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Augustine's cheek flushed ; but he onlyobserved, Well, I hopeI shall be dead before this millet
with his usual sarcasticcarelessness,
nium of your greasy
masses cornea on."
A.ugustine ! Why did
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n't you ever take to the That may be," said
etump ) make a famous "
stump orator! "
Well, there 's no use talking, Augustine,
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Greasyor not greasy,
" 1 suppose that 's what we may call republican
theywill
education,Alfred!"
when their
govern
time comes," said Augustine; " you
anc
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Henrique is a devil of a fellow,when his theywill be justsuch rulers as
you make them.
blood 's up," said Alfred,carelessly.
The French noblesse chose to have the people
"I suppose you consider this an instructive
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sans culottes^and they had sans culotte'' governors,
practice said Augustine,dryly.
to their hearts' content. The peopleof
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I could n't helpit,if I didn't. Henriqueis Hayti" "
a regular little tempest; mother and I have "0, come, Augustine! as if we hadn't had
givenhim up, longago. But,then,that Dodo is enough of that abominable,contemptible Hayti !
a perfectsprite, no amount of whipping can The Haytiens were not Anglo-Saxons; if they
hurt him."
had been, there would have been another storjr.
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And this by way of teachingHenrique the The Anglo-Saxonis the dominant race of the
firstverse of a republican's catechism, ' All men world,and is to be so."
are born free and equal!' "
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Well, there is a pretty fair infusion of Anglo-
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Poh !" said Alfred
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; one of Tom Jefferson's Saxon blood among our slaves,now," said Augustine.
pieces of French sentiment and humbug. It 's
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There are them who
perfectly ridiculous to have that goingthe rounds have
plentyamong
of the African onlyenough to givea sort of
among us, to this day."
tropical and fervor to our calculating
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I think it is,"said St. Clare,significantly. firmness and foresight Ịf ever the San Domingo
"Because," said Alfred, " we can see plainlyhour comes, Anglo-Saxonblood will lead on the
enough that all men are npt born free,nor born day. Sons of white fathers,with all our haughty
equal; they are born anythingelse. For my feelings burningin their veins,will not always
part,I think half this republican talk sheer humbug.
be bought and sold and traded They will rise,
It is the educated, the intelligent, the and raise with them their mother's race."
wealthy țhe refined,who ought to have "
equal Stuff! " -nonsense !"
rights, and not the canaille."
"Well," said Augustine, " there goes an old
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If you
can keep the canaille of that opinion," saying to this effect,'As it was in the days of
said Augustine. " They took their turn once, in Noah, so shall it be ; theydrank,theyplanted,
France."
they builded,and knew not till the flood came
" Of course, they must be keptdown, consistently,
and took them. ' ' '
steadily, as I should" said Alfred,setting
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On the whole, I think Augustine, your
his foot hard down, as if he were standing on talents might do for a circuit rider,"said Alfred,
somebody.
laughing. "Never you fear for us; possession
"It makes a terrible slip when theygetup," is our nine points. VFe 've got the power.
This
said Augustine, "in St. Domingo, for instance."
subjectrace," said he, stampingfirmly, " is
down, and shall stay down ! We have energy
" Poh !" said Alfred, " we '11take care of that, enough to
in this manage our own powder."
country. We must set our face "
against Sons trained like your Henriquewill be
your
now ; must not "so cool
all this educating,elevatingtalk,that is gettingrandguardians
about the lower class be educated."
Augustine,
powder-magazines," said
and self-possessed! The
proverbsays, ' They that cannot govern themselves
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That is pastprayingfor,"said Augustine;
cannot govern others.' "
There is trouble there,"
" educated they will be,and we have only to say
" a said Alfred,
how. Our system is educatingthem in barbarism
thoughtfully ; " there 's no doubt that our system
and brutality Ẉe are breaking all humanizing
is a difficult one to train children under. It gives
ties,and making them brute beasts ; and, too free scope to the passions, altogether, which,
if theyget the upper hand,such we shall find in our climate,are hot enough. I find trouble
them."
with Henrique. The boy is generous and warmhearted,
They never shall get the upper hand !" said
but a perfect fire-cracker when excited.
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Alfred.
I believe I shall send him North for his education,
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That
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's right,"said St. Clare ; put on the where obedience is more fashionable, and
steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on where he will associate more with equals and
it,and see where you '11land."
less with dependents."
"Well," said Alfred,"we ivill see. I'm Since training children is the staple work of
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not afraid to sit on the escape-valve, as longas the human race," said Augustine, " I should
the boilers are strong, and the machinery works think it somethingof a consideration that our
well "
systemdoes not work well there."
"The nobles in Louis XVI. 's time thought
" It does not for some things," said Alfred ;
just so ; and Austria and Pius IX. think so now "
; for others,again, it does. It makes boysmanly
and, some pleasantmorning,you may all be courageous ; and the very vices of an abject
caught up to meet each other in the air,when the race tend to strengthenin them the opposite hoilersburst."
I think Henrique,now, has a keener sense
" Dies dcclarabiț " said Alfred,laughing. of the beauty of truth,from seeinglyingand
"I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is deception the universal badge of slavery."
anything that is revealed with the strength6f a
subject, certainly
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A Christian-like view of the
divine law in our .times,it is that the masses
!" said Augustine.
are to rise,and the under class become the upper
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It 's true,Christian-like or not ; and is about
one."
as Christian-like as most other thingsin the
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That 's one of your red republicanhumbugs, world," said Alfred.
St. Clare.
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