Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-02-17

uncertain disturbed nastv british, and short" am
not so lorgeu of the state OF things IN the ancient re-
nuSIlcs, and in the cultivated communities oI ue
Southern section Of this country, as to alnrm That
slavery cannot co-exst with high civilization. But
they have no natural or proper affinity 1t Is only by
force Of earlier events that they are brought into con-
tact Slavery is natural to man. Just as II Is natural TO
aim to drape himself with fg leaves and bear skins
As his rude nature is developed he nVens better arts
and tends to better culture. know not but 1t was
natural to man. as the Scottish philosopher OF the last
century maintained to 90 on al-iouls and climb trees
to reeale on acorns. But in the progress OF ages ne
has learned to do better. Liberty, justice, humanity,
are natural to man. lust as is natural TO HIM to learn
to calculate eciipses, and build marble palaces ana
make books Of science and poetry, ana surround mus
self with the charms and graces OF refined society,"
Aud where is slavery the practice OF MANKIND! r
Among the highly cultivated communities OF the race
In England? In France? Or in Mozambique ana
Guinea? Sweden, Holland, and Denmark havel at
length closed the procession Of the civilized nations
that have abandoned it. Ont Of these United States
know not that it exists in any part of Chrlstendom'
except Brazil aud the Spanish colonies. And III these
colonies its form is much mlldrr than with us. VI It's
condition in half civilized Brazil cannot speak.
AgWn the gentleman urged to this point the natur
al nferiorty of the negro race (page ~ lie has no
doubt examined, and knows how to expose, the seem
ing paradox of those ingenious who have held that
the balance of power shifted and the sepue OF the
world pass from the c0ored to the whlte race, some
twenty five centuries ago, at the capture Ut Babylon
by the Persans and presume he decides that ques-
ton rightly. Mr.. CIingman interrupted, and was I'M
derstood 10 say he had referred to tie Egyptians, and
relied on the formation of the Egyptian skull The
gentleman speaks of the Egyptians. Undoubtedly he
has attended to the curious hint in EerodotuS, bearing
on that question. The gentleman reads Appmn a
writer not commonly in the hands Of prolessed scholars
He is reader of Poybus and has weighed his merits
and those Of the other great masters IN that depart
ment Of composition in such exact critical scales as to
feel justified in placing him at the head Of the list in
respect to political sagacy page G) lie cannot have
overlooked that singular passage in SO common an au-
thor az Herod0tuS in which the old Chronlcer has been
thought to say that the ancient Egyptians, the remote
source perhaps of Greek civilization, were woody head
ed negroes. | will not defend that Interpretation OF
his words But is not invention of any Of YOU high
lying Abotonsts Of the present day; it bias been re
cevod by grave and pIoddjng English and German
octors who read, and pondered, aud smoked, and an
notated long before such a iUSuS n1iurp as an Amer
I lean abotonIst ever heard Of
The gentleman has ascertained the complexion Of
the great Captain OF Antiquities, the Carthnglman liann
bal, aud knows how far 1t rcsembed that OF the Lyb
ans, and Nubians whom he led to twenty years r
nmphs over the sharp.beaked eagles Of Rome. flt
I
mulatto AlcXanlre Dumas, that mrcle Of prolific gen
JUS. lie can show that stress IS to be laid on sucl
a case as that of the American Frederick Douglass
now Of Buffalo, New York, ten years ago wretch2'
slave, picked up scraps of leaves Of the Bible in The
cutters Of Baltimore to teach himself to read, thel
working three years on the wharyes at New-Bedimd
without days schooling, presume, in his lie, ye
now speaks the English language with force md el
Oqucnce which, hesitate not to say, would do no dis
credit to any gentleman on this floor But do no
discuss the Gurson whether the negro inierorty i
to be traced to congcnal ucapacity, or to the de
preston and low culture of many generations. 1t is
great problem. have no time for it, 1t is ton ntri
cate and vast Nor, determined either way, would
r have any material connection with the main question
have in hand, or directly bear any treasures now
the contemplation of this committee | have been hu
stepping aside little way in the gentleman's track.
I Again: he appealed to the failure of the emanc
patton Of the negroes in the West Indies" (p s. TIL
gentleman gets his views Of this from the Engis
merchants, who try the question Of success or lallur
by the amount Of their importaons of coffee and 81
gar from the islands. Mr.. CIlngman was undersoo
to say that he had had his information from those VIII
had personally visited the islands, ! he statements
visitors, Mr. Chairman, are conflicting | have state
rentS different from what have reached the gentleman
on which am disposed to rely am very anxious t
see the recent Parliamentary reports and have sent iC
them for the purpose OF being aided to clear up cor
, r0dictjons have before Inc a table showing tn
4 amount OF sugar exported from the British West Ind
Islands in five successive years, 1t is as follows: