Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-10

" CAtNto W. ~ 1NtNa
upon her Forums-no Sophocles or Euripides
have gfaced her Amphithealres. No Books
Tor the mind no monuments for her benefac-
tors no cities for her commerce; no Temples
Tor her Gods exist even in ruins, 10 attest
the intellect, The gratitude, the wealth or
piety Of Ancient Africa. There is no where
TO be found, except when associated with the
White Man, any, the slightest trace Of mental
or moral cultivation among the negro races.
Inferior in mind and bogy, the Benevolent
Being who created them, gave them a coun-
try which furnishes food without labor; where
a Tropical climate dispenses with the neces-
sity of houses and clothing, where they might
live and multiply, till, in the fullness Of time,
a nobler and better race should fill the world
with the prodigies of their intellect, and be
prepared to take charge of the African, for
his guidance, protection and improvement.
We have seen that Africa has nothing to
offer to entitle her 10 a comparison with an
cient Greece and Rome. The very idea of
contrasting her with modern Europe is ridi-
cuIous and absurd. The very Ostrich which
flies over her plains, the Camel which traver-
ses her deserts, and the Lions which infest
her forests, might better challenge COMPARE
son with the miserable, naked and brutal ne
gro, than he with the intellectual, improved
and civilized white man. Three thousand
years have elapsed, and they have done moth
ing, absolutely nothing, in their native land.
Can Arithmetic compute the numberless ages
which would have elapsed, before this inte-
ricr race would have looked TO the Heavens,
and discovered, like Newton, the laws which
hold the glorious orbs of creation TO their
place 7 Al what period of the future, would
they have produ a Napier 10 invent for
them LogaIithmic Tables! When would
Columbus have set out in their bark canoes
for young America? When would their
Faust have established a Printing Press a.
mong her uncivili1ed people! When would
they have written a book When would
they have erected universities and colleges !
When would they have built brick mansions
or CAST AN IRON KETTLE? In the vast fu-
ture, when would the Marquis of Worcester,
their Watt, Stepheson and Fulton, have APP
peared to astonish and bless a world with the
powers of steam! When would the electro
magnet have been formed, and the galvlnic
current have spoken across the continent?
When would their franklin and Washing:
ton have appeared 7 Through what unnum-
5ered ages of tyranny and oppression would
they have passed, 10 reach the freedom OF
America. When would their Daguerre have
taught the solar beam, TO draw their swarlhy
features upon silver? When would Ark
wright and Whitney have arisen to clothe a
world in cotton! What negro could have
been the Father Of Lavoisier, La Place, Hut
ton, Bacon, or Liebig! When would a At
rican treatise on Chemistry, Comic Sections,
or Political Economy have appeared 7 When
would their professor Dick, have meditated
and written, digested and published his sub
lime ~treatises upon the destiny and duties of
{ man II a.. nrnhahIa that tho human rana
would have passed through unnumbered ages
Of barbarism, wars, commissions and crimes,
before the intellect of the negro race, unas-
sisted and alone, would have invented and
manufactured so simple a thing as a button
or a hat! Who that has ever seen the ma
tive African negro, and examined phrenolo-
gically the low brow, the thick lips, the con-
tour OF his face and head, the vacant expires
sion of his lasclvlous countenance, would ev'
er think of comparing him with the Amerl
can slave, much less with the white man =
!, Gentlemen, | am almost tempted 10 say that
: only fool or madman would do it. l DE-
, not, however, make so broad an assertion
u for it is evident, that it is the enthusiast,
> dresmers on the subject of religion and poll
: tics, who have started, and maintain the doc
trines of their equality with the white man
= Would not the world be astonished to hea
= Of a native African constructing a telescope
: to view the Heavens, or grinding the glasse
y or a microscope, 10 examine the minute an,
wonderful exhibitions of the invisible world
y Would not the Abolitionist be delighted t
'" hear that the native intellect of Africa, was a
Bile 10 melt sand into glass, or cast a PEwrE
SPOON? Ii Mr.. Giddings, or DR.. Wayland
= had a lease of life, till the African mind wa
u so improved by its own efforts, unassiste6 b
10 the other two races of mankind, as to be ca
pable of casting this pewter spoon, they migl
~ perhaps, never enter the Kingdom of Heay
en-! A million of years would not be sutf
" cient for this wonderful feat. A man, JUDI
! ing from the past, might SAFELY STAKE II
IS LIFE upon the issue. lie would probab
~ win his bet, before they learned to extra
" Tin, Lead and Zinc from the Earth"
These are sweeping assertions, and VIII,
! we remember that they are contradicted
:, the record of both ancient and modern hist
=. ry, we wonder at the boldness of the III
"a who could pu, them forth. Where is a /
II. ton whose fame stands so conspiciously a
:, gloriously upon the page Of history, as Il
of ancient Egyptl The remains of her
chltecture are stupendous and magnifct
- beyond comparison. She was the scho
-. mistress of the Jews, the Greeks, and
a. Romans, whose most distinguished n
drank at the fountain of her knowledge
The genius OF her people invested the arts
,to with a halo, and e~ncircled the sciences "
:. glory. And who were the Egyptians
HeIodotus, the father of history, speak,
'ho' them as NEGROES and when referring 10
ers. Colchians, gives it as his opinion that t
my, are of Egyptian origin, because ''they
hey black aud hare hair short and curling"
anu Hon. Alexander Everett, in his work
the America, says, " While Greece and RI
the were yet barbarous, we lind the light OF lie