THE BLACK MAN
AND
HIS ANTECEDENTS.
Of the great family of man, the negro has, during
the last half century, been more prominently before
the world than any other race. He did not seek this
notoriety. Isolated away in his own land, he would
have remained there, had it not been for the avarice
of other races, who sought him out as a victim of
slavery. Two and a half centuries of the negro's enslavement
have created, in many minds, the opinion
that he is intellectually inferior to the rest of mankind;
and now that the blacks seem in a fair way to
get their freedom in this country, it has been asserted,
and from high authority in the government, that the
natural inferiority of the negro makes it impossible
for him to live on this continent with the white man,
unless in a state of bondage.
In his interview with a committee of the colored citizens of the District of Columbia, on the 14th of August last, the President of the United States intimated that the whites and the blacks could not live together in peace, on account of one race being superior intellectually to the other. Mr. Postmaster