You must acknowledge that as white persons they will be better off." "I admit," answered Mr.Walters, "that in our land of liberty it is of incalculable advantage to be white; that is beyond dispute, and no one is more painfully aware of it than I.Often I have heard men of colour say they would not be white if they could--had no desire to change their complexions; I've written some down fools; others, liars.

Why," continued he, with a sneering expression of countenance, "it is everything to be white; one feels that at every turn in our boasted free country, where all men are upon an equality.

When I look around me, and see what I have made myself in spite of circumstances, and think what I might have been with the same heart and brain beneath a fairer skin, I am almost tempted to curse the destiny that made me what I am.

Time after time, when scraping, toiling, saving, I have asked myself.

To what purpose is it all ?--perhaps that in the future white men may point at and call me, sneeringly, 'a nigger millionaire,' or condescend to borrow money of me.