Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-02

Such then Mr. President are the views of this party
alike by it's declarations end its acts Its
moderate of them occupy the ground OF the ADO
tonsts twenty years ago. most OF them are a IN
thoroughly abolOnZed Massachusetts now is 2!
If not what can be done to arrest the mlsce propose
then, seriously to consider this question.
In my judgment there two modes in which it can and
ought to be met The first is under the Constitution the
second be outside of it.
If aboiionism be popular deusion, it not be dis
enable to do must be properly presented to the
human mind Az the antslavey party have acquired then
present ascendancy by vigorous and enor
if they be overthrow only by decided and per
severng exertons en- the other side There are, in my
opinion sufficient conservative elements in the free States
OPPOSITION It is necessary that the discussion should be
widely extended and also directed to the merits OF the ques
ton involved The constitutional argument Is sufficient for
the intelligent and honest but if it be sald for example
merely that slavery existing in the Southern states
great great evil yet that under the
the people the North have right to interfere with It,
the party defending will in the end lose ground because
masses when excited by real imaginary wrongs
will in time break mere legal restraints winch tney re-
gard as unjust and criminal They hold that where there
IS will there is way and will find mode of action
this the real issue whether or not the
equal of the white physically intellectually and mo
rally Though usually evaded in the discussion this the
real question which lies the foundation of the controversy
people of the Northern States should regard the
being the equal of the white then they will continue
sympathy for him in slavery and can be excited to
efforts his liberation # the contrary he be different
material respects from the white an also INFERIOR
then his must be decided its merits and not from
any supposed analogy that of the white is not,
color prejudice against black skin. If the negro
in fact in all other respects like the white man. bis
backnes would have been than the
difference between black and hair light and dark
The feeling against him grows out of the fact that he in all
respects different from the white and inferior When
put the question to any that may meet here the
chances that he will agree with me, in private
conversation and admit in the language used some time
by the Senator from Illinois, (Mr TRUMBULL,) that Omnip
oence has made difference between the white and the
negro and yet 1t IS this opposite view in favor OF negro
equality which gives main force vitality the anti
slavery movement When, sir twelve years ago in
races was denounced who attribu ed injustice to
Almighty God alleging that He had made the negroes in
tell me why it is that Providence brings half the children
that born in New England into the world with consttu
years of age? Or will they, upon their views of His
Justice why it that in the family brother
while second has from his birth the seeds of debility and
ncurabe disease, and third mentally imbecie per-
haps dotc Would the injustice to the feeble be greater
they were black men! Are we to refuse to believe the
facts which nature constantly presents to because they
not harmonic with ideas of the justice of the Creator
he Bible itself does not explain to why it is that while
ten talents given to man. to another but single
talent given For the inequality of the negro Providence
is repOusibe. H is for the entire creation which
rounds When human laws in accordance with the
stem of nature they are wise but in opposition to it
ncanty asked the Scripture Can the Ethiopian change
his skin or the leopard his spots The ancens expressed
their opinion on this subject in the fable which represented
black man as having been killed in effort to wash him
white.
There is middle ground which can be maintained on
this question If the negro be your equal why do you
cude him from parors If he be unequal your whole
argument has in fact lost its foundation and fails If it once
be admitted that the negro Inferior then the entire edfce
of Abotonism falls to the ground because it is intimately
interviewer WITH and its vitality the opposite belief
When pressed boldly this ISSUE the AbotOnists of late
trying to evade it. is singular and striking fact
that when this issue has been made in the free States direct
and discussed before the people, they decided the
point against the Such the in Connecticut
and New York the question of suffrage and also in the
States of Illinois and Indiana the proposition to exclude
free negroes from those States In the contest too in Il
linois, the year 1853 which resulted in the triumph
he she'd frnn nilunic AC
this was the leading ssse Had that Senator contented
himself with simply saying that slavery an evil
which his constituents had constitutional right to inter-
fere with do not believe he would have been successful
But he understood the question: at into the
rs OF it, and carried the into the enemys ranks And
his opponent early the began and shrink
from his blows and tried in vain evade the ISSUE The
American people understand the negro and where direct
appeal made to them they truly respond Though the
story of Dean Swift in which, in certain country he
ingenious yet mseads nobody among because
horses common that their qualities understood
So the of the Ahoionists in which they repre-
sent The being equal and superior to the white
man, deceive familiar with the negro In southern
Ohio for example, where free negroes quite common,
there little Aboitonism while in the northern part
in which the negro seldom antsIavey carries every
thing before it, European writers know little nothing of
the and hence professors, preachers and other
bOokmen Of the North easily led astray by Euro
pean and American Aboionists but the people of the
country, who oned look facts, SO
readily imposed thorough investigation of the sub
ect shows the negro to be and hence the principles
which apply to white cannot be extended to him. No
farmer that what advantageous to the hog, for
therefore, what to be done with the negro you study
the negro himself. Remember do not undertake to de-
eide bow or when the negro became different from the
white They may many of science contend, have
created OF different Species they have been
rendered different since their creation by act of Provi
dence Some plausiby that inasmuCh learn from
Scripture that certain condemned to be slaves
through all time the best fufs this description and
hence take him as the representative OF that class With
out attempting decide who right to theory think
it clear that the difference between tie white and the
great that between different species of
approximate
their structure and habits. But it said Do you deny the
manhood of the negro? No than should deny the
DonkeyhOod of ape if should say he baboon, or
the dchShp OF malard if deny that he back
duck.
Instead of indulgng in vague generaes about human
liberty and the rights of examine the nature and
the climate best suited his conS ution he savage
and slave In his own country he stands in the same
Merchandise, foreigner he usually
benefited by escaping from master who will eat him in
often with kindness. Egypt he of the earliest CT
ZatOn known to and the Egyptians held the negro
in with the Carhagenians Romans
and Saracens. he still remained savage and slave.
In the West ndes and in other portions of America where
they form independent communities notwithstanding the ad
vanages they had from the teachings of white and
their great of imitation they seem to be returning
negroes of the United States, what shall of them ??
Why Northern we'll Southern men, and even Cana
as characterize them the most worthless of the human
Formerly the Abotonss ascribed their degradation
to the of political and social privileges But during
political privileges but were GLASS; odous and severely
prosecuted yet they nevertheless intelligent energe
c and wealthy In point of fact in portions of the
Northern States the has been made pet Of and
but for his native nfeorty must have hriven and even
become distinguished. On the other hand it indispu
table fact that the four million negroes who held in
slavery the South when their condition considered with
reference to their physical well being and comfort their
producVeness laborers, their intelligence morality and
religion stand superior to any other portion CT their
While the free negroes the North with fresh accessions
from abroad diminish in numbers the slaves of the South
increase rapidly as the white race and upon the whole
perhaps add much to the wealth of the country which
they located any equal number of aborers in the
world.
What the Abotonists have to do is find, create,
community which superior to that of the slaves oil
laid some grounds for their appeals in behalf Of emancpa