The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-19
History Of Slavery, White and black
The AbolitioMists the Enemies OF ths
Negro Race.

History Of Slavery, White sNd Hack
The Abolitionists the Euemies OF She
Negro Race. e
Elsewhere in our columns to-day viii be
found an interesting sketch of slavery politi
cal and social-from the dawn Of history to the
present time. The reader will perceive, If he
does not already know, that the laws of Moses,
delivered to him by God himself, not only con-
tanned no denunciation of slavery, but on the
contrary recognized it as beneiicent and ne
cessary institution for that period of the world,
and prescribed rules by which it was to be
regulated. And this was white slavery. In
the time Of Christ slavery was universal over
the Roman Empire and among the Jews. Tho
Great Teacher, who denounced every sin, ut
tered no word against slavery. His apostles
not only did not condemn 1t, but gave it their
sanction by exhorting the slaves to ~"obey
their masters" and by sending back fugitive
slave to bis owner; yet modern preachers Of
the Gospel, like Cheever, pretending to be
better than Noses, Christ and st. Paul, pro-
claim negro slavery to be sthe sum of all
villany."
In the progress Of human government, as
letters and art and science advanced, and as
the principles of human liberty became better
understood and received fuller development,
the slavery Of white men, which prevailed in
the ancient republics of Greece and Rome,
could not be maintained, because the race
enslaved was equal to those who held them in
bondage, and the remnants of feudalism, its
latest form, are fast disappearing from the face
of Europe. The case is different with negro
slavery The men Of that race are confessedly
inferior to the white race. Some of the leading
republicans in Congress admit the fact. Since
the foundation Of the world the negro race in
Africa have never made any progress or any
in civilization. The negro is the same now as
he was four thousand years ago lie has no
literature no arts, no sciences; he is essentially
q savage and "a cannibal. On the coast Of
Africa whatever little he knows he has learned
from the white man. In the interior, where
the influence Of the white man cannot reach
him, he Is stepped to the lips in barbarism and
idolatry. War and slavery are the two great
elements of his normal condition. fhe is con-
quered he is either eaten up or reduced to
slavery
The descendants Of the negroes imported
into this country are vast improvement upon
the race as it exists In Africa. They have been
gradually civilized and refined by the white
man s intellect and manners, and they have
been brought under the influence of Christian
ity. But to maintain this improvement, which
is limited by the law of the Negroes nature,
he must be kept under the white mans control
Otherwise he relapses into his native barbar-
ism. He is incapable Of selfgovernment He
will not work unless he is compelled. The his
tory Of the emancipated negroes in the West
India Islands affords abundant illustration Of
tho fact. Those British colonies have been
ruined by negro emancipation. And look at
Hayt, where selfgovernment has been at
tempted by the negroes! 1t is melancholy
hiatory Of civil war, massacres, rapine, blood.
shed, revolutions upon revolutions, and gene
raj return to barbarism. Their imitation of the
white mans civilization, where they do initiate
him, is hardly any better than that of the ape.
To leave the negro, therefore, to himself, cspe-
cially in this country, where all must struggle
for a living, is the greatest cruelty that could
be inflicted upon him, while itwould be ruin
Gus to the white race.
If the negroes Of the South were erlanci-
pated tomorrow and came North to
live, the republicans, who are moving
heaven and earth, and the place below, to have
slavery abolished, would be the first to advo-
cate the passing of laws to expel them. They
will not intermarry with negroes, will not
admit them on the level of either social or
political equality, and in every way they dis
courage their immigration from the South.
In the constitution Of republican Kansas,
adopted by the people last July, while he
principle il laid down in the preamble or Bill
Of Rights that 'all men are possessed of equ.,