FORTUNES, OF THE NEGRO RACE.
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Thus mercifully is thrown into the negro's being, circumstances which go to make his condition tolerable, though created black and doomed to servitude, rendering him, upon the whole, not less happy than are the other races of men.
Thus, with balanced eye, the great All-seeing
Has made each race with an equal being —
Has with the ills of life some blessing mix'd,
Though in our grades a gen'ral state is fix'd,
The white man soars, as with an eagle's flight,
While the black man dips in the wave of night;
And both, rejoicing in their sev'ral spheres,
Should offer thanks in the Eternal's ears.
