Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-09-19
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any danger to the union of the Statess
that it will ultimately strengthen that hs
ion. The whole northern crusade against |
the South is a delusion, palpabe, un- I
mistakable, ,disgracCiul' de4usion, resting
on aasimple, wisaopcepfion Of southern
society. The North, or a portion of the
North, think that the South has system |
Of slavery, and slavery being wrong, why |
they IhinE. and honestly think, that it |
should be kept out OF the common terrific.
~. but the South has no slavery what.
ever: and instead of slate States, most oil
the s6nthefn States are the Snnost peffecti
atdsS6mpiete examples of Stree States
in ali Ghristiandoms The truth; the per.
feet tTuthsot this is. seen IN moment,
when HE negro is left out OF c6nsfdera.
ton! ,sThe Crazfest abofitioniSt in MassaS
chasetts will tadmitit IN an instant, that
the7White citizenship of Arkansas, of Mis-
sissiPpi, especially OF. Texas, enjoy as
much or even more, freedom han they
doinshis own State. The SStith has
some three millions Of negroes bordi.
nate beifngsLmerll to be sure, s but different
and inferior men, not because they have
been wrouged or oppressed. or anything
of that kind but because the Greafor:has
seen 6tto ordain it thus, just as he has
created innHmerous species of birds. Of
dogs. Of serpents. DC. Just, in short as
in all the forms of lites without exception:
Having thus organized them different,
and endowed them different, il is, of
course. selfevident truth. that He has
designed these negroes for different pur-
pose. This the Snuthacts on, and adapts
It's social regulations to the nature and
wants of these negroes as well as to those
off own citizens.
And when this becomes understood at
the .North-when the stupid and rfdicu
lous theory of single, human race-thar
these negroes are no negroes at all, but
mem like ourselves-is exploded, why,
then they will see the delusion Of the pre-.
sent, and the reaction ofnorthern feeling,
the computations conscience for the wrong
they have done their brethernv of the
South. and the humility of temper. likely
TO follow the discovery of their mistake:
their arrogant ignorance, their absurd as.
sumption on the subject, an these things,
wedoo6t not. will result in Strengthening
the bonds of brotherhood between
the sections, and whatever the dangers
in the future, they will come from exter>
nal enemies rather than from domestic
quarrels.
But there is class at the North that
have said so much, and thought SO much, :
and above all, felt so much on this subject,
that. they have become transformed into
social monsters. Starting out with the
false assumption that the "slaves" Of the
South were wrouged and oppressed, aud
indeed. that they we're white men or
men like themselves. who had been trans,
formed into negroes by their oppres-
sors, they. at last, from retributiYe law
inherent in the nature of things, become,
TO certain extent. like the negroes, thus
mOrbidly sympaLhized with. This is a
philosophical truth,-men become to a
certain extent, that which. they effect,
which they strive after. and nothing is
more palpable than this popularity Of
The abolitionitionists- Garrisons and
Gerrit Smith, &c, actually manifest ma.
ny Of the traits, and especially of the spirit
of the inferior race they have SO long
identified themselves with. And in moth.
ing is this 81 white niggerism" more ap,
parent than in the universal cowardice
and utter abjectness OF spirit peculiar
to the entire abolition gang of the North.
Courage is to man what chastity is to
sential-of the Caucasian man, of all
that Is noble and great in the race. 1t is
fact a specific quality stamped by the
Almighty hand on the moral nature of
the Caucasian, and as Enthusiastically Civ
en- to him alone, in comparison, at least,
with other races, as it is to the lion among
beasts. 1t may remain latent, or It may
become debauched and lost, as it is, to a
great extent with the oppressed and de-
graded millions of Europe. or as with the
abolitionists, with those who volun tarily
sink themselves, or labor to sink them
selves to companionship with the free
negro. All other races or species of men
as instfnctively shrink from collision with
the white man, or Caucasian, as the tt
ger, panther, and other ,felines do from
the lion, and the negro, lowest in the scale
Of humanity, can no more resist the con
trol-of the former than he can fly, or turn
himself white. in contradiction to the laws
OF organic life. Sometimes, as in San
Domingo, led on by hybrids, or mougrels,
aud they stimulated in turn by white
men, as they were by British agents, the
negro is forced in collision. but then it is
MOTTO defend his rights, or imaginary
rights. or even to conquer nothing, what.
ever. but the instinct Of fear impelhng.
hirh.to exterminate that which he breads.
Thus the negroes of that island spared
none Of the master race-Ghe massacre Of
woman or infant was to them just as
natural and just as necessary as the ex>
termination of battalion of white men.
Courage, bravery. the sentiments of
honor OF self7resepectwhich springs from
the consciousness of independence, that
knows no superiority, is, we repeat, sps-
cifc and nennlinr To ttn ,,rlS;I., 49,. -.