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a deficiency of power in the former case which gives the proposition the air of burlesque . It is an appearance , however , which a change of circumstances may in time remove ; for , in this case * the numbers are not such as to render the scheme of an actual transportation , morally speaking , impracticable . The argument maintained in the preceding pages is ably supported by a writer in the c Christian Examiner . ' To a certain extent he renders tardy justice to the free blacks ; at least , he sufficiently proves that there has been great exaggeration in the accounts which are generally circulated of the intellectual and moral degradation prevalent among them . That they are
inferior , as a body , to the whites in these respects , ( I mean to the whites taken as a body , ) may be readily admitted ; it would be extraordinary indeed if it were otherwise . But this , in fact , amounts to little more than that the higher classes of society are superior to the lower . It must be remembered that the one class are confined , in a great measure , to the exercise of menial occupations , and others to which , for whatever reason , an idea of degradation is attached ; while the other includes almost the whole of the wealthier and more highly educated classes , and all those who enjoy the influence of the additional motive to good
conduct , which is derived from the possession of a distinguished station in life , or from the prospect of attaining it . If we confine the comparison between the two races , to the blacks on the one hand , and that portion of the whites on the other , who are condemned to the same , or nearly the same occupations , perhaps the difference may not be very remarkable . It is , however , certain , and this is an important point gained ; that , in spite of almost insurmountable obstacles , there does exist a class of opulent , well-educated ,
respectable people of colour . Now it appears evident that the true policy of America should be to increase , by all possible means , the number , importance , and influence , both moral and
political , of this class at home , in order that an example should be presented to their white countrymen , not on the coast of Africa , but at their own doors , of persons belonging to this hitherto despised race , whom they felt obliged to respect , not merely for intrinsic good qualities , but for the influence they were enabled to exercise on their own circumstances and condition . W . T . Halifax .
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After the battle was over , and victory had declared for the patriots , one of their leaders was seen bending over the body of his steed , which had been slain by a carbine shot purposely aimed
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TIIE PATRIOT WARRIOR TO HIS DEAD BARB .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/16/
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