retain and incorporate the
blacks into the State, and thus save the expense of supplying by
importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave?
Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand
recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have
sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature
has made; and many other circumstances will divide us into
parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end
but in the extermination of the one or the other race.[70]

To these objections, which are political may be added others,
which are physical and moral. Whether the black of the negro
resides in the reticular membrane between the skin and
scarf-skin, or in the scarf-skin itself; whether it proceeds from
the color of the blood, the color of the bile, or from that of
some other secretion, the difference is fixed in nature, and is
as real as if its seat and cause were better known to us. And is
this difference of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a
greater or less suffusions of color in the one, preferable to
that eternal monotony, which reign in the countenances, that
immovable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the
other race? Add to these, flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry
of form, their own judgment in favor of the whites, declared by
their preference of them, as uniformly as is the preference of
the Oranootan for the black woman over those of his own species.
The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought worthy attention
in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic
animals; why not in that of man? Besides those of color, figure,
and hair, there are other physical distinctions proving a
difference of race. They have less hair on the face and body.
They secrete less by the kidneys, and more by the glands of the
skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor. This
greater degree of transpiration renders them more tolerant of
heat, and less of cold than the whites. Perhaps, too, a
difference of structure in the pulmonary apparatus, which a late
ingenious experimentalist (Crawford) has discovered to be the
principal regulator of animal heat, may have disabled them from
extricating, in the act of inspiration, so much of that fluid
from th