Equality engenders uniformity; and evil is got rid of by sacrificing all that is excellent, remarkable, extraordinary.

It has created in the Antilles a negro population which maintains its equality face to face with the whites, yet which does not entirely reject their patronage; a dependent population which is also a free population, free in the most absolute sense of the word.

He says that upon the score of equality slaves should be allowed to go into a new Territory, like other property.