Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-02-14

is abundant and sufficient. And in Offering
this proof, l shall use such evidence as is
generally satisfactory to practical men, ina
practical world. and to make the testimony
more clear and conclusive, I shall resort to
the very common and recognized practice of
analogy. A father, having large family,
turally feels deep concern for their welfare
and success in life, and therefore gives to
them all the advantages of his equal and
impartial, instruction, admonition, and
worldly goods, and very justly expects their
success to be proportionate to his solictude,
and the means of advancement he has ac-
corded to each-but, if in the course of time,
he should discover that one or two of them,
have outstriped the rest. and attained to
honor and distinction, while the others are
stationary, or have retrograded from the
first condition, he must perforce conclude,
that his successful sons were superior in
their national abilities, or habits of energy
and enterprise, and the others inferior and
deficient in all the elements of success, and
advancement in life And, as of individu-
ais, so of nations, or races of men, the an
alogy holds good, and is considered fair and
just. Here then to come from supposed
case, to real one, there was an old man
| (Noah) having, We are told, three sons.
and we may reasonably conclude that they
received at his hands an equal share of kind
ness, attention and instruction, and other
advantages, and he no doubt expected each
to make his mark in the world. It is not
necessary for my purpose to notice but two
of these sons. What is the record of his
tory in reference to them? One has made
his mark, and all adown the track of time,
he and his posterity have left monuments of
their superiority in all the elements of ad-
vancement; monuments of success iu
civilization, the arts. and sciences and what
ever conduces to the..elevation of the human
family, from the level of mere animal exis.
istence. And they have also brought down
with them record of themselves and the
world, and but for them, the world and its
history would have been to-day, as dark as
the waves of oblivion, and as disordered as
the dominions of Chaos. Has the other son
made any mark? Yes truly.-but it is such
a mark, as makes darkness invisible-black
with the evidences Of his own inferiority,
his degradation, his heathenism, and the
proofs of having descended in the scale of
being to only one degree above the status
of the mere brute Arr, 3 - - -.-.-a-
r vne fnferlorlty OF the
African race, without noticing the fact Of
his color, which in itself must be evidence
of something; and if from history and ex~
perience, it cannot be evidence of equality
or superiority, it must be prooof of inferiori-
ty, as being the only thing to which it can
be applied as evidence.
So much then for the practical and nas
tural disposal Of the question let us turn
now to the claw and the testimony" which
will not be found deficient in this case
But this claw and testimony has been 80
often cited by writer's, and every one must
be so familiar with it, that it will not be
necessary for me to quote it here in detail;
but refer to it only as fact admitted and
settled In the history of the Jewish ma
ton, no condition of life was more definitely
fixed and defined by law, than this very
question of freedom and servitudc; By &
law too, it must not be forgotten, en1ensting
and authoritatively announced from the very
fountain, source and centre of all law, know
ledge and light, even from the Great Je-
hovah himself And if this is so, does it
not seem the grossest presumption to argue
for or against matter disposed of by au-
thority SO high and unapproachable? I
will pursue the argument no further, for
fear of incurring the judgment of being
"wise above what is written" and render
ing myself unconsciously obnoxious to the
course" of 'adding to or taking from" the
'words of the prophecy" of that Book
Then, sir, if have been successful IN
the arguments of this and my last commttni-
cation what becomes of this favorite, and to
them, vital dogma Of the Black Republican
party, that ''ALL men are CREATED free and
3 equal" 1t would be presumption in me to
say that it is demolished-but this will
say, that to my conceptions, it is doctrine
whereof cometh envy, strife. railings. evil
surmisings, perverse disputings of men of
corrupt minds, and destitute of the TRUTH"
And in conclusion, we may. think, wisely
J leave this question where it has been settled
by higher than human authority, and like
Gamaliel of old. conclude that if this coun-
sci or this work be of men, it will come to
nought; but if it be of God, they cannot
overthrow it; lest haply they be found even
to fight against God" Yours, &c.
C1v1s.
Pomonkey Fsb 8, 1861.
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