The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-01

lie should see that these three millions Of negroes
nearer white men, of his race than owl,
are to eagles and therefore different that necessity
they designed by the Creator for different purposes or
social position harmonzing with their actual wants IN
short he should see in instant give them feedom
force upon them habitudes specific and instructive
with the superior race would not only be foolish or alb
surd, but absolutely wicked and nhuman us II woudbe
to force children or compel women TO perform the duties
manhood But were eoonists OF England and The
English mind TO great extent in the old States governs
us STILL Thus instead of drawing conclusions from fact,
before us, accept British opinions and disregard these
facts bend them into accord with these foreign opinions
however absurd.
i British and European writers rarely negro,orA
of any other race, and therefore naturally acquire The
notion of single race that Cancasans Monaghan
Malays negroes &c whatever their color external d
terences, are really unitythe same being-a thing IN
fact just as absurd to suppose all birds all fishes Or
sepents alike constitute the saIue unity or oneness
But this theory assumption accepted in Europe and
all their reasonngs based it, Thus for peasant
an English artisan to be denied any voice ia the govern
men any part in the creation of laws that rule over
him, is to them, nothing in comparison American sa
very which, it is supposed allows white g
and even to sell another and British monarchsn, where
half million rule over twenty millions whom tue Al.
mighty has created alike is supposed to bea "free and lit
eral system while American democracy, where twenty
millions Of white naturally rule three millions Of
inferior negroes assumed to be monsrous system of
slavery But English statesmen know better; ley know
from experience that the negro is inferior race fla
know that their system and are in deadly conrad
tiontha unless is overthrown, theirs must be and
hey know instinctiyey that if negro slavery overthrow
democracy will be overthrow; or, in other words
whites and negroes be forced to artificial equality
then their SYSTEM artificial distinctions among wh,es
themselves is certain to follow Hal-cenury ago there
FORE they raised the cry of universal bertyo raise the H.
IN a will fhav
poor dumb down-trodden millions of their own flesh and
blood, six hundred millions, nomnaly to benefit for
egn and inferior race but really to break down deu,
cratic system, and thus preserve their 1t is wonder
full and to postey will appear incredible that Americans
30 intelligent universally enlightened, SO attached 10
their institutions could be deuded by abstract theory
utterly absurd and actually contradiced by their very
and every day of heirves that they could thus
IN the face of fact and common sense 60 day after day
and year after year playing into the hands of their deadly
enemies and actually assisting consumnae the over
throw of their institutions and the destruction Of their
country. Not alone the blind and ignorant aboltons Of
the North, who, starting with the assumption that
the negro is white man, off into boundless
fields of imaginary horrors Union and conser-
natives, who split their brains in scheming how to get
rid Of suppostous "evp reconcile existing facts
with the stupid and lying theories Of foreign writers but
satesmen southern statesmen have actually made
themselves instruments Of European monarchsts this
welfare of their country The British warfare on the slave
trade simply TO an end-n was wrong be-
cause slavery was wrong and slavery wrong be-
the negro had the natural rights the master
and the negro had these rights because there was
only single race and the British theory Of universal
liberty thus based the dogma of unity or oneness Of
all mankind, was andf to secure this equality OF rights
to the negro elevate the negro or to degrade the white
man OF this continent to legal eve-n short to reduce
to practice the theory Of single race
And American statesmen have bndly labored at this
work. have expended millions of the public treasure not
to prohibit the slave trade matter of commerce
grounds of expediency, but the basis OF the British
theoryo carry out the British policyto reduce p
tiee the theory ola single race or in other words adopt
ing the British theory that the negro ia white man.
bindy lahored TO put down the slave trade and thus de-
stroy slavery.
The result of all this impcsture and fraud and deluson
and national blindness Is now papabe distinc unmis
taxable and the time hand when reaction must beginner
our system is doomed TO destruction-when the
less mass of fraud and deuso be rolled back II
will overwhelm The whole Of tropical America with
oil the islands except Cuba, under the British sy
TEN, or, in other words, the British theory of single
race and their policy of universal 'berty" pra
ticaIy applied to all the Territories south Of present
limits Even Brazil is scarcely exception for the low
Caucasian character Of the Portuguese and the influence
Of British agents. have thoroughly and hopecy debauc
ed and demoralized society large portion of the plant
have negro blood in their VEINS and society," kept
geher by mere money interest," is liable any moment
to collapse into hopeless ruin and desoation Cuba
therefore alone remains; but here too society corrupt
ed at its 1t is now and has long BEEN policy Of
the Spanish to encourage marriages between
the low class Of whites and negroes and in English FASH
ion prohibiting it alone to the nobility. English states
men have long foreseen that the Spanish dominion must
come to end and their policy to have the island pass
into the hands of the negroes instead ours or other
words to be given up to their system Of artificial dnc
ton OF classes instead of the American system Of natural
distinction Of races and, Of course strict tulflaaent Of
our International obligations uM bring about The torma
result
Here we are, then, at the eliminating point Shall The
British system or the American predominant Shall de-
nocracy sha monarchsm conquer? Shall we advapc,
or shall fall back Shall we carry our system--our
equality for white men, and sabordn fer negroes
the tropics the ialands over the whole con
nent2 or shall British "ce-negro and European
archism or universal liberty advance upon US In short
shall Jamaica be American shall Louisiana relapse
Europeansm2 Cuba is the centre and hngnq-pono Of
the futuethe battlefield OF our destinyhe turning
point in the mghtest issue presented since time be
gan-the cradle or The grave Of American civilization for
ifit is ours we advance--if we fall back, we die
finaily we must arouse ourselves the North the whole
nation--o the truththe ransccndant and mornenous
truth--that the negro is negro and white man;
that the system of the South slavery ALL but nat
ura condition OF hings-the normal order of society
wherever whites and negroes in juxtaposon that
we have no history precedent nothing whatever but
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