The southern press., 1851-04-09

that they had wholly lost the language, and no
longer understood what they wrote. The in
scrptions are nothing more than miserable CO.
pies from the earlier works so that on tomb
which is evidently of late date, will be found
badly executed copy of the inscription on the
tomb Of its owners great grandfather--even the
date and name being unaltred. After that, they
lost even the power of ineligible imitation, and
few scrawls on uncarven rocks are the latest
remains that are found. The Meroecites then
cease to be Egyptians even in the name and ira.
dtion. They have forgotten language, govern
ment, religion and arts. They have no build
ings, and no enduring tombs. The province is
no longer distinguished from the country. The
race has reapsed into absolute negro barbarism.
This illustration of their incapacty, not merely
to attain civilization, but even to retain it when
given them, is type of the universal history Of
the negro race. The world has their history in
its hands for space of nearly five thousand
years. Negroes appear on the sculptures OF old
Egypt. But in that multitudinous country they
were utterly valueless. The Egyptians consid-
cred them too stupid to be worth teaching even
agricultural drudgery and we only see their fig
ures when led as captives in the triumph of some
belligerent Pharaoh. From that day until this,
the negro has never appeared save in three forms
of existence Captivity, barbarian, or slavery.
The last is the highest form of social life of
which experience at least permits US to suppose
him cannibal.
circumstances would never have kept down
any race for five thousand years, which were ca
pable Of rising into. civilization. All the white
races have been in time barbarian; but NIL its
branches have in time left it, and attained their
natural grades Of civilization. But the negro
has never left the lowest type of barbarism, save
for captivity or slavery. In the vast continent of
Africa they have always existed in millions, with
no circumstances to depress them. But there,
we never hear of them save as cannibal savages.
No such thing as a negro government has
ever existed in Africa. Petty kingdoms have
and do exist there-some with so called cities
like Timbuctoo. But the bare breeched rulers
in all these Kingdoms are Moors or Fsllahs-a
branch of the Arab family; and the people of
Timbuctoo are Arabs and Felahs. The Repub-
lie of Liberia can scarcely be called an excep-
ton, since it is watched and guided by the colo
nization society, supported on all sides by Eng
land and by other governments, is reinforced
every year from the United States, and is gov
erned by mulattoes. Even with all this assist
ance,i is evidently falling to pieces in the grow
ing barbarism Of the people. DR.. Mechlin, who
lived in Liberia five years, and for part of that
the experiment to be faiure,-and died in
Mobile with the declaration that he saw no hope
of ever rendering the negro race fit for self.
government On this sentiment they have re-
ceived the most signal trial. In Hayti they
achieved their freedom by the midnight murder
of their masters They were protected by civil
lied States. They possessed the richest island
on the globe, with the richest commerce at their
doors. The result is very notorious. Famine
r;,vages often that fertile laad. Petty but hideous
wars occupy its sections The only government
which subsists is that of a bloody and stupid
beast who is emperor over one corner Of the
island. OFF from the seaports, the people have
lost arts, religion, industry, decency-have re-
lapsed into absolute canibalism DIR. Mott states
on the authority of an eye. Witness, that on two
occasions while travelling in Hayti, he saw the
negroes roasting and eating their Dominican
prisoners by the road eide.
In the free States of this country, the negro
race can reach every advantage which the white
possesses. A large portion Of them are edu-
Gated. But where have they evinced capacity
to make use Of our civilization? Where have
their best classes achieved higher destiny than
that of tavern walters? Where have their
masses risen above the very lowest level Of the
worst population? Where has any individual
even, attained, not to say distinction, but even
responsibility, in any profession? In England,
many negroes who were supposed to exhibit
talent when children, have been subjected to
hotbed process of culture, and two or three Of
these have been brought up to the mark Of wri-
ting verses These have been collected in a
volume; and Bishop Gregoire Of Blois has
written very stupid book to prove therefrom
the intellectual equality of the race. But any
one who will take the trouble to read these
verses will find them for the most part
doggarel too poor to be called verse at all !;
and whenever copy occurs Of sufficient merit
for the poets of tho smallest kind of
country newspaper, its author is sure to turn
up a mulatto or quadroon when the accompa
nying biographies are referred to.
BY the history of the negro race, it is there
fore incontrovertibly proven that they are utterly
incapable Of civilization or development beyond
the point of slavery. When the starved barba-
rian is taken from the wiIds of Africa, clothed
well, fed well, and associated with the whites
he quickly acquires certain degree of health,
strength and intelligence. He will quickly ape
the white But there his development ceases
Beyond that, in no instance, has he ever gone.
Without amalgamation with the white race, he
remains where he began, and sinks so soon as
the superior influence it withdrawn.
Ihese phenomena are peculiar TO the BLACK
race. None of the diversified families of the
white race exhibited them. To which one Of
the white races could the advantage be given
which lie before the negroes OF the United States
without an immediate assertion and proof Of its
talent and its intellectual superiority, in hun
dreds and hundreds of instances! All the white
races have been civilized and developed in time,
and where circumstances have thrown them back
in barbarism they all exhibit capacity for civil
cation again. But the exact contrary is the
Characteristic of the negro.
What deduction is to be drawn from the fact
The plain and inevitable deduction is this -
That the negro is totally distinct and inferior
animal or species of animal from the Caucasian I.
that the negro is the connecting link between
man and the brute CREATION that the negro is
intended by nature for n similar dependence
upon the Caucasian man in which only the OK,
the ass, and the horse fulfil the intent of their
creasion that the negro race is the result of
different act of the Cretor from that which ORR
ginated the Caucasian, and is consequently be-
yond the scope of those abstract axioms Of the
white race which declare that all MEN have equal