ful trait of humanity, which we, from our own innate
love of dominion, and in defiance of the Christian reli-
gion, brand with the name of servility^ and abuse not less
to our own dishonor than their injury. But even amid
these untoward circumstances there burst forth occasion-
ally the indications of that better destiny, to which na-
ture herself will at last conduct them, and from which
they are at present withheld, not less by the mistaken
kindness of their friends, than the injustice of their op-
pressors : for so jealous is nature of her freedom, that
she repels all interference, even of the most benevolent
kind, and will suiter only that peculiar good or intelli-
gence to be elicited, of which she has herself deposited
Sie seeds or rudiments in the human bosom."

I have in another place alluded to the consideration
that the residence of a portion of the negro race in this
country may be, under the overruling dispensation of
Providence, the means of great good to the whole race.
It may be that the civilization of Africa will receive its
first quickening elements by the return of her sons from
a servitude which proved to them a school of useful
acquirements. Some touch of Caucasian energy thus
infused into the African mind may be the awakening im-
pulse that shall arouse a whole people from the torpor of
ages.
