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neighbors did not come to see the family in their
distress, and the poor Indian buried his child
alone.
Not long afterward he went to some of his
neighbors, and said to them in his broken language
as follows :
"When white man's child die, Indian man be
sorry. He help bury him. When my child die,
no one speak to me. I make his grave alone. I
can't no live here any longer."
He gave up his farm, dug up the body of his
child, and carried it away with him, two hundred
miles through the woods, to Canada, and joined a
tribe of Indians living there, to share with them,
for the rest of his clays, the hardships and priva-
tions of barbarism.
THE FEELING OF REPULSION THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THE DIF-
FERENT RACES OF MAN NOT NECESSARILY A PREJUDICE
That peculiar feeling of repulsion which seen
universally in operation between the different races
of men, and makes them mutually disinclined to
live together in intimate domestic and social rela-
tions, is not, as is sometimes supposed, necessarily
a prejudice It results, as has already been inti-
mated, from a wise and beneficent law of nature---
one in universal operation throughout the whole
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