The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-21

cold-lemperate, a. England and France Is, or
the warm temperate ~ Spain and Portugal.--
Bot do we attribute this moss extensive coloni-
xatioa and facility Of seel,ma,on solely 10 these
varieties Of climste--the cold-temperale and
warm temperate2 No. BY no means. But,
psrtc ulahy in respect To England, TO better in-
slilutons, and of these better Institutions In the
case of Great Britain a reformed Christianity
was the soul But all these nations, who made
| discoveries so extensive, planted colonies which
| so grew and hourished, we're inhabitants OF one
great region, Europe, in which by the Laws
Of civilization, and bospisble intercourse which,
to certain extent obtained among them
became possessed almost simultaneously of
any great and useful invention in the arts, or
discovery in science. A very few years, and
sometimes less time, suficed 10 diiiuse such
invention or discovery generally among these
nations. From considerations Of .interesl, they
in some instances, kept The monopoly OF all
such Improvements, or new lights OF science.
And il is extremely worthy of profound consid-
Grafton, that nearly all these great advantages TO
man have had Their origin exclusively in Chris
tendon. The invention Of the compass that
of gunpowderj the invention of the telescope
aud The microscope the demonstration Of the
Copernican system the discovery OF the circu-
laiion OF the blood the discoveries Of Newton
ia physics the discovery Of losaralhims the
invention Of the steam-engine; the invention
Of steamboats,; the inventions Of Arkwnghl,
Cartwright, and Whitney, and that grand and
glorious invention, the art Of Printing, all had
their origin within the limits Of Chrstendom,
and are the proper and necessary fruits Of in
sttutions more or less Christian. The fact we
can most clearly, and there is no ground 10
mistake that we owe these inventions IN Chris
rian institutions. Who, knowing their habits
and manners, and religion, would have expect
ed them from Turks, or Tausrs, or Persians, OF
Hindoos-in short, from either Mahometan or
Pagan nations. The pa rticuiay causes Of
this extraordinary phenomenon have never yet
been examined, but worthy Of an extended
dissertation.
The greatest Of the Pagan nations the Chi
nese, yet creep along the coasts of their own
and neghboring countries in awkwardly con
stucled vessels, unfit tor navigation on the
main ocean. In three and half centuries from
the time that Vssco di Cana passed the Cape
of Good Hope, they have learnt no holder nor
more scientific navigation than that by which
the Portuguese had antecedently, with timid
caution, advanced to some of the most western
parts Of the west coast Of Africa. The Turks
have not made single advance in naval or
maritime skill since the 10Th century, 10 the lat
ter part Of which they were slaughtered by
thousands, and navally demolished al the battle
of Lepanto.
We have seen that the white or Caucasian
races, In their European migrations, came from
Northern countries originally that they settled
in about equal numbers in cold-emperate, nd
warm-temperate Countries The English have
now colonzed, numerically, 10 a far greater ex-
tent then any other nation They, and for the
mos, part their descendants, and the kindred
German race, possess about two-thrds of North
America, with population of twenty-five mil
lions. The Spaniards colonized Mexico, and
their descendants with large body of the abo.
regimes, possess Mexico and four-sevenlhs of
South America, with population of nine mil
lions allowing for Mexico ten millions, the
whole number is nineteen millions of the mixed
races. Brazil, Portuguese, FIVE millions ne
groes and whites together. Guianos, English,
Two hundred thousand, but two-thirds negroes
and others.
In India, the English empire numbers about
one hundred and twenty millions. Thus,
under English dominion, and the domin-
ion of the descendants of the English, are
one hundred and forty-two millions, two hum
dred thousand in Asia and America. Under
the dominion of descendants of Spanish and
Portuguese twenty -four millions. Of all the
preceding numbers only about eight millions
are negroes and four millions and half of
these in the tropical climates.
The original seats of the negro are all in the
tropical climates. "The ancient Egyptians
were not a negro race, although some have fal.
laciousIy supposed this. Had they been, the
fact is still the same, for Egypt is tropical eli
mate. BY that law of divine ordination to
which we have before referred, the negro -four
shes physically and is least liable TO dangerous
disease in tropical climates. In these climates
it is impossible suddenly 10 acclimate the white
man. But the negro multiplies and rejoices in
the warmth and exuberance of nature around.
His music has its merriest tone, his banj 10 plays
its most comic strains, his athletic powers exist
in their plen,ude. Ii he should ever produce
"a Newton, or other very great literary men,
(Which we much doubt) if he should ever ex-
hibi. for the esteem and admirssioa of men .
Bacon or Locke, an Addison N Tillo'son,
Euler or Napier, an Edwarls, a Dwight,
Blair, Robertson, Sismondb Guizor, il
will be when the development pf his physical
nature will, under the auspices Of Christian