The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-08-15

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who somehow or other has got "Rey." prefxed
to his name, harangued his colored brethren on
Sunday evening at Shiloh church, in Prince
street, in this city, on the prosecutions and OPP
pressions which the black race are suffering at
the North. This silly demagogue tries to in
fame the passions of his audience by false
statements, and by filling their heads with
the foolish notion that they are equal if not
superior to white men, and ought to have
equal rights. He says the HERALD has insti-
gated mobs against the colored men. He
knows that the truth is not in him, and that we
have never done any such thing. On the con-
trary, we have been always friendly to the
| colored man when he knew how to
| keep his place. But fellows like Garrett,
tools of the abolitonsts, lead the negroes astray
| by holding out to them delusivs hopes, fatter-
ing their vanity. and persuadng them that they
are even better than white men. By these
Vaccinations they are made to forget their
place. and become insolent to white men aud
| get into collisions with them. Garnett asks =
In the name Of God, the ccorsd race demanded what
they done to deserve such persecution Had hey not
enriched the whites by uursqued tols Had not their
fathers been sacrificed to lust and greed? Had not thou
| sands unpitied aud unavenged, died the altar OF
American slavery They had literally nursed the men Of
the South they fed the nation with rice and supplied il
with and sugar. Tho poor and the prince were
| alike indebted to tie negro
This is the place of the negro, and in his
| place he would be contented and happy were
| it not for agitators like Garrett Beecher,
Cheever, Conway, Greeley and Phillips. The
negro is we'll requited by the protection he
receives and by being taught civilization and
| Christianity by the white man. All that he is
above the savage he owes to the American peo-
| pie, whose servant the Almighty has destined
him to be. But when Garnet claims that the
negroes of New York are as industrious and as
sober and as provident as the white man, and
are more generally educated, that is more than
| white man can stomach. Garnett goes on to
| say
There was loud cutlery against negro equality and he
was often asked If he thought negro equal to
white man? He answered; no-not in vanity, or AFRO
in PRIDE in the love Of money in the OF
~. love OF M a ana IN or
superior to those who sought thus to prosecute them
Infinitely superior" to the white man! Our
readers will observe how rapidly progressive
| is the impudence of these fellows under the
| teachings Of the abolitionists. AT first they
claim only equality; they now insist upon lin
| finite superiority!''
| All history, sacred and profane, our own expe-
rence and human physiology have long since
| settled the question of negro iuteriority. Cain
was the first black man. and the negro race are
| descended from him. God put black mark
| on him and made him an outcast. His posterity
! ent to Africa, where they have remained to
| his day the same savages and slaves that they
| were in the beginning. Their normal condition
| is slavery and inces.art war Their women
take the field. At this day they offer human
| sacrifices in hctacombs and their kings pave
| their court yards with human skulls They have
made no progress in any kind of civilization
have no arts, no letters no religion, except the
| worship of fetish Even here in America,
where they have been semi-civilized, and have
/ existed for upwards Of two hundred years
| they have never been able to rise above the
| level OF their destiny--a servant to the white
| man. No ray OF genius has ever beamcd from
| negroes head
| What is the case with the white race? The
civilization of Egypt and OF Palestine is theirs
| The civilization of Greece and Rome and of all
| modern nations. The arts and the sciences and
| Christianity itself are theirs. As putting don
| key in the same stable with an Arabian blooded
horse and giving him tic same treatment. will
/ never make racer of him, it is with
the negro. God never intended him to be
| equal to the white man, and only in
| idels and impious fanatics and fools have ever
sought to transgress his laws by attempting
| such equality In endeavoring to establish it
| in st. Domingo, Robespierre and the other
French infides spawned up by the Revolution
| caused the most horrid massacre known in
history. Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley
and Garnett are stimulating the negroes to
the same crimes : but, in doing so, they are
| only driving them to destruction: for there can
be no doubt rs 10 the result of o war Of races.
| The matter would be speedily settled by the
determination of the blacks. Let the negro
keep in his place, and all will be well with him;
but if not not
LITERARY SPoNGERs IN Born HEMIsPHEREs.-
There is class of writers in this country and
| in Europe whose connection with literature,
| though it has brought them notoriety, has re-
fected but little credit on that noble pursuit
The reason is that they have devoted themselves
| TO il, not with the lofty aims that should ami
mate ts 'otdIies, Dui WIN TIC aHioitioh Llciciy
| OF turning il to merccnary account.
Of this class Alphonse de Lamartine and
Horace Greeley are the representative types.
| IN saying this we do not mean to institute any
| parallel between the talents of the two writers.
In that respect the one stands as much above
| the other as Milton is ahead Of modern poet
astcr. 1t is in the objects and choice of means
that rpspectiyplv influence them that the sirni-
ariIy exists. From an early period Of his life
Lamartine, like Greeley, has been a literary
sponger. Although his genius opened to him
the promise of brilliant and Independent
i career. he sacrificed that independence by sell