The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-07-12


you accomplished for the white man?-
Have you provided for the payment OF
pensions to the soldiers who have been
disabled while fighting the battles of your
country! Have you appropriated money
to relieve the wants and necessities Of the
widows and orphans of white men who
have pcrished upon the battle field defend
ing the Constitution anj the flag Of the
country? Ab, no; your time has been
too much engrOssed with the negro to
think of these things. You have not ap-
pTopriated one dollar for these purposes
purposes which should enlist the abili-
ty and sympathy Of every patriot in the
land.
If this statement is incorrect; if this
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have ever made single effort in behalf OF
the MANNED soldiers, single appropria-
ton for the support of the orphans and
widows of slain soldiers, ! hope some
gentleman from the other side of the
House will correct me. There iS rs 81
sPoRse, and am reassured IN the correct!
ness of my assertion by your silence. The
alleviation Of the sufferngs of white men
or the protection of their rights is not in
your line of philanthropy. Like your H.
luStrious prototypes, Mrs. Jellaby, of the
Bori.bO.la-ga mission, or the Rev. Amini-
dab Sleek, in the play Of the Serious Fam
lily, to the political branch of which you
AbolitioniSts will soon belong, your sym
pathies are never active in behalf Of prac-
nd hnn
Mr. Chairman, am opposed to all
these sickly schemes for equaliZing the
RACES, God made the white man superior
~ ,,ie Akok, ~. >~. .e,S<,<,., ~, >,rrss
or change the dccrces of Heaven. They
are unalterablc as the laws of nature,
eternal as divinity itself, and to legsate
against them leads US to infidelity and
ruin. Since creation dawncd, the white
race has improved and advanced in the
scale of being, bnt rs the negro was then,
so he is now But" say the abolition.
lists, the African has been blessed with
no opportunity for improvement" Who
gave the white man an opportunity p
God, in his infinite justice, placed the two
races upon the earth at the beginning of
time to work out their respective desti-
nies. History has faithfully recorded
their achievements. TO that impartial
tribunal | confidently appeal for the veri-
fication of the white mans superiority.
As God made them so have they remained,
and unlike the abolition equalizationists l
find no fault and utter no complaint
against the wisdom and justice of our
Creator.
The evils of the attempted equalization
of the races is illustrated by the history
of Mexico. That country was settled by
the intelligent Spaniard, race not inferior
to our ancestors. They developed the
resources of the country by building
roads, highways, and canals. All along
their line of march the church and the
school.house were erected as landmarks
of their progress. But finally the idea of
the cqualizing Of the races became popu-
lar; tire attempt was made, theraces were
comlnlngled, and thenceiorward the de-
terioration of the people was rapid and
fearful. This holds true not only in Mex
lco and throughout Central and Southern
America, but in all sections of the globe
wherever the white race has commingled
with the black or the Indian. This sys-
TEN of equalization has failed to elevate
the Inferior, but has always degraded the
superior race On the other hand, wher-
ever the purity Of the white race has been
preserved, its superiority has continued,
and its development, both mental and
physical, progressed. Neither soil nor
climate, upon this continent or elsewhere,
has ever lowered the standard Of the gov
erning race.
For three quarters of century the Uni.
ted States have led the van in all that is
great or useful in Inventions We have
made an crrand boy of the lightning we
have applied steam as propelling power.
In single year we have demonstrated the
fraity of "England's wooden walls" by
the construction Of our iron.clad ships OF
war, and at the same time, by the same
thought, dissipated all previously enter.
tained opinions of Sea-coast and harbor
Notifications. Sir, | am satisfied with the
history of the races as they are, as they
were created, and as our fathers legislated
for them. | claim no originality for these
thoughts; they have been entertained by
some of the ablest statesmen, not only oil
our country, but of England, among them
Mr. Claiming, who, when the British Par
lament was considering schemes kindred
to those now occupying the attention OF
the Republican party in this country,
said:
"In dealing with the negro, sir, we must
remember that we are dealing with be-
ing possessing the form and strength of a
man, but the intellect only of child
To turn him loose in the manhood Of his
physical strength, in the maturity of his
physical passions, but in the infarcy OF
his uninstructed reason, would be to raise
up creature resembling the splendid ic-
ton Of a recent romance, the hero. ol
which constructs human form, with all
the corporeal capabilities of man, and with
the thews and sinews of giant but be.
ing unable 10 impart to the work of his
hands perception Of right and wrong, he
finds too late that he has only created q
more than mortal power Of doing mischief,
and himself recoiis from the monster he
has made"
One OF their great statesmen OF to-day,
Lord John Russell. whenever he aludrs
to the black race in America and change
of its stdtus, talks only of very gradual
emancipation, because he knows that sud-
den and unconditional emancipation would
be destructive to both the negro and the
white man. British statesmen opposed
immediate emancipation upon the ground
of expediency alone. American states
men should oppose it, not only upon that
ground, but also upon the ground that the
Constitution gives no power to interfere
with the domestic institutions of the sew.
eral States-no such power either in peace
or in war.
But to reach the goal of their hopes, the
Abolitonists Of this country are willing to
override expedency, the law and the Con-
stitution; to destroy the Government itself
in order to emancipate at once all the slaves
Of the South
Ny colleague (Mr. Lovejoy) says two.
thirds or three.fourths Of the Army are
Abolitionists. This may be true, but upon
the new Constitution for the State Of Illi-