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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: The Indians will perish in the same isolated condition in
which they have lived; but the destiny of the negroes is in some
measure interwoven with that of the Europeans. These two races
are attached to each other without intermingling, and they are
alike unable entirely to separate or to combine. The most
formidable of all the ills which threaten the future existence of
the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its
territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present
embarrassments or of the future dangers of the United States, the
observer is invariably led to consider this as a primary fact.
The permanent evils to which mankind is subjected are
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