The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-31

the races which compose them. The Indian
does not possess, still less the South Sea
Islander, and least of all the negro, the ca
pacity 10 comprehend the principles which
enter into the higher order Of civil and
political organizations. His instincts and his
habits are inconsistent with their develope-
meDt, All no degree of education can teach
him to understand and practice them. Instead
of strength, he becomes source of weakness
to the State and plants q cancer in the body
Iolitic which it is impossible to eradicate.
In the Sandwich Islands there are about
$1,000 "Kanakas," or natives. 1t may be
alleged that they have constituted and
sustained regular government, and have
thus evinced the requisite capacity to be-
come good citizens Of the United States.
But it is notorious that whatever there
exists of government, both in its origin
and administration, is the work OF foreign
ers and white men. Scotchmen like Wyllie,
and Americans like judd have been and
are the real governors Of these islands, backed
and supported by an aristocracy made up OF
'.meek and lowly" missionaries. Admit these
islands, and these men will play of the igno-
rant Kanakas for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
as we have seen the foreign vote of the United
States at times directed by demagogues. In
stead Of bona fide State, with citizens under
standing and performing their duties, we should
have rotten borough, while u few demagogues,
aristocratic in every thing but Dame, would
WELD and control an ignorant ard
snbservient population as eifecually, ID
fact, as Russian MOBILES do their serf..
Is there any thing in this prospect at all attrac
tive t. the sound American feeling Of this coun-
try? Are we, the famed custodians of the
precious pearls Of freedom, thus proJigally to
cast them before debased race, naturally in
capable Of approaching their worth?
To the Indians upon our southwestern Dor
der these remarks are scarcely less applicab e.
Under no circumstances have the North Amer
lean Indians exhibited an appreciation Of the
value, or disposition to abide by the recipro-
cal obligations involved in . government of the
people Their ideas of government, like those
of the Arabs, and the nomadic hordes of Cen
trail Asia, are only consonant with the system
called atriarchal---ideas which, at this
day, and in this country, are not only
wholly inapplicable, but antagonistic to
those upon which our system is found
ed. The only instance in which they
have made q sensible progress in the right
direction is that Of the Cherokees, under the
guidance of whom Ross who is quite two
thirds, if not three-fourths, a white man! We
are free to admit that the Indians Of the old
Floridian stock are in all respects superior to
the miserable Kanakas but neither ia indus
try, doclity, or traditional Difference to au-
thority are they equal to the Indian families
of Mexico and Central America, where the at
tempt to put them on political and social
footing with the white man has entailed eter.
Dal anarchy and complete dissolution of the
political body.
In Guatemala, as in Yucatan, it has brought
about bloody and cruel war OF castles,
and in the former State has resulted in
placing a treacherous and INSCRIPTIONS half
breed at the head of affairs, who rules over
desolated country with irresponsible sway
Look at Mexico and, above ALL at Jamaica,
where savage nature is fast resuming her do
minion over deserted plantations, and the
woods begin to swarm with half naked negroes,
living upon the Indigenous fruits of the sill,
and already scarcely one degree removed from
heir original barbarism in Africa
If the lessons of history have not been lost
upon us, we shall be careful how we infuse
diseased blood into our political system. A
vast deal of maudlin sentiment, under the
name of philanthropy, has been poured into
the public ear by reverend and social Jellabys,
o1nu< In osohl has nj 10 ,1oI
aborigines But all the world knows. or ought
to know, that neither indians, Kanakas, or
negroes have ever made solitary useful disco
very in mechanics, nor achieved in art an ad-
vance hey ond meaningless daubs in painting
and horrible caricatures in carving! No dis
covery in science, not a poem, nor scarcely an
idea in religion, beyond disgusting Fetish
ISM relieves the barren waste of their mental
and moral history Not less dreary and
melancholy have been their attempts at
government Incapable of originating any
thing rational in this first requisite to human
happiness they have even failed to compre-
bend and profit by the example Of civilized ma
ticDs with which they have been brought in
contact. Owleyed, the greater the light, the
more profound has been their blindness.
To the understanding Of the intelligent and
rejecting man, who is superior to the partisan
and sectional issues Of the hour, these conside-
rations cannot fail to appeal with controlling
force; for, if the United States, as compared
with the Spanish American republics, has
achieved an Unreasonable advance in all the
elements of greatness, that result is emf
nently due to the rigid and inexorable
refusal of the dominant Teutonic stock to de-
base its blood, impair its intellect, lower its
moral standard, and peril its institutions, by
intermixture with the inferior and subordinate
races of man. In obedience with the ordinances
of heaven, it has rescued half q continent from
savage beasts aud still more savage men, whose