"The difference in declension between Central and North America offers a problem worthy of philosophical consideration. In the former case, the Mexican Indian, notwithstanding massacres of merciless atrocity, has been allowed to remain, albeit scattered on the soil of his ancestors, and _to enter into a combination_ (_i. e._ Marriage) whence another race of mankind has sprung: in the latter [the Northern] the white invader (Anglo-Saxon) has chased him from his native possessions and driven him to limits, _where utter extermination seems to be his doom_. The comparison could hardly be made without indicating a conclusion highly favourable to the iron-clad Spaniards of what we choose to call an ignorant and a barbarous age (1520), and against the more modern offspring (1620) of our country and enlightened times. _Though the thirst of gold was the same in both instances_, it does appear, and it is melancholy to reflect upon it, that something of nobler impulses belonged to the elder (or Spanish) æra." [9] The Editor of the London Literary Gazette, William Jerdan, Esq. [10] Literary Gazette, Saturday, April 22, 1843. We have quoted the entire paragraph to which attention is desired, and shall now review the several parts,--and trust in a few remarks to remove the unintentional stain upon the Anglo-Saxon race, which the above extract has placed upon them:--as also, affording an additional opportunity of supporting our previous assertions, that the Aborigines were _two_ distinct People.