The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-03-16

lirely overlooked and disregarded. And, |
themselves to sublime, but inn
practicable philosophy, they would teach
US to eradicate all the repugnances of our
nature, and to take to our bosoms and our
boards the black man as we do the white,
on the same footing equal social condi-
ton. DO they not perceive that in thus
contounding all the distinctions which God
himself has made, they arraign the good
ness of Providence itself. II has been His
divine pleasure to- make the black man
black aud the white man white, and TO dis
tinguish them by other repulsive consiitu-
tional differences. It's not necessary tor
me to maintain, nor shall endeavor to prove
that it was any part of His divine intention,
that the one race should be held in perpet-
ual bondage by the other; but this will
say, that those whom He has created differ
ent, aud has declared, by their physical
structure and color, ought to be kept asun-
der, should not be brought together by any
process whatever, of unnatural amalgama-
ton.
But if the dangers of the civil contest
which have supposed could be avoided,
separation or amaIgamation, is the only
peaceful alternative, if it were possible to
effectuate the project of abolition. The
abolitionists oppose all colonization, and it
irresist 'bly follows whatever they may
protest or declare, that they are IN favor Of
amalgamation And who are to bring a.
bout this amalgamation? have heard Of
none of these ultra abolitionists furnishing
in their own families or persons examples
OF intermarriage. Who is to begin il? Is
it their purpose not only TO create pinch
ing competition between black labor and
white labor, but Go they intend also to con-
taminate the industrious and laborious clas-
ses Of society at the North by a revolving
mixture of the Llack clement
1t is frequently asked, what is to become
of the Africans among us? Are they forever
to remain in bondage? That question was
asked more than half century ago. 1t has
been answered by fifty years of prosperity
be repeated tiftyor hundred years hence.
The true answer is, that the same Provi-
dence who has hitherto guided and govern
ed us, and averted all serious evils from the
existing relations between the two races,
will guide and govern our posteri,y. Sufi-
cient to the day is the evil thereof We
have hitherto, with that blessing, taken care
of ourselves. Posterity will find the means
of its own preservation and prosperity. j,
is only in the most direful event that can
befall this people that this great interest, g.
all other of our greatest interests, would be
put IN jeopardy. Although in particular
districts the black population is gaining upon
the white, it only constitute one fifth of the
whole population Of the u. States And,
taking the aggregates of the two races, The
European is constantly, though slowly, g lin
ing upon the African portion. This fact is
demonstrated by the periodical returns of our
population. Let US cease, then, to indulge
in gloomy forebodings about the impeneira-
bile future. But, if we may attempt to lift
the veil, and contemplate what lies beyond
it, too, have ventured on speculative the
DRY, with which will not now trouble YOU,
but which has been published to the world.
According to that, in the process of time,
some one hundred and fifty or two hundred
years hence but few vestiges of the black
race will remain among our territory.
Mr.. President, al the period of the forma
ton of our Constitution, and afterwards, our
patriotic ancestors apprehended danger to
the Union from two causes. One was, the
Allegheny Mountains, dividing the waters
which flow into the Atlantic Ocean from
those which found their outlet in the Gulf
of Mexico. They seemed to present nat
ural separation. The danger has vanished
before the noble achievements of the spirit
OF internal Improvement, and the immortal
genius of Fulton. And now, nowhere is
found more loyal attachment to the Union
than among those very western people, who,
it was apprehended, would be the first to
burst its ties.
The other cause, domestic slavery, happi-
y the sole remaining cause which is likely
to disturb our harmony, continues to exist.
1t was this which created the greatest OBJ
stacle and the most anxious soIicitude in the
deliberations of the convention that adopted
the general Constitution. And it is this
subject that has been regarded with the
deepest anxiety by all who are sincerely
DESTROYS Of the permanency of our Union
The Father of his Country, in his last affect
ing and solemn appeal 10 his felow-citizens,
deprecated, as most ca;amitous event, the
geographical divisions which it might pro-
duce. The Convention wisely left to the
several States the power over the institu-
ton of slavery, as power moi necessary to
the plan Of union which it devised, and as
one with which the General Government
could not be invested without planting the
seeds OF certain destruction. There let it
remain undisturbed by any unhallowed hand.
Sir, am not in the habit of speaking