The true Democrat., 1854-06-20


 sants that till the lands of a British "noble," !" there is probably not single one who, if taken when in his cradle, and bread as the offspring of Sutherland, but would be his equal; in- deed, in view of the physiological deterioration of hereditary aristocracy, most probably superior to the standard of the noble order; while the offspring of Sutherland, bred in the hovel of the laborer would, in no respect whatever, vary from the ordinary standard of peasant life.
 Among the thousands of deformed and brutalized women of the mines of Cornwall, except those deformed by scrofulous diseases (and this, by the way, amid all their filth, and want and suffering, is not as often the case as among the 'noble' order,) there is not single one who, had she been exchanged with Mrs. Sutherland while in their cradles, but would exhibit the personal graces and mental capaci- tles, Ii not philanthropy of that interesting person. Nor would the last, excluded from the light of day from every childhood, and con- pelled to perform the labor of the other sex, as IS the fate of these unfortunStes, differ from them in the slightest particular
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 " But the condition of things at the South has no resemblance whatever to the artificial one contounded with it. The negro servant, or 'slave,' taken from some Uncle Toms cabin, when an infant, and bred in the mansion of the planter, unlike the case of the British pea sant, remains the same. He may be taken North-to Eng gland-may be educated at Ox- ford, or bred in the family of the Sutherlands, and supplied with all the wealth of the Roth schilds; yet the whole combined power of man. kind will be utterly incompetent to change him the milloneth part of an atom
 |" To be sure his intellect will be cultivated beyond that usually manifested by his race; but with the same color the same hair, the same formed limbs, the same animalized pelvis, the same small and recedmg brain-in word, with the same physical inferiority, will be the same mental inferiority that the Creator has stamped upon the race. He may, with the fullest de- velOpment of the faculties inherent in his race, together with the initiated or borrowed intelli- gence of the superior one, thus forced upon him, seem superior to vast multtudes of uncul- tivated white men. But if of pure negro blood, it is as impossible for him to reach the sta,dard capacity of the white man, as it is to change any other order or form of nature, and as wholly beyond the power of human force to accomplish, as it would be to change a COW n- to horse or to raise the dead, or in a word, as to change the color of his skin.
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 " In all the countries of Europe, nearly half the people are armed to keep down the other halt England Is no exception; for though her standing army IS less, Gin perfect keeping with the fraud and hypocrisy of her whole system, } an armed police, equal to the regular soldiery or the more manly despotisms of the continent, IS Kept Ill pay and constant, unsleeping activity, to keep down the people
 VI ' W as the European aristOcracv to place it. selt III the same position towards the people that the planters of the South do, in respect to ther negroes-were kings and nobles to disband ther armies, to present themselves stripped of all artclat support, face to face with their sub jects, as the planter does daily and constantly to his negroes-to trust to their assumed and fictitious superiority, as the planter does to his real and natural superiority, the entire crew of fictitious and painted humanity would be recev- ed with roar of dersion from the Volga to the Thames; their actual inferiority and utter in- significance would be so palpably revealed to the people, that the latter would scarcely con- descend to punish them for their past trans gresslOns
 The continued ascendency of an aristocracv. or rullng class on the contrary instead of the laws of nature, rests wholly on the ignorance of the masses. With the government, the wealth, all the forces of the States in its pos session, 1t cultlvates it's own intelligence, and withholds the means of mental improvement from the people. Thus the same parliament in England which voted forty thousand pounds to educate the people, appropriated eighty thou sand to repair the Queens stables; making the physical comfort of the dumb animals of double importance to the moral well-being of the peo- pie. Thus too, while plunderng the laboring classes of some five millions annually to pay lptp IL. negro to common level with the former. they annually appropriate about hundred thousand pounds for education or allow the people to use about the tiftieth partof the former amount to elevate themselves; or, when robbng Bri- tish laborer of fifty cents to elevate the negro to his own level, permit him to use one cent to etevdte himself to the level of these with whom God and Nature has made him equal. Yet. strange, indeed, this atrocious imposture and unapproachable villany passes for 'philanthro- py;' and there are even Americans so debauch- ed by Britishlsm, and so stultifed in their moral perceptions, as to glorfy 1t as an act of hunanatu and great national effort in behalfof 'hbestu.' N or Is this mlScOnceptlOn or confusion between drtyfcaoNy degraded classes of a superior race, and the natural condition of an inferior one. con, fined to Europe. Throughout the northern States, those with whom British books and Br- tish writers are standard authorities, universally adopts the same notion. And it will always be found that those most in favor of class distinc- tions in their own race, or most in favor of spe- cial legislation, or those schemes or contrivances that foster artificial distinctions amongst the whites, are those, too, most hostile to what IS termed southern slavery
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 For this purpose, and the accomplishment of this end, British aristocracy, and European monarchsts their tools and instruments all over, everywhere openly or converty labor inces- sanity.
 They know instinctively the danger and the men, the ideas and the representative of ideas, that threatens to destroy their own vile 'sys- tems' of oppression; and from the day that the brutal old tory, Dr. Johnson, declared that the negro drivers of America were the loudest vel pers after liSerty' to the present moment, all their efforts have been directed to break down system in deadly hostility to their own-to crush ideas destined to revolutionize Europe to destroy class, the founders and true defen-