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Rh And then, with effrontery enough to look a tiger out of countenance, have braved the common and popular indignation, forming a mighty contrast between their apparent humility and lowly deference of the negro, and their dauntless impudence toward those who cannot, for the sake of the image of God, subscribe to this blasphemy against nature.

We are acquainted with occurrences of this description, when a negro man has been petted, caressed, and almost seemingly adored, by proud, scornful and aristocratic white men, who, taking the negro by the arm with affected politeness and attention, have led and escorted the black to the best seat in a superb carriage, and from thence in pomp and array, to a place of public entertainment. Yes, we have understood, that, in the city of New York, there was a certain opulent gentleman, who, under the frightful influence of the negro abolition mania, went so far with the horrible phrenzy, as to force negroes upon the notice and attention of his daughters, in his own house, and thus insult his own blood, and that of the whole white part of creation.

Can such doings be sincere? We have no confidence in the sincerity of such professions. The very pretenders feel appalled at heart, and loathe the unnatural approximation; yes, the very negroes themselves know better, and laugh at the hypocrisy and nonsense of the whole farago; but, nevertheless, they are willing to be petted, as long as the conspirators against the order of God in the creation may be under the influence of this extraordinary political spasm, which will endure just as long and