New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-10

IN subsection those who are merely negroes.
Still this never justify any people in keeping
them in Slavery: for Slavery, DR.. Smith said, so
far es he could see, had any right bur the
/ right of force. There is no more reason, in the
fact thst they are black, why we should keep them
ensiaved than there would be for them to cns!sve
us because We are white. OF the mischiefs of
Slavery Dr.. S. said be was also thoroug bly, con-
vinced though he thought the Abo!itionsts were
not quite aware of what they were deing: for he
held it to be undeniable that if the negroes should
| be freed they were as sure to be exterminated
the to rise; and this upon the principle that
as Society advances there must inevitably in the
course of time, be stIugg Ie for the means OF
| subsistence and whenever and wherever that
struggle comes, the weaker party-as the negroes
| certainly are-must be driven TO the wall. Among
the narshe, OF the South, the climate of which
they endure better than We do, they might prevail;
but here at the healthy North they must inevitably
| perish
We seem to origin the mixture of
three branches of the Caucasian race-namely, the
Cells who inhabited the British Isles and Arrnori-
ca and Bretaigne the Mortimer, who invaded
Europe in the tenth century; and the Germans,
who are subdvided again into the Saxons and the
Goths. Besides these, two other c!asses-namely.
the Teutonic, who inhabited what now is Prussia,
| and the s;cavonic, who dwelt in Poland, Bohemia
and Russia, contributed to our existence. The
Caucasians generally, and the Cells in particular,
are INDECENT, captious and pugnacious to high
degree. If they can act the part et robbers, they
will be sure to dc it; and this wherever they OBJ
tain foothold The Germans more peril
nacious and more industrious, but still possessed
of the same tendency to Plunder. This is the
son why The Indians of our Continent have been
continually pushed backward, and why they must
inevitably, in the end, be exterminated. From the
moment our people got footing on this Continent,
the destiny of the Indians was sealed. They were
the most worthless of all the inhabitants of the
globe and 1t ID utterly impossible to civize them.
DR.. S. said he spoke not as moralist, said
aught Of the right or wrong done. He merely
mentioned necessary tact.
The truth ie, said he, mankind are every where
the same. Give them power and they will always
seek conquest Thus has it been even with the
Colony of negroes planted at Liberia. We receive
by dispatches from the Governor news that they
are gradual pushing their frontier farther towards
the interior; and this is precisely what mig have
been expected. DR.. Smith said he had always be-
lleved that the English would plant themselves IN
China; though he confessed he had been disap-
pointed in having lived to see it, And when all
Australia and New Zealand are peoped with such
a race, they will attack the Japanese, force them
trade with them and eventually get possession of
their country In truth nothing but force can keep
our race in order and other nations must compete
with US in the arts of war they yield to Us.
This continual extension of the power of the Cir
cassian race if it has it's evils has also its advan-
,ages; and the world is improving under it. There
never was time when there SO much intelli-
gence, so much virtue so much happiness as now.
A gradual course of improvement Is in progress.
War; for instance, is less frequent than of od-not
because there are not men enough ready and will
ing and able to fight but because it is becoming
too expensive; nations cannot afferd themselves
the amusement. And so will it continue to be.
The English language, English liberty and the Eng
fish religion destined TO overspread this whole
Continent from its Northern to its Southern eX-
trenity.
These remarks, DR.. SMITH said would doubt
less suggest the question, whether these diferen-
ent races were different in their origin, or wheth.
er they all descended from one pair. This point,
DR.. SMITH said, he argued about year ago with
profound anatomist who contended that all were
not descended from a single pair. DR.. SMITH said
he asked him what he would do with the plain
declaration OF the Bible, that all men were des-
cended from Adam and Eve. He said he believed
every word Of the Bible but not my deduction from
it. But this, DR.. S. said, was not satisfactory;
because conclusion, legitimatey dedaced from
certain premises, has all the force of those preml-
SEES He had always believed that the fact was as
stated in the Bible and it was sustained, he said
by analogy, and contradicted by known fact;
although there are difficulties which cannot as yet
be explained. He had argued this point some
time since with Professor at Princeton, who mad
charged him with skepticsm, because he had said
that he could not believe that solar heat could have
changed the size OF the cheek bones of different
men, as they are found to differ. DR.. S. said he
did not say that men not all descended from
common stock but that there were difficulties in
the way of this belief which, in the present state
of science, could not be satisfactorily explained.
The anaogical argument would also show that
Nature often produces the most different effects
| from cause And there is no fact to contra
vcne this, in this case. CUv1ER's notion Dr.. S.
said, goes for nothing, when he defines species
as animals that have descended from one common
stock or that are as much alike as if they had de-
sceRded from common stock. This is q mere
begging of the question. There is no instance on
record in which black man has become white ::
and whites, when removed to torrid climates, may
change the color of their skins, but their skeletons
remain the same. This phenomenon then though
not accounted for, should lead to doubt that
all men are descended from Adam and Eve; but
we should wait for the true solution Of the diff
Guilty, which future science will doubtless give.
Taking retrospect Of the ground gone over in
the Lectures now brought to a close, DR.. S. said
that we had found few elemeAts, sixteen in
number, to have been created at period i'm
mensely remote. in the beginning" that upon
these elements certain laws were imposed which,
in the lapse of time, produced effects such as We
have seen. Though occasional interpretations may
have occurred, the general current of events has
been the same-ever onward to the same result.
First we have the nebua; then the state of fusoE