The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-09
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im this work. AL this, Of course, has
been contributed by individuals, some Civ.
ing as high - twenty thousand dollars at
. time, aud one person in this State is
supposed, within the last thirty years, to
have given . hundred thousand dollars
The COLONIZATION Society, which rests on
the same assumptions and is part aud
parcel Of the same deluSiOn a. the social.
I'd Abolition cause, has probably expend-
ed quite ~ much money a. the latter,
thus making one hundred millions Vi
money contributed by individual zeal and
liberality to apply theory, or assunp-
ton rather, which, II Il were practicable
or could be accomplished, would not alone
destroy our Republican institutions, but
our civilization. Indeed we are now wit
Messing the seeming destruction Of the
Union aud the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of these
States as q rcsWt Of blind and foolish
effort to apply this theory or assumption
to the politics Of the country, though
seemingly in the mildest and least Objec-
IiOnable form that could be done.
IL is assumed that there is only q sin.
gle human race or species, and the negro
is naturally entitled TO the liberty Of the
white man, and TO carry out this asSump.
ton or to reduce this theory to practice,
thirty years Of jealous effort and thirty
millions Of money have been contributed!
Nor IL the later, milder, and therefore
vastly more dangerous phase Of this de-
fusion deficient in zeal, liberality, or indi.
vidual generosity. Secretary Chase, for
example, who nIay be said TO be its rep.
resenIAlive man, has labOred for thirty
years with E'singleness and honesty Of
purpose rarely found among American
politicians, aud doubtless contributed
thousands Of dollars to its support. Mr..
Greeley, too, Notwithstanding the charge
Of otfice.seeking, has labOred long aud
EealOusly, and honestly no doubt, in the
cause Of Freedom" and the twenty or
thirty thousand dollars contributed in
this city to circulate the Helper Book
gratuitOuSly, though done by party pol.
ItiCiAnS, is striking example Of the ear.
neStneSs, honesty, and indeed enthusiasm
Of the supporters Of the cause Of free
DOM"
II their fundamental assumption were
true-if there were only single race, and
the negro, except in color, . man like
ourselves, and thus naturally entitled to
the same liberty, then it is obvious that
he would be entitled to ALL the rights,
political, social and moral, that we enjoy
ourselves Nor would perfect legal and
social equality, and complete and univer-
sal amalgamation with these people dam.
age US On the contrary, nothing is more
true, either physiologicalIy or Historically,
than that anIAlgamatiOn with different
branches or varieties Of the race, works
out greater vigOr and prosperity. Those
nations mixed the most with numerous
branches Of the race, are always most en-.
ergetic and prosperous, and We ourselves,
with our fOur'nilliOns Of our naturalized
citizens, are striking and glorious ex-
ample.
II, therefore, Il we're true that the four
millions Of " slaves" at the South were Of
the same race or species as ourselves,
then not only would the nation be vastly
benefited by such an act Of transcendent
justice as granting them the same free
dom, but q universal amalgamatiOn and
admixtuTe Of blood, as in the case of their
naturalixed superiOrs, would nightly in.
crease the vigor, prosperity and happiness
Of our people. all this Is so logical, SO
obvious, SO unanswerable, that surely no
one wiIltenture to question 1t. But will
Mr.. Chase or Mr.. Seward, or even Mr..
Garrison consent to this result? Is there
. friend Of freedom" in the North willing
to apply his professed belief to his own
householder In short, is there single
man in the North who, il it were in his
power by . mere word to amalgamate
the four millions Of negroes with the
twenty-five millions Of white citizens,
would speak that word Z IL not, If the
negro Is therefore . different race or spe-
cief, and should not be amalgamated with
the white man, as the freshman or Ger.
man, Is it not obvious that God made
him for different purpose, and therefore
what are rights or liberty to US must be
different things to the negro! II is re.
piled that, though different, he should not
be slave. Granted, but what is slave
ryi That which would be slavery to US
must be something entirely different to a
different creature-.th which would make
q white man slave may be freedom to
the negro. Certain it Is that experience
alone can settle the matter; but anti-sla-
veryism rejects experience rs it rejects
reason altogether in connection with this
subject. Abolition, as represented by
Garrison, the COLONIZATION Society, the
Republican party, and al other shades
and degrees Of "anti.slaveryism," stands
in the same position and on the same as
sumption that there l. only a single hu.
man race, that tho negro, crcept IN color,
70 tie came, and naturally entitled to the
same liberty a. tho Nkite man, and all
their efforts, acts, policies and labors for
thirty years past, their contributions Of
one hundred millions OF money, their zeal
and enthusiasm, are oil directed 70 the one
common end-tO reduce their theory to
practice and secure impartial freedom"
for negroesl They differ IN their means
Garrison thinks the white man, by, the
mere effort Of his will, cap give the negro
the same liberty; the COlOnizationist
thinks It can only be done in Africa
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rifles and pixies; Mr.. Greeley, Mr.. Chase
and the Republican party think it can be
brought about by placing the government
on the side Of Freedom" and therefore
against the social order, and even person.
81 and family safety, Of the citizens Of the
South. But il cannot be done without
pushing aside the Almighty Himself and
recreating the negro, or rather creating
that which they think he is, blGcE-w hite
man, or . creature like ourselves except
in color. Is it not, then, absolutely and
obviously certain that =" anti.slaveryism"
is lie, miscOnceptiOn, . frightfui delu-
sion Of the Northern mind, and that any
effort to force it upon the South must fail,
though the government itself may be shat.
tered to atoms in the mad effort to carry
out false theOryl Is 1t not absolutely
and obviously certain that the South will
prefer determination to submission to
party standing in such pOsitiOnl Indeed,
is It not absolutely certain that extermi.
nation BY the sword would be infinitely