Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-02


LONG leaders under Ehe above heading. They
are eudeavering to establish the fact of io-
eouality of races, and argue thence that the
weaker races are naturally and inevitably to
be epslaved by the stronger. They say that
the BACK race is inferior to the white race,
and that wherever the tive have coexisted the
whites, if sufficiently numerous, have held the
lacks in slavery, Because this has been,
e4ley argue that it must continue to be. In
their view the presidents proclamation is
aimed against social StdtNS fixed and per-
manent by the laws of God, This ''higher
law" receives their homsge. They are its
willing subjects, and evidently hope it will
over-rule anti-slaVery preclamations and acts
of congress,
But the equality of races is not the point in
question. In this argument, we do not care
whether the ancient Egyptians, whose armies
overran and subjugated nearly all Asia, were
white or black, 1t is of no consequence,
whether or not the black race in the person of
Hanaibal gave to the world its greatest gem
eraL Suppose we grant, for the purposes of
the argument that the black race is inferior
to the white race. This being the fact, the
superior race would undoubtedly, SO long as
it remained in state iof semi barbarism and
heathenism itself hold the inferior race in
subsection and bondage. In the earlier ages
of the world, when the normal state of all
races seems to have been war. the more pow
erfm tribes, after defeating their weaker
neighborS in bloody battles, devastated their
territory, robbed them Of their property, and
reduced them to slavery. This was in ac-
cordance with natural laws, so long as the hu-
man race was subject to the base and uncon-
trOled rule of its animal nature
But christianity and civilization have changed
all that, and whoever should now argue that
we ought to treat our enemies as the old ma
tons did, as even the Israelites-the chosen
people of God-did as they believed under his
express command, would only subject himself
to the imputation of cruelty and barbarism.
He would be regarded as an anomaly, waif
from the dark ages, which somehow brother
surviving its day and generation, had come
down to us that we might know what manner
Of men these old bar5arians were.
The advocate of slavery, as the necessary
result of the inequality of races, at the pres
ent time stands in the same category as would
the advocate Of the enforcement of the old
rules of barbarous war in this age of christian
enlightenment. He is out Of his place. Ex-
istence in this era of light and progress must
be as painful to this estray from the dark ages
as it would be to an owl to be exposed to the
full sunshine of day. We must bear witt
him patiently, for he is an object of pity a.
well as OF blame, and is the cause of more
suffering to himself than to others. The
''higher law of the christian, in contradis
tnction to that Of the pagan, teaches us thai
the strong should sustain and encourage the
weak instead of tyranizing over them, should
elevate rather than Cypress them. If the
blacks are inferior to the whites, then it is
doubly our duty as christian people to re-
move the yoke which superior power has i'm
posed upon them, and assist them in attaining
to whatever social and moral elevation their
natures may be capable of.
The men who believe in the inferioritv of
the black race and thence infer that it should
be held in slavery, prove themselves to belong
to past semi-barbarism rather than the pres
ent civilization and to be possessed of the ma
lures of DULLES and towards, rather than of
brave men and christians.