New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-05-16
WHOLE NO. 1873.

pretence of philanthropy. The negro slave,
OF America was assumed to be q black.
man. or man like themselves excent in calor
ana consequently slave, and, Therefore, the
American SYSTEM. with one-sixth ofits nonu-
at'on denied all,ights whatever. was. to tho
ignorant European mind, worse even than
ther oppressive system of kings and aristo-
o,"'S' ne writer's and supporters ofmonar-
chy had thus boundlcss field for dennnc;.
at,oD OF our and culogy of their own svstem
which, whatever thc practical conseonences
IN IN theory, cmed vastly more liberal and
humane than American Democracy resting
on !, supposed slavery. And, if the premises
| VI the assumptions were sound, the inferen.
ccs were indeed unayoi dablc IF the negro
except IN color, were man like ourselves
win thc same nature and the same wants as
.he whltc man; then everything imagined bv
| t"e Abolition writers for the past sixty wears
"onlo, or might have been, true enough. But
the government, the ruling force, the aris-
'ocracy; were impelled not alone by thes,
writer's, but from the necessities of their con.
oiion' 10 make war on us, and instinct
prompted them to strike at NEGRO sIaverv,i
as tic vital principle of our system the found-
alton on which rested the entire structure of
Democratic Institutions
mere are III America thirty millions OF
white men, some twelve millions of nerroes.
ana aDout the same number of Indians or ab
org,nes. II therefore, the assumption that
al these different beings were the same. with
the same nature, same wants, &C., in short,
naturally considered, entitled to the samo
rights, ii this dogma or theory were literally
prachced, it could only be a question Of time
when American society would be utterly de-
moral'zed and Republican, institutions over
thrown. Or, in other words, if the distinct.
| GvoI ,4vlo 49,
aries decreed by the Almighty between xhita
men, Indians and negroes on this continent,
were disregarded, corrupted, violated and
tiampled upon, a time would needs come
whop society, as now organized, would be
destroyed, and, instead of the natural dis
tlnctlons OF race, there would follow the arti-
ficlal distinctions of class common to the old
societies. That the upholders of the Europe.
an system should, therefore, strike at ''ne,
gro slavery" in Amarica, is not alenc logical
but absolutely anecesslty of sclf-prescryaton
lhelr statesmen even may not always have
understood the causes prompting them to
make war on ''negro slavery" but an in
stlnct inherent in hostile systems impelled
them Npconsc,ously perhaps, in this direct,
ion.
1t was ONLY when Jatfersea declared tho
immortal and everlasting truth, that all
t"h'te, mon ~~e ero~tod frce and equal and
government or political system ba.ed on
this truth, or rather thi, fact, was organized
that English writer's discovered the frightfu
wrong of NEGRO slavery" and English states
men began that crusade in behalf: or preton
ded behalf; of the lower races Of this conti-
nent, that has worked out such stupendous
results, and. at last, has eliminated in the
quasi destructioE of the American Union.
They have expended som, five hundred
SoI Of ,In
abolished the natural order ofsocety in tho
whole tropical centre of the continent, except
Cuba and Porto REQ. The supremacy of
the white man abolished, and thu negro left
without guidance or control, relapses, Of
course, into his original Africanis:n, and if
we are to suppose that Americans arc never
to be permitted to restore the normal order
Or the natural relations ofthe races time
must come, or would soon como, when some
seventy degrees of latitude, right in the heart
of America. must be occupied by huge
Africanism or heathenism like that presided
ov.r by the King Of Dahoney and other
African savaSes.
But all these dcpIorabe results tbs ruin
OF industry. production. civilization, in tho
ce ntcr OF the continent, with the decay and
ruin of all that is healthy and desirable in
hs,ssaaR society, in the heart Of tho New
forcing the British laborcr to take the bread
from the mouth of his own children to paw
the Ineefest on M 'ncy squandered on tho
American negro-the loss ofhuman welfare
of those vast products OF tho tropics which
sixty years ago, made jamaica San Domingo
&c. centres of trade and commercc--the actu
al destruction of something like ope million
negro lives liz q vain attempt to put down the
"slave trade, and the rapidly approaching
Africanism Of those islands least Influenced
by the white man all these bou:dless and
measureless evils that the greet "art-slavery'
dcluson of our times has dragged after it
are, after ALL tr.hing in comparison with
that wide pread corruption of the Amcricaa
min y and utter perversOn OF American ia
telgence. which has, at last culm nased in
civil war.
So long as the American mind remained
untainted and American society intact the
diableries OF the "aEti-slayery" dclus:op were
harmless. Canada aad ia
macia alike might be given over to the huge
iwposture the island might be destroyed, the
genial and naturally luXuriant tropics that
God designed for the welfare and happiness
of his creatures might be rendered Il DESERT
the Negro pcwgittcd to relapse into his idle
and useless sasasery, even the bones and
muscles Of the ovcr.worked and under-faA
white slave of Enslaad might be mogk6aged,
for centuries to come, to pay for al mis- dev-
ills work. SO long as the freemep Of this re.
public were un .ouched and untai~t by thu
great delus:on, for the energy of our people
and the vitality OF cur institutions would,
sooner or later overcome all this surrounding
rottcnness, and restore civilization to these
wasted regions.
ITO be Continued
The Democrats Of New York have carrs1
at the late spring election All towns In