The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-28


terests would be identified with the stabilit,
Of the commonwealth. He could sit at th,
social board; no could sleep upon the couch
He could marry into the families Of citizens
without carrying into il the inde!ible NAH
which nature has given, of the irferio, II.
Of the race from which he sprung. Tx
could lire ia society ,ciihom being By ma
tire aud birth its enemy
Not so, could il be with the negro. Al
object of interest and compassion, but still
by nature the inferior of the white man.
but associated with him by divine wisdom
for mutual service and improvement. Its
not idly and without consideration, that
assert the inierioriiy OF the African, morally,
ply sically, and mentally. There is nc
truth established in history; there is nothing
to be learned from its pages, if this be moi
so. The present relative numbers (rf the
three great families of men, the Black, the
Red, and the White, would indicate, nay,
it demonstrates nearly simultaneous orr
gin; the laws OF nature governing popula-
ton, would establish the fact, without the
Historian. 1t is not important to decide
whether Japhet 0he Hebrew word Whitc)
and Ham Qhe Hebrew word, Black sons
of Noah, were the Fathers of the Caucasi-
an and African Races. We know from
sacred and profane history, that they have
existed 5000 years. That is sufficient for
our present purposes.
Ia this vast period Of time, you cannot
trace 70 the Negro Race, one solitary i'm
provement in Mechanics, ATS, Numbers,
Philosophy, Rhetoric, Political Economy,
Astronomy, Chemistry and Geology. They
have no part in the great discoveries and
improvements which have elevated man in
the scale of being. They have been upon
the earth like the beasts OF the field; like
the contemporary races Of Tigers and
Balloons, and have left not one trace OF
their existence, except in their posterity.
In the wide arch of the sciences and arts,
there is ENTHUSIASTICALLY nothing, trace.
able to them, TO mark their superiority
over the brute creation, much less TO indi-
cate equality with the intellectual White
Man. Where are the Homers and Virgils
OF Africa? Where are her Poets, Histo-
rians, Painters, Philosophers and States
men! Where are her Sculptors, Archi-
tects and Tra.edians3 They are not TO
be found. In 5000 years, there has arisen
for her, no Heroditus, or Tacitus to en-
bellish her annals-no Socrates, Plato, OF
Aristotle to unfold her philosophy-no
Lycurgus or Numa have arisen TO plant a
Sparta and Rome in Africa-no Demos.
themes or Cicero have stood upon her Fo-
rums-no Sophocles or Eurpides have
graced her Amphitheatres. No Books for
the mind; no monuments for her benefac-
tors no cities for her commerce; no TEN
Piles for her Gods exist even in ruins, to at
test the intellect, the gratitude, the wealth
or piety Of Ancient Africa. There is M
where to be found, except when associated
with the White Man, any, the slightest
trace Of mental or moral cultivation amonil
the negro races. Inferior in mind and
body, the Benevolent Being who created
them, gave them country which furnish
es food without labor; where a Tropical
climate dispenses with the necessity q
houses and clothing, where they might live
and multiply, ill, in the fullness of time, &
nobler and better race should ill the woTlC
with the prodigies Of their intellect, and b,
prepared to take charge Of the African, fo
his guidance, protection and improvement
There is even now more negro slGrery IL
africa, than in all the world besides. In
iellect does not preside over the institution
there, and hence it is not attended with i'm
provement. Every petty Chieftain is thu
master of district of slaves. The Afr
can mother offers her child at the breast t.
the slave trader, for string Of beads, AM
the Prince sells his subject for a blanket
Degraded, barbarous, brutal, in their ma
tive land. they are transplanted from tn
Tropics, that the seeds Of virtue, industry
energy and improvement may be gathere'
in a temperate clima. The race OF improve
: ment ONCE BEGUN, NEVER ENDS. Such j
the wise provision OF Deity for the good {
man. He who asserts that this system
not better for the African than his conditio
in his native land, must assert that learnin
is worse than ignorance; that idleness
!, preferable to industry; that virtue is wors
. than vice, and that the christian religion
f worse than the degraded ard polluted fon
. Of African superstition. For while Americ
is blessed with one, Africa is cursed with th
!. other system.
!, Ii is desirable, Gentleman, that the ide
. which seems to be spreading through 81
, ciety, that the African is the intellectu'
= equal of the white man, should be torn U
by the roots. 1t is utterly unfounded
truth. Yet it is the fertile source Of the r
lgious and fanatic Abolitionism whic
:, broods over America like cloud, blac
:, and terrible. filled with the tempest ar
tornado.
IS We have seen that Africa has nothir
is to offer to entitle her to comparison wi
Ie ancient Greece and Rome. The very id,
as of contrasting her with modern Europe
Il ridiculous and absurd. The very Ostrit
o. which flies over her plains, the Camel whit
e. traverses her deserts, and the Lions which i
&c fes; her forests, might better challenge COZ
a parison with the miserable, naked and brut
negro, than he with the intellectual, il
or proved and civilised white man. Thr
or thousand years have elapsed, and they ha
ne done nothing, absolutely nothing, in tn
u. native land. Can Arithmetic compute {
of numberless ages, which would have elapse
al before this inferior race would have look
he 10 the Heavens. and discovered, like Ne