Our friend GAINES is very much amused at the honesty of emigrationists. Right glad to see it—right glad, honesty is a virtue; and much gratified are we to find that we get credit for honesty, instead of being regarded, as was formerly the case, as traitors to the cause, alike of bond and free. But as the amusement has subsided into sober earnestness, resulting in some thoughts on the subject of an en masse emigration, we shall proceed briefly to examine them. The assertion is made, that in the United States there is no prejudice against color, and he first goes to Europe to prove it, then back to the States, and finally concludes, that as notwithstanding the prejudice, they have had three colored officials, therefore it is possible for them to have one hundred.

  From the position that if there is prejudice against color in the States, it necessarily must exist in Europe, we beg to dissent most emphatically. The absence of prejudice against color in Europe, is no proof of its non-existence in the United States. The conditions on which it depends are not known there, consequently it is not.

  None of the European governments have the system of negro slavery to cherish; had they, the same results would accrue as do in the United States, where the servile condition of the colored people has given rise to a prejudice such as always exists where there are such antagonisms as the positions of master and slave; and the fact that persons of African, or partly African descent only, are included in the servile class, naturally causes that prejudice to become intensified: so that when the slave becomes a freeman, the color is a bar to his progress. In Russia, when the serf becomes free, he at once takes a position along with the class to which he is promoted; while, in the States, as the color cannot be removed, a withering prejudice constantly pursues him. John Brachman is said to have found the sight of colored gentlemen and white ladies, in company, disgusting to his American taste. Was that feeling a prejudice against color or not? Marriages between white and colored persons, if it were not "for the disgust with which such unions are received in the popular heart, would be dirt cheap all over the country." Now what is this but prejudice against color? What shall we call that disgust in the popular heart? For we are told that there is an increasing number of professional men who, if competent, could do as well as competent white ones; and that as they have had three officials, there is a possibility of having more. The prejudice cannot be of condition, as they have professional men and "magistrates." Why do not these "higher classes," take position with their own class of whites. Surely, as they are now elevated in society, they should sit at the first table, take the best seats in the churches, and the boxes in the theatres. As bearing on this, we here give the observations of an Abolitionist in Nebraska,—that GREAT North West, where the Anti-Emigrationists advise the colored people of the States to go,—as cut from a States contemporary:—

  "But the greatest of all reasons why slavery will not exist here, is, I am very sorry to say, a dreadful one; but, nevertheless, a true one. Would you believe it, that multitudes of those who are such flaming Abolitionists here, as they call themselves, are a sui generis kind of Abolitionist—a mongrel character, like Aunt Ophelia, in Uncle Tom's Cabin. They are desperately opposed to slavery entering here—and why? Because they 'dont want the niggers about them.' Now, my blood ran cold within me, when I first ascertained that this was the case; but now I feel quite certain, that the very people who will vote against the introduction of slavery, will also vote for a 'Black Law.' On board our boat, at one of the meetings of our party, I proposed an amendment to our Constitution, so as to read, 'We recognise the right of every male citizen of the United States, without distinction of color, to own 160 acres of land,' &c., merely adding the words, 'without distinction of color: but it was almost unanimously negatived. I find but few who dare to say that they are in favor of allowing the colored man to come here, and buy land on equality with the white man. The common cry is, 'We want no slavery, and no niggers.' Now, although this feeling is satanic, and, to my mind, quite as bad as slavery, yet it will effectually prevent slavery, in name, from existing here. Now, what we want, is radical Abolitionists to come out here, from principle, and not from love of money. Over fifty of the voters of this place, voted for a Nebraska-bill man, and among them was Dr. Robinson; and Mr. Lum, the Orthodox clergyman, advocated the Nebraska man's election. So you see how much dependence is to be put on Eastern anti-slavery men, even, although, I am happy to inform you, 188 persons nobly 'spurned the bribe,' and did not vote for the Pierce Democrat, preferring poverty to riches obtained by striking hands with the Administration. But the spirit of pro-slavery is triumphant here. I have already been threatened by public men with a coat of tar and feathers, for daring to say that the Emigrant Aid Company of Boston has misrepresented the state of affairs here."

  Again, the assertion that America will, in less than one hundred years, be proud of the Negro name, because the Norman was proud of that of a Briton, in the same period, is not founded on facts, the cases not being parallel; the Britons were conquered and enslaved on their own land. They still had their gentry, who were never wholly subdued, so that while the Saxon leaders continually exhorted their followers to seize upon the rights which had been snatched from them, the colored American leaders tell their followers to wait, not for rights, but for privileges. The Saxons could command respect even from their enemies; the colored people, by waiting for the privileges which may be extended to them, will gain only the contempt of those who otherwise might be true friends. A few words more about coloured professional men and we have done. That one colored lawyer has been admitted to the bar in Massachusetts is known; that there are a very few physicians, one or two large capitalists, a few wealthy farmers, merchants, &c., and a very large number of divines, is also true.

  These constitute what, if they were white, would—though unfortunately for the no prejudice of color doctrine, they are not—be termed the upper classes of society, while a few mechanics and small farmers, with the thousands in menial occupations, make up the number. Now what is to be the result of this state of society? Owning, in comparison with the rest of the community, a very small proportion of the soil, with a strong public feeling against their becoming possessed of it, and a prejudice,—for it is admitted that there is a prejudice which continually meets them, though presumed to be on the wane,—what remedy is there to be found other than emigration to some place where they can become possessed of the soil, and what place so easy of access as Canada? Here they will be enabled to say, in a manner which will be respected, that they have planted their tree in American soil, for having planted it on their own lands, they will not be under the disagreeable necessity of digging it up.

S.