The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863. Various

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under foot. But as we must love, and will not give our hearts to God, for whom they were created, we seek another idol—and are again deceived! Through this bitter, bitter school we are purified and enlightened, until, abandoning all hope of finding perfection on earth, we are at last ready to offer God that pure, but now broken-hearted worship, which should never have been given save to Him alone.'—George Sand.

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      Negro of West Indian birth. Creole, used alone, signifies a West Indian white.

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      However, I should say that there are portions of Western Africa where trustworthy accounts give to the negroes a widely different and far more favorable character.

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      Mr. Underhill's account, so far as

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Negro of West Indian birth. Creole, used alone, signifies a West Indian white.

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However, I should say that there are portions of Western Africa where trustworthy accounts give to the negroes a widely different and far more favorable character.

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Mr. Underhill's account, so far as it goes, corroborates this description.

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It will be understood that I speak only of his remarks upon the economical aspect of emancipation.

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Different estimates conflict as to numbers, though all agreeing in the fact of an extensive and steady decline. I have used a statement which appeared trustworthy.

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This was an absurd and wicked expedient for keeping him free from family interests.

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This African epithet for the whites is said, in the original, to bear the complimentary signification of 'devil.'

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This is partly owing to the unwillingness of continued from previous page: the negroes to remove to an unaccustomed place; but also, I think, to their rooted conviction that the only security for their independence is in having possession of the soil.

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Hanover has about one nineteenth of the whole population of the island. But the economical condition of the parishes varies too widely to make that of any one a basis for a general estimate.

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In common, they are by no means either so tawdry or so ostentatious as they have the credit of being.

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A gradual change is, indeed, observable, but as yet, it is only an incipient one.

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