The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-28

entered lfs besutifa accomplished and an helroyy;
the was the wife OF wealthy. high bred geatlem "a
we shall not be deemed acting il We expsot to
nnd her q lady. What must We shink, ho ~evsr, OF
the following reply made by her to MISS Ophelis 3
arguments III favour OF negro education
For my part don't any use in such sort Of talk
I'm sure II anybody does for servants than
ia like to know who and it don't DOZEN bit good-nota
Particularly get worse and AS talking them,
or anything Ike that am sure that have talked Gill
WAS tired and hoarse telling them their duty and all
that ! and I'm they can go to church when they
Ike though they don't understand word Of the sermon
mere than rigs II is Mt Of any for them
togo, as Gee &c. Sc.
Or Of the following disgusting mo,ceau, dalo-
| quo between Miss Ophea Ga Vermont LADY and
the same Marie de Ste. CLAIRE, respecting little
Eyangeine de Ste. Clair -
OPHELn--Eva gets weak and Is short breathed
MARIE pr srE CLAIR-Luw Two had that, years and
years Its only a nervous affection
i OrHKLIA-But she stceats nights
MARIE De SrE CLMs-wen have. these ten years
Very often night after night my clothes will be wiring
ing wet There won't be dry thread in my night clothes
them to dry Eva doesn't saceat anything like that
Such passages completely mar the effect Of the
we'll drawn portions OF Marie do Ste Cairos portrait
/ But We have graver charges to bring against
Uncle TOMS Cabin" than in the style, or
inconsistency in the characters. This is common
catohpepny novel, resting its olaims to pubic favor
on well plot, or stirring inc dents. We
| give Mrs. Stove much credit tor her judioiOus
| economy of eath's.head.and- cross bone scenes
overseer's flashing slaves to death-women brutally
whipped, or treated still worse, SO. She had
deeper purpose than mere pandering to the vulgar
thirst for atrocities She addresses herself more to
the Christian, to the thinking man, than to tho sub
scribers of circulating libraries She aims at osta-
bilshing, on new and impregnablo basis, the great
fct OF the moral and intellectual equality OF the
white man and the negro, and ASSERTS it in every
possible variety Of language in fifty different passa
| ges in her book. Such doctrine we believe to b,
false; and hold that we should be culpabe in allow
ing il to 60 forth unquestoned to the people of thi
| Union.
If We had evidence before us of the interiority
OF the negro intellect if we had truthful accounts
Of their unparalleled degradation and depravity in
state Of freedom in Africa, if had no chroniol,
dating from ages long since past, and proving the
chnnseable character Of the black man, We shout
still refuse to believe that any individual Of averAg,
reason could lock upon the physical form Of tue
negro, and seriously argue that that degraded
order OF human beings was intellectually morally
equal to the Caucasian race We will not assume
the task of pronouncing on the doctrine which is
now protested by many leading philosophers, viz
that in the grand scale of animal oevelopement tho
African negro is tho connecting link between the
s,snio and man. Whether the Development theory
be paradox not--aud lis most Jealous ussailants
must admit the weight Of the circumstantal ev
dence on which it reststhere be but little doubt
among men of learning that the analogy bet ween
the physical structure OF the Chimpanzee and that
Oh the negro Is rs close as that between the latter
and the white man. The eminent Lawrence, quot
ing and commenting en- Cuvier, tells us -
The negro structure approxmat uuequiyocslly to
ceson model but is dstinguihed from it in respects
the intellectual characters reduced tho animal fea
lures enlarged and exaggerated No person, however
little conyersant with natural history physiology
fail to Recognise decided approach to tho animal form
This inerorty Of Organization is attended with cores
pondng inferiority Of faculties which may proved
not so much by slaves, by every ot in the past his
tory and present condition OF Africa 2i5.
Colonel Hamilton Smith, tho we'll known physo-
log;st, and bitter enemy to slavery, mentions
several points of resemblance between the siia aud
The negro, and lays stress on the shortness of the
negro humelus, and length of tho forearm, in which
particular the simiiarty is very striking Pro-
tessor V1ohck, Of Amsterdam, feeling convinced
that the shape OF the female pelys must
exercise material influence the conform Axiom OF
the fG'us, made several anatomical experiments,
the result OF which he thus records SO The pslvis
of the male negro resembles that of wild beast
that OF the female, though delicate in form and
structure, ~ once suggests the idea of degradation
In type The elongaled shape Of the pclyis in tho
negre;s, the vertical direction Of the ossa ti the
projection of tho sl9rum, &C., recall to our minds
the conformation OF the peyis in the monkey" We
need not multiply quotations. or remind our readers
OF the yo,nme, shape. and weight Of the negro
brain, Of the small facial angle, of the brute like
expression Of the conference.-the NIL Of which par
ticulars close affinity TO the higher order of the
S'anaac can DO distinctly traced. All anntonist
are agreed on the point. Mrs. Harriet Beeche.
Stowe alone deseAts.
We viii not undertake to inquire how far this
physicol alliance with the highest order Of the
bruto mammals is acconnanied by a corraspond-
ing mental analogy. Articulation is. doubtless q
vast step: but who draw line between the
highest kind of instinct and the lowest order of
resson! The experiments OF natura,ists have
proved that tho pure negro learn but few thing
which cannot he taught the boboon. And the
grand qualities which place at the head of the
animal soae-the generalizing powers of pare
son, the love of the unknown, the aptitude to OBJ
serve new phenomena and new relssions--are Us
rare in the one ms IL the other.
But history converts tie speoulations Of philoso-
ply into positive facts Wherever the negro has
IL L.z..
has associated with the white man, he has been a
slave. Domberger, who spent twelve years in
Africa, states that the habits of the abo,igi
nees were those Of the brute creation; tina.
they had 10 fixed residences and, MS fur as
he could learn, DO language in which they
could hold intercourse with each other. Cannibal
ism, says Lander, is the ruling social trait of the
negroes in Affica-the kinder affections Of the
heart, the domestic ties, are unknown to them
The slaughter of their fellow creatures is their
chief amusement. Many nations subsist solely by
war and rapine. Lopez, Dappus. Burckhart, and
all tho other travellers in Africa, bear similar !
testimony to the degradation of the native tribes
James Il. Alexander, o recent writer, says !
They did not know ono year from another. Az |
TO their own age they knew no more what it was |
than idiots Some even had no names. Of mum.
beIs, Of course. they were nearly quite ignorant,
few could count above FIVE he was clever follow |
who could count his ten fingers. Above all they !
had not the least idea OF God, or future state.
They were literally like the beasts that PERISH
Such are the negroes az home. Such is the race |
which Mrs Stowe POLITICALLY calls an exotic of the
most gorgeous and superb countries in the world,
deeply imbued with passion for all that is |
splendid, rich, and fAnoiful." Such tho people |
whom Mrs Stowe foresees "exhibiting the highest |
form Of the peculiarly Christian life in their gen.
tleness their lowy dociy of heart their childlike
simplicity Of Affection and facility of forgiveness"
Gentlcress Of heart, fOrsooth, among the most In.
corrgible cannbals on the globe. Doclity Of
affection among race accust toned for centuries to
murder their kin, and cell their children to slave
dealers Facility Of forgiveness among tribes
whose feuds last for centuries!
Neither in ancient in modern times have tho
negro race achieved single step towards civihSs
tion. They have neither books, language,
even an alphabet or hieroglyph.. They, alone,
Of all baibarous tribes, do not possess system
of theogony. They have not m astered the elements
Of science or art. They have never understood
what they learnt from the white, aad sooa AS