thetic impetus by which the machine now is moving, will cease to exist, passing away like the fogs of the night, leaving the negro race to look out for themselves as heretofore. Thus will end the mooted subject of negro excellencies ; the men who now admire the race, and see in them the germs of prodigious mental powers, will not be found, as other business than the exaltation of a people, upon whom God has passed his decree of servitude and inferiority, secured in the imbecilities of their very natures.
Suppose the negroes in the southern states were all set free ; would the southern and tropical countries get their plantations of corn, tobacco, cotton, indigo, oranges, rice and sugar cultivated? The whites can not labor effectually in those countries, as they can in the North, but the negro man is created in such a manner as to resist, or rather to agree with, the heat, fogs and dews of that atmosphere, so that he is not injuriously affected by it, as are the whites.
There is no system but that of compulsory servitude, by which this labor, on which so much depends, can be done; for if it is left to the free will or the necessities of the blacks, there could never be any certainty, as instances of freed blacks in the English West India Islands refusing to work, has often occurred, and this even among the better sort, such as were members of religious societies. If, therefore, these occurrences take place among the better sort of blacks, what may not be expected from those of a more improvident turn of mind, such as is the great mass. On the island of St. Domingo, says Barclay on Slavery in the West Indies, pages 8, 137, 350, 357,
