St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-08-30
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whose character had to be maintained, but the
| Representative Of the United States, whose Pc
culiar situation in regard to the Afriean:race
was directly aimed .at.4 1t would, mo doubt,
have been highly edifying to the Statistical
5ooietysto have drawn out one Of those philip
pics for which Lsrd Brougham; is so,fsmous.-
But there is no replying TO- silence; and what
Sidney Smith calls on eloquent fash of this
was.the most powerful Of allclts upon the gar
LIT Us Consider id the the If foregoing oi in the light
of few undeniable faetsl:'d' :Daio9'ao (!
4.I /. The Republic Of Hayti is.treated by
every European; State - even, by France,
from whom she wrested her independence
in fair 'fght-as an equal and Independent
power, whose good will she desires to con-
ciliatc and preserve, whose trade she seeks
to SECURE. This county alone refuses to
acknowledge the existence Of and maintain
diplomatic relations with, our sister 1repub-
fliics- --the. Oldest, next to our own, + in Amer
ica-simply because her people care ne
groes. -----.--.--.,,,, So. ,s..------
II. The Republic Of Liberia was foun7
ded; and is to-day mainly pe6p1ed and
wholly. governed, by natives Of: and emf
grants from, this country: It's trade, like
that of Hayti, is already valuable and stea-
oily increasing; but iit is compelled toEde-
sert our ports and seek those OF, Great Bri-
tain, by the refusal of our Executive to ac-
knowledge its independence and maintain
diplomatic relations with its government,
because its people are negroes. baar ls~,I;
Ill Natives and lifelong residents of
our country, who have education, culture,
character, probity, fortune and social con
sideration in other lands, ask our govern
:ment1 to give themIpassports enabling them
to travel in foreign climes, and are fatty
refused-because they are negroes.
~. They take passage in. British steam
ships 70 cross the Atlantic, and are denied
fthe' common privileges of decently behav-
liugg human: beings, for; which they have
contracted and paid-not that the owners
or managcrs of those vessels choose to make
I this od1ous and unjust discrimination-not
that their British or other European pas
sengcrs insist on it-but simply that the
American passengers will have it-be-
cause these prescribed fellow -passen gers
are negroes. " '-.:- f'@1. RI -.
V. Everywhere it is insisted that nc
groes--no matter how educated, how ,in-
tellectual, how distinguished for moral
worth and good works-must be prescribed
and hunted from all association on terms
Of equality with white Americans--bccausc
they arc. negroes -..e~:,~.; =.
In full view. Of these notorious, undeni-
able facts, Statistical Congress is assem-
bled in London, and Mr. George NJ. Dar-
las, our Minister Extraordinary at the Brit
ish Ceurt. sees, fit to- attend its sitting.
Lord Broughaln, British peer, and one of
the most elninently useful and honored
men of his time, also attends So does
one Mr.. Delany, low-Pennsylvanian
with Mr.. Dallas, worthy and esteemed; bat
who had the misfortune to be born of the
least desirable color. Lord Brougham,
seeing these two Representatives in juxta-
position; and believing, with most enlight-
ened Europeans, that our, national negro
phobia is a compound of prejudice and hy-
pocrisy;o begottep by slavery, could not re-.
sist the temptation to call Mr.: Dallas at
tention to the fact that one Of his fellow
members was a negro, The allusion was,
of course, jocular, and, if it stung, slavery
and American humbug, not Lord Brough-
am, gave it. alt its point: d 1t was a just
and ii nelly rebuke to- our national inconsis-
tency, illiberality and Hypocrisy. That it
was "dif6cult for Mr.. Dallas properly to
notice it. 1--WE fully realize. That silence
was his best possible resource is very Ger
tain. If that portion of. our American
press which sympatbizes nwith him in his
embarrassment had had a. like conception
Of the wisdom Of saying nothing, when
there is really nothing tosay, it would have
been better for, Mr.. Dallas and for, the rep
u!ttationl Of our our countryi--777ribnne,, ~