The true Democrat., 1854-06-20
Negroes and Negro Slavery.

We have looked over pamphlet under the above head, written by J. II. VAN EARIE, M D., and pronounce it one of the ablest and sound est treaties that we have ever seen on the sub- ject. In a short preface he says:
 ''Shiping off the skin of the negro he pro- poses to demonstrate to the senses as well as the reason, that he is not a black white man, or a man merely with black skin, but different and inferior species ofman-that this difference is radical, and total, and relatively as great in the prlmordlal arrangement of elementary par tclcs, or the single globlule of blood, as in the color of the skin, or the gr0sser facts, papable to the senses-that 1t is original invariable, and lndestructible, as long as the present order of creation itself lasts-that the physical structure of the race is necessarily and perpetually link ed with corresponding faculties, wants, neces- sltles in short with specifc nature, and is thus designed by the Almighty Creator for corre- spending purposes, or a social position harmo- nizing with those wants, etc.-that therefore all the charges against the social system of the South being based on false assumptions, are themselves necessarily false-that so-called sla- very IS neither wrong or an 'evil,' or its ex- tension dangerous, but normal condition, a na- tural relation, based upon the higher law in harmony with the order, progress, and general "Oii-pC1iS VI IIC ou uOClloI OlIc, dIu dDSOluJcIN essential to the very existence of the inferior race.'
 In support of these grounds, the writer then shows, that the Caucasian, or white race, are al most as far removed from the negro race, as the latter is superior to the orang-outang.
 Speaking of the conformation of the brain in the two races, he says
 "The Caucasian brain measures 92 cubic in- ches-with the cerebrum, the center of the in- tellectual functions, relatively predominatng over the cerebelum, the center of the animal instincts; thus it is capable of indefinite pro- gresslon and transmits the knowledge or ex- penence acquired by one generation to subse- quent generations-the record of which is his- tory.
 The negro braln measures from 65 to 70 cu- blc lnches-with the cerebellum, the centre of the anlmal instincts, relatively predomnating over the cerebrum, the center of the intelec- tual powers; thus as its acquisition of know ledge IS limited to single generation and inca pablo of transmitting this to subsequent ones, h caaa have no history. A single glance at eternal and immutable tacts, which perpetually sepa- rate these forms of human existence will be sufficient to cover the whole ground-thus, could the deluded people who propose to inn prove on the works of the Creator and ezevate the negro to the standard of the white, actual ly perform an act of OmnipOtence, and add 25 or 30 per cent to the totality of the negro brain, they would still be at as great distance as ever from their final object while the relations of the anterior and posterior portions of the brain re- manned as at present."
 And in reference to English "lberty and equa- lity.'
 There are in England four millions of paul. pers and ten millions of laborers to whom the ownership of property, whatever may be the incomes or distractions about British freedom, etc'' IS just as impossible, as tact as it is in 'le case of Southern negroes. Most of them are also Tn tar less favorable position for acquir Ing intelligence than those same southern slaVes;>' and there are multitudes of men and women ana children whose joints and mucles ana sKeletons are so distorted by excessive la- Dor, by lrvation and physical suffering as al- most to seem to belong to another race. But these results of wrong and oppression. friehtfnl and monstrous as they are are notbino in tba minds of Englishmen, when comnared with American slavery or to the opnressions and wrongs supposed to be inflicted on the neoro which, according to heir notions, have not on1v crushed his intellect below that of the most do. graded class of their own populations bnt in some ncomprehensible manner chan ged his physical structure, and blackened his skin. as we'll as degraded his mind. Thus are two con ditions totally dissimiar, confounded with each other; and the fact that the British peasant is vastly superior to the Southern negro is as- sumed as conclusive proof that he is less op- pressed or less wronged; and British and Ame- rican abolitionists now rely mainly upon this fact the basis Of their hostility to negro sla- very. The delusion in the case consists in con- founding the results of human contrivances, or of mans expressions, with the works of the