Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-01-02
1Tore BoId sentiments.

We find the following striking article
in the New York Day Book. We need
not designate that as staunch DemocrR-
tic journal. Every day, We are happy to
see the Democratic press at the North
are enlightening the public mind as to
the true character Of Southern institutions
and are giving heavy blows to abolition
ism by the mighty battle axe of&facts and
conclusive arguments: $50,
DR.. Van EYRE's<P AMPAlET.- This
wonderful book, in which the author takes
an entirely new view of the negro guess
ton and negro character, is having Q
most remarkable effect upo the minds Of
all who read it. Its reason and logic are
iunassailable, and settle forever In the
minds of all candid men the slavery ques-
ton. No one can rise from Its perusal
with a doubt as to what ought TO be done
with and for the negro race. :, The Doc
tor proves beyond all ceyil or question,
that the negro is iologically and anas
tonically totally and entirely different
as we'll as inferior being to the white
man, and that his right and natural or
normal condition is that of subordination.
The following paragraph from the intro
duction, is explanatory of the work:
Stripping off the skin ofthe negro the
writer proposes to demonstrate to the SEN
ses, as well as the reason, that he is not
| ~ black white man, or man merely with
black skin, but different and inferior
species of man that this difference is
radical, and total, and relatively, as great
in the primodial arrangement Of clemens
tary particles, or the single globule of
blood, as in the color of the skin. or the
grosser facts, palpable to the senses -
that it is original, invarible, and inde>
structible, as long as the present order Of
creation itself losts-that the physical
structure of the race is necessarily and
perpetually linked with corresponding
faculties, capabilities, wants, and neces.
stiles, in short. with all specific nature
and is thus designed by the Almighty
Creator for corresponding purposes, or
social position, harmouizing with those
wants, etc that therefore all the char
ges against the social system of the
South, being based on false assumptions,
are themselves nee essarily false ;--that
so called slavery is neither "wrong"
nor an "evi," nor is its extension dan
gerous, but that it is normal condition.
natural relation, based upon the f" highs
er law" in harmony with the order, pro-
gress and general well>being of the supe~
rior one, and absolutely essential TO the
exist ence Of the inferior race
Doctor Cartwright, celebrated physi-
ian of New Orleans, who has spent TWEEN
ty years studying negro diseases and ex>
amining their anatomical structure says
of this work
eff it were circulated extensively in
the North, it could not fail TO quiet the
Northern mind on the subject Of Southern
negro slavery. Van Evrie proves that it
! is no slavery at all in the European
sense of the term, 'but the natural rela>
ton Of the raCe-the mere adaptation Of
natural law, no more to be wRrred with
than any other natural condition or 40.
cinl convenience. springing from the wants
and necessities Of human existence If
our people would read Van Evre's work,
or even his Introductory chapter, they
would not wonder that the free negroes
in the British colony Of Sierra Leone are
selling their chihres to the negro savn-
ges OF the interior to buy fresh beef, but
would learn that it is only natural con.
sequence OF negro freedom, and that it
is the nature Of the negro to run into bar.
baranism when released from the super.
visatory care of the white man. The me-
groes of Sierra Leone had plenty OF land.
liberty and money to set up for them.
selves, given to them by the British; yet
after seventy years, the experiment Of ma.
king them happy and industrious PEG.
pie has utterly failed"
Every citizen who feels the least inter-
est in the destiny of his country or the
l
people and race, should read this book.
1t SO completely shuts up every abolition
argument, and shows the whole founda-
ton work of the superstructure false and
wicked, that the simplest mind is convinc-
ed at once ofthe facts and errors 10 the
whole question.