The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-10-28
Caleb Cashing on Free Negroes.

committee Of Q public dinner given to JAS.
/. ORR, Speaker Of the Hoaae Of Repro
sentativs, at CraytonviIle, South Carolina
which Is published in the Boston Post He
discoursed Of the negro power" as follows:
| continue 10 hear all about me, II Is true.
from time TO time, exhortatons TO the North,
that Is, the North east Many sf the as
pirants for popular iavors 10 New England
still harp on this, for want Of other ideas, or
because, 10 the transition Of society from
one stage TO another. men sometimes get
into the new state Of things with the images
Of the old one still impressed On their eyes,
and thus do not realize at once the change
OF surrounding objects. Or the explana-
ton may b. in the natural law, that men,
and OF course parties com oosed Of men, and
states composed Of parties, are prone TO be
come fatally engaged in particular course
OF action, from which they are morally I'M
able 10 recc1c or depart, and in which they
continue on with the scnselessness and nnrea-
son of the winds. Whatever maS bo the
explanation, 20 it is that some, end too
many OF the public men at the North still
strain on the lever Of the negro power. ]
say, the negro potcer for, counter TO what
Is frequently dcnomlnated the slave power
Of the South, there is what may with great
aptitude be dcnominated the negro lower Of
the North. That is many persons In the
absence Of other claims 10 CONSIDERATION,
still obtain il by extravaganza in behalf OF
Africans. Yes, il Is "a fact humilitting to
confess that the cant Of negroism Jill has
vogue a. one OF the minor Instruments OF
demlgoguery in Northern States. 1t is
coming, however, to be regarded as rather
stale defamation even here in Massachu.
stts. And the general question has under
gone remarkable mctamorphosis That
exaggerated negro philanthropism at the
North, which, while the " iitful" fever OF the
distemper was at is acme, operated a. the
impulse of angry and aggressive attacks by
the Northern States, or their citizens, on
the political rights Of the Southern States,
or their citizens, has now passed into an
equally exaggerated, morbid, and Quixotic
sentiment Of passionate zeal for the vision
AIRY and idle abstraction Of the elevation OF
the handful Of misplaced and bewidcrcd
Africans at the North into the degree OF
political and social equality with white
Americans.
Thee Africans are in circumstances, here,
physical and moral, so uncongcnid in their
nature. that with all the gratuitous petting
bestowed upon them, and all their scccssions
from runaways. they are unable to keep pace
with the natural progress Of population /;
they do not make themselves place 10 the
community by average general cnpableness !;
and they have not sufficient force Of charac-
ter or Intelligence to bctake themselves, as
they should, somewhere else, TO try their
hands in the responsible business OF life
among men OF their own race, and to rise or
fall according to their deserts, in the British
West Indies, in Iiayti, or in Liberia. And
yet we 10 Massachusetts, are now especial.
ly unhappy. because We have Just learned
that, in certain cases, these persons cannot
bring suits in the Federal Courts against
the citizens Of other States Hence, not
outstanding that We have been for some
time busy in the attempt to distranchisa
white men who are now citizens OF the Uni.
ted States, we have now undertaken TO en-
franchise black men who are not
Our humanity demands the concurrent
elevation OF the one race and the degrade
ton of the other. Thus, not the character
only, but the local relation Of the controvcr.
sy has changed. They who had heretofore
laborcd, and not without success, to couU
tcract plans OF cneroachment on the rights
of other States. or Of direct overthrow OF
the Constitution, have now 10 contend for
the defence OF their own rights and Tor those
Of the men of their own race within their
respective States. Meanwhile. the fact that
their negropholiSt agitation at the North
has taken the direction OF the simultaneous
eniranchiscmcnt of the black men and dis
reimbursement of the white ones. offers to
the friends OF good government and OF con
stitutional order the double advantage, first,
that the new issue involves not merely the
question OF the relative depression OF white
men, but also their actual sacrifice, and the
perpctration Of palpable inequality and
gross injustice, under protcnce OF justice and
equality; and, secondly, tina, it Is domes-
tic issue, not one OF aSaul, en- the rights oil
other States, nor affecting IN any way the
peace aud tranquility OF the Union. II
would sen, also, tina, the pretcntious friends
of humanity in New England, while in hot
pursuit OF this new chimera, Of not less mon.
s,rous aud contradictory composition than
the old one OF the classic tradition. must lind
themselves too much occupied with lmprac-
ticablc distractions 10 have time or thoughts
lcil for continued intervention in the do
mcs,ic Affairs oi Others OF the United States.
These, it seems 10 me. ART CONSIDERATIONS Of
suspicious omen Tor the future relations 81
the Northern and Southern States
Tns PorE TO MAKE rhGRINlGE.--
His Holiness the Pops is sugalarly quiet
tins summer, in the ample walls Of the Va
tican. as h. was active and crractic last year
through his own dominons arj thoSc OF his
immediate neighbors bu, il report speaks
true, the year 1859 is 10 witness very
much more distant excursion on the part OF
his Holiness than any he has undertaken
since his diplomatic mission as Nuncio to
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