The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-28


navy, as managed by the present administra-
ton, is pitiful burlesque, and its turbulent
| and dieorganized condition is in painful con-
trast with the efficient feet managed by Great
| Britain.
Tne Safety, Destiny and Rights or tho White
and Black Races In this Country.
There are times when the law of self pre-
servation repeats all others, reducing forms
and discipline at once to anarchy, and Office rs
and seamen, generals, soldiers and camp fol-
lowers to common level, and subjecting
them alone to their own individual means of
salvation. In the pursuit Of this object homi-
eide ceases to be crime, sel6shness is jussi-
fed, cruelty defended, and all the obligations
Of friendship and affection overlooked. A
with persons, so to great extent it is with
nations. The latter have their perils and
disasters as we'll as the former. There are
conditions appended to the existence of States
as we'll as individuals. There are laws Of me-
cessity and selfpreservation with the one as
with the other. Abstractly considered, it
would be easy to FIX the crime of murder upon
the mariner who, in the midst of the storm
and the wreck, by the force of his superior
strength hurled his companion into eternity
in order to save himself; and still the peril Of
his own life justified the severity of the means
employed to save it.
What, then; is the political liberty or the
utter ruin of the three millions of the African
race in this country to the safety, peace and
prosperity Of the twenty-three millions Of the
white race? All experience has demonstrated
the interiority of the former and the vast su-
periority of the latter. 1t requires no argu-
ment to show that, as members of the same
political family they cannot subsist together
on any condition other than such as their Ca
pacities impose. There are inequalities enough
in our own race; and these are made visible in
the various spheres into which society is
divided. To think Of adding to these a dis.
rinctive African caste, inferior to all the
others, and incapable of amalgamation without
shocking both moral and physical sensibilities,
is one Of those cruel and inhuman projects
sustained by men from whom we may expect
plans Of infusing social and political re.
forms in the world by some grand scheme OF
International guavanism.
We must no longer trust to natural laws.
We have grown too wise to submit to what is
inevitable. We must deny to the superior its
right of control; we must guarantee to the in
ferior an equality, and this must be done by o
State composed of individuals as various in
intellect as in form!
When the fifth days work of material crea-
ton had been satisfactorily completed; when
the heavens and the earth, the sun and the
animals of the land had been brought into
being then man was formed and endowed and
was given dominion" over all these things,
and Of the earth, which he was commanded to
replenish and subdue.
The authority thus delegated to the human
family, in connection with the obligations i'm
posed upon it, signify as well the true charac-
ter which the Creator intended to establish in
the race as an obvious design to reward the
superior for it's nearer approach to the Divine
attributes and image. This principle is main
tanned throughout the whole range of rational,
irrational and material existence. 1t is law
to civilization to barbarism, and "to every
tulpb bubt mOVeGu upou tuc cdTtu. IL Is
bound to no conditions which paralyse its ac-
tion or impede its progress It's dominion and
its power to subdue indicate its superiority,
and that superiority has the right to impose
the conditions of its own safety and success.
1t need not be laid under this sweeping by
pothesis--that tyranny stands justified by its
might-because the remedy for every species of
injustice and oppression will be placed in the
hands of the oppressed precisely when they
have the sense to execute and enforce it. Be
sides, intelligence is conservative, magnani-
nous and philanthropic. 1t is humane and
generous, and there is no higher proof of this
than is to be found in the history of the feder-
al Union, including it's slavery.
Slavery, indeed, is the only means Of saving
from utter annihilation the three millions of
blacks who inhabit this country. 1t is the only
condition by which their acknowledged superb
ors in numbers, intelligence and enterprise--the
white race-can endure their existence. The
freedom of the negro would be the signal Of
his decline, and finally of his utter ruin. The
laws creating slavery may be repealed; but
the laws regulating the intercourse of two such
opposite races cannot be. The slaves may be
freed from the shackles of bondage, but not
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