American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-22
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the opinion of American infel iority entertainee
and expressedlspr long in Eu rope, now atheoreti
<Glsg abandoned there, but o. ten still implied,
expressed by. intellgeati m anarchists. of tina
c0ntipenti We have seen that the reverse is, th
oasej that American superb ,Tity results, from !,
candid and dispassionate3 yilsw.o We have seer
that as regards the progres sion of human i'm
proyement, the larger proportional part ha
come from, Americe.E NY are not discussing tn
subject Of pictures, gstatnary, and the merel..
ornamental arts we have been instituting
comparison between the progression in the use
L fil arts ihszch country, and Che Aged{us Of til
governments Of Europe and that Of the United
States Of North America In all these respects
we have shown that the boasts of Europeans
are unfounded. Proofs upon proofs might be
multiplied, had we space and time to do, SO
but we address ourselves, at present to ques-
tions more practical, according to the great
American rule Of primary regard to practical
utility in studies, principles, discussions and
conduct N -3,ed G#gr4 Hi .5am4ary ata,4te,y
.eaWehaye shownthe vast actual progress made
BY our country Our practical skill in tho use
ful arts, in agriculture, commerce, naval archi-
lecture, steamboat construction, and the build
ing Of railways, has existed for many years,
although still gradually improving. There was,
Nevertheless, something wanting to give it more
rapidity of progression and expansion
z4 IN this state of things the war with Mexico
occurred, and, while it brought with it the
pains and penalties which are, paid by. all ma
tons for wars it brought with it also the richest
acquisitions that any single war. ever obtained
for q nation. The annexation of California had
but just taken place, when the discovery and
working of the gold-mines Of that country re-
yealed that Currency-extension act Of Nature, .
which was to us the most needed material good
not already possessed, as well as boon of in
estimable value to other nations. A sound and
abundant currency was the material good neces-
sary to stimulate production and reproduction,
and this good, by q merciful, Providence, came
to us ut this time and under these cireum-
stances. There is no reason to doubt that it
will last long enough to meet all exigencies of
our own; and there is strong reason to believe
that the mines Of California are inexhaustible.
HI With our antecedent population and Improve
ments, this vast accumulation Of sound currency
gives US a capacity of benevolent exertion co
extensiverwithethe globe. But our situation
and circumstances point us south. We have d
considerable population of free negroes who, if
proper facilities were afforded them, would en-
igrate to Africa under most favorable circum-
stances There, without struggle with race
necessarily their superior by a longer knowl-
edge of Christianity and considerable adhe-
renee to its precepts, they may at once rise in
education, position, and wealth. Beside the
superiority of the white, they have here to con-
tend with the aversion to their color. But at
the North, where the greatest clamor is excited
about them, there is q physical disadvantage
which it would require thousand years to
overcome. The negro is not suited to a north
ern climate. There is, then, physical cause
Of his depression at the North which, few
isolated cases excepted can not be destroyed
in time to meet the demands Of real philanthro-
py. The superiority of the white, the aversion
to the negro's color, and his physical incapa
city to bear the cold of the North, will cause
dred years. unless his numbers are cruelty
replenished by emigration from the South,
where he naturally multiplies and enjoys the
plenitude Of physical vigor. After serving there
the short7sighted purposes of o few politicians,
possessing neither the virtue nor the intellect
to rise but by Aattering him with false hopes,
and deceiying number of creduious whites by
false cry of philanthropy, he win become, if
not as solitary as "the last of the Mohegans,' p
as nearly extinct as many of the Indian tribes.
After being fraudulently fpttered by many Of
this class of politicians with prospects of honor,
equality and political distinction, he viii find
these prospects vanish. When he begins to
clamor for the prizes for which he has contended
at the polls he win be told to wait little
while longer; and when that little while longer
comes, he will still be in the position Of Tanta-
lus. Some of the very same politicians, and
othefso of q different description, will play off
the foreign entigrantsA-German and irish
against him. He will find moro powerful aux
aries than himself occupying the offices to
which he had aspired, as wel as the social po-
sition promised him. His numbers diminishing
in spite of all appliances that those men can
use, while that of the others will be constantly
increasing, the free negro win be the sport Of
these mistaken or unprincipled politicians
for, by the fat of Natures, God, who never in
tended him for a northern climate, his physical
disabilities, combined with his moral, will be
fast sweeping him from that part Of the earth ;
and MS his .corporeal frame settles into deaths
stern slurnber, it will relieve him from the
cares, ,anxieties and baffled hopes with which
erroneous or dishonest politicians have tortured
him. The sum of the glory he can gain or con-
fer in those Northern States will be towalk arm
in-arm into some assembly where whites and
blacks are seated promiscuously. Ifhc votes a
ticket of his own, with the black and the white