the immediate scene of the struggle, and can be but remotely affected by it. Yet, while I write, it seems as though the gales of the Atlantic had blown to our peaceful shores some taints of the epidemic that rages in the Old World. May it soon pass over, and a healthy atmosphere again prevail! H. H. MOBILE, Aug. 20, 1855. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Researches into the Physical History of Mankind_. By James Cowles Prichard, M. D., London, 1841. Vol. i. p. 1. [2] "Mr. Prichard's _permanent variety_, from his own definition, is to all intents and purposes _a species_."--_Kneeland's Introduction to Hamilton Smith's Natural History of the Human Species_, p. 84. [3] Smith's Wealth of Nations, Amer. ed., vol. i. p. 29. [4] _Vide_ Bigland's Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations. London, 1828, p. 282. [5] _Op. cit._, p. 7. [6] St. Matthew, ch. xi. v. 25. [7] _Vide_ Prichard's _Natural History of Man_, p. 66, _et passim_. "His theory," says Van Amringe, "required that animals should be analogous to man. It was therefore highly important that, as he was then laying the foundation for all his future arguments and conclusions, he should elevate animals to the proper eminence, to be analogous; rather than, as Mr. Lawrence did, sink man to the level of brutes. It was an ingenious contrivance by which he could gain all the advantages, and escape the censures of the learned lecturer. It is so simple a contrivance, too--merely substituting the word 'psychological' for 'instinctive characteristics,' and the whole animal kingdom would instantly rise to the proper platform, to be the types of the human family. To get the psychology of men and animals thus related, without the trouble of philosophically accomplishing so impossible a thing, by the mere use of a word, was an ingenious, though not an ingenuous achievement. It gave him a specious right to use bees and wasps, rats and dogs, sheep, goats, and rabbits--in short, the whole animal kingdom--as human psychical analogues, which would be amazingly convenient when conclusions were to be made."--_Natural History of Man_, by W. F. VAN AMRINGE. 1848, p. 459. [8] This fact is considered by Dr. Nott as a proof of _specific_ difference among dogs.--_Types of Mankind._ Phila., 1854. [9] In 1497, Vasco di Gama sailed around Cape Good Hope; even previous to that, Portuguese vessels had coasted along the western shores of Africa. Since that time the Europeans have subjected the whole of the American continents, southern Asia and the island world of the Pacific, while Africa is almost as unknown as it ever was. The Cape Colony is not in the original territory of the negro. Liberia and Sierra Leone contain a half-breed population, and present experiments by no means tested. It may be fairly asserted that nowhere has the power and intelligence of the white race made less impression, produced fewer results, than in the domain of the negro.