New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-05-16

is witnessed the strange. and indeed utterly
disgraceful anomoly Of American society con.
vulsed and American institutions endanger.
: ed by an idea not merely European. in fact
} but that would be an impossible conce,tion
, to the American mind were we wholly inso-
lated from Eurole. Thc.negro is different
and inferior man Just as an owl is different
and inferior bird to the eagle, or as the bull
dog is different and inferior dog to the hond
and were we wholly shut out from, intercourse
with Europe, it would, of cours", be as absc.
lutely impossible to conceive of u blnck-white
man, or that the negro qrns 4 man like our.
selves except in color, as it is to imagine al
owl an eagle Or Il bull dog hound
| Here, then, is the great, fundamental, alb
solute and uninistakable cause of all on,
troubles-the palpatle and clementry error
of the northern mind-the fatal and deplo,
rable origin of tn. popular delusion THE
original starting-point Of what the wide
spread, often well meant, but always pestilcnt
and malignant philanthropy" which has
corrupted northern intelligence, patriotism
and even, to certain extent, the instincts of
the race, and led large numbers of the nor
thern people into blind bitter and unrelen-
ting warfare on their brethren Of the South.
But though this European conception, or
|
raj enough, indeed could not be otherwise
with those ignorant of all races save their
own, it would not carry with it any evil or
mschieveus influence did not circumstances
conn cct it with the political interests Of Eu.
rope, and especially with those of the English
aristocracy. Prior to the American Revoiu-
tion OF 1776, no one ever heard of an Aboli-
ZIONIST, or that "ncgro slavery" was wrong,
or that it was an evil that some day should
be renewed from the world, and if these
States had remained in subjection to En-
gland and in harmonious relation with the
| British aristocracy it is altogether unlikely
| that there would new be such thing as an
| Aboltionist either in the Old World or the
New. All the nations of Europe are Cau-
cassian-white men, the same race. unless
perhaps few thousand Laplanders in Nor
way. Except France, whose coalition is ex-
ceptional, if not abnormal, all these nations
have the samc system, the same social order
Che saFac general principles of government,
and though England pretends to be free and
thinks Russia despotic, there is little Or no
difference iR the actual condition Of the mas
ses of their people.
Society is divided by artificial d:stin ction
into Kings, bourgeoise and peasants in fact
into the few and the many-thc fear ,rho p'o-
duce nothing, get enjoy everything, and the
many 1cho produce ercry'hing bet eajos moth.
ing Thsy ara all tho samn rann nrsetcd
fee and equal, sent into the world with the
same wants, the same faculties, in short, the
same nature, and therefore were designed by
an Almighty and bcnefcent Creator for the
same purpose to enjoy the same happiness
and to performe the same duties. But froEl
the instant they come into the world, the
system or social order takes possession of
them and forces them into widely different
conditi ons-the few into idleness and luxury
the many into lives ofignorance, toll and bru-
tality, differing very little from the animals
that they labor with One man often owns
a whole county, and turns several thousand
acres of fertile land into a park for deer,
where he may 10y the pleasures of the
chase" while twenty thousand of his breth-
rem, his own kth and kin, white men and
women whom God created his equals and de-
signed for the same happiness as himself are
denied enough of the soil of their native land
to bury them in when dead Half = million
of hereditary aristocrats with, perhaps, four
or five millions Of shopocracy or so.callcd
midGleclasses, wkieh serve us sort of police
agency, and enjoy certain portion Of the
plumber, constitute the governing force, the
real and only "Eng'and;;;' while the great,
ignorant, toiling, voicelcss and voteless NIL
lions arc mere beasts of burthera to their
bre,hern--.to those whom God created their
equals and designed for the same purposes Is
themsclves-bue who, through human inven-
tions of "Church" a1d "State," are artificial
ly elevated into superior beings. Nor does
England, except in degree differ FRI IN the
rest Of Europe, though the few are doubtless
the richest while the many are more abject
in their proverty than elsewhere. 1t is the
system, the condition which has come down
from barbarous snd serai-barbarous tin:es
the few are artiticially elevated and the many
ar:iicially degraded, SO that the latter are
regarded, and doubtless regard themselves,
as beings Of q clover ORDER" rs indeed they
are universally designated in England. That
society thus existing, or that the ruling
class should regard the masses as no better
than American negroes, ana should; there
fore, imagine the negro hardly dealt with
when denied the 'freeaom'' Of the English Or
European laborer, is consistent, and, under
the circumstances, perfectly logical
American society, resting Oh the natural
distinctions of race. Gxcd forever by the hand
of the Almighty, is irreconcilable with theirs
and though there may be outward peace
the conflict is none the less deadly between
conditions or systems of society thus vitality
antagonistc. We are twenty-five millions OF
white men, whom God has created e4ual, in
iuxtaposition with four millions of negroes,
whom He has created inferior, and our sys-
tenn, State and national, is based on these
fixed, unchanging and everlasting facts The
white citizenship are naturally equal, and
therefore, enjoy equal rights the negroes
are naturally inferior, and, therefore, occupy
a position of social inferiority, corresponding
with their wants and the nature God has
given them. Between us and the Old world,
or, between us and Eagand, who is the lea
der and bulwark of the old order, there is no
peace or possible compromise. The few
must expect to abandon their privileges over
the many must give up their wealth and
power over the masses, and reorganlze society
on a Democratic basis like our own, or they