Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-05-25

The Agt5 says The Aboluionistt and
hcpuhliuans ol the Notih have All a'ong
been .worhipping the idoal of negrpE
not the reality. Their orators and slash.
ing philanthropists, who would swoer
ut YOU for careinp nothingi nbout roll.
gion, and pUt You 20 tie torture IL Won
dare TO ditier from themselves, have been
talking about putting the block man ON
an equal footing with the Intelligent and
cultivated white man, and have worked
the country up to pitch of excitement
on tho subject Of slavery that threatens
its very integrity. An this has been in.
dulged in merely to make political capi-
tai on, and not because there was anv
real plospect or intent to redeem a race
whose redemption must be entirely their
own work. But whenever these orators
and writers chance TO 60 among the nc
grocs-we mean the real negro-and ob,
serve his nature, his habits his low intel
lect and debased instincts, they are forced.
II they open their mouths at all, to ex-
press their disappointment, and tell the
facts of the case just as they are.
In Illustration, we give the following
extract from an article in the Nav mum,
Der of the Atlantic Homhb--a publication
radically opposed to slavery as an insttu-
ton the article is said TO be from the
pen of Richard II. Dana, Jr., of Boston.
and is entitled "a Trip to Cuba:
1--WE made Nassau at - o'clock, on the
sixth day from our departure, counting
the first as one. The first feature discerni-
bic was q tail group Of cocoanut trees.
with which the island is beauseously feath-
cred; the second was group Of negroes
IN small boat, steering towards us with
open-mouthed and white-toothed wonder.
" Other boats then came. like a
shoal Of little fishes around the care. IS Of
a giant whale. There were many negroes,
together with whites Of every grade, and
some of our number, leaning over the
side, saw for the first time the raw mate
rial out OF which Northern Humanitari-
ans have spun so fine klein of compass
sion and sympathy
Now, we who write, and they for whom
we write, are all orthodox upon this
mighty question we have all made our
confession of faith in private and in pub
lie; we all, OF suitable occasions, walk up
and apply the match to the kcg of gun
powder which is to blow up the Union,
but which, somehow, at the critical mo-
ment, fails to ignite. But YOU must allow
us one heretical whsper-very small aud
low. The negro Of the North is an ideal
negro; it is the negro refined by white
culture, elevated by white blood, instruct
ed even by white iniquity; the negro
among negroes is coarse, grinning, fiat
footed, thlck-skulled creature, ugly as
Calcan, lazy as the LATEST Of brutcs, chiefly
ambitious to be OF no use to any in the
world, View him as you will, his stock
in trade is small he has but the tangi.
ble instincts of all creaturcs-love of life,
of ease, and of offspring. For all else, he
must 20 to school to the white race, and
his discipline must be long and laborious
Nassau, and all that we saw of it, suggest
ed to us the unwe'come question, wheth
er compulsory labor be not better than
none. But as a question ! gladly leave it,
and return to the simple narration Of
what beiell."