Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-03-13

tween body of sixty Americans. under
Capt. James Bprney, and 400 Indians,
who were driven from the village with the
loss Of sixty killed and twenty wounded
Eight Americans were wounded-iwo
MORALLY. The battle was fought in Mar
aposa county. The Indians afterwards
came upon and mastered serenty-,,co men
in gulch near Rattlesnake Creek. The
government has taken measures TO punish
the Indians.
The InfcriOrify Of the Black Race.
| A fact connected with the researches
which havela lately beenmade in Egypt, bears
with peculiar force upon Southern opin-
ions and Southern institutions. Ii is that
alluded TO by us yesterday, in stating the
opinion Of the explorers, that civilization
assembled the Nile from the sea shore, and
did not come down it from the interior Of
Africa, and that in proportion as the E
| gvpiian population extended itself IN the
direction OF Ethiopia, the arts of civilized
| life declined The earliest monuments are
to be found in Lower Egypt; those next
IN point of time are located IN the middle
portion Of that country while on the ex-
IRENE verge, bordering upon the negro
country, every sculpture is of modern date,
and none dates back farther than the DAYS
Of the Ptolemies. 1t is precisely at this
time that the arts begin to decline. The
sculptures on the monuments Of Upper E.
kypt begin to partake Of the peculiar char
acteIistics Of the African race. Every year
tho b,,,po, Horroe bo,r,,, 90, r,.r,x,I n. Il IL.
genuine African more and more. AT first
they are mulattos; then their noses begin
to fatten and their lips TO thicken Rude
limitations Of the older monuments suppiant
all originality Of conception or elegance Of
design, for the negro is an initiative, but not
a creative animal. At last they cease al
together, civilization and It's arts becoming
merged in utter barbarism. No traces Of
the white man, or the civilization which he
brought with him, are any longer to be dis
covered.
These facts speak volumes which should
not be misunderstood by The present gen
Grafton Of men. They confirm theory
which has been preached in modern times,
and in support of which modern examples
might be readily adduced. Where the
blood Of the pure Caucasian is mingled
with that Of Africa, It has not the effect Of
elevating the African in the scale Of being I;
whilcit inevitably depresses the Caucasian.
The amalgamation is unnatural; God new
er designed il to take place, and where it
does occur the inevitable tendency is to re-
trogade. We see the people Of Egypt, in
a high state of civilization, take the first
step downward. by mingling their pare
white blood with that Of the African. THIS
Is the first step backward. Another gencr-
alton takes another step in the rear Each
is worse than the first, and in the end, all
traces ofthe white man, and of the white
mans arts. disappear. The white man does
NOT pull the negro up him, he goes down
70 The negro.
The reverse of all this is the case, where
the civilized white man amalgamates with
the barbarian Of the same color. A few
colonies from Asia Minor, or from Egypt,
were sufficient to plant the seeds Of civil
cation IN Greece. The barbarous inhabi-
tants, IN the course of time adopted the
arts of their conquerors, and became the
most polished of the nations. A colony of
Phmnicia was sufficient to spread refine
ment and civilization in Carthage. The
Greeks, at very early period, carried the
germs Of civilization into Italy. The an
Gent Gauls became civilized under the do
minion Of Rome. The very Cloths and
Vandals, and Huns, that overthrow the
Roman Empire, became the most highly
| f,vf OF, IL. ! :.
ons adopted the arts and customs of their
civilized conquerors, the Romans But
Egypt never civilized the blacks,s or at
least if she did, that civilization was not
permanent. The seed was sown upon
stony ground, and it could not flourish.
Are modern examples wanting Let
the man who doubts cast his eyes upon
King Faustin the First, his barbaTous
Court, and beautiful Island. Let him re-
collect what Hayti was sixty years ago,
and then let him say what it is now. Does
he desire a more modern instance still p
Then let HIM turn to Jamaica twenty years
ago one Of the most fourishing colonies
that the sun ever shone upon, now little bet
ter than desert, shortly to become how
my NliGtIDtSS. IL seems 10 DC q law OF
Nature, that where the black race and the
white amalgamate without restriction, the
former becomes entirely extinct, while
the latter rapidly retrogadcs to state Of
nature.
There is but one method TO keep the AZ
rican race up to the point of civilization
which they have already reached, and that
is, TO retain them In bondage. As bonds
men to the whites, they have appeared in
all time whenever they have been seen be-
You'd the limits Of their native deserts. As
capdves and in chains, they are represent
ed in the primordial sculptures of Egypt,
and at that early day it is evident they had
never been known but as captives and
slaves.
The question, then, of hberating our
negroes, and admitting them to an equality
Of rights, civil, political and personal, is a
question Of the relative value of civilization
! or barbarism. In what manner it is likely
tobe decided, history willtellu The whole
Southern country viii become nation Of
blacks; civilization will retrogade every
year until it disappears altogether; we shall
be, in wycars, what Hayti is now, and
in one century, Virginia will be to the
North what the interior Of Africa was to
ancient Egypt.-RichmoHa Dispatch.
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