The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-06-04

sympathies are never active in behalf OF
practical and genuine behevolence.
Mr.. Chairman. l am opposed to all
these sickly schemes for eaualizing the
races. God made the white man superior
to the black, and no legislation will undo
or change the DEGREES of Heaven. They
are unalterable as the laws of nature,
eternal as divinity itself, and to legislate
against them leads US to in6delity and
ruin. Since creation dawned, the white
race has improved and advanced in the
scale of being, but as the negro was then
SO he is now. "But," say the abolition
lists "the African has been blessed with no
opportunity for improvement. Who
gave the. white man an opportunity God
in his infinite justice placed 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 veri6cation of
the white mans superiority. As God
made them so have they remained. aud
unlike the abolition equalizationists find
no fault and utter no complaint against
the wisdom and justice of our Creator.
The evils of the attempted equaliza-
ton of the races is illustrated by the
history OF. Mexico That country was
settled by the intelligent Spaniard, race
not inferior to our own ancestors. They
developed the resources of the country
by building roads. highways. and canals.
All along their line of march the church
and the school-house were erected as land.
marks of their progress. But finally the
idea of the equalizug of the races be-
came popular; the attempt was made, the
races were commingled, and thencefor-
ward the deterioration of the people was
rapid and fearful This holds true not
only in Mexico and throughout Central
and Southern America, but in all sec.
tions of the globe wherever the white race
has commingledi with the black or the
Indian This system of equalization has
failed toaelevate the inferior, bat has al
ways degraded the superior race. On
the other hand, wherever the purity of the
white race has been preserved, its superb
ority has continued, and its development,
both mental and physical, progressed.
Neither soil nor climate, upon this con-
tinent or elsewhere, has ever lowered the
standard of the governing race.
For three quarters of century the
United States have led the van in all that
is great or useful in inventions. We have
made an errand boy of the lightning; we
have applied stream as q propelling pow
er In a single year We have demonstra-
ted the frailty Of "England's wooden
walls" by the construction of our iron
clad ships of war; and at the same time
by the same thought, dissipated all pre-
viously entertained opinions of sea.coas,
and harbor Notifications. Sir. / am sat.
isfed with the history of the races as
they are, as they were created, and as oul
fathers legislated for them. claim nc
originality fol these thoughts; they have
been entertained by some of the ablest
statesmen, not only of our country, bu,
of England. among them. Mr.. Canning
who, when the British Parliament was
considering schemes kindred to those now
occupying the attention of the Republi
can party in this country, said:
a"In dealing with the negro, sir, we mus
remember that We are dealing with a being
possessing the form and strength of 6
man, but the intellect only q child. Tt
turn him loose in the manhood of his
physical strength, in the maturity Of hi!
physical passions, but in the infancy O
his uninstructed reason, would be to raise
up creature resembling the splendid
fiction Of a. recent romance, the hero o
which constructs human form, with al
the eorporeal capabilities of man, ani
with the thews and sinews of giant; bu
being unable to impart to impart to tht
work of his hands q perception of righ,
only created more than mortal power
of doing mischief, and himself recoill
from the monster he has made.' G
One of their great statesmen of to-day
Lord John Russell, whenever be allude'
Ito the black race in America and to 6
change of It's status, talks enly of very
gradual emancipation because he know
that sudden and unconditional emancipa
tion would be destruction to both th,
negro and the white man. British states.
men opposed immediate emancipation
upon the ground of expediency alone
American statesmen should oppose it, no
only upon that ground, but also upon tht
ground that the Constitution gives n,
power to interfere with the domestic in
stitutions of the several States-no sucl
power either in peace or in war.
But to reach the goal of their hopes
the abolitionists of this country are will
ling to override expedieney, the law, ant
the Constitution; to destroy the Govern
ment itself, in order to emancipate a
once all the slaves Of the States.
/ My colleague Mr.. Lovejoy] says twt
thirds or three fourths of the Army ar
abolitionists. This may be true, bu
upon the new constitution for the State 9
l Ill;poi, which contoins a rrou;r;n, =