the injuries they have fuftained; new pro- vocations; the real diftiniSlions which na- ture has made; and many other circum- ftances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulfions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.—To thefe objec- tions, which are political, may be added others, which are phyfical and moral. The firft difference which ftrikes us is that of colour. Whether the black of the negro refides in the reticular membrane between the fkin and fcarf-ikin, or in the fcarf-fkin itfelf ; whether it proceeds from the colour of the blood, the colour of the bile, or from that of fome other fecretion, the difference is fixed in nature, and is as real as if its feat and caufe were better known to us. And is this difference of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a greater or lefs fhare of beauty in the two races? Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expreffions of every paffion by greater or lefs fuffufions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the counte ;
nances, that immoveable veil of black w^hich covers all the emotions of the other race? Add to thefe, flowing hair, a more elegant fymmetry of form, their own judgment in favour of the whites, declared by their preference