The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-12
rrom he a. Louls In.sIllssnesL
The Negro R.cs aud slavery.
Know. then myself; presume not God 70 scan
The pfoper study OF ,nsnk ind 10 man

The Negro Race aud slavery
Know then, myself presume not God 20 scan
The proper study OF insnknd is man
Webaye selected the above passage from the Essay on
Man, by Alexander Pope, esq when isIoooss ois 1 s
philosophy than any Two ines o. posuy i,sua :, na
and naure in one OF It's forms OF development, 10 wit
ihs negro race We assume that Nature 10 perfect IN It's
development, and haI MOI one single par, y msappsa
pa Ia The machinery OF nature, and he great errors thai
have arisen have been The result OF slight views OF many
mon This great and all-pervadlng subject When We
take a comprehensive view OF Nature, We find that The
vegetable and animal kingdoms are as varied as the
CHIMES in which they exist, and the Temperature oil eli
mate adapted 10 each peculiar existence Men are also
adapted ph scaly particular places, well as the
lower orders OF animals aud vegetables NO lndlcous
farmer would think OF raising tropical fruits IN The open
arr temperate elm ate, nor would any naturalist al
tempt 10 rear animals pc cular 10 the low hot countries
in cold This would be crossing a law OF
Nature which every sensible man wouu readily au-
nit But when this same principle Is cohtehueu io'
In lis application 10 ma n we at once met WIN
denial OF is otherwise acknowledged force anu
correctness. Why should hxed principles aekhowieageu
10 be applicable 10 all Other ciealei ngs, De sci aside
when man is The subject OF Application In me apphca'
ton OF This law OF Nature We assert without me lear OF
contradiction that The oancasl. 'ase nave nese nare
any great advancement IN prosi'e OF arisen 70 any
great degree OF Importance IN warm country, wheie
slavery did not exist IN some form Iheie are IL IS uue'
some 81 stems OF voluntary sersuGe when produce an
eec, nearly equal that of nvolun tary servitude but
these do AFFECT the question maerty LOT me worst
species OF slavery can exist, and yet te apparently Vo
master does not bind himself TO protect or take care oil
the when he sick, IN his OLE age while IN
all countries where involuntary serv,ade exists me mas
has To protect his servant not only from voehce nut
from and suffering, There are al present some lew
counties where there is no involun larry slavery
where Nature has pofusey bestowed her treasures OF
soil and coured the industry of man and 10 those coun-
tries what do behold is there any Ky ~ he
population Does show that lhete na tnai re-
have been developed or prosperity s'ana out IN
bold relief
Look at the countries Of the East and what do we be.
hold in that land which 'flowed with milk aud hon.
Turkey, Egypt Italy, Greece, Spain, France, and an
those lands where SOIL and climate peculiarly adap ted
TO agriculture and commerce! We lind an lmbecile popu
laon which shows that labor cannot be performed BY
the Caucasian Tor al least 1t rs not) from The lac
that the climate is 100 warm 10 SUIT the population phys
icaly, and give that energy which is requisite TO The
full development OF the natural resources oil those coun
tries. Some persons may think that the reason why
these countries have little energy can be found IN The
system OF government; but lei us look at The colonies
established Dy OF Them where slavery was oea
red and a combination formed by The union OF eau
casan mind with The ply steal adaptation OF Inc negro ana
different appear ance presented Hayt, before
slavery abolished and when under The French gov.
ernment under The laws and with greater burdens
was tar prosperous than the mother country Cuba
this day has far greater prosperity than Spaln although
the Inhabitants governed by the laws and OPP
pressed by the same form OF government These sam.
Piles could be multiplied at length were il necessary and
even Eng and with all her preaching against slavery has
a system OF apprenticeship which far odous than
involuntary seivItude The wise men OF that country
familiar with history, and The pecnlianes oil soil.
great principles OF Nature. And when we read OF the
greatness OF Rome Egypt in days long gone by we
must not forget thai slavery was what made them
great and the only monuments remaining 10 tell US oil
their greatness were bult by slaves SO, then, the ar
gumenl thai forms OF government produce either prospect
ity or greatness lost the facts which come down 10
US throug the undlsputed caanneis OF history.
But what does history leach 10 relation 10 ihe negro
race Nolhn5 but baroatlsm and imbeciilty. No or.
gained government be proved 10 have ever existed
among Tie Although closely connected win the
most civilized nations OF the world, both IN ancient and
modem uuee no energy OF character, nor any noble am
btion, has been traced 10 that race Tor an origin
Such they three thousand years ago so are ihey
now and every attempt 10 change them has, thus lar,
proved futile. Years the idea prevailed ~ France
that in the island OF Hayt where they had Undergone
thorough training By the Caucasans, they could sustain
government OF their own aud develop faculties oi
mind which many thought they possessed But wba
has been The resuitl From present appearances they
fast degenerallng, and 10 lew years, unless the
Caucasian ueuce l. eNerled, they will be but lttle su
penor TO The rudest bafbafans OF Africa. Degeneracy
10 be the natural tendency oi The race, aud II wal
not sop (unless some used by the other
until ii at It's level There are laws
oil Nature over which exert an influence. but ye
he cannot overthrow them. This OF them. Aud
were the civilized countries 10 establish colonies Ia
Africa and create governments Tor the inhabitants, and
leave them TO Themselves one century would not roll
around before they would degenerate TO their original
uncyilzed and bal barous state and while the mind OF
the other tends 10 expansion and sprtuasn, thai
OF the negro evidently tends 10 contraction and anmaism
This Is, OF course, general rule, and there are ex
cepons 10 all rules. But when II is asserted that
the lion and tiger iefocious and uniameabe, II
does not follow that there may not be some few IN
stances where this natural tendency TO iefociy can
be overcome, 10 certain extent. Neither does II
change the general rule 10 regard 10 vegetation,
when orange trees reared IN temperate eli.
mate. You may the tree, but the fruit will
be unpaaiable and unnatural. These exceptions do
not overthrow general rule; and the fact that
OF the negroes have attained 10 certain degree
OF eminenee the sciences and education in noral,
does prove that Knowledge could become gene.
rally didus.d or that civilized government unaded
could be sustained by them OF beings. We pro-
posed 10 study man. and have taken guide the
experience OF the past aud the present, and iom The
undisprted facts have inferred the future lust
would infer thai there will be sun IN existence TO. NOR
because there has been for days and ages past
and we know oil changes IN Nature which would lead
us to different CONCLUSION. And when great law
OF Nature developed By the history OF The past in an
undertaking succession, why not with much
Certainty conclude that Interpretation OF the work
lngs OF Nature, relation the negro race will not
hnue- and that the law which adapts the animals
and vegetables 10 peculiar places applies much differ
emf varieties OF animal nature and man also As this
article contains some assertions connected Immediately
with the negro race viii quote from hlcCuoch's Geo
graphical Dictionary which compiled from the most au
tbentc sources, and by subject The British government
He says: at IS singular, however, that no negro ma
tiCn-not even any native African naon-has ever had
the ingenuity and train the eephana service 10
civilization which has been performed by almost every
hsa,ic nation whose country this animal is Indigenous
and which ihee Is abundant evidence TO show doue
by The CarlbageDian and Roman settlers IN Africa. II
still more striking fact that negro, and indeed no
Afflcsn nation, save the Egyptians, AbyssiBlaDs, and
partially the Numidians, ever possessed literature,