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these? Has the monkey any of them? The
truth is, there is strictly no such thing as a con-
necting link between man and brute. Man
forms a connection between spiritual beings and
animals, by possessing the attributes of both,
but no where are his distinguishing peculiarities
bound, except in himself. In his organic struc-
ture, he is made lower than the angels, but in
his governmental relations he is vastly higher.

Heb. 2. 5-8. It matters not what his complex-
ion, symmetry, or the conformation of the cra-
nium is, it is the image of God that makes the
man; and the being who bears that image is
man, nothing else. Take that away, and
it would reduce man to a brute. Invest a brute
therewith, and it would elevate him to a man.—
The miserable subterfuge referred to, will, doubt-
less, receive more or less countenance, till the
facts appear to explode it; and it seems left to
the colored people to settle this question before
the world, and end the controversy. Argument
upon the unity or plurality or origin of the hu-
man race, will never do it; facts are what is
needed. Is the negro a man? "That is the
question." Douglass, Garnett, Ward, W. J.
Watkins, Dr. J. Mc. Smith, Vashon, Reason, Dr.
J. S. Rock, and other distinguished colored
men may be referred to, as proof in point; but
the advocates of slavery would regard them as
honorable exceptions, or claim that their supe-
riority is due to a sprinkling of Anglo-Saxon
blood. What is needed, is, for the pure Afri-
can, to exemplify his identity by evolving the
native elements of his manhood. He is a man,
or he is not, and education will demonstrate it.
Light, knowledge, liberty, are in reality convert-
ible terms, and light, and knowledge are deadly
poison to slavery. Slaveholders know this, and,
therefore, it is made a penal offence to teach
free colored children, and much more, slaves, to