The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-08-09

pensions to the soldiers who have beer
disabled while fighting the battles of your
country! Have you appropriated money
to relieve the wants aud necessities Of the
widows and orphans of white men who
have perished upon the battle field defend
ing the Constitution and the flag of the
cOuntryY Ah, no; your time has been
too much cngrossed with the negro to
think of these things. You have not ap.
propriated one dollar for these purposes
purposes which should enlist the ability
and sympathy of every patriot in the
land.
If this statement is incorrect; if this
Republican party or its Administration
AaS4 eVer.haa4e n single effort in behalf Of
the manned soldiers, single appropria-
!!3E cSS H. a. s III "S,>GaSs 9nd
widows of slain soldiers, | hope some gen
tleman from the other side Of the House
will correct me. There is no response,
and am reassured in the correctness ol
my assertion by your silence. The ale
Walton of the sullrrings Of white men or
the protection of their rights is not in your
line Of philanthropy. Like your illustri.
Gus prototypes, Mrs. Jcllaby, Of the Bori-
bo,lo-ga mission, or the Rev. Aminidab
Sleek. in the play Of the Serious Family,
to the political branch Of which you ALo,
litionists will soon belong, your sympa-
thies are never active in behalf Of practi-
cal and genuine benevolencc.
Mr.. Chairman, | am opposed to all
these GcSSy schemes for <3SaaSMiiig the
races. God made the white man superior
to the black, and no legislation will undo
or change the DEGREES Of Heaven. They
are unaherainie as The tS%6 sc T,a>>..;;;>> ~
eternal as divinity itself, and TO legislate
against them leads us to fnhdelity and
ruin. Since creation dawned, the white
race has improved and advanced in the
scale Of being, but as the negro WAS then,
50 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 dcsti-
nies. History has faithfully recorded
their achievements. To that impartial
tribunal confidently appeal for the veri-
tfcation Of the white mans superiority.
AS God made them so have they remained,
and unlike the abolition cqualizationists
find no fault aud 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, Il race not inferior
to our ancestors. They developed the re-
sources 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 equal
izing Of the races became popular ; the
attempt was made, the races were COM
mingled, and thcncefOrward the deteriUra-
ton Of the people was rapid and fearful.
This holds true not only in Mexico 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 system of equal
iZatiun has failed to elevate the infer ior,
but has always degraded the superior race.
On the other hand, wherever the purity
of the white race has been preserved, its
superiority has continued, and its devc-
opWent, both mental and physical, pro-
crossed Neither soil nor climate, upon
this continent or elsewhere, has ever low
cred the standard Of the governing race.
For three quarters of century the Uni
ted States have led the vaII in all that is
great or useful in inventions. We have
made all GRAND boy Of the lightning VIC
have applied steam as propeling power.
In a single year we have demonstrated the
frailty of "England's wooden walls" by
the construction of our iron-clad ships Of
war, and at the same time, by the sane
thought, dissipated oil previously enter
tanned 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 legislatcd
for them. claim no originality for these
thoughts; they have been entertained by
some of the ablcSt statesmen, not only Of
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:
"Tn dealing with the negro, sir, we must
remember that we are dealing with a be-
ing possessing the form and strength of a
man, but the intellect only Of u 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 unnstructed reason, would be to raise
up creature resembling the splendid fic-
ton of a recent romance, the hero of
which constructs human form, with all
the corporeal capabilities Of man, and with
the thews and sinews of giant but be-
ing unable to impart to the work of his
hands perception ol rIgnt and wrong, he
finds too late that he has only created a
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 a change
of its StatuS, 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 cxpediency alone. American states
men Shonld 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
AbolitionistS of this country are willing
to override expediency, the law and the
Constitution; to destroy the Government
itself in order to emancipate at once all
the slaves of the South.
My colleague (Mr. Lovejoy) says two
thirds or three-fourths of the Army are
Aboltionists. This may be true, but
upon the new Constitution for the State
of Illinois, which contains provision tC