Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-03-20
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Dew, Jr, on Negroes.

Dew, Jr., on Negroes.
Il have fancy that the Creator has pro-
duced the different families of the human race
as they are; breeds and mixtures, all from
pure native stock as mules from horses and
jack-bottoms. Certain portions are made for
certain zones. climates and localities. Trans
plant them in foreign, uncongenal soil, and
they dwindle, anb eventually run out. Who
supposes that fourishing crop Of Polar bears
or Greenlanders could be grown at the equator,
and perpetuated sufficiently long for them to
run into 'Aorse of another color!'' or that
an Ethiopian would ever have his wool strai-
ghtend and skin bleached amid Arctic frosts
and SHOWS? don't.
my friends, climate never mad the nigger;
on the contrary, the nigger was made for the
climate. No climate in this known world
possesses such remarkable peculiarity as to
cause downy fleece tc cover caputs well
enouh adapted to the propagation of hair; to
iatten nose and produce an under lip capa-
ble Of seating outside bbacco-qad too bulky
and ponderous for inside duty. Nor is there
soil upon earth sufficiently productive to
bring out heel from she foot that presses it,
Of sutch perplexing length as to place its pro-
prietor in the darkness of doubt as to whether
Nature intended him to go ahead or proceed
back ward-wlether he should draw shoe
on over the heel or over the toe. No, my
brethren, the niggeI was made for the climate
and It's attributes esen as the Arab and the
ostrich are adapted to the dreary unwatered
sands Of the desert. The brush of Nature has
painted him blak-tae prevailing color of all
animals that inhabit the torrid zone-in order
that he may withstand the powerful influences
Of caloric. Because why! Black, being a
conductor as heat, tue latter readily escapes
througe it, to the relief and safety of the body,
Just about as fast as the sun, with its fiery
arrows, can shoot it in And then how
negroe will sweat, aud grinningy weather the
Crisis of a heated tern," when nine out of
duXen of the tfimSy white trash" would lop
and keel over from cerberal congestion Yes;
and don't the nigger, thus tested, exhale
powerful pertume!-assoiatida, burnt shoes
and onions.-the otto of roses, musk and es-
sence of pole-cet are but the weakest odors in
comparison. Who eyer heard of a nigger
being knocked ont of litelight by a sun stroke!
Nobody. As for old Sol planting his biggest
knocks upon nisger's wool patch with the
expectation Of doing damage, he might as
well experiment upon cast-ron pot, or try
his best hcks at The biz be!j OF the Vigilance
Commltte. Ola truth, a nigger can stand
heat almost equa! to salamander; and it's
this that renders him 50 useful biped in the
burning fields Of the South where whiteskin,
If put to hard labor would find little or moth
ing left OF himself to take home to supper, a:
the close of the first day.
"My brethren, there are some who assert
hat the nigger is, by nature, equal in intel
ect with the Anglo Saxon; and, that had the
same advantages, be would raise himself to
as high notch in the scale of humanity.
We shouldn't wonder if they could prove it,
just as easy as can prove that my little
knows more than | do He can
smell rat, and tell where it is, at any time
o'night-and that passeth my comprehen-
sion."- San Fracisco Golden Era.