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whole population exhibiting its rage. Now the lecture rooms of the North ring with the most classical appeals in behalf of the African and against their Caucasian masters. Wendell Phillips preaches not only the equality of all races, but the equality of sexes; and he seems to be looking forward to a millennium, when all men and all women shall hug and kiss under the broad banner of "liberty, fraternity and equality." It is this idea of universal liberty and equality which is at the basis of the Republican party. We have all of us received something of it from our ancestors, who inherited it from France and the literature of the last century. The falsity of it has not been examined into, but hereafter we may expect that true science will teach the world much more correct ideas in reference to races.
Harrisburg, March, 1860.
