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 sometimes after the third and always after the fourth crossings further procreation ceases. We have an illustration of the fatal effect of this crossing in the history of the Island of San Domingo, where the African population was crossed by the Spaniards. In 1785, that Island, embracing Hayti and Dominica, contained an aggregate population of 676,443, and in 1824 it was decreased to 191,223, which was a falling off in 39 years, of 485,220, or over two thirds of its entire population.

While Nature refuses to let the white man and the adulterated projeny of the fourth crossing, have any issue, she permits the female issue of that crossing and a black man of the original type to breed, and to breed on in a retrograding direction, until, after successive projenies, the black race resumes, as nearly as possible, its original type. Thus showing how fastidious Nature is in preserving the separate identity of each of the Races; and how the great Author of Nature has put his irrevocable seal of condemnation upon this new and unnatural doctrine of mis-cegenation—a process, by which the intellectual standard of the inferior race would be partially elevated at the lamentable sacrifice of dragging down that of the superior race to an intermediate and degrading level of a spurious race; and, if its distinguished advocate [Mr. Wendell Phillips,] wishes to transmit his name to posterity, as its founder, he will have to seek some other channel, than that of mis-cegenation, to carry it beyond the fourth generation; where, according to the laws of Nature and of Nature's God, it would be buried in the total extinction of both the white and black Races—a calamity not devoutly to be wished for, by either of them. And, they not only cease to breed after the third and fourth crossing; but after the