The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-04-17

too are Arabs and Fellahs. The Repub
lie OF liberia can scarcely be called an ex-
cepiion, since it is watched and guided
by the Colonization Society, supported
on all sides by England and other govern
ments, is reinforced every year from the
United States, and is governed by mulat-
toes.-Eyen with all This assistance it is
evidently falling TO pieces in the growing
barbarism of the people. DIR. MechIin,
who lived in Liberia five years, and for
ony, has declared the experiment TO be a
failure-and died in Mobile with the dec
laration that he saw no hope of ever rem
dering the negro race fit for selEgovern-
ment. On this continent they have re.
ceiyed the most signal trial In Hayti
they achieved their freedom by the mid
night murder of their masters. They
were protected by civilized 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 land. Petty, but
hldeous wars occupy It's sections. The
only government which subsiss is that OF
u bloody and stupid beast who is emperor
over one corner of the Island. Off from
the seaports the people have lost arts, re-
ligion, industry, decency-have relapsed
into absolute cannibalism. DIR. Mott states
on the authority of an eyewitness, that
on two occasions, while travelling in
Haytl, 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 por-
ton of them are educated. But where
have they evinced capacity 10 make use
of our civilization? Where have their
best classes achieved a higher destiny thar
that of tavern walters! Where have their
masses risen above the very lowest level
of the worst population! Where has any
individual ever attained, not TO say dis
unction, 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 or three of
these have been brought up to the mark
OF writing verses.-These have been col
lected In volume; and Bishop Gregorie
OF Blols, has written stupid book to
prove therefrom the intellectual equality of
the race. But any one who will take the
trouble 10 read these verses will find them
for the most part, a doggerel too poor to
be called verse at all; and whenever a
copy occurs of sufficient merit for the
poets corner of the smallest kind of coun-
try newspaper, its author is sure 10 turn
up mulatto or quadroon when the ac-
comPanying biographies are referred to-
BY the history OF the negro race, il is
therefore incontrovertibly proven that they
are utterly incapable of civilization or de-
veloPement beyond the point of slavery.
When the starved barbarian is taken from
the wilds of Africa, clothed well, fed well,
and associated with the whites, he quickly
acquires certain degree of health, strength
and intelligence. He will quickly Gpe
the white. But there his developement
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 is withdrawn.
These phenomena are peculiar to the
black race. None of the diversified fam
lies of the white race exhibit them. To
"hiNA OlIC VI VIC Willie races cOulQ Inc
advantages be given which lie before the
negroes of the Unitad States, without an
Immediate assertion and proof of its talent
and It's intellectual superiority in hundreds
and hundreds of instances? All the white
races have been civilized and developed
IN time, and where circumstances have
thrown them back in barbarsm, they all
exhibit capacity for civilization again.
But the exact contrary is the characters
tic of the negro.
What deduction is to be drawn from
the fact! The plain and inevitable de-
duction is this:-That the negro is a to-
tally distinct and inferior animal or spe-
cles of animal from .he Caucasian; that
the negro is the connecting link between
man and the brute creation; that the negro
is intended by nature for similar depen-
dance upon the Causasian man, in which
only the OK, the ass, and the horse, fulfil
'he intent OF their creation; that the negro
race is the result OF different act of the
Creator from that which originated the
Caucasian,-and is consequently beyond
the scope of those abstract axioms of the
white race which declare that all men
have equal rights.
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