The Kanzas news., 1857-08-08
EMPORIA, KANZAs, AUGUST s, 1851

tam inalienable rights, among which art
! life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. .
This they said, and this they meant. The,
did not mean to assert the obvious untruth
that all were then actually enjoying thai
equality, nor yet, that they were about tc
confer it Immediately upon them. In fac
they had no power to confer such boon
They meant simply to declare the right.
so that the enforcement might follow as rap
idly as circumstances should permit
They meant to set up standard maximum
for free society. which should be familiar to
all, and revered by all; constantly looked
to, constantly labored for, and though new
er perfectly attained, constantly approxi-
mated, and thereby constantly Spreading
and deepening its influence, and augmentine
the happiness and value of life to all peo-
pie of all colors everywhere. The asser-
istion that call men are created equal, was
sof no practical use In effecting our separa-
ton from Great Britain, and it was placed
in the Declaration; not for that, but for fu-
ture use. Its authors meant it to be, what,
thank God, it is now proving itself, STUN
bling block to those who In after times
might seek to turn free people back into
the hateful paths of despotism. They knew
the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants,
and they meant when such should reap
pear IN this fair land, and commence their
vocation, they should find left for them at
least one hard nut to crack.
have now briefly expressed my views
of the meaning and objects of that part OF
the Declaration of Independence which de-
clares that call men are created equal"
Now let US hear Judge Douglas views
Of the same subject, as l find it In the print,
ed report of his late speech. Here it is:
ssNo man can vindicate the character, motives
and conduct of the signers of the Declaration OF
Independence, except upon the hypothesis that
they referred TO the white race alone, and not to
the African, when they declared all men to be Gre
ated equal-that they were speaking of British
subjects on this continent being equal to British
subjects born and residing in Great Britain-that
they were entitled to the same inaienable rights,
among them were enumerated life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. The Declaration was adopt
ed for the purpose of ustfyng the colonsts in the
eyes of the civilized world i'll Withdrawing their
allegiance from the British crown, and dissolying
their connection with the mother country
My good friends, read that carefully over
some leisure hour, and ponder well upon it
see what mere wreck-mangled ruin-it
makes of our once glorious Declaration.
s'They were speaking of British subjects
on this continent being equal to British sub
jects born and residing in Great Britain!''
Why, according to this, not only negroes
but white people outside of Great Britain
and America are not spoken of in that in
strument. The English, Irish and Scotch,
along with the white Americans, were in
cluded, to be sure, but the French. Germans
and other white people Of the world are all
gone to pot, with the Judges inferior races.
had thought the Declaration promised
something better than the condition of Brit
ish subjects; but no, it only meant that we
should be equal to them in their own op-
pressed and unequal condition. According
to that, it gave no promise that having kick
ed off the King and Lords of Great Brit
ain, we should not at once be saddled with
a King and Lords of our own.
/ had thought that the Declaration con-
templated the progressive improvement in
the condition of all men everywhere; but
no, it merely t'was adopted for the purpose
of justifying the colonists in the eyes of the
civilized world in Withdrawing their allie
glance from the British crown, and dissolv-
ing their connection with the mother coun-
try Why, that object having been effect
ed some eighty years ago, the Declaration
is of no practical use nowhere rubbish
old wadding left to rot on the battle field
after the victory is won.
l understand that you are preparing to
celebrate the "Fourth" tomorrow week.
What for? The doings of that day had no
reference to the present; and quite half of
Hanoa,a1onf- of fhOSa hn xxtop
referred to at that day. But suppose you
will celebrate; and will even go so far as to
read the Declaration. Suppose after you
read it once in the old fashioned way, you
read it once more in Judge Douglas version.
1t viii then run thus: We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all British subjects
who were ON this continent eighty-one years
ago, were created equal to all British sub
,jects born and thes, residing in Great Britain.
And now appeal to ALTO Democrats
as well as others-are you really willing that
the Declaration shall be thus frittered away |?
thus left no more at most, than an inter-
esting memorial of the dead past? thus shorn
of its vitality, and practical value; and left
without the germ or even the suggestion OF
the individual rights of man in it?
But Judge Douglas is especially horrifed
at the thought of the mixing of blood by the
white and black races; agreed for onee-a
thousand times agreed. There are white
men enough to marry all the white women,
and black men enough to marry all the black
women; aud so let them be married. On
this point we fully agree with the Judge;
and when he shall show that his policy is
better adapted to prevent arnalganation than
ours, we shall drop ours and adopt his. Let
us see. In 1850 there were in the United
States 4O5,751 mulattoes. Very few OF
these are the offspring of whites and free
blacks; nearly all have sprung from black
sbases and white masters. A separation of
the races is the only perfect preyentative of
amalganation; but as an immediate separa-
u ir,,r,ossihle the next hest thirlp Is TO