The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-10-01


political blurdcrs ever committed. \ large
army Of crazy theorists, enemies to the
progress of the American race, has been re-
cruitcd tof course where negroes ar. un-
KNOWN i'll consequence of them; and if this
negro suffrage business succeed we may
well fear that the next generation will mar
sl';.l one that shall, in its blind fury, be il
rc>isablc.
! Our opponents have forced this issue up
! on us we mus meet it. An army acting
only on the defensive loses lis prcstige.-.
Onr situation is SO critical that "Ca,thage
must he destroyed" or it will dest:oy U.S.
1t is from tamperng with this negro qucs-
ton that the Democratic party has become
SO nearly Frustrated at the North. Had
we bodily taken the bull by the horns, had
| we fifteen years ago taken the stand We
soon must take, AboIi,ionism would have
lcc"nic us loathsome rs Mormonism.
/ The evils Of slavery are nothing compar-
cd with the evils of ncgroism. Abolish
; slavery tomorrow, and ncgroism would
loom up before tho American people rs no
practical question vcryct did. We should
be compelled TO extcrmin,tc or rc-ensluve
them, or the hopes Of the English Reviewer
and our traitors, the philosophers with he
gro souls i'll white cases, would soon be re-
allied. Negro suffrage here is one step
toward freeing the negroes Of the South
at the same time their votes are needed to
sustain the tyrants now in power, that they
may trample upon our private and munich
pal rights, rob lis through taxation, interfere
with and forbid our innocent social customs,
an. make all poor men no better than ne
groes.
Science tells lis that the negro is inferior
to the Caucasian; that you can no more
cultivate negro man up to man than YOU
can l'aboons to negroes, owls to eagles
The negro Is now, us hc always has been;
| the difference between him and the Cauca-
sian being rs marked as between the leo
| l'ard, the tiger and the lion. In many
genera there are two spccics-both sub-di-
vldcd into varieties or raccs-closcy rcscm-
bling each other, the lower of which cannot
he cultivated up to the higher, as the wolf
to the dog, the ass to the horse, the buffalo
to the OK, the goat to the sheep, and SO on
Each of these will copulate, but the prorc-
ny invariably sinks to the lower. The same
Is true of the negro and Caucasian.
The difference between native and adop
ted citizens Of the same race, fades away in
the second generation, and is entirely lost
in the third. Many of the most active
members Of the native American" party
ale sons OF foreigners-a fact of vast impor-
tance, proving as it docs the folly of our
fears 0: that kind of foreign influence
With negroes the case is different-they
never can commingle with us, but must
stand forever opposed to us. II the slight
difference of nationality between people of
the same species and mostly of the same
race, has produced SO much asperity and so
many tumnlts, what terrible commissions
would ensue if our negroes, who are not
only not of the same race, but are beyond
the limits of species, were rs free as We are,
when goaded on 10y the fanaticaI crew which
hates us as cordially as it pretends to love
them.
The quick instinct Of the Democratic
masses where negroes abound, strides far
ahead Of slowly progressing science. Every
one acquainted with the laLoring masses
knows the great change that is taking place
Ill their minds on this negro question:
Grave considerations of policy urge that our
leaders take step i'll tie right direction.-
AZ The South, State after State, hitherto not
Democratic, is wheeling into line with us,
solely on the merits of this vital question
1t our politicians will now be bold rs well
as wise, the vigorous, Hercules of Democ-
racy, with his CLUB of truth, will drive back
this hdeous, loathsome monster Abolition
Ism to his native den, cold and gloomy, in
the rcbcllious State of Massachusetts
New York Duly Neos.
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~ writing machine, TO he used in the
cars, has been invented down Fast Tho
paper on which the writing or printing
for 1T resembles the tclegr"plic system of
printing impressed, is coilcd around over
cylinders, which rcvolve as the lines are
completed, aud the letters arc worked by n
set OF keys. No ink is required, the letters
beng coIored with prepared blue papcr.
against which the writing paper, is press
CD Mt each movement of the keys. The
machine works with great accuracy and IA
ciI'ty' and is very compact, being contained
III little box about five inches in length
and three in Width.
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Indeed now, and The attraction of the
earth is very wonderful" said nm Irislmon