Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-06-18

your Illustrious prototypes, Mrs. Jellaby. of
the Bori-bO-la-ga mission, or the Rev Amini-
dab Sleek, in the play of the Serious Family
to the political branch of which you AboIi-
tionists will soon belong. your symrathies
are never active in behalf of practical and
genuine benevolence.
Mr. Chairman, am opposed to all these
slckly schemes for equalizng the races. God
made TIE white man superior to the black.
and no legislation vii, undo or change the
DEGREES of Heaven. They are unalterable
as the laws of nature, eternal rs divinity it
self, and 70 lesislate against them leads us
to iDfdelity and ruin. Since creation
dawned, the white race has improved and
advanced in the scale of being; but as the
negro was then, so he Is now. q Butt say
the AbOlitionists, % the African has been
blessed with no opportunity for improve
ment." Who gave the white man an Oh
portunity? God, in his infinite Justice.
placed the TWO races upon the earth at the
beginning Of time to work out their respec-
tive destiuies- History has faithfully re
corded their achievements To that Impair
tial tribunal | confidently appeal for the
verification Of the white mans superiority.
As God made them 50 have they remained.
and unlike the abolition cqualizationists |
find no fault and utter no complaint against
tie wisdom aud justice Of our Creator.
The evils of the attempted equalization off
the races Is iIIustra. ed by the history o
Mexico. That country was settled by the
intelligent SpauiarJ, a race not inferior to
our own ancestors. They developed the re
sources of tine country by building roads.
highways ami canals. All along their line
of march the church and the school house
were erected Is landmarks of their progress
But finally the idea of eqalizing the races
races were comingled, aud thencSforward
the deterioration of the people was rapid and
fearful. This holds true not only in Mexico
and throughout Central and Southern Ameri-
ca, but ia all sections Of the globe wherever
the white race has comingled with the black
or the Indian. This system of equalization
has failed to elevate the inferior, but has al
ways degraded the superior race. On the
other hand, wherever the purity O: the white
race has been preserved, its superiority has
continued. and its development, both mental
and physical. progressed. Neither soil or
climate. upon this continent or elsewhere,
has ever lowered the standard Of the govern
ing race.
f ,f-,.-
ted States have lcd the van in all that is
great or useful in inventions. We have
made an errand-boy OF the Lightning; we
have applied steam as a propc!iing power.
In a single year We have demonstrated the
frailty of 'En.land's wooden walls" 10y III,
construction Of our iron clad ships Of war.
and at the same time. by the same thought,
dissipated all previously entertained opia~
ions of sea coast and Larbor Publications
Sir, am satisfied with the history Of the ra-
ccs as they now exist, Us they were created,
and as our fathers legisiateG for them.
claim no originality f5r these thoughts; they
have been entertained by some of the ablest
statesmen, not only Of onr country, but of
when the British Parliament was considers
ing schemes kindred TO those Row 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 being
possessing the form and strength OF a man.
but the intellect only Of Il child To turn
him loose in the mauhonI of his physical
strength, in the maturity of his physical
passions, but in the infancy Of his unrc>
stricted reason. would be to raise up a crea-
ture resembling the splendid ficti"n CT re
cent romance, the hero ot which constructs
a human form. with all the corporeal capa-
bi;ties C man. anG with ;he thews and sin
ews of a giant; but being unable to impart
to the work of his hands perception Of
right and wrong. be finds too late that he
has created a more than mortal power Of
doing mischief, and himself recoils from the
monster he ha. made"
One of their great statesmen Of to day
Lord John Russell, whenever he alludes to
the black race in America, and to a change
of its status. talks only Of very gradual
emancipation, because he knows that sud
den and unconditional emancipation would
be destruction to both the negro and the
/ white man British statesmen opposed inn
mediate emancipation upon The ground Of