Washington telegraph., 1862-06-04

| But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amidst her worshipers.''
1t is the terse annunciation of the grand truth
upon which, in Gods providence, depends all
| cur hopes in human progress, aud the perfec
liability of human government. We have but
10 watch carefully the workings ofany system
and to detect the latent causes which, by slow
oPeraucn perhaps, disrupt the most magni1-
cent plans of government, and thwart the most
hopeful systems of legislation. five find that
some principle of government, or some social
maxim heretofore received as an unqu, stiona-
bic Gods truth has given rise to such results,
the great school of experience has then taught
us new lesson. However sacred the maxim
or principal may have been considered before.
it should be discarded at once, and trampled
under our feet Be assured il Is a damnable
lie, and can by no means be made to work
tremendously with anything that is true. 1t
must die, and IN its writings must overthrow
and destroy all the influences of what is true
and good, and interviewer with it. By heel
ing the lesson, and by that only, are-we made
wiser and happierin the future. The most 81
cred belief in the nutritious properties of saw
dust, ard the most persistant practice under
it, would result only in the death by starya
tion of those who accepted it. 1t can never
harmonic with the everlasting truth of the
laws of digestion. There would remain no
hopes for the hu--an race until some bold
thinker should dare to question the theory.
and amidst much persecution and loud howl
ings of exccration from its devotees, convince
the world that sawdust was naught, and
bread the true staff of life.
The world is now beholding, not for the first
nor second time, the terrible consequences of
one of these social fallacies which we have
been so slow to question, and so timorous of
denying. 1t originated in modern times with
the social philosophers in France, and became
first urged there as principle for practical
operation. 1t became incorporated in that
venerable instrument which we have held as
sacred as holy writ, our declaration of Inde-
pendence- 1t made bloody orgie of wild
passions throughout all of France 1t seized
the minds of English Philanthropi>tS and in
its practice laid waste Jamaica 1t converted
San Domingo into n desert inhabited hy beinrs
worse than the wild beasts of the forest Ii has
brought about the destruction of the rran,icst
government upon the western continent. which
has ever arisen in the progress of the wotlI.
1t has infused itself profanely into the portal
of our holy religion, and uuabl. to harmonize
Herewith, has dragged the minds of worship
ers to a denial of holy writ, and converted
holy men of God into such demons of malice as
Henry Ward Beecner.
1t is the accursed fal eho.,l Tat call men
are born free and equal" which, more than
any ot1er error in the history of mankind, has
locked the wheels of human progress and
stained the earth with blood Never was a
failacy so accordant with all our feelings of
human brotherhood, more consistent with a II
our generous emotions, accepted more heartily
or relinquished (if indeed W. are yet ready for
that more hardly.
Still it is manifest lie. capable of
entering the minds Of men, looking clearly
upon the human race, and free from the intox-
icating fumes of false but attractive philo,o-
ply.
Let US remark in the outset, to avoid mis-
apprehension, that all individuals of the same
race are entitled to the same political privile-
ges. That where the blood is the same by
nature, there shoull be no iii stinction by law
That whilst the best should govern, because
they will do so most wisely, it should not ere
ate caste with peculiar privileges. The old
error of hereditary aristocracy, has no foun-
dation in the laws of nature or of civic policy.
The son of the humblest citizen is equal to
the heir of the wealthiest, or the son of him
highest in power.
But races are NOT equal. The IIottcntot j.
not equal to the Chinese, or the Mexican
They, III turn, are not equal to the European.
Whoever will so consider them land teach
men so, are ministers of evil. Such mi>gu-
ded men lighted the lurid flames Of insurrec-
ton, and stained hearthstones with the blood
of innocents, throughout the beautiful Island
of Hayti, and left it since a cypher on the
face of the earth. Such men have desolated
Jamaica. The insitiious working os the mi gh ty
lie upon the minds of men has, for forty years,
rendered Mexico and all South America o. e
grand theatre ofanarchy, civil strife and social
degradation. In our own beautiful land, cloth
ed in the garments of freedom, and sanctioned
by the heroes of our independence, it has
perverted the Christian Religion, dissolved
our Union, desecrated the temples of political
liberty, and arrayed half a million of men to
| butcher their brothers around their fires ides
and alters.
For it is obvious, that without that fanati-
cism of human equality, falsely supposed to
result from human brotherhood. the North and
South would never have been arrayed against
each other 1t is the fatal seed ont of which
have sprung the noxious weeds Of fanati.csm
growing ranker and ranker, until they over
shadowed and choked all that was good and
true in the Constitution framed for pos
terity by the anxious forethought of the sagcs
of the revolution. They sowed.i it in the de-
claration of Independence We reap it in
the " Whirlwind and the storm. This bIooIi-
est picture in the book of time" now opened
to our view, reads US the lesson in tones of
terror, that falsehood is not harmonious with
truth, and that the curse of God is upon it.
| If we are wise, it remains for us TO heel thss
lesson, and recognise for ourselves, and ex-
hibit to the world the new evangel of eauality'
of citizens, but subordination of races 1t is