Slavery must of necessity exercise the most baleful influence upon any slave-holding people, and especially upon those members of the dominant caste who do not themselves own slaves.

Moreover, the negro, unlike so many of the inferior races, does not dwindle away in the presence of the white man.

He holds his own; indeed, under the conditions of American slavery he increased faster than the white, threatening to supplant him.

He actually has supplanted him in certain of the West Indian islands, where the sin of the white in enslaving the black has been visited upon the head of the wrongdoer by his victim with a dramatically terrible completeness of revenge.

What has occurred in Hayti is what would eventually have occurred in our own semi-tropical States if the slave-trade and slavery had continued to flourish as their shortsighted advocates wished.