East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-09
INEQUALITY OF RACES.

men are porn Tree ana equal, IL 10 Cct-
tainly true, likewise, that a year does
not pass, scarcely six months, from the
period of birth, without the development
of differences in that equality which are
adapted to make material differences IN
the subsequent freedom OF the individuals
who come into the world. Let a free
born American put to himself the ques-
tion-"Am | to be required to believe
that "a Hindoo, Calire, Chinaman, or
a Patagonian was born equal to me ~
He must say-'I Indignantly deny it,
Take specimen of negro, or Tartar,
or an Esquimaux, and compare him with |
a sample Of an Englishman, or an Amer /
lean. however youthful, whether six
months or six DAYS DID, and You will see
differences and inequalities which will be
developed and increased every day till
both arc grown TO mans estate, and 1t
will no longer be possible u imagine
them to be equal in any one point OF
mental or corpogeai constitution. 1t
would be much nearer the truth, to assert
that no ono human being is born to free
dom, and that no two are equal. Every
child has progenitors whom he must obey,
and has individual features Distinguishing
him from every other person of the same
period at least if not of all periods and
the distinguishing differences are quite
rs much mental as bodily, and those dli-
ferences are inequalities. One is superb
or to the other and it little becomes the
American who, in fact, really thinks that
his countrymen are greatly superior to
the rest of mankind, to profess political
doctrine which he does not and cannot
believe.
Men are free or not, and equal to 9th
ers or not, according to their race and
the circumstances of their birth and cd
ucation; and as there are immense diver
sites of physical and intellectual power,
there are and mnst be equal differences ia
freedom and rank.
People who are gifted with any spirit
OF observation see these differences in the
individuals about them just as plainly as
If they travcledin different quarters OF the
globe to search for them. The wonder
would be to find two people, brought pp
under the same circumstances and oithe
same race, who are exactly alike. Even
the Siamese twins differed ftow each 9TH
er. OF course different RACES are farther
apart, in intellectual andmoral equality,
than individuals; and, before we except
qualities, we shoTd ascertain whether
the races are epdowed with equal powers
mot. In point of fact, some races have
oot the start Of others, and, being ahead
in the struggle of life, they will not prob
abl,lose their position to the end.
The bearing of these thoughts upon
parties among us is obvious. We hav,
an inferior race to deal with, and tho
question is, how? Are we to be foolish
enough to disregard the most obvious
points of difference between them and US
and insist, upon an equality of mind
which does not exist, in order to give
them an equality of rights which would
cease to exist practically in twenty-foul
hours Look at the instances [if il bC
noedful to 90 to them for proof Of tn,
truth Of what we are sayingl in whicl
the negro race, not achieving freedom
like our fathers, has had it thrust upol
them, like the blacks of the Englisl
West Indies Or even look at the in
stance where their arms were nerved b,
their own energies, as in st. Domingo
What has become of all the freedom il
each case? What is the rank held b.
these cnfranchised slaves among tn
races Of man? See them indolent, unir
tellectual, sensual; and then suppose fo
an instant that the island of Jamaca wer
given, without an incumbrance, to fv
or six thousand Yankees, simply on tn
condition that they should 90 there an
see what they could make of it. w
merely suggest this for the consideratio
Of our readers, and will only ask plai
question or two in relation TO it. Doc
anybody believe that, in less time tina
is allotted to generation on the face {
the earth, that island would be in I'll
condition it now is Would there b
none of the symptoms of improvement
and progress which in other places hay
marked the career of the Americana
Would the church. the school, and Il
college be entirely forgotten? Woul
there be no election days; no Thanksgi
ing. no Fourth of July? Would the
be no patents, no trade with home {
with other people? If the Yankee d
not entirely lose his character, thel
would be these, and thousands of oth'
devices to make the utmost out of Il
little farm; and progress would be
much the order of the day there as her
But we need not go so far for a suppositio
Here, in rock bound, frost-bound Mass
chusetts, we manage to get the suga
the fruits, and all that we want fro
more favored regions, and support a mi
lion of people on a little, unattracti'
spot, that, before it was settled by
hardy race, would not have been wort
as much az one Of the smallest of Il
West India islands.
The picture of Jamaica as she might
and as she is, and the contrast of Mass
chusetts as she is to-day and as she w
by nature two hundred and fifty yea
ago, should be enough, one would thin
to teach patience and discrimination
the dullest minds, and TO show that 1t
in vain to attempt to hasten the cour
of events, which are in the hands of
wiser Power than Congress or the Gen
raj Court; and that it would be bett
for us to turn our attention to aiiai
which we can, in some degree, contr