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If we suppose moreover, what is
very possible, that a few families
of a somewhat coarser or inferior
breed (if we may use the term) as
there are mostly some among nearly
all nations to have originally landed
[word crossed out] on these shores and propagated
themselves without any admixture of
a gentler or superior race, it is
quite natural, other causes taken
into account, the present race should
be so low in the scale of the human races.
Their intellectual faculties
are by no means so inferior as is
generally supposed; their mind is
quite capable of culture : of this
I have had many decisive proofs.
At an average, they learn to read English, when young, as quickly as our own children
and those who have had much intercourse.