime of believing in, and desiring the union of, white blood with black.
There are not wanting under this baleful influence, cases in the land, even among the refined and opulent, who have lent and are lending their influence to the ultra objects of abolitionism; and also, who have bowed down themselves in the sight of the Heavens and the earth, to the very dust, in compliance to negroes, desiring thereby to have it believed that they do most heartily espouse the notion of the black men's intellectual equality with themselves.
