Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-12-05
WN. o., TUESDAY DECEMBER 5. ls43.

Of the otto Of roses or eau de COlOnge.-
But We implore Of your fastidiOusnes'
to recollect that muliiudes Of the chill
dreD Of white men have negro women
for their mothers, and that our British
travellers complain, in loud and blIlel
terms, Of the Overpowering stencil OF stale
tObacco-spillle, as the prevailing 'OdOr
smoRgst native free Americans. II would
be perhaps, better to check the nasal sen
sibility on both sides, on the part of the
whites as we'll as the blacks. But il is
indeed, deplorable that you should use
ludIcrOus assertion Of that description
as one Inducements to prevent the Lbo-
litiOn Of slavery. The negroes would GER
tainly smell al least as sweet when free
as they now do being slaves.
"Your important allegation is that the
negroes are naturally an inferior race -
That is totally gratuitous assertion upon
your part. In America. you can have DO
opportunity Of seeing the negro educa'
ted. On the contrary, in the most Of
your States it is crime. Sacred Heaven
A crime TO educate even uegrO. How,
then, can you Judge Of the negro race
when you see them despised and con
demned by ,he educated classes, rsViled
and looked down upon as inferior. The
aegro race has natu rally some Of the fin
est qualities. They are naturally gentle,
generous, humane and very grateful for
kindness. Tney are as brave and as
fearless as any alher Ofthe races of hu.
man beings; but the blessings Of educa-
tiOn ale kept from them. and they are
iugded Of not as they would he With pro.
per cuitivativatiOn, but aS they are rem
dered by cruel and debasiug oppression
1t is as old as the days Of Homer, who
truly asserts that the day which sees a
man a slave takes awav half he 10 worth.
Slavery actually brutalzieR human beings.
1t is about sixty years ago, when one Oi
the Sheiks, not far south Of Fez, in
Morocco, who was in the habit of accu> =
muIating white slaves, upon being strong
Iy demonstrated with BY an EnroPean
power, gave for his reply, that BY ,.is own
experience he found it quite manifest
that white men were Of an inferior race
and intended by nature for slaves; and he
produced his own brutSliZed slaves TO il-
lustrate the irnth Of his assertian. And
a case Of an American, with q historic
name, John Adams, is quite familiar -
Some 25 years ago, not more, John Ad-
ans was the sole survivor offs Amer>
jean crew, wrecked on the African coast.
He was taken into the interior a. the
slave Of an Arab chief He was only for
three yesrs a slave, and the English and
American consuIs, having been inform
ed Ofa white mans slavery, claimed him,
and obtained his liberation. In the short
space Of three years he had become com
petely brutalized; he had completely for
gotten the English language, without
having acquired the aative tongue; he
spoke kind Of gabble, as unintellectu>
al as the dialects of most of your negro
slaves; and many months elapsed BE-
fore he recovered his former habits and
ideas.
sit is a curious fact, as connected
with America, that the children of the
race, and of other Eur ope.
ans born in America, were many years
as degraded and inferior
class s-indeed, it was admitted as if it
were ar axiom, that the /, native born A
merican was in nothing equa! TO his Eu-
rOPean progeDitor, and so far from the
fact being disputed, philOsophic disser-
tations were published, endeavorlng TO
account for the alleged dsbase msnt-
The only doubt was about the cause of
it. Nobody doubted Ito use your words)
that the native born Americans 'were re-
ally an inferior race.' Nobody ddres TO
say il now, and nobody thinks it.
"Let il then be recOllected that you
have never seen ithe negro educated
An English traveller through Brazil,
some few years ago, mentions having
kaOwn a negro who was a priest, and
who wgs learned, pIous and exemplary
man in his sacerdotal functions. We
have been lately informed of two negroes
educated at the Propaganda and ordain>
ed priests, both having distinguished
themselves in their scientific aud lheolOg,
ical course.
"The French papers say tha. one of
them celebrated imass, and delivered
short but able sermon before Louis Phil
Iippe. 1t is believed that they both have
gone out with the Right Rev. DR.. Baron,
on the African mission.
"We repeat, therefore, that TO jude
properly Of the negro you should see him
educated, and treated with the respect
due to fellow creature, uninsulted by
the filthy arstocracy Of the skin, and un-
larhished 10 the eye Of the white by any
assO citation connected with the stpts Of
slavery.
''Te nexlrsfer to your declaration the
that the two races, viz:lhe black ane YOU
white, cannot exist on equal terms, under
government and your institutions. This
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