The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-10-02

orator, nor philosopher. AS stateS-
man, however, he rises above all others,
and in clearness of vision, seems almost
inspired. The men of the South frank
ly admit that they have changed their
ground, no longer following Jefferson,
but Calhoun as their leader. Mr.. Doug
las, however, instead of admitting that he
no longer follows the teachings of Jeffer
son, has said in the Senate and elsewhere,
that Jefferson, when he drew the Declar-
alton of independence, did not intend to
embrace the negro race at all IN the
words, all meh are created equal." /"
How could Mr. Douglas say that with a
fac simile of the original draft in Jeffer-
sons hand d-writing before him 7? The
word men must have the same meaning
wherever used in the same instrument.
In the same original draft, in denounc-
ing the piratcal African slave trade, JEFF
ferson expressly calls its victims-the
negroes-men, and to give triple empha
sis to his meaning, he prints the word
MEN in large capitals, demonstrating
that the words all men" did embrace,
and were intended to embrace, all the
races of men. This equality, however,
is not an equality of powers, but an
equality Of rights. By the law of ma
ture all men are equal, not in physical,
mental, or moral power, but in their
rights to life, and liberty, &c. One mans
right to himself, to his wife, to his chill
dren, and the bread he earns, is just
equal to any other mans right to him
self, to his wife, to bis children, or the
bread he earns to feed them. But let us
not stop here. have heard it stated
that the truth half told is lie' Let
us 90 one step further. We must re-
member that those laws which the Crea-
tor has stamped upon mankind, and upon
the earth, will in the end, assert their SUI
premacy, whatever poets may dream, or
mere orators assert to the contrary.
The Caucasian was planted in the
temperate zone, and has controlled its
desiinies for 5000 years He is adapted
to it, and ii is adapted to him. He could
not if he would, make permanent home
for his race in the tropics. There he
mast be incorporated into the colored
races, OF in a few generations become too
enfeebled TO propagate his species. His
permanent home must forever be in the
temperate zone. So, too, in my opinion,
the ultimate, permanent, natural and nor.
NAL home Of the African is in the trop-
les. He is The child of the tropics and
Of the sun, and he Is drawn towards
them by law of his own nature. He
never leaves them unless necessity drives
or violence takes him. Away from them,
he is away from his natural home and it
left 10 follow his own reason, and in
Stincls, which oflentimes are stronger
and truer than reason, he seeks to return
to them as a bird TO its nest. Torn BY
cupidity and crime from his native zone,
and compelled to labor as a slave in an
other, these two hundred years, he will
in the fullness of time, Injured TO toll,
make his exodus from his house Of bon
dage to his promised land. Many have
gone and more will 90 back TO Africa.
But the great mass must find their homes
III Central and tropical America.
There lies the richest country in the
world, capable of sustaining hundreds of
millions Of human beings, where the
white man cannot live and labor, invi-
ting TO its tropical and luxuriant bosom
the children of the tropics. TO whom it
should belong. There, no prejudice
against color can exist Nature claims
and cherishes her own. There, by the
laws of climate and of race. the colored
man is physically at least, our superior
The tropics were made for him, and he
was made for the tropics.
There are but two positive races Of
men on the continent, the Caucasian, and
the African. But reason, instinct-all
experience affirm what Jefferson has said
1.-THE Two RACES EQUALLY FREE, CANNOT
LIVE IN THE SAME GOVERNMENT"
In some free States, where negroes
are few in number, political rights are
given to them. In others, where they
are numerous, these rights are wholly
denied In the slave States. especially
the cotton States, the negro has no rights
which a white man is bound to respect,
and from several the free negro is ban
lshed by law on penalty of perpetual sla
very. The history of San Domingo
teaches the same lesson There, the ne
gro has achieved his tropical supremacy,
and the order Of things is reversed
The white man there, has no rights
which the negro is bound to respect
He cannot hold foot otssround nor give
his testimony against negro in a court
of Justice The truth is, and ii we look
below the surface OF things We shall see
that the real struggle results from the
violation. the outrageous violation OF the
laws OF nature, IN the terrible crime OF
the piratical African slave trade, by
which. the man of the tropics has
been not only robbed OF his natural rights
but wrenched from his native zone, and
forced into slavery in another and that
the irrepressible conflict, more Of races
than of conditions, will not end until he
is restored to his tropical zone. and to
his rights as man, and until the free
white man shall cultivate with his own
hand, not only all Of our temperate terri
tories. but the soil of every State where
he can live and labor
Bat the question arises, what can, and
what ought the federal government to do