On the Philippine Islands there is far less servility than on the other side of the sea of China, and the people are the more respectable and hopeful for the flavor of manliness that compensates for a moderate but visible admixture of savagery.

We of North America may be proud of it that the atmosphere of our continent, when it was wild, was a stimulant of freedom and independence.

The red Indians of our forests were, with all their faults, never made for slaves.

The natives of the West Indies, the fierce Caribs excepted, were enslaved by the Spaniards, and perished under the lash.

Our continental tribes--the Seminoles and the Comanches, the Sioux and Mohawks, the Black Feet and the Miamis--from the St.Lawrence to Red River and the oceans, fought all comers--Spaniards, French and English--only the French having the talent of polite persuasion and the gift of kindness that won the mighty hunters, but never subjugated them.