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 is in abundance; comforts and luxuries invite you on every side. You may literally "sit under your own vine and fig — tree, with none to make you afraid." In the soft evening-hour, after the duties of the day are over, you may sit at the door of your own mansion, and while the cool sea-breeze is breathing upon you, and the new moon is hanging in beauty over the western waters, you will look across that ocean, and — thinking of the land of the whites that lies beyond — you will bless the day you left it, to come to the home of. your fathers, the rich country which Providence has set apart for the colored race.

While, Africa is thus calling them, America is urging them away. Their presence is not. desired by the whites; they are felt to be a foreign element in the body politic, one that cannot amalgamate with its system, — one, the removal of which is necessary to its safety, health, and peace. This feeling is founded, doubtless, on the intrinsic distinction between the two races, which the Creator himself has marked. That Creator has divided mankind into distinct races; not two only, but many. At least five distinct races are, as we know, universally recognized by ethnographers, — namely, the yellow or Asiatic race, the brown or Malays, the copper-colored or American-Indian, the negro or African, and,the Caucasian or white race. The mixture of any two of these has not in general been found to be for the advantage of either party. There are fundamental differences between them, not only in physical, but in mental constitution. Mixed races, it has been generally found, are degenerate races.

This being the case, it is evident that the repugnance