Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-23


dia had tropical climates. The four great empires
Of antiquity we're, in their centres, subjected to
ranges of temperature as high as ours. Babylon
and ePersepolis were nearer the equator than the
most southern point of North Carolina, while Nine.
yah was below it's northern limit, and the hearts of
warmer climate than ours. And Greece and
Rome, too were lands of the olive the vine and the
fig tree, and possessed temperatures as high as our
own. What people ever exhibited more spirit en-.
ergy and enterprise than the Greeks in their Persian
wars and Asiatic invasonsr Where has the world
seen such an example of long sustained strength
and energy, was manifested by the Romans,
when they held for so many centuries the best
portions of the known world from Scotland down
to the great African desert? After the decay and
fall Of their empire, there began under the tropic OF
Cancer. a movement headed by Mahomet, which
swept over the earth with the rapdity of fame of
fire. subjecting the principal parts of it to its con-
troll high state Of civilization, was kept up for
centuries at Bagdad and Cordova, the capitals of
the principal branches Of the Saracenic dominions
empire of Constantinople the period of Spanish
ascendency began 1t thus appears that it is only
during the last two three centuries, that the
called northern nations have had control of the
world The extraordinary popular error which SO
generally prevails this subject is due doubtless,
mainly to the fact that to the minds of the majority
of men, the present is everything, and the past,
however long it may have been goes for nothing.
It. in part too, may be accounted for by the we'll
known circumstance, that the old Roman empire in
the period of its decay was overrun by bands of
barbarians from the north But at that time the
troyed by their vices, and the despotisms to which
they had been subjected. In fact, they had long
ceased to be military people, or to bear arms and
had been accustomed to hire these barbarians to
defend them That they should have fallen prey
to them is no more wonderful than that decrepid
e
have been overpowered by STRIPPING. There
be no doubt but that any one of the half dozen
such armies as the Roman republic able to
keep in the field at the time, would have been
able beat any horde of barbarians that
ed the frozen Danube.
l would not disparage or undervalue the intellect,
talent. energy and courage exhibited by the north
ern nations in day. But Homer still stands the
monarch of Poetry, All attempts to equalize others
with him, but serve TO show their lamentable infe-
riority. Demosthenes and Cicero still the mod
els to which the student in oratory is pointed Who
has exhibited more capacity for metaphysical science
than Aristotle, greater genius for mechanical
philosophy than ArchimedeS? Whose works of art
surpass those of Phidias and Michael Angelo? Who
morasts have been superior to Socrates and St Paul?
hat nav igators were more enterprising and daring
thar Christopher Columbus and Vascu de Cana p
Who warriors. statesmen and possessors Of unver
sal genus and talent, rank above Julius Caesar and
Napoleon Bonaparte? The catalogue might be in
definaely extended, by references, both to Europe
and the United States, but until these names are
overshadowed it cannot be truthfnlly said that q
northern cline is necessary to deveope the highest
degree of human courage, talent, energy and intel.
ect.
We have then all the necessary physical cohdi
tons in our territory, minerals, Soils woods waters
and climate to make US great agricultural State
In addition to these advantages, there must be an
intelligent energetic and moral population 1t is
oh nd
qualities Of the various races of men have received
any large share of attention. Many ages ago the
different species of animals and plants, and even the
heavenly bodies the objects of study, but it is
only Of late that the pecuarlies Of the several
of men have become the subjects Of investigation,
and that this branch Of science most important to
man, has made remarkable progress.
The dominant race in our State belongs entirely to
the e eat Caucasian family, that has in all ages
trolled the des.inies of the world Wherever it has
existed. neither zone, cline. external circum
stances, have materially modified its physical and
mental features 1t has dominated alike in Northern
and liz Southern Europe, and in central and South
ASIA have the t"rrid heats of Africa proven
ted Carthagenian, and Roman, and Saracenic as
tendency In America, too, wherever its stock has
been kept pure, its superiority has been equally
striking, from Canada to Cape Horn. But while it
everywhere shows itself to be superior to any Of the
other races, it is nevertheless affected to
by certain causes. While the mixture of those
" related by blood is extremely injurious and the
other hand the union of races widely different, is
destructive in few generations to the hybrid pro-
geny resulting from it, it has heen ascertancd that
combination of varieties of the same race is advan-
tageous, and that in such cases. there exhibit
ed the highest degrees Of courage, energy and intel
lect. The ancestors of the present population of
North Carolina, were mainly from England. and the
English people themselves combination Of the
original Celts Romans, Saxons. Danes and Normans.
In orr0, Stofn thavh vnH 1arD Hvniy.
ture of the modern Germans. Irish. Scotch, French
and other European nations. Such a combination
gives the hest assurance Of high order of inteec
tual and moral qualities. One third Of our popu'a-
laton consists Of inferior held in subsection
by the higher one. The negroes are by their phys
ical constitutions emnently fitted for hot climate,
and for situations unfavorabe to the health of white
men. They are therefore suited to the swamp lands
of the lower counties where they can labor without
injury fromhe solar heat and malaria They exist too
among us in proportion nearly large enough to &C.
cupv in time the region where they are most need
ed though perhaps, in rather less numbers at pre-.
sent than the State, whole, may require The
negro in all ages, and in ali countries, where he has
remained for any length of time, has been a slave,
and his natural qualities seem eminently fitted
for that condition, strongly impel to the belief
that he was intended bv Providence to occupy that
station. 1t is too, gratifying for to know thatas
he exists in the Southern States of the Union, he is
in all respects superior to what he has been else
where. Apprehension formerly felt, lest by
of the considerable numbers existing in this
country, there might in time be a complete mixture
of the two races or dangerous collisions between
them Intelligent minds at this time hav. such
fear. As to the first ground of uneasiness, indepen
IDENTIFY of the repugnance felt by the white man to
such union, Providence has by law of his own.
higher than any human enactment, guarded against
it. For purposes of his own he has determined that
the different species of living things shall continue
to exist separated by him, in spite Of efforts to add
to the number of the various species. This princi.
pie applies to the human races as well to the in
feror animals. Hence. when mixtures occur, they,
like other hybrids. can exist only for few genera.
tons Had it been otherwise, instead of the differ
ent races we now find in most parts of the earth
there would have been only one uniform mixture of