The Placer herald., 1862-07-12

halt-made parOdes upen human government.
At an annual expense of thousands Of dollars |
you propose to receive negro dipOmatists from |
them and send United States ministers to them;
indeed are you the champions of negro equality,
without regard to cost, place, prOpriety, or dig
nifty.
This Congress has been in session nearly eight
months, and all that have reviewed you have
done. and more you W ould do if you could, for
the negro. What have you accomplished for the
white man? Have you provided for the pay
ment of pensions to the soldiers who have been
disabled while fighting the battles of your coun-
try? Have you appropriated money to relieve
the wants and necessities of the widows and Or
phans of white men who have persisted upon the
battle-feds defending the Constitution and the
flag of the country? Ah, no; your time has been
too much engrossed with the negro to think of
these things. You have not appropriated one
dollarl for these purposes-purposes which should
enlist the ability and sympathy of every patriot
in the land.
Ii this statement is incorrect; if this Republi
can party or its Administration have ever made
Il single effort in behalf of the MANNED soldiers,
u single appropriation for the support OF the Or
phans and widows of the slain soldiers, hOfe
some gentleman from the 9th er side of the
House will corr ct me. There is no response
AMI am reassured in the correctness of my as
sertion by your silence The alienation of the
suferings OF white men or the protection Of their
your illustrious prototypes, Mrs. Jelluby OF the
Bori-b la ga mission, or the Rev. Aminidab
Sleek, in the play of the Serious Family, to the
political branch to which you abolitionists will
soon belong, your sympathies are never active
in behalf of practical and genuine bevevolence.
Mr.. Chairman, | am opposed to all these sick
| ly schemes for equalizing the races. God made
the white man superior to the black, and no leg
islaton will undo or change the dccrecs of Heav-
an. They are unalterable as the laws of nature,
4 ,t,,;tv
them leads US to infideity and ruin Since Gre
alton dawned, The white race has improved and
| advanced iu the scale of being, but as the negro
was then, so he is now. But says the aboli-
tionists, "tbe African has been blessed with no
opportunity for improvement" Who gave the
white man IN opportunity? God, in his infinite
justice, placed the two races upon the earth at
the beginning of time to work out their respect
i've destinies. History has faithfully recorded
their achievements. TO this impartial tribunal |
confidently appeal for the verfcation of the
white mans superiority. AS God made them so
have they remained, and unlike the abolition
equaliZ,tionists find no fault and utter no CON-
pant 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 Span
lard race not inferior to our ancestors. They
developed the resources OF the country by build
ing roads, highways. and canals. All along their
line of march the church and the school house
were erected as landsmarks of their progress.
But finally the idea of the equalzng Of the races
became popular; the attempt was made. the races
were cOmmi n gled with the black or the Indian.
Ins system OF equalization has failed to elevate
the inferior, but has always degraded the superi
or race. On the other hand, wherever the pur-
ty of the white race has been preserved. its su-
periority has continued, and its development,
both mental and physical. progressed. Neither
I. l.
has even lowered the standard of the governing
race.
For three quarters of century the United
States have led the van in all that is great or
useful in inventions. We have made in errand
boy OF lightning; we have applied steam as a
prCpeling power. In single year we have de-
monslrated the lrailty of "England's wooden
walls by the construction of our irOn-clad ships
of war and at the same time. by the same thought
disspaed all previously entertaining opinions
of sea cost and harbor Notifications. Sir, l am
satisfied with the history Of the races as they are,
as they were created, and fathers legislated
for them. l claim no originality for these
thou ghts; they have been entertained by the
ablest statesmen. not only of our country, but
of England. among them Mr.. Claiming, who,
when the British Parliament was consid erng
schemes kindred to those now occupying the at
tenton OF the Republican larty in this country,
said:
"In dealing with the negro, sir, must re-
member that we are dealing with Il being possess
ing the form and strength of man, but the intel
lect only of child. To turn him loose in the
manhood of his physical strength, in the maturity
Of his physical PASSIONS but in the infancy OF his
upinstructed reason, would be to raise up
creature resembling the splendid fiction OF II re-
cent romance, the hero Of which constructs q
FORM with all the corpOreal capabilities OF man,
and with the thews and slnews OF giant; but
IA NJ 10 tha ynrkn nf hia hon nflc
a perception of right aud wrong, he finds too
late that he has only created more than mortal
power of doing mischief, and himself recoils
| from the monster he has made"
| One Of their great statesmen Of to-day, Lord
John Russell, whenever he alludes to the black
race in America and change of its status, talks
only of very gradual emancipation because he
knows that sudden and unconditional emancipa
ton, would be destruction to both the negro and
the white mau British statesmen opposed i'm
mediate emancipation upon the ground of expe-
diency alone. American statesmen should op-
pose it, not only upon the ground that the the Con. on
sti,ution gives no power to Interfere with the
domestic institutions OF the several States-no
such power either in peace or in war;
But 10 reach the goal of the hopes, the abo)i-
tionists Of this country are willing to override
expedency, the law and the Constitution. to de-
stroy the Government itself in order to emanci-
nate at once all the slaves Of the South.
My colleague, (Mr. Lovejoy) says two-thirds
or three -iourths of the army are Abolitionsts
This may be true. but upon the new Constitution
for the State Of Illinois which contains prov
sion to exclude negroes from locating within the
State the soldiers do not vote like aboitonsls.
Eleven of our reg iments have already voted up
on the adoption of that Constitution.
Mr.. Wicklife. How did they vote?
Mr.. Richardson. Sixty three votes were CIV
en- against it, and all the rest-somc several
thousand-were given for it,
Throughout the State Of Illinois abolitionists
are opposing this Constitution, and Democrats
and conservative men are advocating lts adop
ton.
Four-ifths and perhaps nine tenths, Of all the
men that carry muskets and knapsacks in the
army of the West are opposed to the doctrines
of negro equality and abolition, as preached by
tho nentlemnn from the Bureau district of Illi-