Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-09-18

} ing Hood OF SANDER and abuse assall
our peace, he is an outcast and
, stranger. Shorn of his social an,
civil rights, be drags out a miserabl
existence-a living monument o
Of the hypocrisy and bitter hostilit,
ofnorthern demagogues to the south
ern people. l am here to tell thes,
wicked agitators that when they
assert that African slavery is al
evil, or crime, socially, morally
politically, or in the sight of God
they recklessly contradict the words
of revelation and the history of man.
kind; neither in the cOmmands,nor the
providence of Omnipotence, have
woes been pronounced against it
In vain many they look in the dec.
alogue, the teaching ofthe proph cts,
or the gospel Of our Saviour, for its
condemnation; but it is sufficient for
the purpose Of this argument, to
appeal to the annals of history, and
ask where are the achievements Of
the negro?-where- are his empires?
where his science?-where his
ciyilization?-where the fields of his
glory or the monuments of his great
ness? They are not to be seen upon
the face of the earth, nor are they
found in the volumes that record the
glories of fallen nations. He has
lived upon the world in barbarism and
blood. and the pathway of his exis-
tence might now be unknown, but
for lights of surrounding nations that
they have shone upon the darkness Of
his abode. The brightest page in the
history of the race is that which re-
cords the servitude of the slaves of
the United States. In morals, in in
telligence, in happiness and religion,
in steady and effective industry, there
is no nation of free negroes half their
equals, nor ever has been. 1t is
folly now to expect, in the future,
what the past has wholly failed to
produce. Indeed, it may be asserted
with perfect truth, that there is not
to be found, upon the face of the
globe, body of laborers whose phys
ical wants are so well supplied, and
whose tolls add so much to the gen.
erai happiness and welfare Of the
world. What negro slave ever failed
to pay his lawyers or doctors bill;
or suffered for bread or bacon to
eat, or for somebody to watch over
him when sick? If you do not own
him, you eat the bread, the meat, the |
sugar, and the rice that he produces
and wear the cotton that he cultivates;
be pays as much taxes as you, and
lessons your burdens. Away ,then,with
yourvile fabrications about ''the blight
ing curse of slavery" God has not
condemned it, and the nations have
practiced it in all ages. Civil govern.
ment is lawful only because it con-
duces in the greatest degree to the
general welfare, The same great
principle Of public policy demands
that the Americo-negro should forever
be a slave. The white man who fails
or refuses to control the negro who
lives on the same soil with him, vio-
Iates the will of Heaven as much as
be would by war upon all govern
ment. God has given to one the
talent to govern-the other is only fit
TO be slave. 1t is charity, brotherly
Iove, moral duty, political wisdom,
national wealth and power to hold
him in servitude, which is the only
position that he has yet shown him
self capable Of filling. To turn him
ooose among us would ruin the white
race, and be selfish cruelty to the
negro, as base as that of Dives to
Lazarus. In mental and physical
characteristics he is different and an
,agonistic to the white man; and all
he tears of his pretended friends
,annot make his skin white or elevate
lim to the level of the superior race.
Their course questions the ways of
)mnipotence in regardto their colored
brethren; but they may find conso-
alton in the reflection, that there
ire many strange facts in Gods prov
dence, the reason of which his crea-
;ures cannot know.
I wonder every day why it is, that
.hese pestiferous swarms of noisy
politicians, clad in the sable habili-
ments of the negro-more fearful
and disgusting than the plaques Of
Egypt-with slander, faction, strange
doctrine, and unholy aspersions in.
their mouths, come up from every
quarter Of our northern borders, to