The southern press., 1851-04-08

lived In Liberia five ysars, and for part OF thAt
time was governor OF the colonies, has decaved
the experiment TO be failure,-and died in
Mobile with the dsrlaralion that he saw no hope
Of ever rendering the negro race fit for self
government. Ga this sentiment they have re-
ceived the most signal trial. In Hayti they
achieved their freedom by the midnight murder
Of their ,nasters. 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
ravages often that fertile aad. Petty bnt hidcous
wars occupy its sections. The only government
which subsists is that Of Il bloody and stupid
beast who is emperor over one corner Of the
island. or from the seaports, the people have
lost arts, religion, industry decency--have re.
apsed into absolute canibaIism. DR.. Nott states,
on the authority of an witness, that on two
occasions while travelling in Hayti, he saw the
negroes roasting and eating their Dominican
prisoners by the road side.
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 evnced 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 a
hot-bed process of culture, and two OF 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 frd them for the most part a
doggare too poor to be called verse at all !;
and whenever copy occurs Of sufficient merit
for the poets corner of the smallest kind of
country newspaper, its author is sure to turn
up mulatto or qnadroon when the accompa.
nyng biographies are referred to.
BY the history of the negro race, it is there
fore eincont'overibly proven that they are utterly
incapable Of civilization or development beyond
the point of slavery. When the starved barba-
rian is taken from the wids 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 amagamation with the white race he
remains where he began, and sinks so soon as
the superior influence it withdrawn.
These 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 civili-
zation 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
that the negro is the connecting link between
man and the brute creations that the negro is
intended by nature for a 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
gnated the Caucasian,-- is consequently be-
yond the scope of those abstract axoms Of the
white race which declare that all MEN have equal
rights.