late, discussing matters physical, social, and political, from the creation down to the present.

Free thought, consequently free speech, is a part and parcel of the white man's creation; it walks with him, talks with him, reasons, propounds, accepts and executes with him; it sleeps with him; it eats with him; it is the last token of departing night, and the first of returning day; it loves and chides him; it is illimitable and boundless as the ocean; it ransacks creation from pole to pole, and from the nether deep to the furthest luminary in yonder heaven! What wall can hold it? it leaps, it bounds, and off 'it flies unchained, though tyrant's will would chain it, to space incomprehensible; it obeys not the prison wall; it passes through it, and contemplates what petty tyrants would rob man of; it gives rise to geniusthe dread of tyranny; it analyzes the tyrant and tells him his constituency; it is sovereign of space, and combats whatever opposes it in its triumphant march; it holds eternal matter, what was, is, or will be, in solution, and discovers, by analogy and the present production, forms entire or partly so, that now, are, and will be, from organic law, first risen; it knows no change in original matter, except by rotation, entering bodies, then re-entering the earth, rising and falling with constant succession throughout time; it scouts a change in organic law as to man and other animals, no less than to the sun, moon, planets,stars, law of gravitation, and that governing the centripetal and centrifugal forces in bodies; it contemplates constitutional man as constitutional earth; it sees and feels the one, and knows the other,

by the light of reason; it knows man's true government founded on organic law, and when he departs from it, it knows and feels its lack of balance, yet it drives on, and often to destruction it goes, with full sails set; it dashes in the whirling tempest, flounders, comes up, and floats off like fragments of some old ship; it is polite and winning; it courts and flatters; it wins and deceives; it loves choice things, and to sit in choice places; hence, O ye tyrants of earth! fetter, prostrate, and annihilate free thought, if you dare attack it; let your vigils be quick and penetrating, and still it eludes your puny touch like so much wind that passes by unseen! It is the same now, and ever will be the same; it is a vestage of creation; it calls forth man after man, with all his secondary elements superadded; animals come and go through its influence, and all else rise and depart, as if on the high journey of life: it causes governments, of what name soever, to rise and fall, like the surging of the boundless waves! Bliss and wickedness it surveys, and causes that move the whole grand architecture of heaven, earth, and whatever else that journey round the sun; free thought aright, obeying the high order of the creation, pleads for peace, either in heaven among the host, or on the earth, with inanimate or animate objects; it sees the brute in brute, and brute in man falling to brute, in warring and cutting down man; it trembles, and is aghast at such a spectacle in man departing from organic law and his high creation! why thus? have day and night run their course, that man to his end must come, transfixed with spears and darts, and all the habili

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ments of the ingenuity of man, created for wiser and holier purposes! God forbid! Let the organic law of heaven and earth prevail, as when first formed from matter, and man seeing this, yield submission; and peace will dawn with first light that comes, as in days of yore, when "God spake, and there was light!" and peace!

In the animal kingdom we have used the term, "existences of colors," &c., to designate through their cognomens, the African, Malay, Indian, Mongolian, and Caucasian, in the same manner as we apply the term, metals (of colors, &c.,) to designate through their cognomens, gold, silver, iron, copper, and quicksilver, in the mineral kingdom; or in the same manner as we apply the term vegetables (of colors, &c.,) to designate through their cognomens, corn, rye, barley, wheat, and oats, in the vegetable kingdom. In each of these three kingdoms the cognomens are distinct, and do not, in being applied to bodies, depend on one another for life or existence, or reproduction; and therefore their origins from inorganic matter arose separately under no other general terms than the terms animal, mineral, and vegetable, with the order of creation standing thus: the mineral first, vegetable second, and the animal third or last. The above construction is used only to show the application of terms. We cannot take the specific term homo (man) in the Latin language, and apply it to but one of the existences of colors, for if we should classify them all in the term homo, as there cannot be two or more distinct organizations in one class of anything, and

as a class has all the genital organs to reproduce itself, we should make the five existences of colors one class, descending from a common parentage in the same manner as the five metals, or the five vegetables above mentioned, would descend in each of the three kingdoms from a common stock. We may exercise our choice as to applying the term homo, whether to the Caucasian, Mongolian, Malay, Indian, or African, physiologically speaking, but we cannot apply it—a specific term, to generalities; those five names are generalities taken together, while one of them apart from the others is specific, and will admit of the specific term homo. The term homo in the Latin, and man in the English language, we trace from the 26th verse of the first chapter of Genesis throughout the Bible, and down to the present time, with as much ease and accuracy as we do any other portion of the creation recorded in the Holy Writ. The Caucasian race traces itself back in the same manner as we can trace back to that period when all was chaos, the origins of gold, silver, corn, barley, the elephant and the horse. These are specific names for specific classes in the three specific kingdoms. In "Wheat's Philosophy of Slavery," the term existences of colors has been used to designate the Mongolian, Indian, Malay, and African from the Caucasian, but it applies to Caucasian also. The term existence of color with the cognomen Mongolian, shows the organic color, form, desires, and habits, as it is understood to be applied to a race of beings living in Eastern Asia. Thus the other terms can be applied to other races where they have spread out from the common centers of their primary settlements.

In the best written works upon the natural sciences, we find many very arbitrary terms recorded by men of extraordinary research; but we do not know as yet that they may have exercised more common sense in their astute selections of terms than it has been the lot of less fortunate men like ourselves. We make no pretentions to have surveyed the vast abode of the Pierian Springs; we have only what nature has endowed us with, making our own means to investigate the great organic laws which govern the solar system, and which should govern man, did he desire a happier and a more perfect state. We are never idle except six hours in sleep each day; all else is spent in thought, with a few hours to recreation among those whose thoughts are like the tinsel beams that radiate from heaven.

The great fallacy in which the youth, not only of the United States but of Europe, have been taught, is to believe in practicabilities with reference to the creation of some things from matter inorganic when all was chaos, as in the mineral kingdom, gold was created gold, silver silver; and in the vegetable kingdom, barley was created barley, coffee coffee, sugar cane sugar cane; and in the animal kingdom, an ant was created an ant, the bat a bat, a horse horse, &c., while they have been sediciously taught to believe in the impracticabilities, in view of common sense, of the Mongolian, Indian, Malay, and African, descending from the Caucasian, the term homo, man. In the reception of such tutition from older persons of experience, the youth of perception must drink such learning with perfect hesitation; for in all the whole creation below those races, they could recog