They now deemed it as great a degradation to be governed
by blacks, as had the whites a few years before considered
it an indignity to be placed under the authority of mulat-
toes. As a race they were endowed with greater intelli-
gence, they were more enterprising and brave, and in all
respects their physical and moral superiority was more
decided than their rivals, the blacks. They were equally
ferocious, and confident as they were in their superior
powers they saw without a thought of discouragement or
fear the enormous disparity of'ten to one in the respec-
tive numbers of their adversaries and themselves.
