The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-07


variaby tends to his moral intellectual and physical degra
daion BIAS pleased the Almighty create men Of different
coors and have right toconcpde il shs pleasure they
should remain thus Distinguished, II does not appear
probable that He would thus hay: .vp.ra.. .us.a .4y
that they may united again Why SO is beyond our
comprehension and though the conceted philosophy OF
the day aspres to account for everything and believes
nothing but what it account for there are certainly
many strange things in this world that however inscru
table nevertheless actually existing According to the
old proyerb seeing Is believing and there great
suspect that the evidence of the is after ALL the
best ground for human belief Certain it is courts OF
justice think At all events II the creation of this d.
versy and coors of Infinite Wisdom
doubt whether 1t is the province of to correct the
bunders of his Maker If it the Divine will the two
should become people, why were they marked by
such peculiar and indeble distinctions2 Why was one
creed white the other black2 II they were intended to
be united at last why they separated at hstl Being
thus separated by their Creator by what right does man
seek to bring them together Is not this attempt to
violate the laws of God and Nature?
Setting this aside however maintain, the ground
of universal experience that the project for amagamatng
the white and black carries with it the inevitable
degradation of the former 1t is scheme for lowering
the standard Of human nature by approximatng the high
est the lowest and neither less than an
attempt to increase the happiness of mankind by process
Of debasement That the negro should relish the idea of
improving his breed at the expense of the white
quite natural but that there should ba class
Of the lattersome of them distinguished among their fell
lows-who advocate the scheme, appears somewhat re-
markable unparalleled example of Christian hum
TIA disinterested sacrifice of legitimate superiority
But that there white women, well educated reputable
emaes uphoding this conspiracy against the legitimate
sovereignty the white man supporting it by their money
and influence their presence and cooperation apparent
y willing nay anxious surrender their persons this
revolving species of prosuon and standing ready to
barter their superiority for the wages of degradation and
become accompces in propagang of mulattoes out
casts alike from both that they should thus
themselves and sacrifice all that constitutes the divinity
to abstract dogma is of the miracles that
fanaticism alone achieve.
With these exceptions the project of amagamaton
has been received everywhere throughout the United
States with inexpressib cahing indignant scorn One
universal chorus of disgust has met it everywhere That
innate consciousness of the dignity of his nature that
feeling of selfrespec without which is little better
than the beasts that perish that honest pride arising from
alliance. Wherever such an unnatural connection has
taken place. instead of elevang the negro the level of
the white man, it has degraded the white woman below
the lowest of the coored CASTE and rendered her OBJ
ect of contempt and to both Does the most
sanguine, not to say the maddest OF the aboonsts
faer himself that he overcome all these obstacles
by dogma? Does he really believe that he can puff
down these barriers that have separated the two races
frop, -
his nosrs Is he than omnipotent that he thus at
tempts to reverse the DEGREES of Providence?
But admitting for argument sake that such obsta
Giles existed to the accomplishment of this project of ANAL
gama'iou, the subject Of inquiry would be whether
is desrabe whether it would add to the general sum
Of human happinessor that previously observed is
the great question be considered Excluding the north
Intermediates there two great parties this
queson-eigh millions of whites four millions of
groes two to one to begin with Whose happiness has
the best claim to preferencetbat of the majority the
minority Who are those neighbors we are commanded
to love ourelves Is it those who parake blood
aud lineage in whose welfare and prosperity joint
partners who equally contribute their treasure to the
port and their blood the defence of the State and who
in the daily exchange Of benefits with Or is it the
African slave who is not neghbor in any sense
of the word as applied in the great COMMANDMENT
But, setting this aside if he neighbor in this
point Of view there only four millions to be benefited
at the expense of the happiness Of eight millions Whether
emancipation, amalgamation, and equality of social and
political rights would conduce to the happiness of the four
millions of slaves is question which the two parties
greatly differ To decide it only resort to expe-
rence and if this 10 be guide it only be
ed in the negative We have already referred the
amples OF ST. Domingo Jamaica, Mexico and the South
American States exempyiug the consequences of al
empts to African slaves into freemen and white
men into mongres; and for view of these conse
quenccs desire readers look home and settle
the question for themselves whether the possession of
DOM without the inclination TO avail themselves Of its
vantages the capacity for its enjoyment blessing
q curee.
But, however may differ this point it must be
sufficiently obvious that to deprive eight millions of people
of that portion OF their property which is indispensable
rendering all the productive wcald be striking fatal
blow at their happiness 1t would reduce whole
people to poverty whose evils would be aggravated almost
beyond endurance by the contrast of former wealth There
need fargument prove that deprive these eight
millions of felowcitizons of their slaves would be
der their worthless and their country desert
Nay may take far wider view OF the subject and ask
what would become of the millions in Eogand and the
continent of Europe who dependent for their daily
bread the manufacture of that great staple which