Des Arc citizen., 1858-11-13
From the New Orleans True Delta. A NEW NEGRO PHASE.

Caleb Cushing, of Mass, in letter to a committee in South Carolina, describes one of the new phases of the negro ques- tion-and seems to think that some of the sensible whites in New England are be- ginning to believe that, after while, if the negro mania continue, the order of the races will be reversed-negro become white, and white negro. There is no dan ger of that, however-for as soon as Cuff fee becomes troublesome, his friends will put their feet upon his neck. He is now only used for Bunkum by the demagogues of the stump and the pulpit. They don't intend to let him come into their families and carry their daughters through the church to the nuptial chamber. If they are knaves, they are not fools, by long shot,"
 The following extract from MT. Cush. ing's letter is worthy of perusal:
 Whatever may be the explanation. so it is that some. and too many of the pub lie men at the North still strain at the le- yer of negro power. say, the negro po,Uer for, counter to what is frequently denominated the slave power of the South, there is what may with greater aptitude be denominated the negro power at the North. That is, many persons, in the ab- sence of other claims 10 consideration, still obtain it by extravagance in behalf of Africans. Yes, 1t is fact humiliating to confess that the cant of negroism still has vogue as one of the minor instruments of demagoguery in the northern States. It is coming. however, to be regarded as rather stale Reclamation, even here in Massachusetts. And the general question has undergone a remarkable melamor- phosis.
 The exaggerated negro philanthropism at the North. which, while the "fitful fe- yer" of the distemper was at its acme, operated as the impulse of angry and az. gressive attacks by the northern States, or their citizens. on the political rights of the southern States, or their citizens, ha. now passed into an equally exaggerated morbid and quixotic sentiment of passion ate zeal for the visionary and idle abstrac. ton of the elevation of the handful ol misplaced and bewildered Africans of the north, into the degree of political and so. cial equality with white Americans These Africans are in circumstances here, physical and moral, so uncongena to their nature, that with all the gratuitou: betting bestowed upon them, and all theil accessions from runaways, they are una ble to keep pace with the natural progres. of population; they do not make them selves place in the community by aver age general eapableness; and they have not sufficient force of character or intelll, gence to betake themselves, as they should, somewhere else, to try their hand in the responsible business of life among men of their own race, and to rise or fal according to their deserts, in the Britisl West Indies, in Hayti, or in Liberia And yet we, in Massachusetts, are nov especially unhappy, because we have jus learned that, in certain cases, these person cannot bring suits in the federal court against the citizens of other States.
 Hence notwithstanding that we hav
 been for some months busy in the aaemp to disfranchise white men who are citi
 zens of the United States, we have nov undertaken to enfranchise black men wh
 are not. Our humanity demands the con
 current elevation of the one race and deg
 radiation of the other. Thus, not th
 character only. but the local relation of ih
 controversy has changed. They, who ha n heretofore labored, ,and not without success:
 to counteract plans of encroachment o : the rights of other States, or of dlret overthrow of the constitution, have now