Jefferson further stated: Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. nor is it less certain that the two races. equally free. cannot live in the same Government. Nature. habit. and opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly and their place be filled up by free white laborers. That is the very thing that I am prophesying. I wish later in this discussion to comment on the recent marriage in Boston between a socialite white woman and a negro lawyer in line with this observation made by Mr.
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The two races cannot live in the same government due to indelible lines of distinction.