accounted for? From the fact that there has been a mixture of Mexican and negro blood for ages. God forbid, therefore, that we as a people, should seek to elevate this race by so great a sacrifice, by so horrible a violation and prostration of the sacred laws of the Creator of the Universe. In all this we do not disparage the black man, but only set forth the actual difference there is between the races, neither of which are to be praised or censured respecting the attributes of their respective natures. These were wisely ordained by that Being v/ho created all things, by the counsel of his own will, and the wisdom of whose appointments man has not the right to question.
There is another evidence, that the habitations of this race (the blacks) are of Divine appointment, and that is, that they are suited in their formation and physical constitution, to a torrid region. As the torrid region of North America is, therefore, best suited to their comfort and happiness, we conclude it is their natural home. And, as this country, through the providence of God, has been put into the power and ownership of the white race, and as the two races cannot exist together in a state of political equality, it follows that if the negro race exist in the South at all, as a people, it must be in a condition of surveillance or subordination of some sort or other.
The negro man has as good a right to exist as has the white man: but he has not as good a right to rule or give laws to society. This is evident from the black man's mental inferiority, and consequent inability to discharge those high functions, as the history
