The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-07-17
from the London Cotton Plnnt.
Negro Government.

from the L0nu0nC lotion Hlnnt. "
Negro Gaysrnmsnt.
Tho question Dc tropical government, ID re
lation Is organized Industry, social stability
commercial development, mud the civilization
of that vast waste which embraces millions d
huinh1 heinga and Inany Of The fairest spots
an tie earth's surface, i i matter which can
not be longer postponed Caucasian inlelli
gence, Caucasian energy, Caucasian progress
md that grandest of oil human civilization,
which has il the Caucasian White Man done
VII that ever. bus Of ever can MI done for The
good of The worAd, demands and will have
natural domination Froni IDdia, from China,
from Africa, from the beautiful islands 10 tile
West Indies fnined h5 Hreenegroism, nature
is asserting her claims u be heard against that
mistaken philanthropy which has feyercnced
Monaghan Standardization, which has pam,
pered and armed The Sepoys and degraded The
white man tothe level of the Negro.
II labor ii the basis Of dill human ~ciiyiliza-
ton, commerce u undoubtedly The medium 81
giving to ofgatized industry that dignity s
development which has made England not only
&reat, but carried the influence of that great
ness y foftably TO herself, into every muck and
corner Of theswprld.
The connexfion between tropical labor ane
European prosperity Isl direct and paIpab!e
Is Cation Is King simply because, under at
overriding Providence, cotton is the means
through labor. and commerce, ut asserting i
grand truth, which rests not only upon Til
economic law for support, but Is strictly con
sisteut with science and philosophy. II wal
talght ssby authority Y III India, that Benafe.
WINS situated at the North Pole The falst
teaching did not alter The law Of fact Benare.
was in India nevertheless. 1t has been tauphN
Hi the West Indies that i Negro Ii simply /
hlack-aehfte man. The teaching cai, not aite,
the natural INV. The Negro III not j whit,
man, md never can be- made i white man, ex
eppt by thu intervention Of D~nlnipotencs. Th,
theory of the natural e4uality Of TIL hnn14J
races has been stamped with the seai of such
condemnation III India, TINT the rnwest Saxol
boy IN England who follows tile recruiting ser
geaitt ii conscious of His own manhood, at,t
appreciates his natural superiority. measured
even against q deadly climate and The mos
fearful odds.
ii Is ! dangerous hing to Introduce Into Iii,
body polite any principle, however ~stecious
which contains The germ Of u great error
England accepted the theory Of Mi, WILDER
force. The theory as o sentiment was congo
NAL, because II assumed tho name Of freedom
What 10 negro freeiomf Is il the same meas
nre I'll liberty that freedom Is to the whit,
mani Il the negro the equal Of the whit,
man? Ia he the equal of the Hindoos Ii hi
even the equal sof The Uhinainan? III nigh
be asked with equal seriousness, il The pOal
creature whose crushed intellect has broughl
upon him the name of l~unatic, is the eunal d
his keeper; If the young child Is the equal o
the matured parent; il the army Of 10000
sepoys. armed, educated, and trained, we're Til
eqauis of the mere handful Of White men who
beat them IN every encounter? We ask Ii
this connection in no light mood, for the sub
ject Is too grave Tor trivialities, but Is there
not something ridiculous in The mere idea Of !,
Negro, Of his own v%olition, starting out on !
voyage to circurmmvigate the globe?
Liberty, even TO tho whisa. man nres,nnose.
a ceftain surrender of his al,sf,aef nafnra'
rights for the good order and permaneucv .
society. There Is a law Of cotreion @axisi;na
IN all human Governments, and ,,naer II y
mau, SO 10 speak, is absolutely s,se INC ~
sence Of a Republican form OF Gavesnn,ent I
its conservatism. In fact, the sre,ier tho Il
dividuai liberty, politically. the Greater he ae
cessity Tor this check. Hence il ;s nf,en see,
that property aud private rights, ,hnnuh NOR
limited, mrs yet more secure in Ntnns rch;ca
than in Democratic forms of .n,s nj n.
Negro is taken by his European fr;an3s on,
side Of all these limits. II must he r,so ts
yend the white man in Europe. He mnst i,
more cared for. 10 the way If d1cat;on y,
religious teaching, than The poor white. a
home. as well-meaning people actnaily t,r,
their backs on the ignorance, heathe mn, ~,
poverty at their own doors, to send ,easba,s
money, and warm clothing to the N,.rra Nv
barian. AS if, it were possible TO csSy;lizs a,
idle man
In Europe there are wv classes, tbe ,av
payers and the tay-cnnshmers. A nnn.nro
dncing consumer effects little good 10. IN,
world, even if he be a man Of education, u
less his property represents him. Ii he has n'
property. and chooses to be utterly idle an,
nnprodactive, he pays the penalty by starsa
ton or the weflhouse. iaeis are ~copapuisorj
ia,cs 10 make hsm H5pk # he as able, upon Id
clear aud just rule. that be has no right to ex
list in utter ~unpruduciive Incidence. And ye
the Negro is elevated quite above the l~rincipI
an effect of the same law. Not only is hi
idleness tolerated, but he il gloriiied in his in
doienee. Not oniy is he giori6ed ia his iadr
lence, but the white industry of Europe i
taxed to sustain him in thai blissfnl Condition
1t wonld be instructive to inquire eSacii
the amount requisite To keep in idlenpss 500
40 Negrpes for twenty years to ciothe then
and thus. upon an energetic, effective, an