Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-21
Another Republican Senator ON the
ssHarmOnY OF the Races


A few days ago quoted from abespeech
delivered by Mr.. DooLITTLE, of Wisconsin, in
the United States Senate, an emphatic protest
against the liberation or emancipation of negro
slaves unless provision should at the same time
be made for colonizing them in some Southern
latitude by themselves Mr.. DooLITTLE is one of
those who have looked below the surface in con-
sidering the question of which he treated. Mr.
BROWNING, Of Illinois, another Republican Sem
ator, and the successor of DOUGLAS, agrees very
nearly with him. While the bill for the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia was pend
ing ON Thursday last he argued strenuously in
favor of amendments which he offered embracing
the feature of furnishing aid for colonization,
and in the course of his remarks said:
Now, sir, know that communities of free ne
groes are not very desirable population any
where / may be mistaken in my view of this
subject, but do not believe that the races ever
can live together in harmony and with mutual
advantage to each other; and, hostile as every
feeling and sentiment of my nature is to a sys
TEN of human bondage, / am by no means sure,
while the races do continue together, that il is
not better for them both to continue together in
the relation of master and slave.
The main point Of the difference between Mr..
DooLIrrLE and Mr. BRowSING is that the latter
goes little further than the Wisconsin Sena-
tor and expresses his doubts whether lit is not
not better for them 1.-THE white and the negro)
to continue together in the relation of master
and slave" What have our ultra Republican
brethren to say to this utterance of Republican
Senator2
Mr.. BROWNING continues:
That we can do them (the negroes) substan-
tial good only by separation OF the races, l en-
terrain no doubt. just as long as they remain
among US they free negroes; they are moth
ing else: they are poor, degraded set, and / am
afraid always will be. | should like to see them
making moral and intellectual progress in our
midst, but | do not expect to see it. | doubt
whether there ever has been from the founda-
ton of the Government one solitary instance of
an individual of the negro race being admitted to
all the privileges and immunities of free man in
the United States of America. There are many
negroes whose intellectual and moral worth far
transcends that of the white men around them,
and vet they do not take position i'm society that
Is accorded unhestatngly TO the white man who
Is IN no respect their equal. 1t is because, / ap-
pretend, OF the repugnance of the races that the
Almighty has implanted in our bOsOms. and the
strong instincts which we cannot eradicate.
When you come to propose that higher and bet
ter test OF a catholic and universal philanthropy,
the admission Of the negro to social equality and
TO family alliance, it Is test that reduces all our
sympathles and all our philanthropy to dross and
ashes. 1t Is a test that none of US can bring
ourselves up to. It is sentiment too sublime
tor our attainment that admits them to the full
brotherhood of the race, and take them into the
bosom of our families. Well, sir, Just as long
as they socially degraded they VIII be other
wise degraded. 1t is social equality more than
political and legal equality that tends to the ele-
vatIOn of our race: and that we may do some
little, make beginning on this subject, pro-
pOse these amendments