The Placer herald., 1862-01-04
NORTH AND SOUTH---WHAT DO THEY
WANT?

In the midst OF the doubt and darkness OF the
present, there are two great. immovable and ever
lasting landmarks plainly discernable and which,
sooner or later, will become the rallying points
for the returning reason and patriotism Of the
people. These are slavery" and nationality
the first the normal condition OF the negro, and
the second the ndivisible and lmpregnable prn-
ciple Of American civilization. Thousands of
years hence, or long centuries OF national corrup-
ton, degradation and deterioration, may under
mine and overthrow one or both of these things;
but now. in the hour of national youth, energy
and vitality both of these things, resting as they
do, on the national ORDER are immovable, indivis
iblc and mpregnable.
A few brief sentences are sufficient to show the
perfect truth of these assertions to every honest
and intelligent American mind. The negro is a
different and subordinate species, in a different
and subordinate social position, harmonzing
with his nature and the wants and interests
of both races. There may be many defects in the
social machinery, many things to be improved in
the progress OF society, but whatever these may
be in reality, this condition is not only in accord
with the higher law or the natural relation OF
these races. bat it is the most benciiccnt and the
most perfect social condition known to human ex-
perience That is surely The most perfect state Of
human existence where they remain or live out
most completely the natural equality that the
hand Of the Creator has stamped on them. and no
four millions Of human creatures. white or black,
have ever done this so fully as the so called negro
slaves OF the South.
There are in the British Islands thirty millions
Of people, all white. all Of the same race. all
come into being alike, physical and mental and
| if the social machinery was in accord with the
will OF the Creator, or if human laws harmonlzed
with the nature and wants OF these people, so that
their natural equality was. or should be, rreserv'
ed through life these thirty millions would be as
absolutely alike as the grains in bushe of wheat
But from the moment Of birth, from the instant
that the laws OF British arstocracy take charge
OF them, they arc moved in opposite directions
and those whom God sent into the world equal
are transformed into MOBILES and animals into a
handful Of r ch and luxurious rulers, and into
vast masses whose existence, in many respects, is
less desirable than that of COWS and horses
| Indeed. when we consider the number of horses
and dogs kept by the "noblity' and gentry for
their special amusement it is entirely reasonable
to say that the condition OF these animals really
Il happier one than that Of the clover orders OF
the British people, and which comprises three
iourths OF the population. 1t is probable that
some fifty thousand men. women and children are
doomed to labor all their lives like mere work
animals, to support the Royal Family" All the
lofty capacities, the high nature, the generous in
stincts that God gave them. aud with which they
came into being. utterly rep essed corrupted,
distorted and g.ound out of them 10y British lib
erty,' that, conirastcd with this Royal family
they seem almost another creation. and are re-
gardcd with as little sympathy a. their dogs and
horses. But every one OF these detormed and de-
faced creatures, SO impiously outraged by the
human law, was not only sent into being equal
with Mrs. Victoria family y but owing to the sins
Of her progcnitors. absolutely superior, ana
among the three millions OF WORKOUT. manslcd
and deiolmed paupers III the aims houses OF eng
land. there is probably not one who, il they had
! had the same chances. would not have manifested
higher Intelligence ana lober life than that
"mpcria lady herself!
What spectacle to contemplated handful
who produce nothing. rolling in wealth and lux
ury. while the millions, their own brethren, crea-
turcH whom Gol sent into the world their equals
and therefore designed for the same happiness,
distorted by human (or rather by devillsh) con
| trvanceS into mere work anmuls What a terri
| bic Nemesis sits broOding over this awful chasm
between the rulers and ruled-the few and the
many-the masters and slaves OF England and
which, sooner or later. will demand whole gen
GRAFTON OF victims to fill 1T up. and oblterate 1t
from the eyes OF angels and of men!
In con rast to this enormous and unparalleled
sin, inQuity and crime, we present four millions
of negroes in the South, whose life is so natural
so harmonious. so in accord with the higher law
and the nature God has given them, that one may
travel a month among them, and be unable to dis
cover any distinction whatever, except age and
sex, or except those decreed by God Himself. Is
there or has there ever been, in all human eXpe-
riencc, four millions Of human creatures who have
| lived perfect a life as this, or who remain
|
c and eternal law of equality fixed forever by
the hand of the Creator in the organism of the
race? God sent them into the world equal and
therefore designed them for an equal happiness,
for the same purposes, for equal duties and equal
enjoyment, and the human law is so in accord
with the law Of God, that, as we have said. u man
may travel month among the plantations of the
South and see no inequalities or distinctions OF
any kind among these people, save those of sex
and age. When this condition is contrasted with
the social condition of Europe, the four million
of so called slaves of the South with the white
subjects or slaves Of the British aristocracy, one
is lost in amazemcnt at the ignorance, blindness
and indeed crime Of that portion OF our people,
who as the dupes and tools Of England are stri-
wing to overthrow the social order of the South,
and to replace it by the British system Of artiic-
ial dstinctions-th the ruie Of classes instead of
that Of races
But we only need to state the fixed and funda-
mental facts underlying the social Order to see
at glance the utter and hopeless folly as well as
sin and impiety Of this undertaking or of this
"unti-savery enterprise" Of the Giddingses,
Cheevers and Fremonts of the North. There are
eight millions of different and superior white men
in iuXtapositon with four millions of different and
subordinate negroes. The relation between them
the supremacy of the white man and the subor-
dination of the negrO-is fixed forever by the
hand Of the Almighty, and the ter Ioca or local
law is simply adapted to this eternal decree OF
the Creator and in conformity to the nature and
wants of both The "idea" Of the ''ant-slavery-
ite," that this relation can be abolished-that
those whom God has created unequal can. by hu-
man force, be rendered equal-that creatures
made unlike by Omnipotence, can be made alike
by Cheever and Co., or that the supremacy Of the
eight millions of superior white men in the south
can be overthrown. and they and their rdescendants
forced into ''impar ial freedom with four mil
lions of subordinate negroes, this ''idea' is so
wholly foreign and so monstrous, that it is impos-
sible to an uncorrupted American mind All that
human forces could accomplish would be q com
mon destruction, as the British aristocracy have
done in Jamaica-the ruin and desolatlon OF So