Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Intellect of the NeglO Race.

The intellect of a savage race cannot be
measured Till their powers Of mind are devel-
nped aud expanded by mental culture. Ell
fort Is preliminary 10 attainment. No critic
rlon exists by which we can me sure the
mental power of a man, whose life has been
PASSED amid influences ad verse To intellectu-
al effort. Whatever may he a mans mental
endowments - how naturally brilliant and
powerful soeveI may be his mind-he will
income gradually assimilated to those among
whom he lives. Placed among half civilized
beings-he partakes in and enjoys their pas
times; amoug the intellectual aud civilized
men lie gradually divests himself of his hab-
It's Of baTbdr!sln, and casts aside those bpStldl
and degrading habits, characteristic of saw
ages. Til, then, the savage is brought with
IN the re ich of influences calculated TO de-
veloPe and expand his powers-wea are incOm-
petent to judge Of his intellectual cAlibre.-
So long as their minds are shrouded in super
sIltiun and ignorance-so long as the foot Of
the oppressor is planted firmly upon their
nrcks-and so long as no Efforts are made
either to leave them free 10 set about their
own emancipation from the thraldom of igno-
rance, or to strike from them the CALLING
chains of Slavery-we have nothing TO guide
US IN our estimate Of their capacity. Such,
precisely, being the condition of the sable
sons of Africa, at the present moment, being
alike denied their personal freedom, and the
means OF intellectual and moral culture, we
should far overstep The limits Of our know
ledge, were we to Judge them an inferior
race. Nothing, therefore, can be argued un-
favorable 10 the negro's mental power, in his
present unenlightened stale /; and we now as
sert that the united testimony Of all history
and pVnerinnpa unaa IN nrnva In, fhp npurO
is on an equality with the other races Of men,
in respect Of mental ~endowIncnts. Take but
a single instance in Ancient History, the Car
thagenian nation, and the candid reader will
yield the point. From the smallest begin
nings becoming one Of the mightiest nations
of antiquity, Carthage will forever remain on
the page Of history, IA monument Of the cdpa-
city OF the negro race. And every page ct
history confirms tho truth, that with equal
advantages, the negro is capable OF equal at
tainments.-Esser Register.
The Editor Of tie On, tstfaH Observer, as
will be seen from the following extract, has
fualIy his reward for his silence in relation
10 the sin of .lavery. Tnry have dubbed
him ID. d., which now are understood as
more significant of Down Doc, Than Of Doc
tor Of Divinity. Surely if any mln deserves
the TILE he does.-.Am. Citizen.
09~ Mississippi College, Miss, has con-
ferreJ the degree of d. d. on our old &C.
quaintance, Rev. A. Converse, for many
years a resident of this city, rs editor Of the
Southern Religious Telegraph, and since his
removal to Philadelphia, editor of the Chris
tian Observer, the principal organ of the New
School Presbyterians. The honor, we pre-
ume has been bestowed, in part, at least, as
a token Of appreciation OF HE perseyering ef
forts 70 prevent a division in the branch ol
Zion with which hs is connected, on the Ella.
very qresticn.--i.'igi2v: Re~s'e, Riehm5nS