The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-08


whom may safely conde the Of her children before
Anglo Saxon Celt, she would choose African The
African has strong attachments As husband, as father
be stands unriyaled In his attachment TO his country
his country-however purned and il-treaed ne Is
loyal and sincere.
slavery he is submissive oppression forgving Of in
arie without luminosity, without revenge ncendlarsm is
anheard assassination unknvn however great the PROV
ceaton have the African arise from the nhicuon Of
the lash with placid countenanoe In the field have seen
African slave cheerul doce, addressing his owner with
a beaming eountenanoe."
1t is often that what first appears to the mind Of an in
diydua he imagnes to be in ITSELF and to others
II is TO him These conclusions nothing they
those of good men, Christians statesmen and philos
ophers for generaons they those which every
reaches who studies negro slavery stubborn fact and
not whining cantng sentiment They are the
conclusions which have been vainy sounded amid the
din Of abolition fanatcism.
That the negro has peculiar moral and physical
characteristics is EVIDENT and ii ought be equally evil
dent that he is endowed with them for purpose Then
those characteristics precisely such show him to be
better fitted for guidance and dependence than for indie
pendent action and when it that he happy and
prosperous of dependence and wretched in all
Others the evident purpose Of Providence should be sub
mitted to- and not arragned by the albility Of human
standard of right what is there unjust in the neral
ineriory Of race than in that of its physical beauty
and comeliness2 What is there unjust in it at ALL if the
position Of adapted nerioriy is Of prosperity and
happiness The restless activity and cankerng ambition
Of fitted to guide control and direct Others may
produce more unhappness to individuals than all the evils
Of subordnation to those fitted by Nature for position OF
subordination; and although one change places
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advantage in real happiness There certainly no more
to find fault with gradatons Of races with the nte
rory of to the other than to complain of the Unequal
it of individuals Of the Indeed it would VIC
late the analogies of Nature if the various of
of equal endowments and fitted for equal action
| in the world What is there to oppose to all the
evidence Of the intended and necessitated subordna
ton Of the negro? Nothing but the fancies and emo
tons of men, arguing from the nature of another and high
err race and from the exaggerated individual
trcites OF that The Gddingses and Summers the
Phpses Beechers and Parkers having adaptation to
position of social harmony subordnated utility in the
to which they belong the last to judge
recty the destiny of people adapted for control and
ulness Arguing from themselves is arguing from the dis
of family the healthfu manifestations Of
other.
Without pursuing the subject further let the
ca honest abolitions ask himself for what he is seeking
to destroy his countryto what end Let him suppose
that the whole country North and South without single
exception agrees in his views and still abolition is ut
ter impossibty, As certain such insane measure
should be adopted the production of sugar rice and cot
ton ceases Suppose do North and South, Eas
and West without these products, still all experience
shows that the negroes left to themselves will not supper
themselves Another three millions of laborers must b.
introduced to take the place Of the negro and to drive hin
out of existence Abolition is therefore, only
to the constitution and country but to the arrangement
OF Nature and the rights Of humanity.