chicken in the course of time. The earth presents a
wonderful example of variety in all classes of the
human race, the animal, and vegetable kingdoms.
People, beasts, and plants belonging to distinct
classes, exhibit special qualities and peculiarities.
The existence of many hundred varieties of dogs cannot
interfere with the fact that they belong to one
genus : the greyhound, pug, bloodhound, pointer,
poodle, mastiff, and toy terriér, are all as entirely different
in their peculiar instincts as are the varieties
of the human race. The different fruits and flowers«
continue, the example ;—the wild grapes of the forest
are grapes, but although they belong to the same class,
they are distinct from the luscious “ Muscatel ; ” and
the wild dog-rose of the hedge, although of the same
class, is inferior to the moss-rose of the garden.
From fruits and flowers we may turn to insect life,
and watch the air teeming with varieties of the same
species, the thousands of butterflies and beetles, thé
many members of each class varying in instincts and
peculiarities. Fishes, and even shellfish, all exhibit
the same arrangement,—that every group is divided
into varieties all differing from each other, and each
distinguished by some peculiar excellence or defect.
In the great system of creation that divided races
and subdivided them according to mysterious laws,
apportioning special qualities to each, the varieties of
the human race exhibit certain characters and qualifications
which adapt them for specific localities. The
natural character of those races will not alter with a
change of locality, but the instincts of each race will
be developed in any country where they may be located.
Thus, the English are as English in Australia, Tndia.,
and America, as they are in England, and in every locality
they exhibit the industry and energy of their
native land j even so the African will remain negro in
all his natural instincts, although transplanted to other
soils , and thoSe natural instincts being a love of idleness
and savagedom, he will assuredly relapse into an
idle and savage state, unless specially governed and
forced to industry.
The history of the negro has proved the correctness
of this theory. In no instance has he evinced other
than a retrogression, when once freed from restraint.
Like a horse without harness, he runs wild, but, if harnessed,
no animal is more useful. Unfortunately, this
is contrary to public opinion in England, where the
vox populi assumes the right of dictation upon matters
and men in which it has had no experience. The
English insist upon their own weights and measures
as the scales for human excellence, and it has been
decreed by the multitude, inexperienced in the negro
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