t observe by
reading two of his striking editorials on _Prejudice_ and _This
Country, our only Home_.

PREJUDICE

"'Prejudice,' said a noble man, 'is an aristocratic hatred of
humble life.'

"Prejudice, of every character, and existing against whom it may,
is hatred. It is a fruit of our corrupt nature, and has its being
in the depravity of the human heart. It is sin.

"To hate a man, for any consideration whatever, is murderous; and
to hate him, in any degree, is, in the same degree murderous; and
to hate a man for no cause whatever, magnifies the evil.
'Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer,' says Holy Writ.

"There is a kind of aristocracy in our country, as in nearly all
others, a looking down with disdain upon humble life and a
disregard of it. Still, we hear little about prejudice against
any class among us, excepting against color, or against the
colored population of this Union, which so monopolizes this state
of feeling in our country that we hear less of it in its
operations upon others, than in other countries. It is the only
sense in which there is equality; here, the democratic principle
is adopted and all come together as equals, and unite the rich
and the poor, the high and the low, in an equal right to hate the
colored man; and its operations upon the mind and character are
cruel and disastrous, as it is murderous and wicked in itself.
One needs to feel it, and to wither under its effects, to know
it: and the colored men of the United States, wherever found, and
in whatever circumstances, are living epistles, which may be read
by all men in proof of all that is paralyzing to enterprise,
destructive to ambition, ruinous to character, crushing to mind,
and painful to the soul, in the monster, Prejudice. For it is
found equally malignant, active, and strong--associated with the
mechanical arts, in the work-shop, in the mercantile houses, in
the commercial affairs of the country, in the halls of learning,
in the temple of God; and in the highways and hedges. It almost
possesses ubiquity; it is every where, doing its deleterious work
wherever one of the proscribed class lives and moves.

"Yet prejudice against color, prevalent as it is in the minds of
one class of our community against another, is unnatural, though