The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-10-17

A DREADFUL RroT IN PHILADELPnlA--We learn from
the Blnorc Sun that last week most fearful and
sangunory riot occurred in Philadelphia, in which
many lives were lost. II was directed against the
co!orcd population, md originated in Tie Indignation
Of The ro,odIes against colocd man, who hadu tohte
wite or was living with whife vomon. We have
no, room to give further particulars this week.
FInRIDA.-.Blly Dowlegs, in talk with Gen.
Twggs has agreed 10 give up the offending Indians al
Charlotte I,arhor by the 10Th October.
To The Editor Of The Camden JOurnnl: -
As some writer's have mlsrcpresenled me by
stating that reject tho account given in The
Bible of the origin Of the human race, you will
promote the cause Of truth in rePublishlng the
following extract from my article in the Courier
of the Sd inst. In addition to which further
state my belief that all mankind have sprung
from one parent stock. Adam and Evc-that
Ham, Shem and Japhet are the Progenitors ot
all the races. .or varieties, or whatever They may
he termed-that Ham and his descendants are
inferior human beings 10 the descendants OF
Shem and Japhet-ihat they were decreed ny
The Almighty to he servants OF servants ior-
ever" and that they have a physical orgauiza.
lion accordingly. displaying means adapted to
an cnd-ihat the decree dnomlng The African
negro to perpetual slavery and consequent inic.
riorily is The true moral ground for the same.
Let the public read what Governor McDuf.
fic says in his message Of 1885:
"That the African prgro is destined l'Y Pro-
vidence 10 occupy this condition OF servIle de-.
pendrnce is not less manifest. II IS marked on
the face, Stamped on The skin and euinced by
The intellectual inferioriiy and natural tmprort.
dence of this race. They have all the quail
ties thai fit them for slaves, and no, onr Of those
tha, would fit them 10 he frcemrn. They are
utterly unqualified no, only for rational freedom,
but for elfgovernmrnt of any kind. They are
in all respects, physical, moral, and political,
inferior TO millions of the human race, who have
for consecutive ages, dragged out wrctched
existence under grinding political despolism,
and who are doomed 10 this hopeless condition
by the very qualities which un6, them for bet.
ter. 1t is utterly astonishing that any cnlsht.
ened American, after contemplating all tn"
manifold forms in which even the white race
of mankind are doomed TO slavery and oppres.
sion, should suppose il possible to reclaim the
African race from their destiny. The capacity
to enjoy freedom is an attribute not to be COM
municated by human power. II is an endow.
nent of God, aud ono of the rarest which It has
pleased His inscru,able wisdom to bestow upon
the nations OF the earth. 1t is conferred as a
reward of merit, and only upon those who are
qualified to enjoy it. Until the +" Ethiopian
can change his skim it will be vain TO attempt
by any human power, to make freemen oftnose
whom God has doomed TO lie slaves hy all their
attributes.
"Let not, therefore. the misguided and de.
signing iu,ermeddlers, who sock 10 destroy our
peace, imagine ,ha, they are serving the cause
of God by practically arraignins the decrees OF
his Providence. Imlccd, IL ,rould scarcely er.
cite surprise, if ,cih The impious du:lncily Of
those ,rho projected the iower Of Babel, they
should aUempt TO scale the baitlements of HedUen
and demonstrate mIh The God Of arisdom for
haring put The mark Of Cain and the curse Of
Ham upon The African race instead Of the Eu.
ropean."
Thts, Governor McDuHie says, after saying
i, has christian sanction. Slavery, then, III
this country, is founded, according to Governor
McDufiie, upon the natural nleriori,y Of the
African negro, and is sanctioned by the sacred
Scriptures. This consider the natural and
firm s,ound for slavery. Upon this and this
alone can it he expected 10 he perpetual. This
language of Governor McDuffis ahould be on
the first page of every school book, making the
education of the child the constitution, as it
were, of his country Oh the most important of
all subjects; while Paley's Moral Philosophy"
should be treated by the law as a incendary
book. and be banished from our Bookstores,
and certainly excluded from our schools.
But, Messrs. Editors, will present another
extract from the greatest of all men that this
State has sustained in her'pubic service. This
distinguished individual, in his Memoir on
Slavery" re.publshed by the State Agrcul.
tural Srcicty in 1897, uses the following Ian.
guage:
"The opinion which connects form and fca
lures with character and intellectual power, is
one 50 deeply impressed on the human mind,
that perhaps there is scarcely any man who
does not aI'nos, daily act upon it, and in some
some measure verify it; yet in spite of this in.
timation of nature, and though the anatomist
and physiologist may tell them that the races
differ in every bone and muscle, and in proper.
lion of brain and nerves, yet there are some
rho, puh a most bigo'ted and fanatical aetermi.
nation to free themselves from rhat they haue
,rejudged to be prejudice. ,eiu still maintain
that the physiognomy evidently tending to that
ofthe brute, ,chen compared to that of the eau.
cassian race may be enlightened by as much
thought and animated By as much sentiment"
Upon The principles contained in the above
extracts. | plant myself in defence of slavery,
sustained by these greatest Of men and the
batteries Of seclarian bigotry, and the wild and