Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-06-12


, T'riation for the support Of the orphan,
and widows Of slain soldiers. [ hon,
some gentleman upon the other side o
the House will correct me. There is M
response, and am rcassured in the cor.
rectness OF my assertion by your silence
lhe alienation Of the sulIerings Of white
men or the protection Of their rights i,
not in your line Of philanthropy. Like
your iIluStrious prototypes Mr.. Jellaby,
OF the Bori-bo-la ga mission, Of the Rev
Aminidab Sleek in the play Of Scricu.
FAMILY, to the political branch to which
You Abolitionists will soon belong, your
Sympathies are never in behalf Of practi.
cal and genuine benevolence.
REASONS AGAINST EQUALiziSG THE RACES.
Mr.. Chairman, | am opposed to all
these sickly schemes Of equalizing the
races. God made the white man snpe.
rior to the black, and no legislation will
undo or change the DEGREES of Heaven.
They are unalterable as the laws of ma.
ture, eternal as Divinity itself, and to
llegislate against them leads us to infidel.
ity and ruin. Since creation dawned,
the white race has improved and advan.
ced in the scale of being, but as the ne.
gro was so he is now. But" say the
Abolitionists, "the African has been
blessed with no opportunity for improve
ment." Who gave the white man ar
opportunity? God, in his infinite ius.
tice, placed the two races upon the earth
at the beginning of time to work out
their respective destinies History has
faithfully recorded their achievments.-
10 that impartial tribunal / confidently
appeal for the verifcation of the white
mans superiority. AS God made them,
so have they remained, and, unlike the
Abolition equalizationists, ] find no fault
and utter no complaint against the wis.
dom and justice Of our Creator.
The evils Of the attempted equaliza.
tion Of the races is illustrated by the his.
tory of Mexico. That country was set.
tied by the intelligent Spaniard, a race
not inferior to our own ancestors. They
developed the resources 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 final
ly the idea of equalizing the races became
popular; the attempt was made, the races
commingled. and thenceforth the deterior-
alton of the people was rapid and fear
ful. This holds true not only in Mexico
and throughout Central and Southern
America, but in all sections of the globe
and wherever the white race has com
mingled with the black or the Indian
This system Of equalization has failed to
elevate the inferior, but has always de
graded the superior race. On the other
hand, wherever the purity of the white
race has been preserved, its superiority
has continued, and its development, both
mental and physical, progressed. Nei-
ther soil nor climate, upon this continent
or elsewhere, has ever lowered the stand
ard of the governing race.
! For three-quarters of century the
United States has led the van in ali that
is great or useful in inventions. We
have made an errand boy of the light.
ming; we have applied steam as propell.
ing power. In single year we have
demonstrated tho frailty OF England S
wooden wall' by the construction of our
irQn' clad ships of war; and, at the same
time, by the same thought, dissipated all
previously y entertained opinion of sea-
coast and and harbor fortiications. Sir,
| am satisfied with the history of the
races as they are, as they were created.
as our fathers legislated for them. ] claim
no originality for these thoughts: they
have been entertained by some Of the
ablest statesman, not only of our country,
but of Eng land, among them, Mr.. Can
ming, who, when the British Parliament
was considering schemes kindred to those
now occupying the attention of the Re-
publican larty of this country, said:
"ln dealing with the negro, sir we
must remember that we are dealing with
a being possessing the form and strength
of man, but the intellect only of a
child. To turn him loose in the man
hood of his physical strength, in the ma
turity of his physical passions, but in
the infancy Of his uninstructed reason,
would be to raise up creature resem-
bling the splendid fiction of a recent ro-
nance, the hero of which constructs a
human form, with all the corporal capa-
bilities Of man, and with the thews and
sinews of giant but, being unable to
impart to the work of his hands a per-
ception of right and wrong, he finds too
late that he has only created more than
mortal power of doing mischief, and him
sci yecois from the monster he has made"
One Of their great statesman of to-day,
Lord John Russell, whenever he alludes
to the black race in America, and to
change Of its status, talks only of very
gradual emanci patton, because he know
that sudden and unconditional emancipa-
tion would be destruction to both the ne
gro and the white man. British states
men opposed immediate emancipation
on the ground Of expediency alone.
American statesman should oppose it,
not only upon that ground, but also up
on the ground that the constitution gives
no power to interfere with the domestic
institutions of the several States-no
such power either in peace or war.
But to reach the goal of their hopes,
the aboltionists Of this country are will
ing to override expediency, the law, and
the Constitution; to destroy the govern
ment itself, in order to emancipate at
once all the slaves in the South.
FOUR FIFTHs OF THE SOLDIERS OPPOSED TO
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