Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


NEW PUBLICATIONS.
1. Negroes and Negro S7ave,y: the first an infs-
rior race, The latter its normal condition. ByJ.
. FL. VAN EvRIE, NJ d. Introductory number:
Causes of popular delusion on the subject. John
d. Toy, Baltimore" 8vo. pamphlet, PIP. 3d.
II. " The Great Future Of africa and America
an Essay sho0iny our ahole duty to the Black
han, consistent Nth our oaon safety and glory.
By JACOB DEVICES, Md, Philadelphia. Printed
for the author by II. Orr" Syo., PIP. 236.
Avoiding always, far practicable, the introduce
ton into columns of the topic treated Of under the
titles copied above the two Trcatses have been pre-
sented to usthe first by esteemed Southern friend
the second by its respectable authorthat
tcsy requires from brief notice Of them.
The pamphlet contains only the g Preface to larger
work. which its author promises we learn from some
notices Of it the cover to publish in numbers until it
shall have reached four hundred or more pages. We
have read this Introductory number with degree Of in
teres which has rarely been excited by any treatise
the subject Of slavery that has heretofore under
notice The authors method Of treating it is altogether
new and shows that he has studied it, with REV
party disputaton but to arrive at the philosophy
Of it by profound scientific Investigation. The physiolo
gca and chronological facts which he adduces in support
Of his assumption that there is original difference in
the white and the black man, they from the
hands Of the Creator that they were in fact created for
the positions which they have from the beginning of time
respectively occupied if not sufficient to bring conyc
ton to the mind Of the reader least strong enough
merit serious reflection, and to suggest the
ton whether the preudces Of education have not had
influence in leading him to conclusions with which
has had nothing to do. If the work. when finish
ed should all correspond with the indications given in
xL., 30 A.
the subject phosophically he will certainly gain for
himself the reputation Of profound thinker and
Of science II must be remarked however, that he lays
no claim to originality in the hypothesis that supposes
the be distinct creations The great natural
st, Agassiz, the late Dr. Morton Glddon and Dr. Mott
have all maintained the theory, and have all sup
ported il not only by analoges from the several king
doms Of Mature but by anatomical and chronological facts
which have not been explained upon any other SUPPOSE
ton and which hardly Of science other unpre
JUDGED seeker after truth would venture dispute The
great merit Of Dr. EvRIE is that he has brought these
facts to bear question the discussion of which ha
heretofore tended to other result than rouse oil that
is evil in the passions of II he should succeed in
conducting his argument to demonstrate the natu-
raj and intended iaeriory of of the races he will
have done than all who have preceded him toward
removing the most prominent Of excitement and i'll
feeling between the two great sections of country
though this introduction must have been published during
the past year
Dr. DEVICES has taken up the subject under entirely
different view. He treats it patriot and philanthro
pist; moral teacher not natural philosopher.
The arrangement which he makes of his matter nge-
nious and attractive, combining many sound political re-
Elections with fancul specuations which owe their
merit only to the good intentions of the author apparen
in all his sentiments In pretty and wedevised para
be he that slavery is disease in the body poll
tic, which must ultimately prove fatal unless remedy
be found adequate to its By allowable pro-
sopopea, doctors abolition and Colonization
offer their services Uncle Samuel the patient Each
in his processes to have invented nostrum which
cannot fail to effect cure, if persevered in long enough
The first like bold surgeon is for using the knife and
cutting out all the diseased organs the second
tmid would administer Alternatives slow but in their
sanative operation. But to quit this fgurative usra
ton, let to the authors plan, which looks far
into the future for the final eradication Of the black spots
that now deform the beauties Of g Uncle SAM" 1t is
evident that he is aboitionist in the offensive
lie is too just and honorable to desire to deprive his
Southern brethren of their chdt without ample remu
neraton and this end he looks to the pub
lie domain The yate Of the public lands, he thinks
than sufficient to purchase, at fair price, every
slave in the United States 20 pay for their
Africa and to give them outfit competent to all the
wants Of their settlement He commends the Colo
nzaton Society for the slight good they have been able
to effect but thinks that individual subscriptions and in
dyidual exerons lost in the vain effort to accomplish
what nothing short Of the whole and Of the
Government could, by any possibility, consummate He
would not have this Government interpretation to be sud-
den or the exile of the purchased slaves to be made by
single simultaneous movement. On the contrary, he
thinks the scheme could not be properly carried out
with all its attendant blessings in less than century
at the Of which time he looks for the browning glory
to America and bright future to benighted Africa.
This in few words, is the substance Of Dr. Devices
essay But the position assumed in the pamphlet upon
which have just commented be founded in scientific
truth IL the black be indeed essentially different
and inferior if his physical and intellectual orga-
niztons be such to admit only Of limited development
and expansion, then the authors antcpations Of
brighter dawn for Africa by the reception into her bosom
Of the halfcivized half christiansed blacks Of this
country vain and chimerical Instead Of spreading the
blessings Of civilization and christianity throughout the
dark regions of Africa, the proposed banishent hither
Of slaves would be to extinguish the little light that
now gimmers among the latter and to reduce them to
the condition Of barbarity andgnorance which is the
NAL state Of the former for it is irreyersble and
eternal law Of Nature that where the native Of any
country stronger than the emgrant
settlers among them, the latter must be- or later
altogether absorbed by the former and thus changed In
manners habits, customs, and religion.
DR.. DEVICES is agreeable writer, too good-naured
in the management Of his subject TO to any
body and apparently actuated By the single desire TO
do