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either Mexican or American.
Her passengers, like her crew, are mostly Scotch and English; for the ports and towns in Texas are nearly all built by British capital and settled by British families.
It is the old, old story of our race.
Who planted Virginia and Massachusetts?
Who peopled Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland?
The seventeenth century only saw at James Town and Plymouth Rock what the nineteenth century beholds in the Gulf of Mexico.
The English race is moving on the West.
London and Liverpool are pouring out our wealth and population on these coasts-our surplus capital, our adventurous sons.
This power of drawing on the parent country for supports is the chief mainstay of White America.
Apart from passing politics, the Conservatives hold that time is always fighting on their side.
White men increase in freedom.
In a hundred years the White family has increased in North America from less than three millions to more than thirty millions.
Who knows whether the Black family will increase in freedom?
Every fact appears to point another way. The Whites are recruited from Europe, the Blacks are not recruited from
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