Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-06-28


or chrnge the decrees of Heaven. They
are unaterablo as the laws Of nature, eter.
nal as Divinity itself, and to legislate
against them leads us to ipfdelity and ru.
in. Since creation dawned the white race
has improved and advanced in the scale of
being, but as the negro was SO is he now.
"But," say the Abolitionists, "the Afri-
can has been blessed with no opportunity
for improvement" Who gave the white
man an opportunity for Improvement p
God, in his infinite justice, plac ed the two
races upon the earth at the beginning Of
time to work out their respective destinies.
History has faithfully recorded their
achievements. To that impartial tribunal
confidently appeal for the verifcation of
the white mans superiority. As God
made them so have they remained, and,
unlike the Abolition equalizationists, 1
find no fault and utter no complaint against
the wisdom and justice of our Creator.
The evils of the attempted equalization
of the races is illustrated by the history
Of Mexico. That country was settled by
the intelligent Spaniard, race not inferi-
or to or own ancestors. They dcvel-
oped the resources of the county by bull.
! ding roads, highways and canals. All
| along their line Of march the church and
schoolhouse were erected as landmarks Of
their progress. But finally the idea Of the
| equalizing of the races became popular |;
the attempt was made, the races were COM
mingled, and thenceforward the deteriora.
ton of the people were rapid and fearful.
This holds true not only in Mexico and
throughout Central and South America,
but in all sections of the globe, wherever
the white race has commingled with the
black or the Indian. This system oi
equalization has failed to elevate the in.
ferior, but has always degraded the su.
perior race. On the other hand, wher-
ever the purity Of the white race has been
preserved, its superiority has continued
1 and its development, both mental and
physical, progressed. Neither soil mol
climate, upon this continent or elsewhere
| has ever lowered the standard Of the gov
erning race.
| For three-quarters of century the
United States have led the van in all thai
is great or useful in inventions. We have
made an errand boy Of the lightning; W.
: have applied steam as propelling power
In single year we have dem onstrated th'
fratility of "England's wooden walls" BY
the construction Of our ironclad ships o
war, and at the same time, by the same
thought, dissipated all previously enter
tained opinions of sea coast and harbo
Notifications, Sir, I am satisfied with til
history of the races as they are, as the,
f were created, and as our forefathers legi<
lated for them. claim no originalit
for the thoughts they have been enter
, tanned by some of the ablest statesmen, nc
t only of our country, but of England
among them Mr.. Canning, who, when tn
British Parliament was considerin
. schemes kindred to those now occupyin!
the attention of the Republican party i
this country, said
= "In dealing with the negro, sir, we mus
c remember that we are dealing with q be
=. ing possessing the form and strength of
0 man, but the intellect only of a child. T
: turn him loose in the manhood of his phys
l ical strength, in the maturity of his phys
s cal passions, but in the infancy Of his ur
n instructed reason, would be to raise up
s creature resembling the splendid fiction {
f recent romance, the hero of which col
n structs human form, with all the corpc
k real capabilities of man, and with tt
: thews and sinews of a giant; but, beiu
=. unable to impart to the work of his hand
G perception of right and wrong, he fine
too late that he has only created mol
S than moral power OF dolng mlSchlei, an
himself recoils from the monster he hi
f made"
!. One of their great statesmen OF to-day
Lord John Russell, whenever he alludes
= the black race in America, and to chang
il of its stotns, talks only of very gradua
I emancipation, because hc knows that sue
den and unconditional emancipation woul
n be destruction to both the negro and ii
). white man. British statesmen oppos
# immediate emancipation upon the groun
of expediency alone, American statesme
a should oppose it, not only upon th'
" ground, but also upon the ground that tn
e Constitution gives no power to interfer
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