Washington sentinel., 1854-03-04

of intellect, of mind, of brain, different in the
rapidity of the coursing of the blood through
their veins, cannot live and enjoy equality to
gether. There is no such thing. II is idle to
think of it. Look to any point in history, an
cient or modern, and you will find the same
truth developed. How is it in our own coun-
try? When our ancestors landed at Plymouth
rock and at James river, what was the condi-
ton of the country? Ii was oyerspread by
vast. powerful, and numerous tribes OF Indians,
as different as day is from night from the popu-
lation then arriving from northern Europe.
Did they live, or have they continued to live,
upon an equality with us? They have not
they cannot. Ii is utterly impossible. Diverg-
ing from the line ofmy argument, let me say in
all kindness 10 the senator from Arkansas, Mr..
JOHNSON, who introduced bill this morning
providing for the organization of Indian Terri
tories preparatory to their admission into the
Union as States, that he will find it to be ut.
terly fallacious.
Mr.. BR0DHEAD. Civilization is entitled
to this continent
Mr. PETIT. Ny friend from Pennsylva-
MIA says civilizations entitled to this continent
Yes, sir, it is By higher law than your Con-
sututon; for | am, in one sense of the term, a
higher-law man, as will be found before | get
through. BY higher law than your Constitu-
ton, or your acts of Congress-by the stern de
crees of the Almighty, his children first planted
here are to give way to a race of men heavier
physically, and heavier mentally. The wild
grass amid which he lay, the woods where he
built his moon fire, and where he erected his
wigwam, his bow and arrow, his buffalo. his
deer, and all the Accomplishments Of the wild
man, are to pass away, and the heavier race
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the soil will be cultivated, stately mansions will
be reared and the cultivated, improved, and
domesticated animals will be introduced. The
country. will be peopled BY race as widely
different in all their tendencies from that which
preceded them, as they could possibly have
been made, even by Almighty hands.
The Indians have no future, let me say to
those who have sickly sympathy on the sub
ject. To my mind, it is plain that no act can
save them from that end, that doom placed
upon them by q higher law; it is inevitable.
1ou may almost see; you can easily contem-
plate the period when the last of these tribes
shall have gone from this continent. and when
no remnant of them can be found. 1t were
vain and idle to attempt any such thing as
staying destiny that has been written by the
hand of the Almighty so legibly and intellgi-
bly, that the weakest and most wayward may
read it. Wonder at it as you will, pity them
and mourn over their deplorable condition as
you may, their doom is sealed beyond the power
OF human wisdom to stay or avert
Sir, this attempt was made in Mexico re-
Gently, on this continent, to harmonize and cul-
tiyate together the existence OF two separate
and distint races. | need not stop TO tell the
Senate what has been the result, and how sig
nally that attempt had failed. Where is it that
you see order there? Where is discipline,
where is love, where is harmony, where is af
fiction? 1t does not exist-cannot exist. Men
who are constituted physically and mentally
different cannot enjoy, on an equality, one com
monwealth together. One must be the supe-
rior, and the other the inferior The question
then is one of extent, and not of kind. Where
one race is inferior to the other, it is necessa
rily subservient, and it is only question Of
extent as to whether they shall be slaves fully
or slaves partially. They cannot live on an
equality. All attempts to produce such re-
suit will be idle and futile.
Let me remind the Senate of little piece
of history, which happened to Joshua, the sue
cessor OF Moses, for violation Of the iniunc.
ton and stern mandate from Heaven to Moses,
that upon arriving at the promised land, he
should destroy all the ancient Canaanites with
out any exception whatever; Moses was never
allowed to pass the Jordan himself He got
sight of the promised land by ascending to
Pisgah's heights, and there calling his follow
ers together, four hundred and forty thousand
who were slaves, or the descendants Of slaves
to the Egyptians for four hundred years, he
bade them farewell, and handed over his com
mand to Joshua, his successor.
Joshua crossed the Jordan and led the Jews
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Canaanitish tribes, by their head men-for
they were tribes like our Indians begged to
be incorporated within their municipal body,
and to form constituent part of the govern
ment and people, protesting friendship and
their desire to become obedent to the laws
and will of the whole taken together
Well, sir, Joshua, the successor of Moses,
overcome by his kindness of heart, forgetting
the mandate of the Almighty that they could
not live in peace together, that it was the de.
struction Of themselves if they did not destroy
the other race, made peace and terms with
them. What was the result? In less than
one year disturbances difficulties, quarrels, and
sxcitements, consequent upon the different or
ganization Of the different races of men were
the result; and Joshua, after having made
treaty with them, was compelled to put even
the remnant of them to the sword. Such, sir
you will find is the condition of the Indian
tribes. You might as well attempt to tame
partridge and make dunghill fowl of it. You
might as well attempt to domesticate the deer
or the buffalo, thing that has never been
successfully done--and make it as obedient as
the OK. The accompaniment Of that race Of
men are not those of ours, nor ours those Of
theirs.
Sir, this question is argued as though the
passage of this bill creates slavery in these Ter
ritories That is not true. Had the amend
men. of the senator from Kentucky Mr.
DIxoNl prevailed, as he first offered it, that
would have been the result. Let us lay aside
all passion and prejudice, and appeal to our
judgments and onr iptellects.
Mr.. DIXON. Will the senator allow me
merely TO enter my protest against the con.
struction he gives 10 that amendment / think,
if he will examine the amendment, he will find
that, SO far from legislating slavery into the Ter
ritories, it leaves the question precisely where
it was before the act OF restriction was passed.
1t neither legislates slavery in nor out of the