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(as a person (I cannot say he was a Gentleman) remarked to me in conversation,) it "unsettles their minds, and makes them  unhappy, discontented, and presuming — that it makes them long to rise to a rank in the world they cannot reach, — and makes them equals with those who should be their superiors." —

I remarked to him. That if ignorance were bliss, and degrigation and misery were happiness, why not school your own children in all those elements that give the colored people such happiness?  The only answer, (and that very characteristic of the person —) You are a D——d Yankee and ought to be Kicked out of the State. 'Tis not only the colored people that receive the full weight of their persecution, but the man that dares to presume to be a union man, or express an affection, or show any favor 

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