The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-04-16

Hayti aud Jamaica, d., he tends to ex-l
tincsion On sbe coast, while in the interior
hs rapidly goes back 10 his African status
and proPorsonately multiplies himself
Thus il we stand of, a time will come
which all that they initiated from their for.
mer masters in these islands will have per-
ished. They will speak their African
dialects, worship their African fetiches, sell
their women and children for a string of
beads. &c. and, on occasions, perhaps
eat their prisoners of war; and then, too,
the births will predominate over the deaths
and therefore, bad as such condition may
seem 10 our missionary brethren, it lie as
surdly better then freedom" in Masea-
chusetts, where they die. for life is better
than death. Indeed, with the high endow-
menIs with which God has blessed our
own race, and ali the glories of our Chris
tian civilization, there are greater hoi rors
i'll our midst than in Africa, or. with all
their nake-worshipping aud captive-eat-
ing habits, there is no such awful thi ng
as prostitution; while here, jos,ling us eve
ry hour in our streets, are ten thousand
lost creatures whom God created only a
little lower than angels, but whom society.
as represented by the Beechers. &C.. have
transformed into something scarcely bet
ter than devils. We repeat, then, only two
(permsment) conditions are possible to
negroes-insolated, useless, non -progies.
sing savagery 10 Africa, or useful, advan-
cling Christian slavery" in America. Can
we doubt, tor moment. which is best o,
which is most in harmony Aith the econo-
my and designs of Providence? OF course
not. fer even if their were any doubt In
respect to the well-being of the nsgrs,
without this negro, or rather without this
slavery, some sixty degrees of latitude,
right in the centre of this Continent and
the most naturally fertile as we'll as the
centre of products essential to human vel :
fare, would become a wilderness or the
home of large African heathe psm.-
These negroes are here and they or their
descendants must remain an element Of
our population forever God has made the
white man superior and the negro inferior,
sud the local law is in harmony with these
fixed, uncbapgeable and everlasting facts.
Their interests are indivisible. and though
there ara doubtless defects in the so, , or
ganism. i'll essentials it 10 the most natu-
raj, benefcent and harmonious social con.
dilion 10 Christendom. In Europe, socie.
ty is an organized barbarism and "gov-
ernment" q mere continuance Of the few to
plunder the great isncrant. deg AIDED and
almost hopeless many. In the North. So
ciety, while just and true in theory, i, at
war with itself in practice. Capital and
labor are in deadly aud irrsconcilable con-
flict, and though the latter, to a certain ex-
tent, protects itself through the ballot box,
it may be doubted if it could do so pernant
ly, If separated from the South. Capital
aud labor are united in the South, and this
condition, this so-cslled slavery, which
brings the talent, wealth and education of
that section to the support of the rorthern
laboring classes, is the most bene6cen 1t and
hopeful fact Of our times, for everywhere
else on Gods footstool capital and edu
cation are the oppressors OF labor. But
even if this were not so--if the assump-
tons of the anti-slaveryites were true in
the main, or rather. i, the presence Of the
negro among US were really an evil, the lu-
macy and crime of the "enemies Of slave
~" would still remain the most ssupen-
dous, unnatural and utterly devlish, the
world ever saw.
They assume that negroes are men like
ourselves, save in color, and they organ
ize party to get possession Of the govern
ment to carry out this ''idea," and force
the white citizenship of the Sonth into
"impartiai freedom" with negroes. Thirty
years ago when this ''idea' was first pro-
mulgated, its exponents were beaten with
rotten eggs in every northern city, an
and now it is promulgated from the White
House in Washington. and haIfa million
men are in arms TO force i. on the South.
Did the world ever be fore witness such lu-
macy. such madness, such crime? Aud if
the South could be beaten down in this
struggle. and the coniiscation aud eman-
cipatiou DEGREES forced on them. what then?
Why, one of three things only could fol-
low The negroes, thrust from their nor
NAL condition by northern bayonsts.
would be massacred by the whites: the lat
ter would abandon the country to them.
or they would amalgamate with them
OF course eight millions of white people