The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-07-10
Negro Government.

"ohuVh Oott" tufteT, paper eStaDii5net
topresent the Southern "views of provincial
civilization" in contrast with the "fals,
philanthropic notionsp of large class in
England. The article win be found "sug.
gestive" # not convincing, and few viii be-
gin its perusal who will not Though long,
read it to the close:
The question of tropical government, in
relation to organized industry, social Stabli-
ty, commercial development, and the ciyili-
zation of that vast waste which embraces
millions OF human beings, an8many of the
fairest spots on the earth's surface, is a mat
ter which cannot be longer postponed. Cau-
casian intelligence, Caucasian energy, Cau-
casian progress, and the grandest of all hu-
man civilization, which has in the Caucasian
WHITE MAN done al that ever has or ever
! can be done for the good of the world. de-
mands and will have natural domination
From India, from China from Africa, from
the beautiful islands of the West Indies ruin
cd by free-negroism, nature is asserting her
claims to Be hfaEtaa fssa faGajnst that mistaken
nan standardization all encea Annfs1-
and armed the Sepoy, and degraded the
white man to the level Of the negro.
Ii labor is the basis of all human civiliza-
ton, commerce is undoubtedly the medium
of giving 10 organized industry that dignity
and developement which has made England
not only great, but carried the influence of
that greatness, proftably 10 herself, into
every nook and corner of the world.
The connection between tropical labor and
European prosperity is direct and palpable.
''COTToS Is KING" simply because, under an
overruling Providence, cotton is the means,
through labor, industry, and commerce, of
asserting a grand truth, which rests not
only upon the economic law for support, but
! is strictly consistent with science and phi
losophy. 1t was taught "by authority in
! India that Benares was situated at the North
Pole The false teaching did not alter the
| law Of fact Benarcs was in India neverthe-
less. 1t has been taught in the West Indies
that Negro is simply Jtack-chits mani
| The teaching cannot alter the natural law.
/ The Negro is not white man, and never
/ can be made q white man, except by the
1 Intervention of Omnipotence. The theory
\ of the natural equality of the human races
has been stamped with the seal of such a
/ condemnation in India, that the rawest
Saxon boy in England who follows the re-
cruiting sergeant is conscious of his own
manhood and appreciates his natural supe-
riority, measured even against a deadly cli-
mate and the most fearful odds.
1t is dangerous thing To introduce into
the body polite any principle, however spe-
! cious, which contains the germ Of a great
error. England accepted the theory of Mr..
Wilberforce. The theory as a sentiment
was congenial, because it assumed the name
of freedom. What is negro freedom? Is il
the same measure of liberty that freedom is
TO the white man? Is the negro the equal
of the white man? Is he the equal of the
Hindoo? Is he even the equal of the Chi
/ naman? IL might be asked with equal Sc
riousness, If the poor creature whose crush
cd intellect has brought upon him the name
of lunatic, is the equal of his keeper; if the
| young child is the equal of the matured pa.
rent; if the army of 100000 Sepoys, arm
ed, educated, and trained were the equal!
of the mere handful of white men who bea
them in every encounter? We ask i'm th
connection in no light mood, for the subjec
is too grave for trivia!iteS, if there is no
something ridiculous in the mere idea of {
negro. of his own volition. starting out in ;
voyage TO circumnavigate the globe?
Liberty, even to the white man, prc-sup
poses "A certain surrender of his abstract nat
ural rights for the good order and perma
nency of society. There is law of coer
cion existing in all human governments
and under il no man, so to speak, is abso
lutely free. The essence ola Republican forr
of government is its conservatism. In fact
the greater the individual liberty, political
ly, the greater the necessity for this check
Hence il is often said that property and pri
vate rights, though more limited, are ye
more monarchal than in democratic form
of rule. But the negro is taken by his Eu
ropean friends outside of all these limits II
must be free beyond the white man in Eu
rope. He must be more cared for, in tn
!. way of education and religious teaching
than the poor whites at home, AS well-mcar
ing people actually turn their backs on III
: ignorance, heathenism, and poverty at the
own doors, to send teachers, money, an
: warm clothing to the negro barbarian. A
: if it were possible to civilize an idle man.
! In Europe there are two great classes, Il
taxpayers and taX-consumers- y non-pr
: ducing consumer effects little good for Il
!, world, even if he is man of education, III
: less his property represents him. If he h;
u no property, and chooses TO be utterly id
); and unproductive, he pays the penalty |
starvation oil the workhouse. They al
compulsory laws to make him work If he
. able, upon the clear and just rule, that
/ has no right 10 exist in utter unproducti'
n Incidence. And yet the negro is elevate
L quite above the principle and effect of Il
r same law. Not only is his Incidence tole
ated, but he is glorified in his Incidence, b
st the white industry of Europe is taxed
: sustain him in that blisSful condition.
In would be instructive to enquire exac
4 ly the amount requisite to keep in idlene
500, 900 negroes for twenty years; to clot
them, and thus, upon an energetic, efiecti
i, and grand scale, realize the wishes of tho
who believe that civilization can be effect
. without being based upon organized and !
!; munerative industry. Stating the result
- = another column, it would then be equal
k interesting to set forth the practical reSu
of the opposite copulsory system OF neg
T. labor, wherein the negro pays for his oy
u u, civilization, adds materially to the genel
nd prosperity of the world, and is led along t
IL path of labor which all nations have tr
before him from the foundation of the fiji
human society.
Ii the science of government as appli
TO our own race is still so imperfect, with
tha liorhtS we DOSsess before uS i N rot