New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-05-23
NEW OREGON HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA, MAY23, 1867

ultimate extinction" Of the negro element.
so awful sin against "God and humanity
would react in a still gre ,ter punishment up
on the nation guilty cf such transcndant
crime. Of the twenty five millions of VIII ties;
four millions would be involved in this ad-
mixture of the races, and as the uncontami-
mated among them would escape from q
land thus doomed, nearly half Of this great
Republic would BE- as Mexico, Central Amer
ica, &c, are now, a mere monsrcl mass Of
diseased ana cffctc humanity: a source Of de-
cay and weakness rendering us the possible,
or indeed the probable. prey or conquest of
some European nation. But, as has been
remarked. in the course Of time the negro
blood would become extinct, mongrelsm
would die out, this hidcous ulcer on the body
polite would be hcalcs, the vast masses of
diseased humanity would slough off: and the
nation, the typical Caucasian, finally recov-
er itself. Again We would be a nation Of
untainted white men, as we were before this
experiment of securing impartial freedom
to negroes began but who can measure, or
what Imagination can conceive even, of the
intermediate degradation, suffering and de-
spair involved in it :! We can form some no.
ton of the wrong and suff, ring that would
he inflicted on the negro by comparison with
that which would follow, if some 'philan'
thropist' should try the experiment of trans
forming his physical nature into that of our
own. Of course he would kill him in the
process, and, in view of his misery, would it
be more humane to nluraer hins outright at
once So, too with the four millions in the
South-in comparison with the practical ap.
plication of the ':anti slavery" idca-thc free
dom. equality, nmalgamation, mongrcllsm,
and ':ultimate extinction would be immeas-
urablv more cruel than their immediate and
universal mrssacrc. And if the ntislavery"
party were to order the six hundred thousand
brave men in arms, on the Potomac and
elsewhere. to march and totally cxterminatc
the four millions Of negroes in the South, it
would be m oct OF tho highest hun,"'''ty i"
comnar;son with using them to force ''mpar-
tial rrccdom.n with all the terrible consc-
ucnccs involved. on these subordinate and
helpless people. Indeed, we witness all
about lis an approximation to these terrible
truths.
New York has some fifty thousand negroes,
who are constantly dimini-hing, because;
instead of leaving them where God and ma
turc placed them, in subordination and under
the protection Of the white man, we force
them to live under the theory Of an equal
freedom, and it is consequently only ques-
ton of tinse when they will be utterly exterMl-
mated. Massac achusetts, who most rigidly imposs
ses the burden of impartial freedom" most
rapidly destroys these helpless creatures, and
indeed we may awlays determine, with an
approximation to accuracy, by the simple
application of this test, when the free negro
of the several States will be wholly extinct.
But while such would be the certain, how
ever remote result of carrying into practice
the theories of the ;anti-s'avcry'' party, SO
far as the negro is concerned, who can cst'-
mate or even imagine the beundlcss and him.
table calamities that would result to our
selves and the general cause OF civilization
To pass by the destruction and loss to the
world of the single item of cotton. which now
directly or indirectly furnishes subsistence to
D, ssibly ten millions of white men, to leave
out Of view rice, sugar, all the other great
staples essential to human happiness, to aban-
don some seventy degrees of latitude in the
centre of the continent to become barren
wastes, or equally repulsivc, to- plant huge
African heathenism in the heart OF the contl-
nent-to pass by al! these t!dtng considera-
tions. VIC have only to contemplate the "ulti'
mate extinction of slavery and Impartial
freedom" with feur millions of negroes in the
South as actually dreamed ofby the lunaties
of tsc day. with its unavoidable cen+equen'
ces Of social equality, amalgamation, u.ongrel.
ism, disease and final extinction of the negro
element, to understand tho bitterness, the
unuttcrable and into.crablc sense Of wrong
felt at the South towards those who, in their
wicked ignorance and blind atrocity: are la.
boring to bring upon them and their children
doom more awful than was ever yet VISIT.
ed on human kind since the world began
True, they may not themselves comprehend
it in detail or in form, but that instinct o.
self preservation which God has planted in
the heart Of the race, in order to preserve the
integrity of it's organism, enables them te
feel it, and to shrink, with ovcrpowcrlne
disgust if not Of terror, from the approach o.
such danger.
No matron in the South oyer hoard tht
names of Garrison or JJhR Grown uttered
without clasping more closoly the child to he'
bosom, not from any personal fear OF thcs'
men. hut from that instinct Of selfpreserva