Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1855-11-06
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z NE fad the .ullotiiug striking article Ia the ~
+. Day Book We need not designate that IS
etatnch Eemoeratic journal Every day, we are
happy to Zee tie em0cratc press at tie North are
cnlighteuiag tie tbIic mind to the true charec-
ter OF Southern institutions and are glving heavy
blows to Sbolitio asrn BY the mighty battle axe OF
facts and conciu sive arguments:
DR. Vas Ev aIE's PAgFHLrr.-This wonderful
book, in which the author takes entirely new
view of {he gro question and negro character is
haging mos remarkable effect upon the minds OF
ri who read it. Its reason and logic are ulassaa-
BILE and settle forever in the minds Of all candid
men the sla5ery questicn. No can rise from lis
per,,gal with q doubt as to what ought 10 lie done
with aadfor the negro race. The Doctor proves
bcyond al c4yi or question that tie negro is physio-
logicallyand sua;omicaHy totally and entirely dig
ierert well as inferior being to the white man,
and taat his right aud natural or normal condition
is that Of subordinalion. The following paragraph
from he Introduction is explanatory Of the work
"Strfrping off the skin Of the negro, the writer
rrorses 10 demonstrate to the stnscS rs we as the
reason 7hat be IS not black white man, or man
merely with black skin, bat different and ner-
(. or suecie; of man that this difference is radical
and tol and relatively, great in the primutdial
arraugcLleut of elementary particles, or the single
,iobulc 81 blood in the color OF the skin, or the
grosseT acts paPable to the senses that IS orig
nal iuT;ITiah.p. and indeSruCtble rs long the
Dresen; order Of creation itself lGststhat the ply
steal structure OF the is necessarily and perpet-
uay linked with corresponding faculties, czpabili-
ties wants. necessities 10 short, with specific ma
tIre and Is thus designed By the Almighty Creator
Tor corresponding purposes a social position har
1u0nizinT with those wants, ec+-that therefore all
the charles against the social system of the South
being based false assumptions. themselves ne
ctSsary, false that SO called slavery Is neither q
wrong nor an evil is lis extension dangerous
but that it is normal condition, natural relation,
based uT,on the higher law in harmony with the
ori,r progress and general well-beng OF the supe-
rior one: and absolutely essential to the very eXis-
teucc of The inferior race
Doctor Cartwright 4 celebrated physician of New
Orleans, who las spent twenty years Studying negro
diseases and examining their anatomical structure
says Of this work:
"fit were circulated extensively in ;he North, it
couId NIT fail to quiet the Northern mind on the
subject o. Southern negro slavery. Van LTre proves
that it is no slavery ut all IN The European sense OF
the term; but the natural relation of the raceS-Ue
mere ndtpttiion of naturd! law, no more to he
yvtrrcd with than anv other natural condition or So
cinI convenience, sprnging from the wants and nc-
cessiIics of human existence four people would
re,ud Eaa Eyr!es work, even his introductory
chapter, they would not wonder that the free ne
rrors in the .sh colony OF Sierra Leone are sell
ing their children 10 the negro savages Of the lulert
or TO -ov fresh beet but would learn that it is only
a ra'uIHi consequence Of negro freedom, and that
il is IN tie nature OF the negro 10 run into hHriaTIsHl
when released from the SUI ervislfOry Of the
white man The legrucs OF Sierra Leone had plenty
OF land. llCTty, AID money 10 set up tor themselves
given TO. them by the British yet, after seventy
wears. the experiment Of making them happy, in
dusIriou3 people has utterly failed
Evcay citizen who feels the least interest in the
destiny of his country or the welfare of twenty mil
lions of his people and race, should read this
book 1t so completely upsets every abolition ar
l.l,, work Of