the part of in-coming Whites desiring to strengthen their position
and to increase their influence in [40] the land of their adoption by
means of advantageous Creole marriages. Love, too, sheer
uncalculating love, impelled not a few Whites to enter the hymeneal
state with the dusky captivators of their affections. When rich, the
white planter not seldom paid for such gratification of his laudable
impulse by accepting exclusion from "Society"--and when poor, he
incurred almost invariably his dismissal from employment. Of course,
in all cases of the sort the dispensers of such penalties were
actuated by high motives which, nevertheless, did not stand in the
way of their meeting, in the households of the persons thus obnoxious
to punishment, the same or even a lower class of Ethiopic damsels,
under the title of "housekeeper," on whom they lavished a very
plethora of caresses. Perhaps it may be wrong so to hint it, but,
judging from indications in his own book, our author himself would
have been liable in those days to enthralment by the piquant charms
that proved irresistible to so many of his brother-Europeans. It is
almost superfluous to repeat that the skin-discriminating policy
induced as regards the coloured subjects of the Queen since the [41]
abolition of slavery did not, and could not, operate when coloured
and white stood on the same high level as slave-owners and ruling
potentates in the Colonies. Of course, when the administrative power
passed entirely into the hands of British officials, their colonial
compatriots coalesced with them, and found no loss in being in the
good books of the dominant personages.

In conclusion of our remarks upon the above extracts, it may be
stated that the blending of the races is not a burning question. "It
can keep," as Mr. Bright wittily said with regard to a subject of
similar urgency. Time and Nature might safely be left uninterfered