Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-11-15
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We find the following striking article in III
N. Y. Day Book. We need not designat
that as a staunch Democtsiic journal. Ever
day. we are happy 70 see that the Democrat
press are enlightning the public mind as I
the true character Of Southern institutions an
are giving heavy blows TO abolitionism by IN,
mighty battle axe Of facts and conclusive or
gumentS
On. VAN EvRE's PAMPHLEr.-This wonder
full book, in which the author takes an entire
ly new view OF the negro question and negro
character, is having a most remarkable effec
upon the minds of all who read il. Its reason
and logic are unaSSailable, and settle forever
in the minds of all candid men the slavery
Question. No one can rise from its peruSaI
with doubt as 10 what ough; to be done with
and for the negro race. The Doctor proves
beyond all cavil or question, that the negro } i;
phySiologically and anatomically q totally and
entirely efficient as well as inferior being Ia
the white man,, and that his right and natural
or normal condition is that OF Subordination
The following paragraph from the introduction
is explanatory of the work
stripping off the skin OF the negro, the
writer proposes 10 demonstrate 10 the senses,
as well as the reason, that he is net n black
white man, or a man mercy with a black skin,
but o different, and inferior species OF MANI
that this difference is radical, and total, and
relatively, as great in the primoTdial arrange
ment oil elementary particles, or the single
glObule Of blood, as in the color of the skin,
or the grosSer facts, palpable TO the senses;
that it is original, invariable, and lndestruc-
tibla nc lonI ac Tho pTacant nrlaF nj nraatton
itself laStS-lhat the physical structure OF the
race is necessarily and perpetually Iinke with
corresponding faculties, capabilities, wants,
necessities, N short, with q specific nature;
and is thus designed by the Almighty Creator
for corresponding purposes, or a social position
harmonizing with those wants, etc.:-ihat
therefore all the charges against the socia. sys-
TEN Of the South, being based on false as.
symptoms, are themselves necessarily false;
that so called slavery is neither o wrong
nor an evil nor Is lis extension DANCE rouS,
but that it is a normal condition, Il natural re.
latlon, boSed upon the higher law in harmo-
ny with the order, progress, and general we'll
being OF The superior one, and absolutely es.
10 the very existence Of the inferior
Doctor Cartwright, a celebrated physician Of
New Orleans, who has spent twenty years
negro diseases and examining their
anatomical structure says of this work:
"Ir it were circulated extensively in The
North, II conld not fail 10 quiet the Northern
mind on the subject oiSCuthern negroSlavery.
Van Evrle proves that it is no slavery al all
IN the European sense OF the term, but the
Iatural relation of the races = The mere aGapta.
ion nT n nai,EaI I.n, a.. H. ,u...-l
With any other natural condition or social
convenience, Springing from the wants and
necessities Of human existence.' IL oar peo-
'le would read Van Evrie'Swork, or even his
Introductory chapter, they would not wonder
hat The free negroes in tie British colony
Sierra Leone are selling their children 10
he negro SavageS Of the interior 10 buy fresh
'eeL but would learn that ii is only a natural
OF negro freedom, and that ii
$ IN The nature OF the negro 10 run into bar.
'arlSm when released from the supervIsaiory
are Of the white man. The negroes Of Sierra
zone had plenty Of land, liberty, and money
set up for themselves given TO them by the
'rlliSh yet, after seventy years, the expert
lent OF making them a happy, Industrious
eople has utterly failed"
Every citizen who feels the least interest
I the destiny OF his own country or The well
Ire OF twenty millions of his own people and
ice, should read this book. 1t so completely
psetS every abolition argument, and shows
lie whole foundation work Of the superStruc-
Ire false and wicked, that The simplest mind
convinced at once OF the facts and errors in
he whole question.