What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

DIFFERENCE OF RACES.
radation in their midst, and the increased debasement to which
the abolition of negro slavery and the elevation of that lowest
type of man to equal political and social privilege withthe highest,
must necessarily lead. From emancipation and legal equality,
the tendency is unavoidably to social level, mingling of blood,
hybridism in the direction of the preponderating element; and
after a long endurance of punishment consequent on the perpetration of crimes against the laws of organization as decreed by
the Creator, an ultimate extinction of the feebler race, a reparation of the outrage inflicted on nature, and a return to the
original type.
Certain physical differences of color, hair, form, feature, are
manifest to all. But of the brain, the seat of mind, and of its
associate nervous apparatus, and their physiological laws and
manifestations of nobler being, the lower races know nothing;
and the uneducated even of a higher are too often ignorant from
neglect of investigation or the force of unreasoning prejudice.
And yet these are distinctive and peculiar in the races, and as
undoubted to those who seek for truth and knowledge, and are
not the victims of a conspiracy against exalted nature, rational
freedom, and progress, as are the physical differences above
named to the thoughtless looker-on.
But it is strange that so many to whom information is accessible, and who have the capacity, have failed to apply inductively
certain well known facts. Let them compare peoples of Caucasian origin, of any period known to history, with what we
know of the Negro. Can any such examples be pointed to
among the former of such degradation and debasemient as are
presented by the latter? Does the history of man,since the
flood, furnish the record of a White community without some
recognition of a Supreme Being; without law, order, or government, as the explorations of travellers have shown to be the fact
in many instances among Negroes? Has any such Caucasiar
monster been known as the Negro king of Dahomey, shown by a
late discussion in the British Parliament to celebrate his "grand
customs " by sacrificing two thousand persons, and collecting in
a pit their human blood sufficient to float a canoe? and who,
by the testimony of Lord Pahuerston, was accustomed to " orna
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