Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-09-08
rrIa ,Ar Palestine Advo's'', Ausu.' i''h
Judge Reagan's Speech.


A large and attentive audience were in nj
tendance NJ the Presbyterian Church in this
place ON Monday last, and throughout an elab
oratc speech, gave the favoriic son Of Andcr'
son an attentive hearingl We would be pleas
cd to present his speech in full; but as this is
impossible, we will have TO content ourselves
with mere allusion to some poit ons oil II.
After referring TO matters OF direct interest
10 Texas, which were urged during the late
session OF Congress- Jsuch as our frontier de-
tense, improvement Of our coast, our Indian
Affairs, our mail service, the Pacific Railroad
overland mail route, &C., and to the extent Of
the labors and correspondence Of the members
from Texas, and the loss our interests had sus.
tnincd in the death of Gen. Rusk, and in the
sickness and death of Gen Henderson; defend
cd his vote against the deficiency bill. and dis
cussed and sustained the course of the Gov
crnment in relation to the Mormon war, and
madesome criticisms upon the extravagant and
wnstefu appropriations of the public money Of
late years.
lie then entered into the discussion OF the
slavery question, and we give that part of
his speech which relates TO this subject in full
as he had evidently considered well what he
said on this question, and as he presents some
IllpOIWtit iSttuicSt uHu uisSuSSSS shSiH w
manner which cannot fail to be interesting to
our readers, and to the people of this District.
He said
But that question which, like Aarons rod,
swallows up all others at Washington, is the
slavery question. AS we have now reached
in point in its discussion when neither section
of the Union can permit itself deceived about
the extent and effect of the antI.savery agi
,lo mt nronosp IN discuss This uuns.
Ition at length now.
There aIe atvuI four million negroes in the
Sou hern States held MS property; and they are
xalued ut over thousand million of dollars.
They are of a race which in all the worlds his.
tory has never been known in any other condi-
ton than one of barbarism or of servitude.4
The African race is the only one which has
long existed as numerous people, on the
earth without ever having an organized and
stable government of some kind and without
having written language more or less perfect.
But they have never had either. They have
never had, with all their vast numbers. an or
ganized, efficient army or navy of any kind;
and we have no account of any valuable in
vention by the African race. Even in the art
of war, in which almost all other savage ma.
tions have shown some inventive genius, they
have never been known to invent a valuable
instrument, either Of destruction or of defence.
But, independently Of these facts, the fact that
four millions of them are found in state of
scrvituie here is sufficient to show that it is
their normal condition.
,ln Africa they would Le barbarous savages,,
cannibasI continually waging war on eachE
other, and capturing and selling each other in
to seryitude toFsome moreswisenn artful peo- !
pie. Here ,they are in a state OF servitude ini
wtlich,in peace and happiness, they are learn
ing as much of the arts OF peace and of social
enjoyment as they can comprehend. There's
they worship the sun, or moon, or stocks or
stones, or other things of their own invention.l
Here they are instructed to a greater or less
extent, in the religion of the Bblej and all of1
them understand that there is an immorta!
spirit to whom they are accountable for all they
say and do. And suppose there is not sane
man on EARTH who pretends to knowledge of
the condition of the African race, who does
not know that the negroes in servtude in this
country are infinitely happier than those en-
loving their freedom of barbarism in Africa
There can be no doubt but that their condition
IS morally, socially, politically and religiously
improved by being brough: from their own
country, and placed in servitude here. While
they are being benefited by being thus eievat.g
ed in the scale Of humanity to the highest
condition their capacity qualities them for, we
are benefited by securing their labor to culti-
rate our Cotton and Sugar and Rice and other
tropical products, which they when well cared
for, cultivate in the greatest abundance with |
out danger to their health, where the white |
man would sicken and die of malaria and /
heat. II
Abolish negro slavery to-day and ours, which,
is the greatest Cotton producing country in thel
world, would cease to export Cotton or to make
Sugar for our own consumption, and instead of
our Cotton being "King," and controlling the
commerce and the policy and diplomacy Of ma
tions we should see re-enacted on grander
scale the desolation and wretchedness and
poverty and degradation to both the white and
black races, which was the bitter fruit Of the
emancipation BY Great Britain OF the |
negroes in her West India Islands. Such
emancipation among us would either have TO
result in the determination Of the negro race,
or in the impoverishment and degradation of
the white race and the return TO barbarism OF
the negroes, ultimately sinking both races away
into race Of mongres as worthless and in
eap,ble Of self-government as the people Of
Mexico or Central America.
In view of consequences like these, and in
view ofihat other great fact that we now have
the freest'aud happies government on earth,
I, large mass Of the citizens of this country,
mean OF the free States, are continually thrust
ing their anti-slarcry doctrines upon Us, incor-
-..;,,r shnr, into their rplicinp info fhcir if-