Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-03-29
Ernancipation.

to abolish Slavery in the District OF Col
umbia -
Mr.. DOOLITTLE. (Rep. Wisconsin,)
made, among other remarks, the follow.
ing -
Mr.. Jefferson declares one thing in
emphatic terms, and when this country
shall come to understand it, we shall have
made great progress in the settlement of
this question, which underlies the whole of
this struggle, which 1 repeat to-day, is
more a question of race than Of condition.
1t is the Negro question more than the
Slavery question, which produces all the
trouble we now have in this country. JEFF.
fcrson says "Nothing is more certainly
written in the book of fate than that this
people are to be free, nor is it less certain
that the two races equally free cannot live
in the same government Nature, habit,
and opinion have drawn indelible lines dis.
tinctly between them" In the temperate
zone our raco--thc Caucasion-bas always
been dominant, and always will be. In
the torrid zone the colored man has been
dominant, and will be dominant forever.
No laws passed by Congress can reverse
the laws which the Almighty has stamped
upon the earth and the constitution of man.
Poets may dream otherwise {; and perhaps
the phianthropic man may hope to have
it otherwise, but it cannot be done. God
the Almighty has written it upon the earth
itself, and upon the very nature of the hu,
island of Hayti, and you find that the
white is doomed race, and the order Of
things is reversed. | recollcct very well
when colored man by the name of Har-
ris made u trip to Central America and
those islands for the purpose of exploring
that country, and in book he states the
fact, patent to all the world, that the white
man is doomed in this region because lie
becomes cfFcte, cnfecbled and dcgenerated
to such an extent that he must either COM
mingle with the oolorcd race, or in three
or four generations he will cease to propa--
gate his species. Nature asserts her own,
and she will have it, and you cannot him
der it, and the sooner you bring your
hearts and judgments in consonance with
the great laws which the Almighty has es-
tabiished, the sooner will you look forward
to the final and permanent solution Of this
great question now upon the hands Of the
American people.
Sir, VIC are on trial here to see whether
our race is capable of self government
A trial which is to test aud settle the qucs
ton forever. A trial upon which l entel
with hope and confidence. Yes l cannot
conceal from myself the fact that We are
entering upon it with some degree Of doub
whether we shall be able to gothrough the
great struggle without bringing upon u
some form or other Of consolidated dcs
potism here. For myself, l say, l an
not satisfied at all with taking race o
men who. have been held in subjcction tc
us in Slavery, and at once setting then
free without a dollar in the world or ;
home which they can call their own.
know it is said that the objection
: which is felt on the part of he white pop
ulation of this country to living side by side
in social and civil equality with the negro
race is all mere prejudice of taste. Bu
is foundations are laid deeper than nero
prejudice. 1t is an instinct of our nature
Men may theorizc on the condition of the
two races living together, but the thing il
impossible; the instincts cf both races are
, against it, Let US look at real ia cts, anC
neither deceive ourselves or anybody else
How do the Free States staGa cn the ques
tion In my own State, were there are
few colored men, there is not much feel
ing one way or the other. And so il
New England, But in the States near t,
the Slave States how is it? Illinois ha.
formed Constitution excluding free col
ored men. Indiana has some similar pro
vision, and l venture to say if you COM
down to the practical question whether, i
the whole negro population were to be sc
free and distributed around among TIN
r several States, you would find just tn,
same repugnances in the more Northern
States that is now exhibited in Illinois ant
/ Indiana. l have been informed that il
l943 distinguished gentleman of Yer
mont was elected to Congress, and one 0
his neighbors, a we'll to do farmer came t
pay his respects to him before he left 70
Washington, and says he, "Judgo, who
YOU Get to Washin gton, | wish YOU woult