think so now; and, some pleasant morning, you may all be caught up to meet each other in the air, _when the boilers burst_." "_Dies declarabit_," said Alfred, laughing.
"I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that is revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class become the upper one." "That's one of your red republican humbugs, Augustine! Why didn't you ever take to the stump;--you'd make a famous stump orator! Well, I hope I shall be dead before this millennium of your greasy masses comes on." "Greasy or not greasy, they will govern _you_, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.

The French noblesse chose to have the people '_sans culottes_,' and they had '_sans culotte_' governors to their hearts' content.

The people of Hayti--" "O, come, Augustine! as if we hadn't had enough of that abominable, contemptible Hayti!* The Haytiens were not Anglo Saxons; if they had been there would have been another story.

The Anglo Saxon is the dominant race of the world, and _is to be so_." * In August 1791, as a consequence of the French Revolution, the black slaves and mulattoes on Haiti rose in revolt against the whites, and in the period of turmoil that followed enormous cruelties were practised by both sides.
The "Emperor" Dessalines, come to power in 1804, massacred all the whites on the island.

Haitian bloodshed became an argument to show the barbarous nature of the Negro, a doctrine Wendell Phillips sought to combat in his celebrated lecture on Toussaint L'Ouverture.
"Well, there is a pretty fair infusion of Anglo Saxon blood among our slaves, now," said Augustine.