The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-08-07

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organ of the Democracy in New York, the
Day Book, paper having the names OF Bu-
chanan and Breckenridge at the head of its col
umns, for President and Vice President
Instead, then, as in the case of the French
Democracy, of a resort to physical force, ana
instead of even denial of the great truths we
had made the basis of our institutions, the
British aristocracy actually accepted them as
applicable to this continent, and set their wrl-
tiers to work to debauch and destroy them by
an application to negroes The Declaration
of American Independence, that all (white)
men were created free and equal, is not only
an eternal truth, but an eternal fact. But to
pervert this declaration, by an application to
negroes, Indians, ali races or species OF men,
is, of course, just as absurd as to say that all
birds, or all fishes, are equal.
"But not Slavery alone, or the mere physi-
cal wrongs inflicted on the negro, their mental
condition and spiritual restitution were held up
as the disgrace of Christianity, and the dark
and damning blot of modern civilization. Men
were called on to 90 as missionaries to Africa
to the islands-all over where the heather
needed their aid, and the sins and suferings OF
their brethren, their race, their own kith and
kin, became as nothing in comparison with the
imaginary miseries of yellow-skinned Malays
or woolly headed negroes. Even woman, pure,
devoted, self sacrificing woman. left her home,
her duties, her sad and suffering sisters at her
own door, and wasted health, life, the beautiful
affections that God endowed her WITH in the
impotent and impious, if not, indeed, indecent
effort to transform negroes, &c, into white
men,"
After undertaking to show that the mis-
placed philanthropy or the wicked informed
ding of Abolitionists has destroyed million
or so of the negro race, and done untold mis-
chief besides, our philosophical editor proceeds
to explain the whole thing in nutshell, as
follows
ain conclusion, we hardly need to state to
the readers of this journal why this is so, neces-
sarily So If the Almighty had designed the
owl to have the nature and fulfil the purpose of
the eagle why, he would have made it an eagle,
or, rather, would not have created it at all !;
and the simple existing, eternal fact, that the
negro exists, is, of course, proof absolute and
unavoidable, that the Almighty designed him
for different purpose and subordinate social
position; and, consequently, that all that has
been said, or done, or thought, or labored for,
in this respect, is deluson, monstrous,
world wide fraud-the most deplorable and
most stupendous imposture ever imposed upon
the world"
And this is Democracy We do not wish to
spoil theory which the author seems to con-
template with so much pleasure; but it so
happens that the Almighty did create the An
glo-Saxon, and other German races, the Celts,
and all the Caucasians; and it so happens that
the great body of them were held in slavery
from about the era of Creation, or little later
down, to some three hundred years ago. 1t is
also true, that two-thirds of the Caucasian race
in Russia are at this time slaves. Now, we
maintain, that, according to the principles of
logic, and according to the most palpable com
mon sense method of drawing conclusion, if
the above mode of reasoning of the Day Book
is applied to the Caucasians, it will show that
they should again be reduced to Slavery-that
is to say, all who have to earn their bread by
labor. And this ia what the Richmond En-
quirer, the organ of Southern Democracy,
maintains. That paper, with the Southern
politicians generally, are fully committed in "a
vor of restoring white slavery at proper time
though they say it is premature to agitate it as
practical question. They wish to crush out
the spirit of negro abolition first, and then the
poor whites will have their turn.
THE OPINION OF A SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER
We take the following from the Minden Her.
louisiana:
"Our opinion is, that Brooks disgrsced him
self, and brought the whole Slavery cause into
more disrepute than ever, and should be sum
marily expelled from the House. 1t was stretch
of chivalry on his part for which no valid ex-
cuse can be offered. Summers offence against
Butler did not deserve any physical castigation,
but, on the contrary, was, In our estimation,
taking all the circumstances, past and present,
into account, perfectly proper, because Justly
merited. We have no sympathy with the Sla-
very agitators on either side-we have a su.
preme contempt for Southern fre-eaters, and
ice vending Northern fanatics; but we do think
that if ever a man might be excused for be.
coming desperate in the halls of legislation,
that man is Sumner.
awe have read the debates in Congress for
many years past, infinitely and impartially, and
never have we known any man 80 foully and
increasingly abused and vilihed as this same
Sumner. Every dog of Southern agitation,
from Bose Douglas down to the smallest and
most NANCY that whines and snars in the un-
principled, suck-egg train, has been barking at
his heels; but the fact has not been successfully
hit that their spite arises more from reluctant
knowledge of bis cool superiority of talent, than
any real difference OF opinion on principle.
Douglas-than whom, in our humble opinion,
a more unprincipled and reckless agitator never
disgraced the Senate Chamber-has from time
to time hurled at Sumner all his native and
well-cultivated slang and then Og, the king of
Rashan,' Gen. Cass, the old broken-down Pres.
identseeksr and inconsistent Free-Soier, has
never failed to chime ia with his more solid in.
veetive; and the chorus has been filed to every
beat and bar with the yelpings of the little
| woolly headed poodles from the South-men
who have no more principle, and but little more
brains, than the African slaves in behalf OF
whose chains they so injudiciously rave and rant.
"And finally, under the influence of all this,
| Sumner becomes somewhat desperate, and hurls
at his conglomerated assailants some thunder
bolts, which send them bowling in hurried con.
| fusion; and then, as q last resort of revenge
one of the manly number slips up to him in
| the Senate Chamber, finds him seated at bis
desk, writing, unarmed, and with great gusto
| canes him. Wonderful feat And is this
| the way Southern Rights are to be indicated I
Are these the kind of champions the South
must look to for her defence in the national
halls of legislation Is it by such acts of slavish
degradation as this, that the Slavery of the
Southern States of this free and enlightened
Union is to be perpetusted? Gentlemen may
| think so, and may rave at any man who has the
independence to condemn such conduct-par
ticularly if he be Southerner; but we tel
them that the citizens of this Republic are mo-
to be convinced as to what is right and what i.
wrong by blo,os, and are not to be brought to
final decision by brute force.
This is our opinion of the Summer ant
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